[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread TurquoiseB
What I wonder is whether in Maharishi's Vedic India fantasy, anyone would be allowed to *not* meditate if they so chose. He used to speak, half jokingly, of meditation police who would apprehend people seen on the street with long faces and put them in meditation asylums. What makes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/1/05 12:39 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I wonder is whether in Maharishi's Vedic India fantasy, anyone would be allowed to *not* meditate if they so chose. He used to speak, half jokingly, of meditation police who

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread marekreavis
Rick, did that ATR start in Dec. '72 and Maharishi came for the last 2 weeks or so? Do you remember more of the analogy? ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/1/05 12:39 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I wonder is whether in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/1/05 8:53 AM, marekreavis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, did that ATR start in Dec. '72 and Maharishi came for the last 2 weeks or so? Do you remember more of the analogy? Yes. I think the point of the analogy was that just as a screw bores deep into something, TM enables the mind to

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread TurquoiseB
Rick, did that ATR start in Dec. '72 and Maharishi came for the last 2 weeks or so? Do you remember more of the analogy? Yes. I think the point of the analogy was that just as a screw bores deep into something, TM enables the mind to go deep within. The funny thing was that he kept

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/30/05 8:15 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be interesting to know what the actual fee for instruction is in India for people who walk into centers, and are not having their fees paid by the state or their company. The only number I have ever heard is a $5 registration

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/30/05 8:15 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be interesting to know what the actual fee for instruction is in India for people who walk into centers, and are not having their fees paid by

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/31/05 4:17 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's interesting that there is no attempt to introduce exclusionary pricing in India -- even laborers can afford 35 rupees --, which supports the thesis that MMY only intended, in his go-slow policy of unfolding enlightenment for

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/31/05 4:17 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's interesting that there is no attempt to introduce exclusionary pricing in India -- even laborers can afford 35 rupees --, which supports the thesis

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread TurquoiseB
That's interesting that there is no attempt to introduce exclusionary pricing in India -- even laborers can afford 35 rupees --, which supports the thesis that MMY only intended, in his go-slow policy of unfolding enlightenment for the world, to light a few candles in the West to reduce

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/1/05 12:39 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I wonder is whether in Maharishi's Vedic India fantasy, anyone would be allowed to *not* meditate if they so chose. He used to speak, half jokingly, of meditation police who would apprehend people seen on the street with long

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in india?

2005-05-30 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, George DeForest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blank Off_world_beings my understanding is that thousands upon thousands have learned TM in the past few years in India. The past decade would put it at 100's of thousands. Is this an innefective

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread bbrigante
Indian TM teachers are all salaried, but the salaries are small. There must be 500 hundred or more salaried TM teachers in India (and plenty of administrators), and the funds to support their salaries probably don't come from teaching revenues alone because course fees at the Indian

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread george
i was under the conviction that initiation into TM is almost nil, anywhere! I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, who taught in India with Purusha for many years, and he said the following: Hi Rick I know firsthand about several hundred thousand initiations in India in the past

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, who taught in India with Purusha for many years, and he said the following: Say hi to STeve from Lawson English of Tucson. How is his brother? What have they been up to, etc?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/30/05 9:58 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, who taught in India with Purusha for many years, and he said the following: Say hi to STeve from Lawson English of

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/30/05 9:58 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, who taught in India with Purusha for