--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <dickmays@> 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.
A lot of people like you had an aversion for Charlie. I felt the same way about Jarvis whom I considered a shallow, phony and opportunistic human being who placed high value in his position in the TMO pecking order.
