On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:40 PM, turquoiseb <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > > > I worked on the Houston (Navasota, Grimes County) capital for > > room and board. And yes, shared an unheated cabin. Barhroom > > was the bushes outside. Yes, it gets cold in Texas during the > > Winter. Maharishi was absolutely right. The movement belongs > > to those who move large quantities of cash across national > > borders, undetected. > > I never went to any of the more modern TM hovels. > I used to teach a lot of residence courses at > Soboba (I think the name was) in southern CA, > and attended many courses at Cobb Mountain in > northern CA. The former didn't really have much > personality, but the latter did. It had been > some kind of camp or retreat facility before > the TMO acquired it, and I found it charming, > with its old clapboard cottages and rustic > camp-era dining/meeting hall. Plus, the fact > that most everyone was in a separate cottage > made it easier to fool around on ATR courses. :-) > > I attended many course at Cobb, including my ?flying? block. My flying block had a lot of live wires. The cabins closest to the main buildings were given to married, "senior" people. They brought with them the proper mixings for martinis and had cocktail hour before time to do evening program. I went back for many WPAs and the men often flew on what had been the dance floor. That place had been a really hopping place for Summers and especially the weekend. The dance floor was on springs, and yes, in typical TMO style, Cobb Mountain had a reputation for lots of alcohol flowing, lots of extramarital sex. Back to my flying block. We had a fiddler from Boston. When our mommies and daddies went to bed we had hoe downs outside the main buildings. A couple times we woke up the sidhi administrators who told us to cut out the dancing and go to bed. Cobb Mountain was in typical decay and the cabins were drafty as heck. And yes, we were within something like 1,500 feet of the tree line so it got cold, even in Spring and Fall.
