The recent reports here of Program Pedophilia in Fairfield and resurrection of Annie's Story of sexual abuse raise the question of whether these are isolated events.
I'd like to direct readers to allegations going back at least 20 years of charges of child molestation, death from abuse and neglect, corruption and more at Maharishi's compound in NOIDA, India, from the cover story in The Illustrated Weekly of India, January 17, 1988.
It's not my intention to indicate that Transcendental Meditation practice creates pedophiles, any more than Catholicism does. Rather, it's my feeling that the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the TM Org must take responsibility for the practices and policies within the organizations that put children at risk. Or at the very least, speak out against these and other horrible transgressions.
What I would like to see arise is an organization, similar to Voice of the Faithful in the Catholic world, that explored these allegations and pushed for changes within the TM Org that addressed them.
And protected the children.
