--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@...> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the link. Ch. 13 of that book, by Cynthia Ann Hume, is very > interesting.
Response: Hume's bio says she has co-written with Dana Sawyer a book on the history of the TM movement in the USA. But I can't find anything published by them yet. It gives an account of RC and his impact on MIU in the early 1980s. I didn't know all that. I was on faculty at the time. I do remember that Greg Wilson was clearly discomfited by his encounters with RC, judging from his manner at a faculty meeting at the time. Greg in those days was something of an obnoxious bully (he's improved with the passing years, I believe), and I remember being rather surprised but not unhappy to see him getting so hot under the collar about RC. > > I also remember those students who were expelled from MIU for following RC. > One of them gained some kind of court order, I believe, that he thought would > entitle him to be admitted to the dome. He brought it with him one morning, > but security would not let him in the dome. > > MIU survived unscathed by the RC episode, as far as I recall, dramatic though > it was for those who were involved in it. Indeed, it came only a short while > before the Taste of Utopia course in December 83, which produced a large > boost in enrollment, an internationalization of the student body -- mainly > Europeans, I think -- and a widening of the degree programs that the > University offered. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@> wrote: > > > > Enough is enough Turq, don't you realize MZ is a celebrity. The kind we > > rarely > > see on FFL. Its like Bevan, Charlie or Jerry decided to grace us with their > > presence, someone who actually did something in the TMO. > > > > To name just a few highlights the MZ's CV includes: > > > > 1. His UC was confirmed by the Rish himself, in front of a large group of > > witnesses, and then, in a court of law, declared invalid. > > > > 2. Author of 11 books. > > > > 3. Been the subject academic research > > > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/23659916/Sacred-Schisms-How-Religions-Divide > > > > (chap 13) > > > > 4. Successfully started his own cult, which included experienced > > initiators. > > > > 5. Actually took on the movement, unlike a lot of the complainers on this > > blog. > > > > 6. Met the Ayatollah > > > > 7. Actually had a confrontation with the man who commercialized > > confrontation. > > > > and so on.... > > > > Turq, please don't get me wrong. I've been a confirmed lurker on FFL for > > over a > > year and your writing is one of the things that brings me back when I start > > getting bored (although I suspect your writing would be better described as > > re-writing which as we all know is what good writing is). So holy jamoli we > > finally get a real celebrity and you and others turn your formidable guns > > toward > > scaring him off. My goodness, is he that threatening. He's just a zebra, > > granted > > he's masked. > >
