--- In [email protected], "Joe" <geezerfr...@...> wrote: > > Very good observations Curtis. Jerry really did perform > a vital function for the TMO during the late 60s and early > 70s. He was the normal counterbalance to any little voice > in your head that said "you're not in Kansas anymore Bucko". > Jerry's presence was comforting...almost fatherly. Not only > that but he had a sense of humor about it all.
I would phrase it more along the lines of, "He made obeying every insane thing he was told to do look almost noble." The sense of humor was real IMO, but often allowed him to "shrug off" unconscionable things he had been told to do by Maharishi and had done without a moment's hestitation. It was if he could laugh at such lapses and say, "Wow...look at the crazy shit my perfect master made me do now." It was as if he lacked the ability to make the con- nection between "crazy instructions" and "crazy master." I would agree with most here that the idea of EVER doing anything other than what his "master" told him to do never entered Jerry's head. He was completely "sold out" to the passive willing-slave-to-the-all- knowledgeable-master model. I'm pretty sure that Jerry, being who he was, managed to find some way to *not* blame Maharishi for being the petty, jealous pissant he turned out to be when writing Jerry out of the movement and its history, and badrapping him over and over in front of audiences who just lapped this insanity up because it was coming from "the master." Jerry would have attributed what happened to him as karma or something deemed necessary by the "laws of nature" rather than the perturbations of a sick, jealous mind. And a good thing, too. Because otherwise, during the standing ovation he got on this video, he might have been tempted to look around the room and focus on the faces of the people now applauding him and think, "You there...I remember you...you crossed the street rather than run into me." Or "And you...I heard what you said about me in TM center after TM center, parroting the trash that Maharishi talked about me." The aspect of this "standing ovation" that no one has talked about is its screaming HYPOCRISY. The people now standing and applauding are the same ones who DID NOT SAY A WORD when Maharishi hung Jerry out to dry and made him a scapegoat. They not only went along with it, they cheered Maharishi as he did it. And now they're thinkin' a little stand- ing ovation will get them off the hook. I would have had more respect for Jerry if he had spit on their standing ovation.
