Thanks for the Dead Hippie Cult Leader
Ah, its a beautiful day and my life is full of joy now that the Maharishi Yogi has become compost. The man was a fraud and a poisonous influence on idiots everywhere that used his teachings as a substitute for their own spiritual shortcomings. Get to rotting, Yogi!
From the AP here:
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop. He was thought to be 91 years old.
With the help of celebrity endorsements, Maharishi — a Hindi-language title for Great Seer — parlayed his interpretations of ancient scripture into a multi-million-dollar global empire.
After 50 years of teaching, Maharishi turned to larger themes, with grand designs to harness the power of group meditation to create world peace and to mobilize his devotees to banish poverty from the earth.
How did that work out? Let me check. Yep, he FAILED. And so did his pathetic followers. The only poverty he alleviated was his own.
Donations and the $2,500 fee to learn TM financed the construction of Peace Palaces, or meditation centers, in dozens of cities around the world.
Skeptics ridiculed his plan to raise $10 trillion to end poverty by sponsoring organic farming in the world’s poorest countries. They scoffed at his notion that meditation groups, acting like psychic shock troops, can end conflict.
Hold on, I’m not done ridiculing yet. Organic farming? How’s that working out for the poor countries? Lemme check… Yep still poor, plus they have more AIDS! Great job, Mahareeshee.
Maharishi also was accused of fraud by former pupils who claim he failed to teach them to fly. “Yogic flying,” showcased as the ultimate level of transcendence, was never witnessed as anything more than TM followers sitting in the cross-legged lotus position and bouncing across spongy mats.
Can we please have more dead hippie cult leaders? Oh, and don’t forget, Yoga and Meditation are frauds when it comes to your health. Science said so.
