--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:53 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > >> Had anyone heard the stories of learning to wear a dhoti and wrap > >> it a certain way so as to put ice cubes around the testicles? > >> Cold showers? > > > > You mean John Knapp's "wet diapers" story on Trancenet? > > No, never heard that one! No, this was serious. A way to gently > cool the testicles and to preserve ojas and diminish the fires of > desire. A clever idea.
Here ya go: In the circles in which I participated (not all that high up, I'm afraid), we were in work camps (Livingston Manor, NY, among others) on which it wasn't unusual to work 36-hour shifts, we were fed zucchini-and-rice starvation diets, were asked to sign lifetime contracts to serve the Maharishi, followed schedules that accounted for nearly every minute of every day, were required to practice lifelong celibacy, and more. Until I have time to write my story, I'll just try to dole occasional details. My favorite TM moment came in the fall of 1977, shortly after the Academy of SCI in Livingston Manor became all male -- by throwing out all married, female, children, and gay staff, without warning, and stealing their earned "course credit." Two managers of MIU Press took small groups of 4 or 5 of us "boys/aspiring brahmacharis" through a hidden passage into a secret room on the Academy compound. Our two "instructors" explained that Maharishi had some special, secret instructions for us -- since we were very special and dear to him as life-time volunteers. We were told to strip -- by the way it was freezing because the heating plant was turned off throughout the Academy in the dead of Winter. Then they proceeded to show us how to fold and wear what I can best describe as "diapers" that they claimed would help us "keep our energy up" -- that is maintain perfect celibacy, without "losing energy at night" (nocturnal emissions/wet dreams -- major no-nos.) They had us practice putting on the "diapers" and inspected and tightened them to the point of pain. Then they had us strip again, put them on again and inspect each others diapers. We were ridiculed and mocked if our weren't tight, damp, or cold enough. This process went on for roughly an hour. These diapers -- also worn by Hare Krishnas I'm told -- were to be worn tight, damp, and cold enough to make our testicles curl up (painful at first, but we gradually got used to it). We were told to not to take the diapers off except to clean them once a week. We were admonished to never divulge this practice, that it was common in Europe at MERU and elsewhere with Maharishi's permanent, private staff, that we were very fortunate to be given this special knowledge which would lead to the "quick dawning of Unity Consciousness," and to always keep it secret because America wasn't ready for such powerful techniques. http://tinyurl.com/zvdjc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
