This week is the 30th anniversary of Jonestown. I was in Iran on the world
peace project when it happened and my buddies freaked out when I went
missing one night. I didn't show up for a meeting because I was in a
friend's room reading about the incident in his TIME magazine. When we got
back to Switzerland Maharishi commented that "a Christian cult had committed
suicide." He was gloating a bit, as he was pissed at the fundamentalists for
opposing TM in the schools, etc., and he was lumping the Jonestown cult in
with them. A year or two later, MMY send a small delegation to Guyana to ask
government officials there to give land and support for a Sidhaland in the
jungle. The government bureaucrat's reaction was basically, "Are you nuts?
Don't you know what we've been through down here?"
