--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "suziezuzie" <msilver1951@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been listening to Charles Lutes every night, all his recorded
> > lectures and answers to questions. After a few weeks of listening, I'm
> > getting the impression that he was a legitimately powerful soul.
>
>
> Charlie was, in my view, an institution. I had the good fortune to
> have known him personally for over 20 years and I felt a tremendous
> empty gap when he passed away. In the later years before he got sick I
> began to recognize that he was literally his 'own' being and commanded
> a powerful yet sublime energy presence. He didn't look outside of
> himself for anything. As you've likely noticed in his lectures,
> whatever the question or topic, he always focused it in terms of
> encouraging the meditaters in their practice of Transcendental Meditation.
>
> "You have taken on the human form to gain Divine Mind through
> knowledge and experience in the field of combined opposites."
>
> ~~ Charlie Lutes
>
>
> Revealing exchange between Charlie Lutes and Maharishi [according to
> Charlie]
>
> Charlie said, "Why don't you tell them that if they meditate for God
> they will evolve faster?" "Oh Charlie, we not have to tell them
> everything!", laughed Maharishi.
>
I enjoyed your homage to Charlie Lutes, but admittedly my appreciation for
Charlie is limited to the role he played in recognizing MMY's potential and
providing
navigation advice to MMY as MMY met Western culture and practices. I heard a
lecture of
Charlie's in the early 80s, and although entertained, I was surprised by the
audience's
degree of acceptance of Charlie's detailed and vivid view of how it really all
is at another
level of existence.
I sometimes wonder if Charlie, after his estrangement from the TM movement,
elasticized his own beliefs, and promoted them among adherents who needed
outlandish
explanations of spirituality, to remain somewhat relevant. I think I would have
appreciated
Charlie more, had he been less willing to add some sizzle to spiritual stories.
