> > Maybe, but he was also *excluded*--persona non grata. > > Maybe you're thinking of Deepak Chopra?
Curtis: > He was written out of the movement's first history books > for Shiva's sake! As if SIMS had never existed. > Maybe so, but not in this early Maharishi history: 'Thirty Years Around the World' Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment - Volume 1 1957 - 1964 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi MVU Press, Netherlands, 1986 No. 1008 ISBN 90 71750 01 9 Hardback. Gold gilt edge. 600 p. Illustrated. Appendix. Index. Read more: "This was a great time for TM. Maharishi had a fantastic organization in the States. Jerry Jarvis was our national leader and, in my opinion, the most popular leader in the history of the TM movement other than Maharishi. Under Jerry were four regional coordinators. Charlie Donahue was in charge of the Eastern USA. Bobby Lee ran the South. Stan Crowe and Bill Witherspoon headed up the Midwest and Western states. Under them were state coordinators and regional lecturers such as John Shaw and Larry Kutt, two personal friends of mine. We were one well-coordinated, motivated, successful group, coast-to-coast. The result of this organization was that more than one million people started TM in the United States by the end of the seventies. Under the leadership of Maharishi, Jerry Jarvis and the four regional coordinators, around forty thousand people per month were starting TM, making the American TM organization the most successful of all the countries teaching TM in the world..." Work cited: "Galaxy of Fire" by Jay Latham Sunstar, 2000 p. 219-220.
