on 6/21/05 12:02 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My grandmother also suffered mental problems, in the > American South, during the 30s. Her husband, ashamed > that anyone associated with his family might be "crazy," > had her locked away in one of those snake-pit insane > asylums for forty years, and told my mother and her > brother that she had died. The idea again was to put > the embarrassment out of sight, not to help the person > in any way.
Two stories regarding suicide and mental illness: My mother was in and out of mental hospitals throughout most of my teenage years and early 20's and tried to commit suicide three times - nearly succeeding. When I became a TM teacher, I began to ask Maharishi what I could do about the situation. He would always go inward when I asked this. I didn't get the impression he was avoiding the question. I got the impression we was "checking it out" and doing a sankalpa for me (making a resolve to help on a subtle level). Finally, in 1974 when I was on International Staff, my mother was in an "out of the hospital" phase and expressed the desire to join me in Switzerland. I asked Maharishi if she could and he readily agreed. I feel to this day that that was very kind and generous of him. I wasn't paying my way, and nor could she, nor did he expect her to be a very useful member of staff. He just was rewarding me for my service and in essence, volunteering to help my mother. Which he did. Her first comment after she met him was, "He looks right into your soul!" She stayed 9 months and underwent a huge transformation. Never went back to serious mental illness, although she got a bit kooky in her final years. She became a siddha and completed Phase I of TTC. 2nd story: During my stint on International Staff, a girl jumped naked off her balcony in her ATR hotel in Brünnen, during an argument with her boyfriend. She died instantly. I was sent down to do damage control - to talk to the staff, who were rather shaken up, but also with instructions to advise them to keep the situation quiet. 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/
