I am amazed, and really happy for Mark!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote:
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> <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061001/Sandals-belonging-Beatles-g
> uru-The-Maharishi-set-fetch-80-000-auction.html#comments> Sandals belonging
> to Beatles' guru the Maharishi set to fetch £80,000 at auction
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> By Daily Mail Reporter
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> Last updated at 4:07 PM on 13th November 2011
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> A pair of sandals worn by the Maharishi are expected to fetch £80,000 when
> they are auctioned later this month.
>
> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi shot to fame worldwide as a guru to The Beatles who he
> first met while he was in London.
>
> He wore the wooden shoes during the height of his fame in the late 1960s and
> 1970s.
>
> For sale: The Maharishi's sandals are expected to fetch £80,000 when sold
> at auction later this month
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> For sale: The Maharishi's sandals are expected to fetch £80,000 when sold at
> auction later this month
>
> The spiritual leader, who died three years ago, started his transcendental
> meditation programme in the late 1970s that claimed to offer practitioners
> the ability to levitate and to create world peace.
>
> The sandals have elastic straps and were specially-moulded for his feet.
>
> Saved: Mark Landau, 65, kept the sandals when they were discarded by the
> Maharishi
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> Saved: Mark Landau, 65, kept the sandals when they were discarded by the
> Maharishi
>
> They were saved by his personal assistant after he threw them away because
> they were broken.
>
> The shoes will be auctioned by the Fame Bureau, London, on November 26.
>
> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the leader and guru of the TM movement,
> characterised as a new religious movement and also as non-religious.
>
> In 2008, he announced his retirement from all administrative activities and
> went into mauna - spiritual silence- until his death three weeks later.
>
> Mark Landau, 65, said the scandals 'still carried Maharisihi's energy'.
>
> Mark, from Los Alamos, USA, said: 'When I was skin boy to Maharishi Mahesh
> Yogi in the early seventies, a pair of his sandals came from him to me. They
> were his exclusive pair for an unknown number of years.
>
> 'They broke one evening in the wet grass of the Love Foundation, Mike Love's
> place in Santa Barbara. Anthony Jobbe, the skin boy at the time, found a
> rock and hammered the nails of the strap back in.
>
> Height of his fame: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru and mystic, pictured
> in Bangor, Wales, with Beatles Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and
> George Harrison
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> Height of his fame: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru and mystic, pictured
> in Bangor, Wales, with Beatles Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and
> George Harrison
>
> 'But the shoes were never the same again, and he wanted a new pair. In his
> small meeting room, attached to his bedroom, he stepped on blank sheets of
> paper and had me draw the outlines of his feet, to send to his Indian sandal
> maker.
>
> 'When the new sandals arrived, Maharishi put them on, and when he left the
> room to go to bed, he left his old sandals where they stood.
>
> Beatles guru: Paul McCartney, his then girlfriend Jane Asher, Ringo Starr,
> his wife Maureen and George Harrison walk through woods int he Himalayan
> foothills in 1968
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> Beatles guru: Paul McCartney, his then girlfriend Jane Asher, Ringo Starr,
> his wife Maureen and George Harrison walk through woods int he Himalayan
> foothills in 1968 where they were learning learning transcendental
> meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
>
> 'When I went in the next morning, they were still standing in the middle of
> the room.
>
> 'I realised that he either didn't care what happened to them or had
> purposefully left them for me. Needless to say, I didn't throw them away.
>
> 'In my experience, they still carry a lot of his energy, as if the atoms and
> molecules have been entrained in it. And in India, of course, they would be
> revered as Holy objects. I have kept them very well protected and have
> handled them very little over the decades.
>
> 'I am hoping that the person they are meant to go to will have the
> wherewithal and will to honor their value.'
>
> Auctioneer Ted Owens said there had been a huge amount of interest in the
> unique item.
>
> 'This is an extremely rare item to come up for auction - we're very pleased
> to be able to offer it.
>
> 'We have had a lot of interest in the sandals already, and we're expecting
> them to sell for around £80,000.'
>
>
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