Hi, Vashti. Thanks for the welcome and the reflections. I don't recall
trade fairs in the union, so they may have been after my time. (I graduated from
MIU in '78.) Perhaps you knew my friend Paul Wade, a calligrapher of great
skill.
Geoff
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vashtirama
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Book
your time at MIU, and when I went here:
http://www.skepticfiles.org/weird/geoff-gb.htm
I found a good overview and got a sense of what kind of approach you
may take in your book. I'll be looking for it in 2006.
I had the same feeling as you did when the sidhis came out (a lot of
people I've talked to did). The story you then told about the
Executive Whatever guy returning from Switz. got me thinking about
when that kind of thinking started up in Fairfield and the movement.
It seems like it was always there, perhaps because I was so young
(about 14 when the sidhis came out); but whenever it started, I'd say
Ffd has stayed on that tangent ever since and many people have gone
completely off the deep end with it. I try to imagine my time in Ffd
without that magical thinking and I can't.
We probably never met, unless you went to the Trade Fairs in the
Student Union at that time and saw my calligraphy (I went by Kristina
then).
Vashti
--- In [email protected], "Geoff Gilpin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, that would be me. Hello, everybody. I'm the author of "The
Maharishi
> Effect," the first mainstream book about the TM movement from a
major
> publisher. (Tarcher/Penguin, not Viking as in the blurb.) It'll be
on
> shelves in 2006 accompanied by a major promotional campaign. My
publisher
> offered me prime display space at the major chains (Borders, B&N),
national
> advertising, and coverage by NPR and other media.
>
> Please note that this book is still a work in progress. The content
and tone
> are still in flux. Whether it's "positive" or "negative" depends
mainly on
> the input I get from the people I talk to. Has the movement
really "gone
> awry?" Well, you tell me.
>
> I'm still looking for sources to interview for my book. If you have
a good
> story to tell about the movement, please contact me. I can offer
whatever
> degree of anonymity you require.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Geoff Gilpin
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: [email protected]
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> On Behalf Of Rick Archer
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 9:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] New Book
>
>
> An author friend of mine sent me this. Anybody know this guy?:
>
> Hey Rick, my agent sent me this. It's a notice of a book coming out
> sometime this year, from Viking. Do you know the guy?
>
> THE MAHARISHI EFFECT: SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT, IMMORTALITY, AND YOGIC
FLYERS
> IN MIDDLE AMERICA by Geoff Gilpin
>
> Geoff Gilpin was a student at Maharishi University in Fairfield,
Iowa during
> its heyday. In 2001, he returned to the campus to see what happeend
to his
> old friends and the Movement itself. What he finds there is a mix
of the
> familiar and the pecuiliar - a quirky blend of faith, pseudo-
science, and
> cultish behavior in America's Corn Belt. The Maharishi effect is
the story
> of a religious movement gone awry, and one Boomer's nostalgic
journey back
> to his spiritual roots. Gilpin is a computer consultant who
received an MFA
> in creative writing from Goucher College.
>
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