"Since we know from other sources that he wasn't" He might not have been, Judy, but its entirely a he said, she said scenario here, and "he" is now dead so he can't refute the "she said" part.
L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : That's how one version of the story goes. In another version, told by Cynthia Lennon, Magic Alex convinced John and George that Maharishi had had sex with one of the American students (not Mia), and that's why they left. Cynthia thinks Alex was jealous of Maharishi's influence over John and wanted to get the Beatles away from him: http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ For Magic Alex's version, see here (pages 8 and 9): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf I've seen yet another version, which I can't find now on the Web, in which Alex set Maharishi up, collaborating with this American student to stage the scene implicating Maharishi that Alex took John to witness. Mia Farrow wasn't involved in any of these versions. From everything I can determine, it appears that the Mia story and the John-and-George-leaving story got conflated somewhere along the line. In any case, as Lawson says, Mia has backed way off her original claim. But if the issue is whether Maharishi was or wasn't celibate, which of the above versions (if any) is the correct one is irrelevant, since we know from other sources that he wasn't. Really? That's how the story goes, last read by me in that definitive book about the Beatles released 10-ish years ago. The fact her sister is a TM teacher means nothing to me about anything. Except maybe she might want to always paint the movement in a good light. I read somewhere that they do that a lot. You should get down the local Krishna restaraunt and get a copy of Chant and be Happy it's all about the Beatles and Krishna, boy will you see them in a new light. In fact you will see the power of selective editing at work. The TMO never mentions H&L's devotion to Krishna and the Isckon book doesn't mention TM. LOL, these cults and their obsession with one-upmanship. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : I havent been able to find an account by Mia Farrow where she says that MMY attempted to get her to lie down, just that he started to give her a hug. At least, that is what her autobiography says. She may have watered down her story from the time of the incident. Her sister is an active TM teacher, after all. Continually attacking her sister's teacher would be a bad way to keep peace in the family. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : 1 Comment below.... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : ""He was a brilliant manipulator," said Mrs Pearce. "I just couldn't see that he was a dirty old man. We made love regularly. At one stage I even thought I was pregnant by him. And I don't think I was the only girl. There was a lot of talk that he'd tried to rape" This seems a far cry from the poignant tale of love told in her story of the affair (I've never read it, so going by hearsay). Anthony Campbell commented on her claim and said that Maharishi was in meetings with large groups of people at all hours of hte day and night during that time, and tehre's no way a secret affair could have happened without everyone (including him) being in on it. Campbell is now a practicing Buddhist. Mia Farrow says that given her frame of mind at that time, had Jesus given her a hug, she would have taken it the wrong way. The two surviving Beatles gave a benefit concert to raise money for TM some years back, spoke highly of Maharishi in interviews, and John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, even attended the concert. The two non-surviving Beatles, Lennon and Harrison (the ones who were actually in Rishikesh at the time of the incident), quit TM soon after getting back from India. Harrison had the Iskcon camping in his garden by the end of that year. They both said that chanting the Krishna mantra was the ultimate spiritual experience and did it for years, Harrison kept it up until he died, claiming it saved his life many times. Iskcon publish a book about it but they don't mention TM, saying that Harrison and Lennon had been doing a type of mantra meditation for a while. Regarding Mia Farrow, she was alone with the reesh and he tried to put his arms round her and get her to lie down. You don't need to know anything else do you, it's inappropriate enough without any fantasies. When L&H heard about it they announced to Marshy that they were leaving and he asked why. Lennon said "If you're so cosmic, you tell us". The fickleness of the famous? Or the only people who ever said no?
