Is that your best approximation of a home page, Geoff? If so, please add it to the "Members Web Sites" section of the Links section. Thanks.
on 5/1/05 2:46 PM, vashtirama at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Welcome, Geoff. I googled you before I had a chance to ask you about > your time at MIU, and when I went here: > http://www.skepticfiles.org/weird/geoff-gb.htm > I found a good overview and got a sense of what kind of approach you > may take in your book. I'll be looking for it in 2006. > I had the same feeling as you did when the sidhis came out (a lot of > people I've talked to did). The story you then told about the > Executive Whatever guy returning from Switz. got me thinking about > when that kind of thinking started up in Fairfield and the movement. > It seems like it was always there, perhaps because I was so young > (about 14 when the sidhis came out); but whenever it started, I'd say > Ffd has stayed on that tangent ever since and many people have gone > completely off the deep end with it. I try to imagine my time in Ffd > without that magical thinking and I can't. > We probably never met, unless you went to the Trade Fairs in the > Student Union at that time and saw my calligraphy (I went by Kristina > then). > Vashti > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Gilpin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, that would be me. Hello, everybody. I'm the author of "The > Maharishi >> Effect," the first mainstream book about the TM movement from a > major >> publisher. (Tarcher/Penguin, not Viking as in the blurb.) It'll be > on >> shelves in 2006 accompanied by a major promotional campaign. My > publisher >> offered me prime display space at the major chains (Borders, B&N), > national >> advertising, and coverage by NPR and other media. >> >> Please note that this book is still a work in progress. The content > and tone >> are still in flux. Whether it's "positive" or "negative" depends > mainly on >> the input I get from the people I talk to. Has the movement > really "gone >> awry?" Well, you tell me. >> >> I'm still looking for sources to interview for my book. If you have > a good >> story to tell about the movement, please contact me. I can offer > whatever >> degree of anonymity you require. >> >> Thanks very much! >> >> Geoff Gilpin >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> _____ >> >> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Rick Archer >> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 9:58 PM >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] New Book >> >> >> An author friend of mine sent me this. Anybody know this guy?: >> >> Hey Rick, my agent sent me this. It's a notice of a book coming out >> sometime this year, from Viking. Do you know the guy? >> >> THE MAHARISHI EFFECT: SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT, IMMORTALITY, AND YOGIC > FLYERS >> IN MIDDLE AMERICA by Geoff Gilpin >> >> Geoff Gilpin was a student at Maharishi University in Fairfield, > Iowa during >> its heyday. In 2001, he returned to the campus to see what happeend > to his >> old friends and the Movement itself. What he finds there is a mix > of the >> familiar and the pecuiliar - a quirky blend of faith, pseudo- > science, and >> cultish behavior in America's Corn Belt. The Maharishi effect is > the story >> of a religious movement gone awry, and one Boomer's nostalgic > journey back >> to his spiritual roots. Gilpin is a computer consultant who > received an MFA >> in creative writing from Goucher College. >> >> To subscribe, send a message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Or go to: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ >> and click 'Join This Group!' >> >> >> >> _____ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> * To visit your group on the web, go to: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ >> >> >> * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > subject=Unsubscribe> >> >> >> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service >> <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- Rick Archer SearchSummit 1108 South B Street Fairfield, IA 52556 Phone: 641-472-9336 Fax: 815-472-5842 http://searchsummit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
