---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Earl's letter http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2008/04/earl-kaplans-letter.html http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2008/04/earl-kaplans-letter.html Ann, you just helped me understand something better so I thanked you for that in my earlier Post. Now I'll return the favor, just see below... Interesting, now that I have read it. If it is all true then more's the pity. If it is partially true then it should give people pause. I think that this letter was written from a place of sincerity and concern by the Kaplans. They were, evidently, privy to all sorts of carefully protected secrets and were part of the inner circle. Whenever the inner circle chooses to speak about the things that go on close to the center of things it can mean one of two things: they are speaking the truth or they are disgruntled and making things up. [They are disgruntled and making things up.] I am in no position to know which it is or what percentage is made up of truth and what percentage is simple disgruntlement. Thinking back on what Robin has said about his own realization of his "enlightenment" it appears to closely jive with that Kaplan claims of what TM does to one, which is interesting for me. I am sure Robin has seen this letter as has everyone else on the planet except, apparently, me. Some of this troubles me as a sort of one-man's-viewpoint analysis because it is terribly damning and yet I am so removed from the TM Movement and even TM itself I find I am untouched. Still, this letter has evidently been influential and has created some serious doubts about MMY in many people's minds. I have to say, I feel badly, on one level for the Kaplans because they gave a lot to what they believed was true and good and right. In reading his letter I also realize Kaplan is going to survive it all and come out the other side intact. What is he and his brother doing now?[he's seething and sulking, not productive IMHO] From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Supreme Enlightenment and those who are jealous of it [ was Re: "Nice to hear from you, Rish] ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Salyavin, my 100% Irish Brit SO was born in London, his parents were born in Sligo. But they moved to England after their marriage, raised 5 children and ran a family pub in Ealing. My SO had good friends in Skem. He himself lived in Leylestad for a while after he got his MS in Computer Science from MUM. He got a job in Utrecht, I think for a company called IBS. Ah, pub eh? No wonder you out scored me, I must have forgotten what real English life is all about. Anyway, I use the past tense because he died at the age of 46 on Oct 5, 2009. In summer 2006 he was living in Paris and somehow stumbled on the infamous Earl Kaplan letter. He stopped meditating. I still think that if he had continued doing TM, he'd still be alive. Of course, I could be wrong... Wow, sad story Share and I don't mean to pry, but are you punishing yourself about the TM thing? Or did he develop high blood pressure afterwards (or anything relevant healthwise). I've known a lot of people in the TMO die of all sorts of common things that you'd think we'd be immune to given all the claims made, so maybe it was just a continuation of something? I don't know either of course, just speculating, so feel free to ignore this bit! The Kaplan letter was a funny old thing. I thought it was a third true, a third probably true and a third nonsense. Shook a lot of people up I should think. I wouldn't be amusing myself on FFL without it as I had to join to read it in the files section. I don't know anything about this Kaplan letter. I need to find it somewhere. I'll report back.
