I don't want to get in the middle of any "the TMO killed Doug Henning"
discussion, but in a very real sense, they did. I knew Doug briefly because one
of my roommates at the time created airbrush-painted silk costumes for him.
During that year, I saw him go from TM newbie to Absolute, No-Question-About-It
TM Cultist. It was not a pretty transition. He always stayed a nice person,
even when he learned that my roommate and I had backed away from the TMO, but
we could tell he was being pressured to distance himself from us.
I was deeply saddened when years later I heard that he'd taken the "Andy
Kaufman cure" and become yet another TM cancer fatality. He was really *such* a
nice guy, but easily swayed by Woo Woo.
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh -greatest Guru the world has
ever known
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
If you think my writing are harmful to the subtle bodies, at least to mine, I
wonder what you think the fate of people like James Randi will be? I just wish
he has gotten a-hold of faker liar Marshy during his huckster lifetime.
Randi did investigate the Maharishi Effect when it was first announced in
Fairfield. They claimed that so much peace had descended because of the
meditators on the town that the police were laying people off because they had
nothing to do.
One phone call to the chief later, and it turned out the opposite was true and
they were hiring new officers. Randi felt that was all the research he had to
do. Others got stuck in to the published papers on the ME but I would have
loved to see the TMO take up the now defunct $1,000,000 challenge to prove they
could create action at a distance, that would have made for some quality TV.
I also found this:
"Randi came to be aware of TM through his friend and fellow magician, Doug
Henning. “I knew [Henning] very well as a kid, and later as a mature magician.
We were always in touch…” Randi describes a deeply cultic relationship between
Henning and Transcendental Meditation that would destroy Henning’s career and
eventually take his life. Henning’s career as a television magician was
compromised as he strove to hire only TM initiates to work on the set.
According to Randi, this was not only problematic for the fact that it was
difficult to find people within TM who were talented in television production,
but “every so often they went in to meditation and work just stopped…”
Eventually, TV executives grew weary of Henning’s professional antics.Henning
became even more deeply involved with TM following his diagnosis of liver
cancer, eventually removing himself from contact with non-TM practitioners. “He
gave up all medical care… the Maharishi had told him that he could recover from
his liver cancer simply from meditating… he meditated himself to death.”
Henning died in February of 2000.“I’m so angry at the TM movement,” says Randi,
“for having taken an innocent person.”"Rest is here:Lies, Levitation, and
Defamations Most Foul : THE PROCESS IS…
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