--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "s3raphita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "steveemming"
<steveemming@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Has Anyone read Jon Michael Millers' Book? It's called "A Wave on
> the
> > Ocean: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Transcendental Meditation, Mallory
> and
> > Me. Please submit a review. This one book came out and I must of
> missed
> > it.
> >
> Jon Michael Miller was a former Governor-cum-Ambassador in the TM
> movement through the 1970s and has penned an autobiographical
account
> of his ups and downs. (His book is on the Lulu label a print-on-
> demand, self-publishing outfit.)
> Be aware that the first half of the book has no reference to TM
> whatsoever but is an account of Miller's journey from poor country
> boy origins (Pennsylvania way) through to college lecturer in English
> (which doesn't prevent a lot of literals in the text, such as "Jane
> AustIn" and "GinsbUrg"). Mostly though we learn of his complicated
> love life. His very complicated love life. He alternates between
> hedonistic periods involving a succession of liberated ladies while
> pining for a more committed and meaningful relationship and then
> marrying more suitable (?) women (plural) who he then quickly tires
> of. Eventually Miller develops a habit of using porn on the one hand
> (no pun intended) and on the other romantically fixating on a former
> idealised lover - and fellow TMer - the "Mallory" of the book's
> title. It's not her real name but as his lady love used to teach
> Sanskrit at MIT and still lives in Fairfield, with the help of other
> details in the book she shouldn't be hard to identify for locals. As
> the lady doesn't approve of Miller's book, however, no doubt she
> deserves to be left in peace.
> Miller lacks the dry humour and eye for telling detail of Gilpin's
> recent Maharishi Effect or the insider celebrity goss of Nancy Cooke
> de Herrera's All You Need Is Love (both those are surely essential
> reads for Fairfield Lifers?). However he tells a (painfully) honest
> tale and for a reader who wants an alternative slant on the Movement
> during its period of greatest public exposure this could be worth a
> read. Miller had an interesting encounter with Aryan security supremo
> Peter Heubner (aka Hubner) at Seelisberg and he later worked for the
> TV channel KSCI when it first launched. Miller eventually left the
> Movement at the end of the seventies disillusioned with the elitism
> and the emphasis on siddhis and he seems to have also eventually
> abandoned meditation to return to his beloved Keats and
Wordsworth.
> His admiration for Maharishi is undimmed however.
>
Sorry -my literal! Should read: "his lady love used to teach Sanskrit at
MIU and still lives in Fairfield" And not "Sanskrit at MIT" - unless they're
getting wise to Vedic anticipations of the unified field, of course.
