From: judithbour...@email.com [mailto:judithbour...@email.com] Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 7:52 AM To: r...@searchsummit.com; jhar...@audioquest.com Subject: my comments on Bob Roth
Hi Rick, You must have seen this clip with Bob Roth denying my book and some woman named Sandra Crow (do you know her? I don't.) saying I'm wacko. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKVqRt3Y0BM I wrote the following and sent it to the Student Activities office and received a very nice reply. They posted it for me under question 13...unfortunately they have posted the whole discourse on You Tube in such a way that it does not look as if there are any comments, though. Feel free to post my text below on FFL if you want to Rick. Namaste, Judith Judith Bourque here, author of Robes of Silk Feet of Clay, which is an autobiographical account of my love affair with Maharishi, initiated in January 1970. Someone sent me the link to Bob Roth's evening at MUM. I would like to just make a few comments since I was not present at this meeting in order to answer questions about the validity of my part in David's film or my book. Bob refers to the Parusha program that he has been a member of for decades and says that he feels fine with it...my book is not a discussion of the possible benefits of remaining celibate, it is simply my experience of Maharishi not being truthful about his own status as a Brahmachari. Perhaps he was in the beginning, but he gave that up during the 70's. Bob says that my story is not corraborated. At the end of my book is a witness statement by former Skin Boy Rob McCutchan, who, from the position of sitting on Maharishi's veranda, saw me walking down to Maharishi's house in Rishikesh in the middle of the night. Of course, Maharishi and I were alone in his bedroom, so in that sense my account cannot be corroborated. Then there is a woman in the audience whose name sounds like Sandra Crow who says she knows me very well and that I wrote the book to gain recognition. Forgive me Sandra, but I do not remember you at all. When was it that we met and become such good friends? I would also like to add that if I had written the book to gain recognition, I would be pretty foolish to wait until now. I should have in that case written it when Maharishi was still interesting for the media. I can add that if any TMers or ex TMers are interested in discussing this issue directly with me rather than discussing it with people who have opinions about me, I am willing to do that anytime. I am not asking anyone to renounce their meditation or their love and appreciation for Maharishi since I am still grateful for what he gave me, but I am no longer willing to live a lie. judithbour...@email.com Holistic Therapist and Filmmaker Verkstadsgatan 8c 652 19 Karlstad Sweden +46(0)733012147 www.robesofsilkfeetofclay.com <http://www.robesofsilkfeetofclay.com/> www.judithsalternativaterapier.se www.therealpatchadams.com
