--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know Amma is different from Maharishi, as you have said. > But, still, if he did go through this in a past life, and dosen't > wish to repeat that type of death, that is his soul's pergative. > Also, > The last time I saw Maharishi on U.S. Television, was on the "Dick > Cavette Show". > Maharishi, had said, that he had just flown in from Tokyo, and Dick > remarked how fresh he looked, and remarkably clear. > Later in the show, Dick got very aggressive with Maharishi, more > than I had ever seen anyone get,(almost as though, dick had a few > drinks before the show), and started pulling at Maharishi's dohti, > his silk covering. > It was quite upsetting to me to watch Maharishi, being treated in > this manner, and I had the feeling he felt America had in a sense > become aggressive and vulgar, and drunk, with power.. > Robert.
Is that the same Dick Cavett show in which Harold Bloomfield and Peter McWilliams also appeared (can't remember if they were taped separately from MMY)? If so, the key memory of that show is not what you remembered above but the fact that Cavett asked MMY if he could fly (the flying sidhi had only recently become public) and MMY replied "yes"; then Cavett asked him to demonstrate it for him and MMY replied something to the effect: it's not for me to do but for YOU to do... > > - In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > on 8/12/05 3:50 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> --I heard that Maharishi stopped coming to the United States, > > > >> because he felt it had become too dangerous here, and he > didn't > > > >> want to be sacrificed in that way.(as he has done the martyer > > > >> thing in a past time, been there, done that); > > > >> In those days, the Pope had been shot, as well as Reagan.. and > > > >> the mood of the country had changed. > > > >> He just felt that the U.S. had become too violent and > > > >> fundementalist, and dangerous, which is quite true. > > > > > > > > With all due respect, this has been said by pretty > > > > much every spiritual charlatan in history running > > > > from the law. And their followers believed it when > > > > they said it, too. > > > > > > > > It's misdirection, and an obvious appeal to the > > > > elitism of the students -- "Ooooh...they're trying > > > > to kill our teacher...we must be *really* special > > > > to be able to be with such a teacher." > > > > > > Interesting to note that Amma received three death threats > > > from TM folks the first time she came here, but wasn't > > > intimidated. > > > > Interesting indeed. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/ <*> 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/
