Mark,
I don't care what anyone says-the fact is, this has got to be the longest thread in FFL history. How the hell did you do it man? Ok, the subject line was the Rosetta stone of subject lines but great subject lines are no where near enough to achieve a 300+ thread. No, it takes a lot more that to achieve greatness. Hell, I was thinking to improve my subject line responses with something like "SUICIDE" but the wife said: "Oh great, and then what do you do with them?" She also said: "A great subject line like "Suicide" is like Kirk Douglas breaking Michael into the business, he certainly got him his early auditions, but Michael's talent got him the parts. There must be an award or something for best post.? In fact, with the obvious marketing talent you have why are you asking a bunch of losers on FFL how to sell Maharishi's sandals? Are you just toying with us? In any event, I love your stories and I hope you give us more. LOL ________________________________ From: Mark Landau <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:38:40 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Sandals Thank you, w. The best time to have written it would have been in the late seventies or early eighties. It's so long, now, much of it is lost. But I hear you and one never knows. On Jul 23, 2011, at 2:05 PM, wayback71 wrote: >Mark, if you reconsider and decide to write that book (maybe a few of you >should get together, brainstorm your memories and get the thing written) that >would be of interest to many of of us. - I think it would sell and not just to >TM'ers. If you don't do the book, I for one would be delighted to read more >of these memories and stories. You have a wonderfully thoughtful way of >writing about them, including the ambiguity. > >If you care to answer any or all - > >Were you there when the spaceship supposedly landed in Mallorca and MMY was >driven to the beach and got on for a while? If so, what hapened? I was on TCC >there then (Fall 1971 and early winter of 1972 til the move to Fiuggi) but not >up that late at night. > No, I heard about that but was, like you, a TTC participant then. Is there anyone one else here who was in the Karina? If so, I have a question I'd love to ask you. You say you saw angels, devas. Did you ever see anything on a subtle level that indicated that MMY was not on his best behavior or had an entirely human side as well? (ie did his energy change or darken) > Absolutely. And not only on the subtle. I've already answered this obliquely regarding his sexual frustration, but it also occurred with his sex and other things. He definitely waxed and waned. There were times, one the most shocking of all, when I was really shaken by how he looked--shrunken, wasted, dark and with basically no energy. He had a large darker splotch on his cheek that he always covered with makeup and had even neglected to do that. But he always recovered very quickly. How did Maharishi chose you as skin boy? > Oh, this... After the 108 group was formed, M decided to have the skin boys be 108s. As I said, Anthony Jobbe was skin boy before me and M really liked him but he was left behind in America when we left to start using Seelisberg because he was misrepresenting himself regarding his financial situation. John Mortenson, me and M flew to Switzerland. John had priority over me because I had taken a few months to teach TM, because I felt I wanted that experience, after the 108 course at Lake Tahoe. It's also possible John did some of that while I was teaching TM. But when I reconnected with M, Anthony was doing it by himself. So he started carrying the skin. But after a very short time, maybe a week or two, Maharishi said, "You be on the buzzer," to me. The buzzer went from his bedroom to the room nearby where the skin boy slept. So I replied, "But, M, if I am to do that I have to sleep in the room John is in." "Yes," he said, "sleep in that room." So I had to go and tell John, John checked back with M to make sure and left for Hawaii the next day. So I started knowing absolutely nothing. The first morning on the job, M buzzed me and said "I need a dhoti." I had not even gone through his things and, in my flustered haste, brought a sheet to his room, put it down for him and left. Two minutes later, he buzzed and said, "No, I need a DHOTI." This time I was more careful and brought him what he wanted. Was there any talk among the inner circle staff about doubts and concerns (especially when people got burned out and decided to leave), suspicions about meetings with Judith? Or were you all so heavily drugged by the bliss? > No, but it wasn't because we were heavily drugged by bliss. In my case, it was because it was an internal process that I kept to myself. And no one ever approached me to talk about it. What was the single most powerful experience you had in your time around MMY? > I really can't give you one. There were two categories, when I was rounding my brains out, all kinds of things happened. And when M cranked out the darshan to his most extraordinary levels. Were you around to see the introduction of the siddhis? If so, how did that come about from your perspective? > No, I came back from trying to do stuff at the UN to participate in the second six month course. Do you still do TM? > No. I sit and be with whatever arises. Usually, after a while, it all subsides and I am in some form of samadhi. Usually, the time being with what's arising exceeds the time in samadhi. Was it worth it, the growth and bliss versus the lengthy process of disillusionment of your dreams? > Absolutely. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, unless, of course, I could have been with Guru Dev or a "truer" master.
