[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So where does GW Bush's dharma as a child of privelege fit into all this? If a demonstrably enlightened dictator took over the USA, that might be nice while he is alive, but will all his descendents be enlightened? The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering how the so-called enlightened leadership has run the TMO into the ground, I have not the slightly doubt in my mind that they would be even worse leaders than Dubya and his cabinet of cowering yes-men.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it's no surprise that Maharishi's political theories go back centuries. His model is Vedic society, which is what, tens of thousands of years old? And which may have never existed, except as a fantasy in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-25 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/24/05 10:37 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maharishi doesn't like labor governments. His comment on Britain's Labor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-25 Thread Jason Spock
---OriginalMessage-- From: "Robert Gimbel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:02:04 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers I always assumed that Maharishi had suscribed to Plato and Socrates;

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/24/05 10:37 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think Maharishi understands what a government is, period. He's lived in never-never land all of his life, inside ashrams and then at the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 10/24/05 2:14 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else remember this moment at the giant course in India in early 1981? Someone asked M very directly about what is the best form of government or some such thing. This question came after he was damning Democracy (in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Ingegerd
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/24/05 10:37 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think Maharishi understands what a government is, period.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
I didn't go on that course, but I remember hearing people say that they should come prepared to stay in tents and to bring sleeping-bags--in addition to suits and ties and silk dresses! Also that there were no doctors anywhere. At least one friend of mine came back with an sickness nobody could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Ingegerd
People around me in the Hotel was so sick that we had to get Indian Doctors, who gave them shots of Opium to stop the diarrhoea. The Indians called the course participants for the tubercolous. It was not a good marketing for TM. Ingegerd --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/24/05 10:37 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maharishi doesn't like labor governments. His comment on Britain's Labor Party: They are laborers. They shouldn't be running the government. Give

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/24/05 2:14 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else remember this moment at the giant course in India in early 1981? Someone asked M very directly about what is the best form of government

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Gimbel
I always assumed that Maharishi had suscribed to Plato and Socrates; In regard to the highest form of government; after taking a course at MIU; back in the day. The highest form of government according to the Ancient Greeks; Was a ruler called a Philosopher King The idea was to create a program;

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread gullible fool
Considering how the so-called enlightened leadership has run the TMO into the ground, I have not the slightly doubt in my mind that they would be even worse leaders than Dubya and his cabinet of cowering yes-men. --- Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always assumed that Maharishi had

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering how the so-called enlightened leadership has run the TMO into the ground, I have not the slightly doubt in my mind that they would be even worse leaders than Dubya and his cabinet of cowering yes-men.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason [Maharishi] doesn't like democracies is that he doesn't consider the common man qualified to have a say in governmental policy. He thinks that individuals should just concern themselves with their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paula Youmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason he doesn't like democracies is that he doesn't consider the common man qualified to have a say in governmental policy. Something our founding fathers agreed with...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 10/24/05 6:11 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/24/05 2:14 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else remember this moment at the giant course in India in early 1981? Someone asked M

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Mark
Enlightened monarchies only work if the people they rule are also enlightened. An enlightened monarch will be executed by an ignorant mob. On the other hand, an ingorant monarch will lynch the citizens, ie., Stalin, Hitler, etc., so one without the other is worthless. In Sat Yuga, everyone is