Today’s video is about how some people in the TM Movement and later the Global Country of World Peace TRANSCENDED their financial assets. Just think about the one million dollar courses or the recent one-hundred-thousand dollar meditation courses with the Maha Raja. Over the years the people who transcended some or most of their money were course participants, movement donors, TM Teachers, university faculty, and staff workers. Transcending money is another way of saying they got rid of some or most of their money or assets.
One incident in particular is very gruesome and quite disturbing. In the early 1980s, a Swedish lady who was wealthy and who was devoted to Maharishi and his movement began investing in a movement project that was well-known to Maharishi personally. This lady in the TM movement’s upper echelon, a “108” category person invested in a cassette tape production plant. From our understanding, video tapes (or perhaps audio tapes) at that time were very expensive, and it seems some genius in the TM movement thought it would be a good idea to build a production plant and sell the products.
This “108” category lady was drawn in to invest in this business venture, perhaps we could say “start-up” in modern terms. She invested all or most of her money, about 27 million dollars in today’s money into this movement (or partial movement) venture. She also donated to the movement over the years. Maharishi’s organization would have profited a great deal it seems if this venture had worked out.
Unfortunately, there were design and production problems. Maharishi’s former deer skin carrier Conny Larsson, a Swedish TM Teacher who knew the wealthy lady personally, stated that the cassettes were low quality because of a “clicking” sound the cassettes made as the inner wheels went around. So it seems it was also a mechanical design problem. Eventually, by 1985 the business venture went bankrupt and the “108” lady became very poor. She was so poor that she had to sleep at other people’s houses because she lost everything.
With Conny Larsson’s help, she called Maharishi from Conny’s home and spoke to Maharishi. However, Maharishi did not help her with her very serious problems.
In 1989 Conny got a phone call from this lady, who was in a distant city. She called Conny from a phone booth. They spoke for a few minutes and then Conny heard an explosion at the other end, and the telephone line disconnected. Later it turned out she had poured gasoline on herself, and during her discussion with Conny, she ignited herself. An explosion happened in the phone booth.
This lady, who once was a “108” and in the top tier of Maharishi’s movement, and had invested all of her inheritance in a movement startup of sorts, and donated generously, had decided to take her own life out of desperation. This story was told on a Zoom call in Bryan Lee’s New Beginnings Forum group a few months ago. Conny Larsson himself narrated this sad and tragic story to the shock of all who were present. We hadn’t heard this story before.
This story, undoubtedly true, was so shocking to us that the RajaLeaks team decided to create a video relating our feelings about this whole incident. The video is read by an AI assistant, and the story it relates to is just as dark as it sounds. Undoubtedly there are other stories out there similar to this, but without the business aspect. There was a staff person who committed suicide in Vlodrop and a former faculty member who died in the Iowa winter in a tent for lack of shelter. Of course, there is the Earl and David Kaplan story about how the twin brothers had donated 150 million dollars over the years to the TM movement before they figured out the scam. This story is told by Earl in the documentary film called “David Want’s to Fly”, made by a German filmmaker who got fed up with the TMO-GCWP cult behavior.
The theme of the video below is “transcending your money”. I would like to say please enjoy the video, but this video is intended to wake up people about the terrible things that have happened. It’s more of a warning for future generations and also a call for action, about cleaning up the TM Movement. The unethical slime running all over the place has to be cleaned up.
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