On Feb 28, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Michael Flatley wrote:
On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being a demonic predator socio-path, and
10 = He saved the world so the transgressions are irrelevant...
Kaplan gives him a 1.... and Bevan Morris gives him a 10.
Earl Kaplan makes a strong case for mmy as predator, except that
it's colored by his resentment over being conned out of more than
100 million dollars. He goes as far as to suggest that MMY is a
demon soul... that children can see his true nature, etc.
I'm not sure what number I'd give Mahesh.
Taken from "Getting Unstuck from TM: The Mystique of Maharishi's
"Vibrations"" comments at:
http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2011/02/getting-unstuck-from-tm-mystique-
of.html
Several comments posit some sort of "Dark or Demonic rishi"
experiences, even though one person who was close on several courses
felt the demonic forces were the power behind his odd, shaktic
darshan and his negative "enlightenment" (not to be picky, but
shouldn't that be enDARKenment?):
Comment from maskedzebra [RWC?]
Ah! finally some meat to really dig into. Right out front I want to
confess that I aim to use your essay as the means to unload lots of
ideas and memories that I have never, since abjuring Maharishi,
revealed to anyone. Yep, right here on this blog I am really going to
let things fly—even at the risk of being thought out of my mind, and
addled-brained.
I just love this essay for what it contains that I can relate to.
Relate to, that is, as the most significant experience of my entire
life.
First of all, in the main body of your essay you have captured my own
experience perfectly. I doubt I can add anything to what you have
already said here: "maybe a saint", "maybe God incarnate", "direct
line to Ultimate Truth", "God's messenger", "amazing aura", "physical
energy field", "laser beam gaze".
But let me try to respond to your survey.
(...)
(b) Did you think he was enlightened? Divine? A saint or prophet?
Answer: Yes, I definitely think he was enlightened. And I believe
there really is such a state of consciousness. However, I believe it
(Enlightenment) to be constituted of an aggregate of mystical and
magical deceit, that malevolent and mischievous intelligences
completely take over one's consciousness and create the illusion of
wholeness and unity, and Maharishi himself was the ultimate victim of
these intelligences—even as his pride and vanity made him ripe for
the taking. The Vedic gods that are the mantras can indeed put one in
a higher state of consciousness, but such a state, such an experience—
with the accompanying demonstration of remarkably inspired action—is,
however fixed and stable, a metaphysical illusion. Maharishi more
than anyone else (personal belief being expressed here) who has ever
lived, personified this mystical integrity—an integrity that for so
long was essentially unchallengeable—not one person ever received
support [from the cosmos?] in approaching Maharishi in a critical
frame of mind. He blew off all skeptics with the most casual and
suave wave of his hand (that is, the dexterity and irony and wit that
his consciousness provided him in the presence of any would-be
adversary). He was certainly "divine" according to the Vedic/Hindu
paradigm, but in terms of the actual structure of reality and the
universe, No, I think on the contrary—as his latter years would prove—
he was the antithesis of the divine. Meaning: if there really is a
divine level of reality, Maharishi's person, life and consciousness
was the most brilliant counterfeit of that supernatural reality. As
to being a saint or prophet, the answer is unequivocally NO. Like
Saint Francis of Assisi? like Ignatius of Loyola? like Teresa of
Avila? like Ezekiel? like Isaiah? I never saw Maharishi perform a
single act of humility. Maharishi's arrogance was something out of
this world, to be sure, but I think—let us just speak figuratively
here—the gates of heaven were closed to him when his body and soul
were rent asunder.
(c) Or do you think he was evil, possessed, working with a dark
power, etc?
Answer: You betcha.
