--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "It's just a ride" <bill.hicks.all.a.r...@...> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Rick Archer <r...@...> wrote: > > There's a lot of truth in that. I and others got kicked out of the TM > > movement for beginning to think independently without worrying about the > > possible consequences. A while after this happened to me, I was chatting on > > the phone with a fellow who at one time had been my best friend. I was > > expressing this ambivalent, all possibilities attitude about Maharishi - > > that there was no need to take all his pronouncements as absolutes, that > > much of what he said and did may have been expressions of cultural > > conditioning and personal idiosyncrasies rather than cosmic perspectives. > > If we had been meeting in person, I'm sure I would have seen the color > > drain from his face. His voice sounded "ashen" and he quickly terminated > > the call. He hasn't returned a phone call or an email since then. > > > > I never thought independently that Maharishi was a god or spoke the > truth of the gods. It was the initiators, in advanced lectures and on > residence courses who told us that Maharishi spoke from the home of > all the laws of nature and therefore spoke only the truth, that which > is true on every level of creation, as perceived from every state of > consciousness. > > How did it all start, this business that Maharishi could speak only > the truth, that which was true at every level, from every vantage > point? Was it Maharishi himself who said this and encouraged his > belief or was it his BN followers? > > Art imitates life. I remember the reporter from the Village Voice > telling Alfie in Annie Hall that people consider Maharishi God. That > millions of people would crawl on their hands and knees across the > country merely to be able to touch the hem of his garment. My > meditator friends and I laughed and laughed when we saw that scene. > While my friends and I were laughing, it appears the hardcore TMers > were going off to TTC and Six Month courses to be with He they > believed were God. > > Is that the way it is? Would TM have been better if Maharishi didn't > have all of these BN initiators?
Charlie Lutes was the anecdote! :-) He wasn't too popular either. Charlie was always, 'just Charlie' and spoke mostly from his experience. He was a straight shooter, whereas MMY, well, I think he sugar coated the truth a lot. I guess he thought it would be much more palatable to us ignorant Westerners.......
