Tom, that's my take on Jerry, too. He was a very effective and important role model for me when I was a young man in the movement. Although I've only spoken with him a few times I'm awfully fond of him.
Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My limited experience was different. His sense of humor was strong and contagious. His > lectures were long and detailed but he had a very powerful Gyani yogi thing going. I > found him sincere, humble, and self effacing. Only one mans view I guess. To my > knowledge, he had no official position with the movement at the time. I had been > meditating maybe 14 years and had taken several advanced techniques and his words > resonated well. > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "The Secret" <L.Shaddai@> wrote: > > > > Jerry Jarvis came to my university while he and Maharishi were touring > > Boston and Cambridge, MA. He filled a 2000 seat lecture hall. He was > > giggling so much that most people, myself included, decided that > > surely this meditation was not for us. He was the guest speaker in > > Mount Eagle, TN on a residence course where the sidhas got together > > and did their rounds, not sanctioned by the sidhi administrators. > > Man, what a boring dude. Those were my only two encounters with Jerry > > and they were not positive. If someone else had given the intro > > lecture to TM, perhaps 1,500 people would have started. Out of the > > 2,000 assembled, not a single one decided that TM was serious. > > Jerry's giggling prevented me from starting TM for 3 years. > > >
