--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" jstein@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Thats a great account. Yet so different from mine -- in terms of > > > "common knowledge". > > > > As I was reading it, I kept having vague little > > flashes of recognition. Can't identify them as to > > source, but I think at one time I must have heard > > or read references to this group. I suspect it > > was earlier than the Taste of Utopia assembly. > > > > Not as such, Judy. ToU was Christmas season '83-'84. > That was long before Maharishi was starting to think > about a big pandit group, a sort of Aftertaste of > Utopia. > > I had access to every significant American Movement > publication during those years. Not a one of them > makes a specific reference to a group of 7000 pandits > in NOIDA during 1988-1990. I also worked in the > Movement and attended courses during that time. > No official sources said anything about an existing > large Indian pandit group. > > It astounds me how good the Movement can be at > keeping secrets, especially things like this or like > Maharishi's hospital stay in London around 1990. > I didn't have a clue about that until the late '90s, > reading John Knapp's interview with Chopra on > Trancenet. >
Charlie mentioned that hospital stay as well...