more from the website: (btw doesn't bother me in the least. It's both pathetic and amusing. I just continue practicing the technique.)... . "He learns that its "rajas" pay $1 million for their exalted rank. At a groundbreaking ceremony for a TM university in Switzerland, we see Lynch introduce Raja Emanuel, TM's "King of Germany," who wears a gold crown and offers a provocative pledge: "I'm a good German who wants to make Germany invincible." Jeers erupt from the crowd and a voice yells, "That's what Adolf Hitler wanted!" Emanuel replies: "Unfortunately, he couldn't do it. He didn't have the right technique." Trying to quell the catcalls, Lynch leaps to the raja's defence, and hails him as "a great human being."
Sieveking interviews several TM defectors, including Colorado publisher Earl Kaplan, who donated over US$150 million toward the construction of a vast meditation centre in India, where 24-7 shifts of 10,000 yogic flyers would create world peace. Visiting the project site, Sieveking finds an abandoned, half-built ghost town. And he shows footage of "yogic flying," which looks more like cross-legged yogic hopping. We also meet the Maharishi's former personal assistant, who says, "He'd use people and discard them when they ran out of money." And although the guru preached celibacy, the ex-aide says one of his jobs was to bring women to the Maharishi's room for sex. Another ex-disciple, Judith Bourque, reminisces about her torrid love affair with the Maharishi, which ended when he found another young woman. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > Flying yogis and ï¬ying millions > Acolyte David Lynch isnât happy with this exposé of Transcendental > Meditation > by Brian D. Johnson on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:40pm - 40 Comments > >  > > He was the original guru pop star. Made famous by the Beatles in the > 1960s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the godfather of the Transcendental > Meditation movement, known as TM. He inspired such acolytes as author > Deepak Chopra and filmmaker David Lynch, and remained TMâs > figurehead until his death in 2008 at the age of 94. The Maharishi > was once dubbed âthe giggling guru.â But now it appears he may > have been giggling all the way to the bank. David Wants to Fly, a new > documentary shown last week at Torontoâs Hot Docs festival, offers > compelling evidence that the Maharishiâs empire of enlightenment is > more devoted to shaking down its followers and amassing wealth than > transcending the material world. (...) > > http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/05/19/flying-yogis-and-ï¬ying-millions/ >
