What a crashingly stupid paragraph. There were, of course (as Barry knows), umpty obits published after MMY died. As I recall, quite a few of them were posted or linked to here. Some were biased negatively, some were biased positively, some were nicely balanced. I probably did critique one of the negatively biased ones, but Barry's pretense that I was "pretending" it was biased is just laughable.
Nor does he know what "most people on the planet" think of Maharishi, if they think of him at all. Many of those who do have an opinion, however, most likely think what the media tells them to think; and especially in the U.S., the media assumes that Eastern guru-types are all swindlers and portrays them as negatively as they can manage. So the point Barry thinks he's making is absurdly circular. The fascinating thing from my point of view is that Lawson seems to actually believe that the things you, I, Curtis, and Michael say are some kind of "fringe" opinions spouted by those with a grudge against the TM movement. That belief *alone* is True Believerism to the max. It's like when someone (I think the Judester) pretended that the obit article written at the time of Maharishi's death and posted here was "biased." It really wasn't. It was HOW MOST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET VIEW MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI.
