--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/5/05 2:20 PM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > At one point Maharishi was so fed upp with western stupidity that he > > wanted to withdraw to the Himalayas. > > > > The above posts shows why. > > > > Only countless pleas from contemporaries prevented him from > > leaving. Could have been around 1969, don't remember. > > It was around then. After the Beatles debacle, he said he had > failed and would stay in Rishikesh. But he was still somewhat > active, which he likened to a jet continuing to run its engines > after it had landed. Then Jerry Jarvis called to tell him that > 2,000 people wanted to start TTC in Poland Spring and Humboldt, > and he was off and running again.
Not to get too psychoanalytic, but spiritual teachers have often been described, and accurately, as narscissists. There is almost *always* a crisis the first time someone breaks from the accepted adoration routine and thinks for themselves. A condition of cognitive dissonance is set up, not only for the students thinking for themselves, but for the teacher. John and the rest of the Beatles leaving must have been rather a big shock to him. Since then, in my experience, criticism, doubt and "failure to follow orders" have been dealt with harshly, with the critic being excommunicated from the organization and their reputation systematically "trashed" so that no one will believe what the critic has to say. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
