When we invaded Iraq MMY went on Larry King and said that those perpetrating
the killing were going to hell. When the Buddhist monks in Vietnam burned
themselves up he said it was a foolish waste of life. So to suggest that
"gloating a bit" sums his reaction to human tragedy seems a bit uncharitable.
--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Jonestown
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 8:53 AM
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?”
