Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

[Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]]

What I noticed about the "TM Gestapo" is that they were mediocre people 
who began showing up after the AofE courses who were not a part of the 
"spiritual crowd" of TM'ers.  Perhaps they were jealous and saw that 
their only niche was to play "cop" for the TMO.  Most of us rejected 
them as jokes but if the TMO was going to be their venue perhaps it was 
time to move on.

On 06/01/2014 07:42 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
I was talking to my Kentucky friend Bob the other day. Bob was MIU for 
eight years total, as a student for most of them, but he worked on 
staff from time to time. This is what he told me.

"Yeah I was there during the Robin Carlsen years. I went to see him 
once, just once, out of curiosity really. And it was interesting, but 
he was kinda strange I thought. He was kinda strange. Now one thing, 
he did have some energy, no question about it. He looked directly in 
my eyes and man I felt like he was peering into all the deep dark 
stuff that was in there, you know?

But he was really kinda strange, and from what I could see of his 
stuff, well he was doing exorcisms is what he was really doing with 
people. But anyway I only went that one time, and that was the only 
time I saw him except for the time he came to a Charlie Lutes talk and 
I was there.

But anyway, I went back on campus after the Robin Carlsen thing, and 
went to work the next day like usual, I was working the in press at 
that time and about half way through the day a guy comes in and says 
"Bob, the Ad Council wants to see you."

So I said ok and man, there were a few guys in the press that day, and 
none of 'em would look me straight in the eye, they all had these hang 
dog looks on their faces and would only look at me out of the sides of 
their eyes.

So I followed this guy on over to where they were waiting for me, and 
I walk in the room and there is Bill Rist, Mario Orsati and James 
Beddinger. There was one other guy there too, but I can't remember who 
it was. They sit me down and started in on the interrogation. They 
asked me all kinds of questions about my going to see Robin, but the 
main thing they kept asking me over and over was "Do you believe in him?"

So I told 'em what I knew they wanted to hear, like I thought he was 
flakey and I just went that one time out of curiosity and stuff like 
that. I guess I satisfied them, cause they didn't kick me out, but 
they sure did give me some lectures about how I needed to be careful 
about what I did as a staff or student and I needed to be careful 
about my behavior and my thinking.

And that was the end of it, except that after that every time I saw 
James around campus he would give me these looks, you know, like "I'm 
watching you boy!" kind of looks.

And I swear, you know I am a big and was a big Charlie Lutes fan so 
whenever Charlie would come anywhere close to Fairfield, I would 
always go see him. But after that "meeting" with Bill Rist and Mario 
and James, ever after that when I would come back on campus after 
seeing Charlie, there would come James.

It didn't matter if I was headed to my room or the dining hall or 
student union, or wherever I would be, just a few minutes after 
getting back on campus, James would come walking by. He would just say 
hello, but I knew he was letting me know he knew I had gone to see 
Charlie.

The other thing that happened was from then on any time I applied for 
a course of any kind, WPA or whatever my application was always held 
up and I had to answer questions about going to see Robin Carlsen that 
one time. And that went on while I was staff and student and for years 
after, even when I would apply to go to a WPA in Louisville or 
someplace, they have always asked me about going to see Robin.