Walter had a certain charisma as a speaker, and he had the gift of believing in stuff he had just made up. In 1976 he married an Englishwoman, Marguerite Causley, who was also a rather charismatic TM teacher. They dumped MMY and followed Marguerite's guru, whom they called Guru Raj, who was a nonwhite South African. They went to live in Australia for a while, where Marguerite still lives, I believe. I have a feeling they got divorced.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > I didn't know that Madonna was her given name. > > Raised as a good Catholic girl, as I understand. > > > I remember Walter Bellin from the 1970s. Is he still around? > > I haven't seen him since that period myself. I know that > he blew out of the TM movement in a big way, getting up > in front of a big crowd and thanking Maharishi for what > he'd done but making it very clear that he'd found a > different guru and that he was outa there. Haven't heard > a word about him since, except one rumor that he may have > wound up in South Africa. > > I always liked Walter because onstage he was one of the > best lecturers I'd seen in the TM movement, and offstage > he was a heckuva lot of fun. >
