--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal <L.Shaddai@> wrote:
> Seek after the Humbold video tapes. I so much enjoyed them. They
> > were perhaps his best ever. . . .
> > And don't listen to the damned Buddhists here.
>
> Shad,
>
> Yeah, get those 1971 Humboldt tapes -- find the tape that shows Maharishi
> telling some guy "I'd rather disband the movement than have initiators who
> look like you." The guy had a beard and had gotten to the microphone and
> made a seriously good case that bearded initiators would command respect.
> There were 1500 folks there...half of them hippies. When Maharishi rebuked
> the guy -- get this -- the crowd hissed and booed Maharishi. Maharishi then
> said, "Time for lunch." You know, he chickened out -- something Turq does
> when the heat in the kitchen is too much.
>
> Yet, now we have the rajas with full beards.
>
> When I got back from TTC, Bill Whitherspoon told me I had to shave my
> mustache or he wouldn't allow me to teach in the Detroit area. Years later I
> had my chance to smack him around for it when we both lived in FF, but I, by
> that time, saw Bill as this guy without a life and pitied him. He was
> pretending to be joe-honcho in the TM business community. I wonder if he's
> still plowing up the desert to make artforms. Anyhoo, he was one of the
> "little tyrants" the movement gave a bit of power to, and he wasn't the worst
> TMO abuser by a long shot, but I guess I owe him a thank you note for being
> part of the long process of building disaffection and clarity in me. Thanks
> Bill for the abuse!
>
> Anyone know if Bill is still toeing the TMO company line?
>
> Edg
>
I help out Bill now and then with some odd products and, inventions and would
say he is definitely not a tb.
He started a small business which has rapidly expanded and is selling stuff
world wide.
One of the aluminum frame assemblies I helped design and welded together
ended up in Dubai.
Anyway, look up "the sky factory" they have quite a website.
