-- In [email protected], Michael Jackson wrote: > > Just curious - I met him long after in Atlanta - he was a world > class architect - I saw some of the homes he designed in Atlanta - > made your jaw drop when you say them - some people used to > say his homes had a angelic presence about them. > > Richard claimed to have been the one responsible for getting the > wooden hand rail in the men's dome - he said he wanted it there > for the senior citizens ability to walk up the stairs - Bevan and > some others overruled him on the basis that a curved hand rail > was custom work and would be too expensive - so Richard said > he went behind their backs, ordered the rail without their > knowledge and raided the petty cash fund to pay for it when it > was delivered - he and a few others were installing it and the > higher ups raised hell with him and threw him off the project, > threw him off campus too I think but I am not sure about that.
Lovely story. I am just an architecture nut, and get off on not only wonderfully-designed spaces, but the often equally wonder- fully-designed stories of how they got that way. In Santa Fe there was the Miraculous Staircase. It was located within a small Catholic chapel, formerly a nunnery, nowadays called the Loretto Chapel. The story goes like this. The order had enough money to build the chapel, and even to build a choir loft overlooking the chapel from which the more tuneful nuns could sing. But they ran out of money before they could build an actual way to *get to* this choir loft. So for years the nuns had to sing from the back pews of the chapel itself. Then one day some long-haired, bearded guy wanders by, leading (no shit) a donkey and carrying a box of carpenter's tools, and asks for a handout. Noticing that the choir loft lacks a staircase leading to it, he offers to build it for them. They take him up on his offer. The staircase to this day befuddles scientists. It is made from wood not native to the area. It is constructed entirely organically, with no nails or artificial elements keeping it together, only pegs carved from the same wood as the stairs, and no apparent central support. And then there's the question of what it fuckin' LOOKS LIKE, which is this (the railing was added much later...the original staircase was just the stairs you see in the photo): Then, as the legend goes, the carpenter who build all of this just fuckin' disappears, without asking for payment. Naturally, the Catholics believe that it was either St. Joseph, or Jesus himself. Me, I think it's a better story if it was just a wandering carpenter, someone who took pride in doing a good job with whatever he built, such that it would bring joy to other people. > ________________________________ > From: "doctordumbass@..." doctordumbass@... > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:03 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for Marshy's Kin Folks > > > Â > Sorry, I don't remember him - I was on a support crew from the CAE project near Kansas City, so didn't get to know many of the guys doing the design. > > Probably my biggest regret from those days was while digging the foundation for the CAE near KC, I found a beautiful pre-Colombian axe head (verified by an archeologist on staff). A real treasure. Unfortunately, had no sense back then and gave it away after leaving. Oh well... > > BTW, last time I google mapped the KC CAE, it is being torn down for scrap. Fun project while it lasted. Unfortunately, didn't survive the sthapatya veda craze, as it had a, gulp, south facing entrance. > > --- In [email protected], Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: > > > > When you worked on the first Dome did you meet a guy by the name of Richard Kilmer - big fella with a big booming voice - he was an architect? > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: "doctordumbass@" doctordumbass@ > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:13 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for Marshy's Kin Folks > > > > > > ÃÂ > > Hi WB, I know that, also - I worked for the TM guys, on staff, for a total of three years, and bought into *everything*. Everything. Well, almost everything...my guardian angels stopped me literally on the verge, from going on TTC - it wouldn't have been pretty.:-0 > > > > Working for the TMO, I went on tons of residence courses, earned my TMSP - read the Gita numerous times, took SCI - and earned the princely sum of $25/mo., slept in an unheated garage, or a run down shack in mid-Winter with no plumbing - in the Midwest and Catskills. Had all the *right* posters on the walls though.:-) > > > > Continued TMSP for 13 years, and TM since 1975. Took part in some key TMO events - attended Doug Henning's second wedding in the Dome, helped build the first dome, helped build a Capital of the Age of Enlightenment. Attended the Taste of Utopia course in DC. > > > > Got screwed in many of the same ways as have been already described here ad nauseum - Experienced loss of course credit, arrogance of the Govs, blatant hypocrisy, pitiful living and working conditions, though thankfully, except for my overall income for those three years working for the TMO, I didn't lose money on many courses. > > > > So, I just don't know what the standard is for investment in the TMO and Maharishi, that continues to leave a bitter taste in so many mouths. > > > > After I left in the early 80's, I continued to pursue my own stuff, and continued to carefully peel away the BS from whatever my truth was at the time, and now. Got immersed in the world, family and career, so that any BS in the TMO continued to burn itself out, in the course of integrating myself into a normal, successful worldly life. > > > > If someone still feels the need to vent about their TMO experiences, and trot out the same old tired stories and accusations, they can go ahead, but when they say stuff like this, they *still* sound kinda dumb: :-) > > > > "The TMO is in my opinion no more corrupt and awful (and no less) than any other spiritual organization or religion or cult in human history." > > > > --- In [email protected], "Ann" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], doctordumbass@ wrote: > > > > > > > > "The TMO is in my opinion no more corrupt and awful (and no less) than any other spiritual organization or religion or cult in human history." > > > > > > > > this makes you sound kinda dumb...just sayin'... > > > > > > Not dumb, dear Doctor. Here is the key thing. Many people who appear the most bitter are those who spent the most time, invested much of themselves, in the Movement whether it was in in the form of years, sweat, dedication or belief. This was a cost on some level. When someone has put so much of themselves into something and found it, in the end, wanting it seems to me natural that there is disappointment, bitterness, a foundation for defining/revealing, what went wrong. It is never a valid excuse that something isn't wrong because it happens all the time. Frequency of transgression does not override the seriousness of it. > > > > > > > > >
