--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote:
> > Coda: I would love JH to become a charismatic leader/beautiful human > being--who knows! maybe he will become this. But I side with Bevan in his > fidelity to the purity of Maharishi's Teaching--also in the depth of his > suffering and despair--he remains absolutely and properly true to Maharishi. > If Buck gets his way--through championing the authority of JH--it will mean > the death of that ultra innocent experience that an initiator can give to a > initiate the moment he begins to repeat the mantra after the initiator has > sung the Puja. There is nothing like TM, and there never has been anything > like it. And there is no one like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi either. > > John Hagelin is a brilliant physicist. He is devoted to Maharishi and > believes in the metaphysical integrity of Maharishi's Teaching-and his vision > for the whole world. But he will never be taken as seriously as Bevan, > because Bevan has a very perfect read on Maharishi himself--as Bevan's > Master. The purity of The Teaching is held inside Bevan Morris's soul. If > there is some silent coup d'etat, it will be the end of Transcendental > Meditation and the the last light of the brilliance of what the TM Movement > once was (up to the ruling in the New Jersey case) will go out. > > Bevan has the potential to command respect. John Hagelin, were he not a > remarkable scientist and thinker, could not command, would never command, > that respect. "Bevan from Heaven" was once a real phenomenon. > > Bevan still feels the holiness of his experience of his Master; he acts out > of a sense of felt supernatural inspired obedience. The Buck revolution, it > comes from someone who never really felt what we initiators felt, say in the > early seventies. For me, it is either Maharishi and TM all the way, or it is > nothing. It is sort of parallel to Newman saying there is no medium between > atheism and Catholicism. If you are not a Catholic, you are > essentially--functionally--an atheist. Couldn't agree more. Nobody I know in the Movement has made a stronger application for 3'rd degree Initiation and eventual Masterhood without being enlightened (as far as I know) than Bevan Morris. It seems Buck doesn't or can't see the range of his critisism. He should give it up and focus on what he knows best; being on the programme.
