--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Links to additional chapters at the end! > > > From The Himalayas to Hollywood > A Personal Account of Maharishi's Early Days > > By Charles F. Lutes > As Told to Martin Zucker > © 2006 Martin Zucker > > In 1954 I became suddenly ill. I was having lunch > with a business associate in Farmer's Market. The > waitress was bringing a slice of pecan pie I had > just ordered. All at once, the restaurant turned > upside down and my heart started thumping like a > tom-tom. I grabbed onto the table and held on for > dear life. I thought I was having a heart attack. > Pretty soon the room turned right side up again > but I felt terrible. > > My friend drove me right over to my doctor's > office. The doctor examined me. It wasn't a heart > attack, he said afterward, but something was > definitely wrong. > > That's how it began. I was totally healthy one > minute and in bad shape the next. It was an > illness the doctors were never able to explain. > In a short period of time, I lost 65 pounds. From > a robust 200-pound six-footer, I shrank down to > skin and bones. I experienced blackouts with such > frequency that my company assigned a driver to > me. At one time or another, practically every > gland and organ in my body stopped working. > > This ordeal had been going on for several months > when one afternoon I began to feel the usual > symptoms that preceded a blackout: palpitations, > a cold and clammy feeling, and a dry throat. > > I headed for the doctor as fast as I could. When > I arrived, I was pretty groggy. The doctor took > one look at me and cleared a treatment room. I > remember him pulling off my coat and shirt and > going over me with his stethoscope. > > "Charlie, it looks real bad this time," he said. "I'm afraid you are dying." >
************* Charlie had extremely bad karma, which is certainly clearly expressed here in the bad health he experienced. I heard Charlie tell this story many times: MMY had given a lecture in which he said that some people have a mountain of (bad) karma. After the lecture, Charlie asked MMY if Charlie had such a mountain, to which Maharishi said, "You have a mountain range of karma." I believe that Nature gave Charlie a chance to work off some of that horrible karma by telling others about TM. Charlie, like nearly every TM bureaucrat, was a fool because of the warping effect that his karmic burden produced on his mind, but he nevertheless did a lot of good by helping to spread TM. I certainly salute him, as I learned at his WLA SRM center (his wife gave me my first checking session) back in 68. Once I realized how full of crap he was (bees are from Venus, etc), I still attended his lectures and residence courses for the MMY tapes and group/extended meditations, but for years I got up and left when he started to talk.
