--- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Joe" <geezerfreak@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > That maharishi could dump someone who had been so > > > incredibly important to the TMO, someone who had > > > followed his every command and who helped bring untold > > > thousands into the fold.....that told me that I should > > > now view Maharishi's behavior as I would any other man. > > > > For those of us who weren't privy to the inner workings > > of the movement, what *was* the ostensible reason for > > dumping Jerry? I remember something vague about his not > > being in favor of the TM-Sidhis course, but I have no > > idea how reliable that was. > > > I was wondering the same thing. I was pretty imbedded > during the period where Jerry lost his "most favored > disciple" status. What were the circumstances, and what > were examples of the public put downs? I will say that > in true Kremlin style, when the New Jersy court case camd > down the wrong way, it was pretty much hushed up, and > down played. So, I only got a muffled version of the > whole thing.
Around 1980, I attended a lecture Jerry gave at the Manhattan TM Center; don't remember what the topic was or anything of what he said. A little later, he gave a lecture at Town Hall for TMers. Don't recall much of that either, but it had a lot to do with Brahman and Brahman consciousness. (I remember he pronounced it BRUMMin, not BrahMAN, as I'd heard it up to that point.) I'd enjoyed both lectures and sometime later asked Janet Hoffman, the perennial center chairman, when he'd be giving another one. She said he wouldn't be giving any more and wouldn't say why, but it was clear that he was no longer the Golden Boy by that time. In retrospect, I'd bet Janet was pretty pissed about it, which may have been why she wouldn't explain what the problem was: she didn't want to say anything negative about him.
