And you are still falling!
The next point during your fall down the TM rabbit hole may be "Teacher Training", where you learn the highly ritualized and completely rote procedure of planting suggestions and inducing trance in TM students. You also learn how to explain the TM dogma of "unstressing" in order to talk people out of quitting the practice even when it is hurting them (but you won't see it that way, of course).
Or the next stage may be joining up as an underpaid staff member at Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Fairfield, Iowa. Or you may move to Fairfield and run a business there while practicing the sidhis in one of the two Golden Domes every day.
Actually, different people hit different stages in different orders while falling down the TM rabbit hole. You may become a poorly paid worker at MUM first, become chronically dissociated on the equivalent of frequent "residence courses", until you eventually save up enough work credits to learn the sidhis or go to Teacher Training. Or you may be able to become a student at MUM, earning a degree while staying on what otherwise is much like a 4-year residence course.
It doesn't really matter in what order these things happen to you. The result is chronic intense dissociation and absolute conviction that Mahesh's teachings are the highest spiritual teachings that have ever existed. You dedicate your entire life to these teachings.
The basic TM technique and the sidhis are not the only extreme practices and teachings:
- You believe absolutely that by following Mahesh's teachings you will attain God Consciousness." (Search for "God Consciousness" and "its creator.")
- You may become a celibate TM monk or nun.
- You believe that even if only "the square root of 1%" of a population practices the TM and the sidhis, then this "Maharishi Effect" (ME) will create powerful positive effects for that entire population.
- You believe that when an entire nation reaches the square root of 1% mark, then that entire nation will become invincible."
- You believe that Mahesh's teachings and practices will not only create World Peace, but will eventually create a literal "Heaven on Earth."
- You believe that as more and more communities, and then nations, achieve this percentage of meditators that this will create World Peace under the guidance of the "Global Country of World Peace."
- The Global Country of World Peace is governed by Maharaja Nader Raam, Custodian of the Constitution of the Universe and Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace. Here are some pictures from his coronation ceremony.
- That top "Maharaja of the Globe" position is filled, but you yourself can become a subordinate Raja who rules a particular geographical area, i.e. "a city, a number of cities, a state of a country, or a country as a whole." As part of your application you are advised to make a contribution of $1,000,000. You can pay half now and half later if you prefer.
- You believe that the "puja" that is performed when a person is instructed in the basic technique invokes the literal presence of the "Holy Tradition of Masters." This is the lineage of spiritual Masters who have preserved the TM teachings since the first day of Creation. When they are thus invoked it is their presence during instruction that gives the mantra its spiritual power.
- You believe that, in addition to powerful supernatural beneficent forces such as the Holy Tradition, that demons also literally exist! Yes, demons!!! Not just any type of demon, but specifically Hindu "rakshasas." And there are also "rakshasas incarnate." For example, when a multi-millionaire TMer who had donated over a million dollars to TM realized that he had been taken, and then publically denounced Mahesh, Mahesh declared that the man was in fact a rakshasa.
- You will move to Fairfield, Iowa, home of Mahesh's
own private university
("MUM"), in order to become one of the following:
- If you can swing it you will become a full-time MUM student (click on "What will I gain from Consciousness-Based education?").
- Otherwise you might become a lowly paid MUM staffer, slowing earning points towards being eligible for, for example, Teacher Training.
- Or you might have the financial means to just become a private citizen of Fairfield so that you can live your life in a TM setting.
- In all cases, one gigantic benefit of being in Fairfield is that you can fly twice daily in one the "Golden Domes" (see top picture). Because of the "Maharishi Effect" you will be thereby simply basking in positive influences, which will benefit you not only in the present, but which will greatly speed up your progress toward CC.
- You spend a much money as you can scrape together on
the following (none of which are cheap):
- You will spend money on Mahesh's trademarked brand of "Ayurvedic medicine." This involves buying expensive periodic consultations with a Maharishi-branded Ayurvedic practitioner, and spending lots of money on Maharishi-branded Ayurvedic remedies.
- You will spend money on Maharishi-branded astrologers. (Hindu astrology is called "jyotish", and Hindu astrologers are called "jyotishi.")
- Your jyotishi will undoubtedly recommend that you buy expensive gemstones.
- And he will recommend that you buy expensive Maharishi-branded "yagyas" (which have to be bought periodically rather than just once) which will create strong positive effects on your life.
- Once you have moved to Fairfield you will buy only homes that are built according to the strict requirements of Maharishi-branded Vastu (a sort of architectural feng shui). (Note that New York and Paris should really be razed and rebuilt.)
- You will spend $4000 for a "Maharishi Vedic Observatory" (click on the various objects to find out what they do). You will place it in the vibrational center of your Vastu home. You will believe that all you have to do is to look at the thing (search for "How to Use") and "ten kinds of specific balancing influences are enlivened in the physiology."
And that's just a sample.
You are still falling, but is there a bottom to the TM rabbit
hole?
