--- On Sat, 7/4/09, raunchydog <[email protected]> wrote:
> I remember Doug talking about Vedaland in the dome. He
> spoke with such amazing enthusiasm, I didn't question his
> vision or talent to accomplish what Maharishi wanted. As
> they say in poker, Doug was "all in." I had no idea whether
> or not his ideas were feasible. I thought well, maybe it
> will happen and maybe it won't, maybe it's far fetched but
> it didn't matter, Doug was going for it 100%. Walt Disney
> probably had some pretty fantastic ideas on the drawing
> board for Disney Land that no one thought feasible. Plans
> are just plans and until they are fleshed out they can look
> pretty damn stupid on paper. I would never fault Doug for
> his vision, no matter how dumb it seemed. Doug was an
> accomplished dreamer. He invited us to dream with him and
> I'm glad I did.
I was there that night too running one of the video cameras. I remember at the
time having conversations on headset with the other camermen about what a pipe
dream the whole thing was. But I was having such great experiences at the time
I could have cared less. By then I had been in the movement so long and had
seen such absurdities come and go that I realized this was just something
Maharishi did. It was meaningless. For me there were always two levels going on
with Maharishi. There was this surface stuff of projects and campaigns,
slogans, etc. that often could be quite absurd from a waking state Western
perspective. Some people really bought into these things and some didn't. Then
there was the transcendental level of Maharishi which was exquisite, beautiful,
pure sattva, extraordinary (the adjectives could go on and on). For whatever
reason or good karma, I got sucked into this transcendent level with Maharishi
from the start so the absurdities just
rolled off me.
