Imagine The World's Most Advanced Society Talking Itself Into Devotion For An Indian Mad Man's Giggles

Transcendental Meditation Free has posted a timeline of the Maharishi's "teachings", showing how they changed over the years to accommodate unforeseen circumstances, like people seeing through his lies. Here's a TMR favorite:

  1967 on:  Capitalizing on his Beatles-fueled notoriety, Maharishi continues to sell TM as a means of spiritual rejuvenation. At some point Maharishi sells "advanced techniques" for the devoted to accelerate their race to enlightenment, including techniques to sleep better and quit smoking. Maharishi also, in response to questions about time, states that 3-5 years is how long it takes to get enlightened through the practice of TM. This time frame is later expanded to 10 years or more after many complain they have been meditating longer than 5 years and are still not enlightened.

Americans have been just too gullible for words,…