On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@lisco.com>wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:26 PM, stevelf wrote: > > > For me it was sometime around '76. I was about to take my first siddhis > course in Switzerland. Often I would get to Europe a month early to hike in > the Swiss alps. So I was there early this time, too, and happened upon a > course going on somewhere on Lake Lucerne. > > I remember a hotel and all the windows were papered over on the first > floor. > > Really~~papered over?? Were they all running around > naked inside or something? (God forbid, considering > who some of them were.) > > Sal > > > Of course papered over. It was in something like 1985 that Maharishi pronounced that noise in program was not necessary. ABSOLUTELY NOT NECESSARY. Before that I swear there was a competition between "sidhas" on who could make the most bizarre, loudest, disruptive noise. I used to act as receptionist in the afternoon at the Houston Capital of the Age of Enlightenment, the one on Westheimer, in the strip center over the butcher shop. People would be coming in early for intos or checking and I'd have to explain why Candy Borland and Jane Hopson were making noises that made the place compete with the Houston Zoo. A number of times I just explained, "Lady wrestlers practice here". I dreaded going into the flying rooms for about a year before the ruling, especially the one at 1111 H St. NW in DC. We had this half of an American Gothic looking couple, the center chairmen, June and Tony. Tony was constantly yelling Soma Soma Soma at the top of his lungs in the SF flying room. One day he switched to Mona Mona Mona. Our resident punk rocker turned to him and asked "Mona, who's Mona" and both up both the mens and womens flying rooms broke up in waves of laughter. Windows had to be covered because it was oh so secret what the "sidhas" were doing. Suddenly, fewer resident courses. Maharishi pandered to "sidhas" so that non-"sidhas" would feel enough constant pressure to blow the money to buy the sidhis. I was so relieved that finally as a sidha I was once again able to see the very same tapes that had been rebranded "for sihas". The very tapes I'd watched for years before.
