--- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds right. I heard the thing I stated from a founding MIU faculty > member > > who quoted the jet engine analogy and all. But I'm real fuzzy on the > > timeline. Could be she was referring to the early '67 rumor. Maybe it > was > > the Beatles who kick-started him again. > > I think you'll find the retirement thingy was more than a rumour. His > last official public speak was to have been in the summer of 1967 in > London.
Thats consistent of how I remember events that summer. I had seen a PR article in the SF Chronicle stating a lecture was to be give about Transcendental Meditations, as taught by MMY, at one of the larger, old SF hotels. I had vaguely heard the name MMY and was somehow impressed, at 17, that this was a specific meditation technique, not one the generic types I had been reading about. I went to the lecture, 40 minutes away, only to find a note on the door that the lecture had been cancelled. And there was no notice of further lectures, etc. Soon after I read a small blip in some periodical, perhaps it was Rolling Stone, that MMY was going into permanent deep silence -- I don't recall the Himalayas being mentioned. I went "ah, ha" thats why my lecture was cancelled -- and thought it a shame I had missed learning this techique before the doors closed. Then in August or early Sept that same summer, after I had been introduced to some basic introspecitive types of meditation at a two week retreat, I saw a poster for a lecture bY MMY in Berkeley. "That guy again!, I still have a chance", I thought. I wondered what happened to the "permanent silence" thing, but went to the lecture, along with a few thousand others. I got my "Invitation to the Students of the World" brochure promising "Cosmic Consciousness in five years". Listened to MMY -- was very impressed though I could not follow it all. What were these radial things he was talking about? "Radial tires?" Only later did I reaslize he was saying "relative", "absolute and relative". "Where do thoughts come from, where do thoughts come from?" he repeatedly asked. Good question I thought. Where DO they come from? He seemed to have the answer for that, bubble diagram and all, as well as a key to a brighter mind, plus peace and love (this was the summer of love -- 1967). And someone, a very into-finding-the-right-"trip"-hippie type, in very quintessential 67/Berkley fashion asked, "Is this IT? is this, like REALLY IT?" MMY said, quietly but confidently, "Yes, this is IT". Like he got the meaning of IT, as did most in the audience, and there was a bit of a swooon in the audience when he confirmed this was IT, the holy grail everyone was really searching for (The overt, unapologetic quest for genuine spiritual insight and experience was a huge factor for many in that short-lived era.) 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/
