On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:00 PM, maskedzebra wrote: > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@...> wrote: >> >> On Jun 27, 2011, at 3:09 PM, maskedzebra wrote: >> >>> I am, however, going to ask you to slow down on the tour preparations. >>> That's a pretty big move for this willed introvert (once exuberant >>> performer). >> >> Never mind the tour, mz~~could you just do another >> helicopter drop? That was one of the coolest sights >> I've ever seen on the MUM campus. That was real, >> man. It's definitely high time for a repeat. > > RESPONSE: Yeah, it was inspired (came out of UC, remember). Only trouble was > that, as I remember, the letters were dropped not exactly when everyone was > emerging from the Domes, but a little before then.
So your timing was slightly off. It's the thought that counts, anyway... and the thought behind that little scenario was fantastic. > This meant the event was not timed perfectly, and even that much of what was > dropped was scooped up before (a clarion call from the enlightened man) could > be read—and the TM reformation put into motion. But Beatle music was blasting > loudly, Gotta have the right soundtrack for a moment like that. I hope I Am The Walrus was one of them. > and it was one moment that seemed to be breaking into the mind-locked set in > the TMO. I was not up there in the helicopter, however—I left that to two of > my top disciples (by the way, even though I was, I suppose, a cult leader, > everyone had total mental freedom to THINK WHATEVER THEY WISHED AND ACT > HOWEVER THEY SAW FIT [see how defensive an ex-UC guy can get? Take it easy, > MZ]. But upon hearing about the event, there was a kind of burst of happy > energy that was still resonating—let me, try it, Sal:—through the universe! This universe, or some other? Anyway, I think I get the drift. > But as for a much wished-for repeat, just on principle I would never (and did > not when enlightened) repeat anything I did. We'd have to come up with > something else. I understand~~time for a new, untested prank. On the other hand, it's almost a whole new crop there (most of the old-timers being either somewhere else, kicked out, or dead). So it could still fly (no pun intended) with this group. Anyhoo, it would be a great time for the kiddies and deja vu all over again for the rest of us. > And besides, the sense of silent defeatedness inside the TMO—unrecognized, > denied as it is—is in a pretty advanced state these days—even as I notice > that scientific studies touting TM for reducing tension continue to be > published. Defeatedness here means: no chance of enlightenment, no chance of > inner permanent happiness, no hovering, no reduction in the inward neurotic > existential tension of being a human being, no visible 'Support of Nature' > (although that certainly WAS once there), no sense of spiritual romance; no > expectation of a wonderful breakthrough in one's spiritual progress, no > innocent enthusiasm for TM, growing embarrassment about the personal > reputation of Maharishi; faith as a substitute for experience—I am sure you > are as familiar with all this as I am, Sal. I am, and while everything you mention above is true...oh, what I wouldn't give for one more shot at Bevan (or whomever) running around catching the "evil" papers as they waft to the ground. > There's not the same uptight, repressed, trance-like context to arouse and > provoke as there was back there in 1983. True again~~there's a slightly different uptight, repressed, trance-like context there now. > I had expected the helicopter (and the Beatle music) to create a space for a > different kind of initiation. Making Things Personal. But I must get a grip > here, Sal—or I am likely to go off. > > When I came up with the helicopter drop-off idea, I was still in love with > Maharishi, and convinced that the Movement only had to become the beneficiary > of my enlightenment. Then we really could go ahead and change the world. > (Because of the integration of West and East.) Me and the people who were > with me (mostly initiators loyal to MMY) had created out own spiritual > context inside the universe, and we were familiar with that universe. It was > just the TM universe with a difference: The personal side of reality fused > with the impersonal side. Of course in the end in the most profound sense, > even this was BS. As I had to discover the hard way. > > By the way, Maharishi held off—for 6 years—putting any kind of obstacle in my > way, as I continued to do my Western enlightenment thing. Then under the > imperative of the law, he was forced to show his hand—and, I believe against > his will, he refused to endorse my enlightenment. Personally, I think he probably got a kick out of the whole thing. It sounds like something he might have come up with himself in earlier times. > Have I gone on too long here, Sal? Gotta watch that unconscious narcissism. > For me, there at MUM, THERE'S NOTHING TO STRIKE AT ANYMORE. It's not as if > the universe is threatened to be taken over by Bevan—but at one time, in my > experience at least, it seemed that MMY and TM and the TMO WAS going to take > over the universe. And that helicopter drop-off with the Beatle music blaring > was my attempt to infuse soul into this cosmic take-over—before it was too > late. > > I guess, from what you say here, you were THERE? I was~~and I still haven't quite recovered. Great theater. There was another guy on this forum, Bob Brigante (anybody heard from him lately?) who stood out on Hwy 1 just outside the campus with a sign reading "Dump Bevan." That was good too, but not quite in the same league with a helicopter drop. Sal ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: [email protected] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
