Also not on topic, a friend recently made a remark (now you must understand this guy is a staunch Republican, one of the few I have ever met who proudly reminds everyone he voted for Nixon and he is also pretty cynical) anyway he said that Jews are the smartest people in the world because they know you can never be quite sure who the daddy is, so they count Jewish lineage to be passed down through the maternal line.
It would go great on a bumper sticker, but the Anti-Defamation League would be all over it. ________________________________ From: Alex Stanley <j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:52 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: MAHARISHI’S TEACHINGS ON SEX Not exactly on-topic, but one of my fave MMY stories is when someone asked him to talk about relationships. He laughed heartily and said one sentence: "There are mothers, and there are sons." --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74" <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > > For years I believed that Maharishi was a lifelong celibate because that is > what I was taught. I was surprised, really amazed when I first heard a TM > teacher say she had heard he was sexually active. I knew her pretty well and > she insisted it was true. When I asked her how she knew she told me her > sister and brother in law, both TM teachers and Governors had assured her it > was true. They had worked on national staff for some years and yet it was not > first hand information. They had gotten it from a reliable source who had > gotten it from the person who had it through direct experience. > > Third hand info was not too impressive at the time. I did run the information > by another TM teacher who knew both myself and the person who told me and > they didn’t believe it, nor could they believe that Susie had come to > believe it. > > So the issue was a non-issue for me until I turned up here on FFL. A brief > exchange with Rick made me feel there really might be something to the > allegations so I looked further, reading everything I could from and about > the women involved which made me about fifty percent convinced it was true. > Even though I had come to believe Maharishi was not enlightened, and that he > was extremely fond of making promises in exchange for cash, I still could not > quite come to believe that he had lied about that very fundamental aspect of > his lifestyle. > > What did convince me were the similar stories from the former skin boys like > Mark Landau and Billy Clayton that I came across on the internet, especially > the recent BATGAP video interview with Mark Landau. > > Now that got me to thinking why would M preach celibacy to everyone else if > he was not practicing it himself. And I came up with a couple conclusions. > > First, it was not cool in those days to be a guru and be sexually active, or > perhaps more to the point it wasn’t cool to be a guru, be sexually active > and have people in general know that was the case. M had to maintain the > facade that he was celibate to keep people coming to him believing he was a > spiritual master. > > Being a spiritual master and fucking just didn’t go together in those days. > This became particularly important when he announced he wanted TM teachers to > dress and behave conservatively so TM would appeal to the “responsible > members of societyâ€� meaning older, financially established people who could > and would support M financially. If they had known he was dipping the wick > they would never have supported him. > > In addition I believe he wanted to cut down on the competition. From the > stories his personal secretaries have told, he would often select women from > amongst those on teacher training courses or his staff â€" if they were being > sexually active, they would be leery of cheating on their spouses or > boyfriends and celibacy certainly would lead the ladies to be already horny, > thus making it easier for him to get in their pants. >
