Thanks for the great story! I was a couple years behind you but this reminds me of the "Eureka!" feeling I had when I heard about TM and then the "EUREKA!!" feeling I had first time I saw/heard Maharishi (Humboldt '70). Sweet times.
akasha_108 wrote: > --- 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/
