Melinda was supernaturally hot. (of course Mike's choice in women would narrow the genetic pool a bit!) I remember her well. So out of place in guruville. She got me backstage tickets to see her dad in Iowa City. Did she go on to become a model? Eventually Mike scooped up one of the young girls in my class as an "assistant". I think I have a pretty good idea about his real fountain of youth!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought it was just great having Mike Love and Co. on campus in 1977-78. I remember one time in particular seeing Brian and Dennis Wilson in the lounge in Building 150 watching a Larry Holmes fight on television. I remember thinking they are the only guys "on campus" with beards! But the biggest highlight was going to class everyday with Mike's daughter, Melinda: being a teenager, I must say, I was impressed. > > Just Say Om > [This article from Time 27 July 2003 does seem to imply Gore does TM.]. > > Sunday, Jul. 27, 2003 By JOEL > At the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Iowa, days start with TM > > ROBERT A. DAVIS FOR TIME > > Transcendental Meditation reminds you that it's how you feel inside that's important. If you have that, you have everything." Lynch, who also directed Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, has been sitting for 90 minutes twice a day since 1973. "I catch more ideas at deeper and deeper levels of consciousness, and they have more clarity and power," he says. Imagine the messed-up stuff Lynch might come up with if he meditated for four hours a day. Goldie Hawn, who says she has been practicing for 31 years, has a dedicated meditation room in her house filled with her favorite crystals, flowers, incense and pictures of the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa. She meditates twice a day for at least 30 minutes. "How do you learn to witness your destructive emotions?" she asks. "You can only do this by being able to sit quietly and quiet your mind." More recent devotees are decisively noncrystal. Eileen Harrington, who runs the hard-boiled consumer-fraud group of the Federal Trade Commission > in Washington, invited a meditation speaker to give a presentation after 9/11. Roughly half her staff is still at it. Bill Ford, the head of Ford Motors, meditates, as does a former chief of England's top-secret MI-5. Hillary Clinton has talked about meditating, and the Gores are converts. "We both believe in regular prayer, and we often pray together. But meditationas distinguished from prayerI highly recommend it," says the man who nearly became our President. Gore's TM mantra is not, as rumored, Florida. Though I don't meditate as religiously, I can see Gore's point. Taking time out of our video- and Wi-Fi-drenched lives to rediscover the present is a worthwhile activity. And I felt a tangible difference when, in my postmeditative buzz, I would walk down the street hyperaware of my surroundings, like some not particularly useful superhero power. I could even get myself to not need to go to the bathroom if I concentrated on my bladder and accepted its fullness, though > I'm not really sure this is a health benefit. But if I weren't one of the few people I know who need to be more active and less chillI could use an anger-training classI would meditate more. And if I ever find myself faced with trauma or disease, I think I'll pursue meditation. That's what Buddhists meant it for, after all, since they believe that life inevitably entails suffering. My only counterargument is that they came up with that suffering idea before television was invented. > With reporting by Reported by David Bjerklie, Alice Park and David Van Biema/ New York City, Karen Ann Cullotta/Iowa and Jeanne McDowell/ Los Angeles > > > dhamiltony2k5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan, these are real interesting posts you are contributing. > Thanks for coming on to FFL and posting them. > > This is about as simple as it gets said: > > < > ML: The history of mankind is a history of war. Think about the > Protestants and the Catholics, or the Shiites and the Sunnis, or the > ongoing conflicts in Jerusalem, which is the focus of people of three > different religions. They fight about everything. Mankind invents > things to fight about. There have been thousands of wars in recorded > history. But Maharishi has come up with a formula for world peace, > which he believes can be achieved with large groups of meditators. > When people meditate, they have a calming effect on others. Also, if > you have large groups of people listening to gandharva-ved music, > they will connect with each other whether they're meditating or not. > Just by hearing, one can connect to the transcendental level and > stabilize the environment. This will have a peaceful effect > throughout creation. > RE: World peace is a dream of humankind. What's stopping us from > achieving it? > ML: I think it's society and our problems, as well as a lack of > information and a lack of priorities. People have jobs and houses and > families. People are too busy to think about the big issues. We need > to change that. > > > > George Fox and the Quakers were saying this back in the 1600's. They > got in a lot of trouble for it then, but were not anywhere as corrupt > as the TMorg has become even in its first iteration, not yet before > even the master has died. > > -Doug in Fairfield > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Chadwick > <jochadw1@> wrote: > > > > Psychology Today, May, 2001 by Robert Epstein > > Interview with Mike Love > > Recently, PT editor-in-chief Robert Epstein, Ph.D., traveled to > Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and visited with Beach Boy Mike Love to talk > above Love's long-time devotion to transcendental meditation. Wearing > a flowered silk shirt and a Beach Boys baseball cap, Love spoke with > a serenity that other members of this world-changing band were never > able to achieve. Dennis Wilson, Love's first cousin and the band's > drummer, had serious problems with alcohol and drugs and drowned at > age 38 in an alcohol-related accident in 1983. Brian, Dennis' > brother, had a nervous breakdown in 1965 and struggled with drugs and > obesity for many years. Carl, the third Wilson brother, died of > cancer in 1998. Love's life, in contrast, has been fairly serene, and > he credits his good fortune to his 35-year practice of meditation, > which he learned from the renowned Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. When he's > not at Lake Tahoe with his wife and children, Mike travels worldwide > with a reconstituted version of the famous > > Beach Boys. > > RE: Why is meditation so important to you? > > ML: People ask me about the Beach Boys all the time. But the only > thing worth talking about is peace--inner peace and collective peace, > or what I call peace with a capital "P" There are different things > one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is > one way. > > RE: What has meditation done for you personally? What would you > be like today if you hadn't made this discovery? > > ML: Without meditation, I'd probably be dead. It has allowed me > to transcend all the bothersome things that happen during the course > of a day, a week, a month, a career or a lifetime. I go beyond a > certain level of thought. Some of those types of thoughts come from a > stressed physiology. They appear in your mind as, "I want to kill > that person," "I want to kick the dog," "I want to hurt my wife," "I > want to emotionally abuse people." > > In Paris, in December of 1967, my first meditation was taught by > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi--the founder of the transcendental meditation > program. The feeling I had, physiologically and emotionally, was one > of tranquility and deep peace. I was more relaxed and tranquil than > I'd ever been. During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate > go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep. But you're not > asleep, you're aware. It was so profound I thought, "Wow, this is so > easy and so powerful. I feel so relaxed. If everyone did this, the > entire world would be a different place." It's still an inspiration > to me, that first meditation. > > RE: But how can meditation lead to peace with a capital "P"? > > ML: The history of mankind is a history of war. Think about the > Protestants and the Catholics, or the Shiites and the Sunnis, or the > ongoing conflicts in Jerusalem, which is the focus of people of three > different religions. They fight about everything. Mankind invents > things to fight about. There have been thousands of wars in recorded > history. But Maharishi has come up with a formula for world peace, > which he believes can be achieved with large groups of meditators. > When people meditate, they have a calming effect on others. Also, if > you have large groups of people listening to gandharva-ved music, > they will connect with each other whether they're meditating or not. > Just by hearing, one can connect to the transcendental level and > stabilize the environment. This will have a peaceful effect > throughout creation. > > RE: World peace is a dream of humankind. What's stopping us from > achieving it? > > ML: I think it's society and our problems, as well as a lack of > information and a lack of priorities. People have jobs and houses and > families. People are too busy to think about the big issues. We need > to change that. > > COPYRIGHT 2001 Sussex Publishers, Inc. > > COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. > > Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Get your own web address. > Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. >
