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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/17/05 3:46 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in all, though, the NYT's article is quite good. And the modification of the article in the GGN is just typical TMO bullshit. ** There was an article in a Canuck paper reporting on the Vipassana meditation being linked to brain changes: http://tinyurl.com/d6rsf Global Good News seems intent on mixing up TM in this brain change thing, even though the original article only talks about TM's cardiology benefits: http://tinyurl.com/83top Right. But let somebody try attributing TM's benefits to their meditation technique. I can't find the Good News report that does what you say. The urls don't mention TM research at all. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/17/05 3:46 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in all, though, the NYT's article is quite good. And the modification of the article in the GGN is just typical TMO bullshit. ** There was an article in a Canuck paper reporting on the Vipassana meditation being linked to brain changes: http://tinyurl.com/d6rsf Global Good News seems intent on mixing up TM in this brain change thing, even though the original article only talks about TM's cardiology benefits: http://tinyurl.com/83top Right. But let somebody try attributing TM's benefits to their meditation technique. I can't find the Good News report that does what you say. The urls don't mention TM research at all. *** http://tinyurl.com/7rk4v It seems reasonably accurate, thought it makes it sound like MMY is teaching Vipassana also. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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All in all, though, the NYT's article is quite good. And the modification of the article in the GGN is just typical TMO bullshit.bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: It's the headline in Global Good News that's misleading. The article itself is clearly a report ABOUT the NYT article. That's quite different. Of course they've mentioned the good bits and omitted the so-so bits. There's nothing wrong in that. But the headline shouldn't have been chosen to make it appear that it was a reprinted article from the NY Times. Perhaps this was just incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead, since the article itself clearly indicates that it is GGN's report about the NYT article, not the article itself. *Nevertheless, I don't like this stuff at all, because it is not useful for the TMO. Everybody who read the NYT article, a much larger audience than GGN, saw that there were problems, like the student who backed off because of the too-high instruction fee for TM. So what this amounts too is one TMer telling the rest of the choir that everything is coming up roses, but it ain't. There are TMers who read GGN and won't go to the NYT article, and may think that it accurately reflects the article -- this head in the sand approach can't be useful, and I doubt if the NYT editors like this stuff, either, because it amounts to altering the article to fit an agenda. If you're going to have a NYT headline, you should accurately reflect the content, or at least have a hot link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/giving/14koppel.htmlBob Brigantehttp://geocities.com/bbrigante FROM GLOBAL GOOD NEWS Earth's future peacemakers just need a little TM by Lily Koppel The New York Times Translate This Article 14 November 2005 On 14 November 2005 The New York Times reported: Filmmaker David Lynch is raising money to make the Transcendental Meditation Programme available to students from first grade through college. New York Times reporter Lily Koppel said that Lynch wants to make the simple mental technique 'a standard in every student's curriculum'. It is a joy for Global Good News service to feature this news, which indicates the success of the life- supporting programmes Maharishi has designed to bring fulfilment to the field of world-peace. Although often described as 'notoriously reclusive', Lynch has stepped into the public spotlight by founding the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and has embarked on a speaking tour to universities on the East and West Coasts. His goal is clear: 'I really think it will change the world,' Lynch was quoted as saying. The article said that the Lynch Foundation currently has assets of about $410,000. To date seven schools have each been awarded $25,000 in seed money to begin programmes using the TM Technique. Two of the charter schools discussed their programmes with the New York Times reporter. Dr George H. Rutherford, principal of the Ideal Academy Public Charter School, an elementary and middle school in Washington, DC, said of Lynch, 'He is going to revolutionize education in America.' Dr Rutherford said that while other foundations tend to focus on providing learning tools (such as computers) to students, the Transcendental Meditation Programme helps develop the students themselves. 'TM helps to reduce the stress that creates problems,' he was quoted as saying. Researchers at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, will measure the effects of the meditation programme on students. A second school to receive a $25,000 grant from the Lynch Foundation was the Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit, a public charter school, which previously received TM financing from the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund and the General Motors Foundation. According to the article, Nataki seventh- and eighth-grade students who worked as a non-meditating control group in a 2002 study, tracking the 'social-emotional competencies' of the meditating students, now want to experience what their peers had. In addition, Koppel reported, the Lynch Foundation is partnering with other philanthropists to grant another $25,000 each to the University of Michigan, Yale, Emerson College and other colleges to help teach students TM. The foundation is also partnering to support an American University study on TM and college students. Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law basedTotal Knowledge basedprogrammes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace. Copyright © 2005 Global Good News(sm) Service. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" wrote: Jeez, so much for their credibility. Really, they don't need to do this
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in all, though, the NYT's article is quite good. And the modification of the article in the GGN is just typical TMO bullshit. ** There was an article in a Canuck paper reporting on the Vipassana meditation being linked to brain changes: http://tinyurl.com/d6rsf Global Good News seems intent on mixing up TM in this brain change thing, even though the original article only talks about TM's cardiology benefits: http://tinyurl.com/83top Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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on 11/17/05 3:46 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in all, though, the NYT's article is quite good. And the modification of the article in the GGN is just typical TMO bullshit. ** There was an article in a Canuck paper reporting on the Vipassana meditation being linked to brain changes: http://tinyurl.com/d6rsf Global Good News seems intent on mixing up TM in this brain change thing, even though the original article only talks about TM's cardiology benefits: http://tinyurl.com/83top Right. But let somebody try attributing TM's benefits to their meditation technique. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: :propagandizing the NY Times- David Lynch Article- link attached
It's the headline in Global Good News that's misleading. The article itself is clearly a report ABOUT the NYT article. That's quite different. Of course they've mentioned the good bits and omitted the so-so bits. There's nothing wrong in that. But the headline shouldn't have been chosen to make it appear that it was a reprinted article from the NY Times. Perhaps this was just incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead, since the article itself clearly indicates that it is GGN's report about the NYT article, not the article itself. FROM GLOBAL GOOD NEWS Earth's future peacemakers just need a little TM by Lily Koppel The New York Times Translate This Article 14 November 2005 On 14 November 2005 The New York Times reported: Filmmaker David Lynch is raising money to make the Transcendental Meditation Programme available to students from first grade through college. New York Times reporter Lily Koppel said that Lynch wants to make the simple mental technique 'a standard in every student's curriculum'. It is a joy for Global Good News service to feature this news, which indicates the success of the life- supporting programmes Maharishi has designed to bring fulfilment to the field of world-peace. Although often described as 'notoriously reclusive', Lynch has stepped into the public spotlight by founding the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and has embarked on a speaking tour to universities on the East and West Coasts. His goal is clear: 'I really think it will change the world,' Lynch was quoted as saying. The article said that the Lynch Foundation currently has assets of about $410,000. To date seven schools have each been awarded $25,000 in seed money to begin programmes using the TM Technique. Two of the charter schools discussed their programmes with the New York Times reporter. Dr George H. Rutherford, principal of the Ideal Academy Public Charter School, an elementary and middle school in Washington, DC, said of Lynch, 'He is going to revolutionize education in America.' Dr Rutherford said that while other foundations tend to focus on providing learning tools (such as computers) to students, the Transcendental Meditation Programme helps develop the students themselves. 'TM helps to reduce the stress that creates problems,' he was quoted as saying. Researchers at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, will measure the effects of the meditation programme on students. A second school to receive a $25,000 grant from the Lynch Foundation was the Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit, a public charter school, which previously received TM financing from the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund and the General Motors Foundation. According to the article, Nataki seventh- and eighth-grade students who worked as a non-meditating control group in a 2002 study, tracking the 'social-emotional competencies' of the meditating students, now want to experience what their peers had. In addition, Koppel reported, the Lynch Foundation is partnering with other philanthropists to grant another $25,000 each to the University of Michigan, Yale, Emerson College and other colleges to help teach students TM. The foundation is also partnering to support an American University study on TM and college students. Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law basedTotal Knowledge basedprogrammes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace. Copyright © 2005 Global Good News(sm) Service. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeez, so much for their credibility. Really, they don't need to do this kind of stuff. What are they thinking when they do it? It is sucho blatantly dishonest thinking. Who would actually take the time to edit like this and think they were going to pull something over? Bobby? Mario? Craig? Ken? They do TMO PR, is it their thinking and hands on it? This is just really bad. Shame on them folks that they would think like that and do it. It is so twisted. Is it such a cult? Evidently. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a typical move, Global Good News has simulated a reprint of this article from the NYT, but all negative news has been deleted -- specifically, the inconclusive research on TM at the U of Michigan noted in paragraph 19, and the student who was interested in learning TM only until he found out it costs $2500 (next-to-last paragraph in original NYT article): http://tinyurl.com/89ykj http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/giving/14koppel.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[FairfieldLife] Re: :propagandizing the NY Times- David Lynch Article- link attached
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the headline in Global Good News that's misleading. The article itself is clearly a report ABOUT the NYT article. That's quite different. Of course they've mentioned the good bits and omitted the so-so bits. There's nothing wrong in that. But the headline shouldn't have been chosen to make it appear that it was a reprinted article from the NY Times. Perhaps this was just incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead, since the article itself clearly indicates that it is GGN's report about the NYT article, not the article itself. * Nevertheless, I don't like this stuff at all, because it is not useful for the TMO. Everybody who read the NYT article, a much larger audience than GGN, saw that there were problems, like the student who backed off because of the too-high instruction fee for TM. So what this amounts too is one TMer telling the rest of the choir that everything is coming up roses, but it ain't. There are TMers who read GGN and won't go to the NYT article, and may think that it accurately reflects the article -- this head in the sand approach can't be useful, and I doubt if the NYT editors like this stuff, either, because it amounts to altering the article to fit an agenda. If you're going to have a NYT headline, you should accurately reflect the content, or at least have a hot link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/giving/14koppel.html Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante FROM GLOBAL GOOD NEWS Earth's future peacemakers just need a little TM by Lily Koppel The New York Times Translate This Article 14 November 2005 On 14 November 2005 The New York Times reported: Filmmaker David Lynch is raising money to make the Transcendental Meditation Programme available to students from first grade through college. New York Times reporter Lily Koppel said that Lynch wants to make the simple mental technique 'a standard in every student's curriculum'. It is a joy for Global Good News service to feature this news, which indicates the success of the life- supporting programmes Maharishi has designed to bring fulfilment to the field of world-peace. Although often described as 'notoriously reclusive', Lynch has stepped into the public spotlight by founding the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and has embarked on a speaking tour to universities on the East and West Coasts. His goal is clear: 'I really think it will change the world,' Lynch was quoted as saying. The article said that the Lynch Foundation currently has assets of about $410,000. To date seven schools have each been awarded $25,000 in seed money to begin programmes using the TM Technique. Two of the charter schools discussed their programmes with the New York Times reporter. Dr George H. Rutherford, principal of the Ideal Academy Public Charter School, an elementary and middle school in Washington, DC, said of Lynch, 'He is going to revolutionize education in America.' Dr Rutherford said that while other foundations tend to focus on providing learning tools (such as computers) to students, the Transcendental Meditation Programme helps develop the students themselves. 'TM helps to reduce the stress that creates problems,' he was quoted as saying. Researchers at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, will measure the effects of the meditation programme on students. A second school to receive a $25,000 grant from the Lynch Foundation was the Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit, a public charter school, which previously received TM financing from the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund and the General Motors Foundation. According to the article, Nataki seventh- and eighth-grade students who worked as a non-meditating control group in a 2002 study, tracking the 'social-emotional competencies' of the meditating students, now want to experience what their peers had. In addition, Koppel reported, the Lynch Foundation is partnering with other philanthropists to grant another $25,000 each to the University of Michigan, Yale, Emerson College and other colleges to help teach students TM. The foundation is also partnering to support an American University study on TM and college students. Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law basedTotal Knowledge basedprogrammes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace. Copyright © 2005 Global Good News(sm) Service. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeez, so much for their credibility. Really, they don't need to do this kind of
[FairfieldLife] Re: :propagandizing the NY Times- David Lynch Article- link attached
Yes, I agree with you here. And I find it depressing to think that Lynch, a high- profile character who can get the attention of young people, then has to watch all the interest dissipate when the fee is mentioned. I would set if for students at about $300-400. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the headline in Global Good News that's misleading. The article itself is clearly a report ABOUT the NYT article. That's quite different. Of course they've mentioned the good bits and omitted the so-so bits. There's nothing wrong in that. But the headline shouldn't have been chosen to make it appear that it was a reprinted article from the NY Times. Perhaps this was just incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead, since the article itself clearly indicates that it is GGN's report about the NYT article, not the article itself. * Nevertheless, I don't like this stuff at all, because it is not useful for the TMO. Everybody who read the NYT article, a much larger audience than GGN, saw that there were problems, like the student who backed off because of the too-high instruction fee for TM. So what this amounts too is one TMer telling the rest of the choir that everything is coming up roses, but it ain't. There are TMers who read GGN and won't go to the NYT article, and may think that it accurately reflects the article -- this head in the sand approach can't be useful, and I doubt if the NYT editors like this stuff, either, because it amounts to altering the article to fit an agenda. If you're going to have a NYT headline, you should accurately reflect the content, or at least have a hot link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/giving/14koppel.html Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante FROM GLOBAL GOOD NEWS Earth's future peacemakers just need a little TM by Lily Koppel The New York Times Translate This Article 14 November 2005 On 14 November 2005 The New York Times reported: Filmmaker David Lynch is raising money to make the Transcendental Meditation Programme available to students from first grade through college. New York Times reporter Lily Koppel said that Lynch wants to make the simple mental technique 'a standard in every student's curriculum'. It is a joy for Global Good News service to feature this news, which indicates the success of the life- supporting programmes Maharishi has designed to bring fulfilment to the field of world-peace. Although often described as 'notoriously reclusive', Lynch has stepped into the public spotlight by founding the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and has embarked on a speaking tour to universities on the East and West Coasts. His goal is clear: 'I really think it will change the world,' Lynch was quoted as saying. The article said that the Lynch Foundation currently has assets of about $410,000. To date seven schools have each been awarded $25,000 in seed money to begin programmes using the TM Technique. Two of the charter schools discussed their programmes with the New York Times reporter. Dr George H. Rutherford, principal of the Ideal Academy Public Charter School, an elementary and middle school in Washington, DC, said of Lynch, 'He is going to revolutionize education in America.' Dr Rutherford said that while other foundations tend to focus on providing learning tools (such as computers) to students, the Transcendental Meditation Programme helps develop the students themselves. 'TM helps to reduce the stress that creates problems,' he was quoted as saying. Researchers at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, will measure the effects of the meditation programme on students. A second school to receive a $25,000 grant from the Lynch Foundation was the Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit, a public charter school, which previously received TM financing from the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund and the General Motors Foundation. According to the article, Nataki seventh- and eighth-grade students who worked as a non-meditating control group in a 2002 study, tracking the 'social-emotional competencies' of the meditating students, now want to experience what their peers had. In addition, Koppel reported, the Lynch Foundation is partnering with other philanthropists to grant another $25,000 each to the University of Michigan, Yale, Emerson College and other colleges to help teach students TM. The foundation is also partnering to support an American University study on TM and college students. Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world
[FairfieldLife] Re: :propagandizing the NY Times- David Lynch Article- link attached
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I agree with you here. And I find it depressing to think that Lynch, a high- profile character who can get the attention of young people, then has to watch all the interest dissipate when the fee is mentioned. I would set if for students at about $300-400. ** I'm OK with Lynch's tour (not all college students are broke, of course), but sooner or later somebody is going to do the math -- Lynch's foundation only has $410K in the bank, so they can only scholarship 164 people, and those will undoubtedly be inner-city kids in the charter schools, not the college kids he is talking to. But, that's the luck of the world in the Kaliyuga -- the transition to enlightenment values can't happen quickly... Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the headline in Global Good News that's misleading. The article itself is clearly a report ABOUT the NYT article. That's quite different. Of course they've mentioned the good bits and omitted the so-so bits. There's nothing wrong in that. But the headline shouldn't have been chosen to make it appear that it was a reprinted article from the NY Times. Perhaps this was just incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead, since the article itself clearly indicates that it is GGN's report about the NYT article, not the article itself. * Nevertheless, I don't like this stuff at all, because it is not useful for the TMO. Everybody who read the NYT article, a much larger audience than GGN, saw that there were problems, like the student who backed off because of the too-high instruction fee for TM. So what this amounts too is one TMer telling the rest of the choir that everything is coming up roses, but it ain't. There are TMers who read GGN and won't go to the NYT article, and may think that it accurately reflects the article -- this head in the sand approach can't be useful, and I doubt if the NYT editors like this stuff, either, because it amounts to altering the article to fit an agenda. If you're going to have a NYT headline, you should accurately reflect the content, or at least have a hot link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/giving/14koppel.html Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante FROM GLOBAL GOOD NEWS Earth's future peacemakers just need a little TM by Lily Koppel The New York Times Translate This Article 14 November 2005 On 14 November 2005 The New York Times reported: Filmmaker David Lynch is raising money to make the Transcendental Meditation Programme available to students from first grade through college. New York Times reporter Lily Koppel said that Lynch wants to make the simple mental technique 'a standard in every student's curriculum'. It is a joy for Global Good News service to feature this news, which indicates the success of the life- supporting programmes Maharishi has designed to bring fulfilment to the field of world-peace. Although often described as 'notoriously reclusive', Lynch has stepped into the public spotlight by founding the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and has embarked on a speaking tour to universities on the East and West Coasts. His goal is clear: 'I really think it will change the world,' Lynch was quoted as saying. The article said that the Lynch Foundation currently has assets of about $410,000. To date seven schools have each been awarded $25,000 in seed money to begin programmes using the TM Technique. Two of the charter schools discussed their programmes with the New York Times reporter. Dr George H. Rutherford, principal of the Ideal Academy Public Charter School, an elementary and middle school in Washington, DC, said of Lynch, 'He is going to revolutionize education in America.' Dr Rutherford said that while other foundations tend to focus on providing learning tools (such as computers) to students, the Transcendental Meditation Programme helps develop the students themselves. 'TM helps to reduce the stress that creates problems,' he was quoted as saying. Researchers at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, will measure the effects of the meditation programme on students. A second school to receive a $25,000 grant from the Lynch Foundation was the Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit, a public charter school, which previously received TM financing from the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund and the General Motors
[FairfieldLife] Re: :propagandizing the NY Times- David Lynch Article- link attached
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I agree with you here. And I find it depressing to think that Lynch, a high- profile character who can get the attention of young people, then has to watch all the interest dissipate when the fee is mentioned. I would set if for students at about $300-400. Yoohoo... Did you not note that the David Lynch FOundation is raising themoney to pay the $2500 fee for all students (hopefully)? If someone doesn't want to wait, they can gowith brand x, an independent teacher (who may well think he gets it) or wait for Lynch's money to start rolling in. Lynch doesn't care if people think its too expensive. HE is the one paying for it. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I agree with you here. And I find it depressing to think that Lynch, a high- profile character who can get the attention of young people, then has to watch all the interest dissipate when the fee is mentioned. I would set if for students at about $300-400. ** I'm OK with Lynch's tour (not all college students are broke, of course), but sooner or later somebody is going to do the math -- Lynch's foundation only has $410K in the bank, so they can only scholarship 164 people, and those will undoubtedly be inner-city kids in the charter schools, not the college kids he is talking to. But, that's the luck of the world in the Kaliyuga -- the transition to enlightenment values can't happen quickly... Lynch will either raise more cash or he won't. Why is everyone harping on the lack of funds in a foundation started a few months ago? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
