--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of deepaconn
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:20 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] "Even a sick man can open a health food store"
>
>
>
> I wonder if he realized how prescient his statement was, with regard to his
> own behaviour..."Even a sick man can open a health food store."
>
> When I first heard M speak these words on my TTC, I had no doubt they were
> directed at the teachers-in-training. After his death, as more and more
> evidence is revealed that he was just like the rest of us, with our foibles,
> worries, fears for what might be, I see these words, now, applied to him.
>
> Take him off the pedestal! What ever state of consciousness he was in, he
> was just a human being. Some examples:
>
> * He was in the middle of all sorts of financail shananigans, here and
> abroad(see FFL).
> * A hushed-up medical crisis in '91 (?) took him to England for
> treatment, and he was worried about picking up Deepak's karma as the result
> of a blood transfusion(see Chopra/Huffington Post).
> * He expressed worry to a movemant doctor about his prostate and the
> subsequently had a prostate operation in Switzerland(see FFL)
> * He had ongoing treatment for diabetes and (possibly)pancreatitus(see
> FFL).
> * He had explosive anger, exhibited petty jealousies, and blatant
> favoritism. Lying was de rigeur.(FFL)
> * He had women he bedded and a teenage-like obsessiveness after one of
> these women left his grasp(see FFL:Sexy Sadie files).
> * He feared that the karma he'd created after bedding these women
> caused the death of a TTC course participant(see FFL:Sexy Sadie files).
> * He suspected that having women cook for him caused the increase in
> his libido, so... all females out...all male parusha cooks in(see FFL:Sexy
> Sadie files). No telling if that was the end of the women.
>
> I found FFL through a Google search after M died. "maharishi dead" plunked
> me smack dab into a FFL thread about the circumstances surrounding his death
> and I was hooked. In all my years with the TMO, beginning in '70, I rarely
> felt I had a safe place to express my doubts, share my intuitions, be
> myself. Those few whom I could spoke to knew little more then I did.
>
> Thank you Rick; thank you all for being here.
>
> Cath
>
> I agree with all this, but could also build a similar, probably longer list
> of positive qualities and accomplishments. It's paradoxical, but somehow I
> can accept it all.
>
Indeed Rick. Which is why we are all here I think. M was not a black or white
character. Just
when you think you have a handle on him....he slips away.....
