--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 6, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > Just for the record, Henry Louie was Joni's manager (or was it > > recording engineer, Turq?). Henry and his wife Nadine were close to > > MMY in the early days. I once heard a story that some starry-eyed > > fan got close enough to Joni (who learned TM at some point) to say > > "Jai Guru Dev" and that Joni's response was "Fuck you." > > > Not surprising since one of her friends, Alan Ginsberg had discovered > and exposed the Maharishi's phoniness many years ago (and IIRC > correctly, Ginsberg published it in a newspaper).
I don't know if your assessment that Ginsberg "exposed the Maharishi's phoniness many years ago" is correct (you can all judge for yourselves whether Vaj is correct) but he did write about Maharishi in the International Times, which I have reproduced, thanks to Paul Mason supplying me with the original article, on one of my Google Docs and Spreadsheets pages: http://tinyurl.com/2v2em5 Vaj, it will interested to hear your thoughts on this again once you've read the article to which you refer and tell us whether you still feel that Ginsberg "exposed Maharishi's phoniness".
