Wayback, I had the same reaction as you to Judith's book: I felt closer to
Maharishi. It is a very good book, not sleazy or "tabloidish" at all.
--- On Tue, 8/31/10, wayback71 <waybac...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: wayback71 <waybac...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Judith's book - I just read it
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 6:33 PM
> I liked it for many reasons - and now
> I feel somehow closer to Maharishi. Judith is smart
> and honest and presents a balanced account, and was
> obviously in love with MMY. For those who are wondering
> whether to read it, I can tell you that Judith's account is
> dignified - no sleaze or unnecessary
> information. Just an honest, simple accounting. There
> is positive stuff about MMY, too - kind of a full picture,
> rather than a one-dimensional guru person. Rob
> McCutcheon's statement at the end is excellent and so clear
> and moving.
>
> Judith's story matches exactly the things I heard back in
> the 70's, including the information about
> "June." I had a brief interaction with
> "June" on Mallorca and instantly liked her. Back in the 70's
> a friend of a friend heard these rumors, and he decided to
> spend as long as it took to find out if they were true. He
> had done TTC in Mallorca, too. He just did not want to go on
> wondering and feeling ambivalent. He took about a
> year, and I suspect he called Judith and I know he went to
> visit a woman in the Seattle or Portland, Oregon area to
> talk with her ("Belinda"). He talked with
> those in the inner circle on those courses as well. At the
> end - after interviewing several people in person (he flew
> to see them) as well as by phone, he had no doubts that
> several women had been involved with MMY, and he dropped
> from the TMO. But he would not tell the details of what he
> had learned - he had promised confidentiality.
>
> For me, it was a relief to hear Judith tell her story
> instead of just hearing rumors and second and third hand
> accounts all these years. I already believed them to be
> true, so the book did not shock me. But it brought
> back memories and -what is really amazing is that it made me
> regain some of the love and respect I used to feel so
> intensely for Maharishi - he was a Master but
> also a human who made some big mistakes, felt guilty, and
> did not know how to be open about them. The way Judith
> frames the whole thing just shows that he too had his
> weaknesses as well as the devotion to Knowledge and the
> profound impact he has had on so many of our lives.
> Judith does a too-brief but good job in talking about what
> Enlightenment might or might not look like - and as
> has been done here on FFL - proposes that personalities may
> not be much influenced by the state of Enlightenment. As we
> have discussed here, Enlightenment might be a way of
> perceiving Reality, but not a makeover of one's
> personality. I finished it and felt as if the air had
> been cleared.
>
> What I am still curious about is what it felt like to be
> around MMY as much as she was. Did she feel intense
> darshan, have bliss or unboundedness as a result, did it
> change her spiritual life while in his presence? These
> she did not go in to.
>
> Now, I would be curious to know if someone will be doing a
> book on the money in the TMO.
>
>
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