--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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.
That history does not ring fully true. The Beattles Rishikesh course was in the spring of 1968. The first Poland Springs / Humboldt courses were over 2 years later. In between were four "SIMS" courses in Rishikesh, the largest TTC's to date and created the initial teacher base that initiated 10,000s between 1968 and the summer of 1970. Indeed it was these four TTC's and the subsequent wave of full-time gung-ho recent college grad teachers that created the initiation base that created the demand for the Humboldt and TTC courses. MMY was not sitting idly by in those two years in question (spring 1968-1970) withdrawing to the Himalayas. There was a rumor in early 1967 that MMY was going back into silence forever. That prompted the Beattles to try to hurry up and meet him, since they had heard good things about him. With the publicity spawned by the Beatles initiation in spring/summer 1967, MMY forsake his plans of going into silence forever, and initiated a worldwide tour(s) -- resulting in students lined up around the block in the fall of 1967 at the emerging SIMS centers adjacent to UC Berkely and UCLA. 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/
