But I don't really care that much these days. He's dead. He said interesting things and did interesting things and I'm happy I learned TM and the TM-SIdhis and sorry I didn't go on more residence courses, or even take advantage of teh INvincible America course when it was essentially free.
But I don't care what he was like in person. Do you? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : So basically, you can pick a few quotes from him about anything you like to make it seem he was whatever you want him to be. This is why what other people say is important, if you care about what he was really like..... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : One thing to note is that, regardless of teh sexual activities MMY may or may not have engaged in, he stopped calling himself Brahmachari when he accepted people calling him "Maharishi." In the late 60's, in a radio interview in the UK, he noted that had he known that he could become enlightened without being a monk, he might have gotten married and had kids. I once saw a lecture where he was asked if he was a recluse, and he responded that he was a householder because he was in charge of a large organization, and was certainly not avoiding people. So there's hints that he was not claiming celibacy even if he never openly admitted to it. On the other hand, he never admitted to it either. His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could. Therefore, there was mystery about him. -Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : I watched most of this and found the interview with Landau and Bourke the most interesting. This is the first I have seen her although I knew she had written a book about her affair with MMY. I found her and Mark very non-reactive, acknowledging both sides of things but apparently holding no animosity, no blame particularly for what happened to them. This is refreshing. They seemed to have moved along, realizing that their time with MMY was part of their choice, part of their life story. Judith seemed like a wonderfully kind and warm woman and it struck me that those two years being intimate with Maharishi were very precious to her. The way she carefully handled his lock of hair was telling. But even if the man (MMY) did not "practice what he preached" in terms of presenting himself as a monk I am not sure how that takes away from the technique of TM. Sometimes things work well even if the messenger is flawed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Oh you guys are gonna love this one: I did actually. Good to see Marshy talking crap again and it reminded me how hideous all the True Believers are with their fake, treacly voices and sycophantic laughter. Lynch really has been brainwashed too, he knows all the lines and seems unabashed standing in front of an uninvited crowd and saying that consciousness is the unified field! That takes some balls, or some ignorance... All it needed was a proper microphone to do the narration and titles to name all the people being interviewed, for instance who is the guy at 27.00 who claims to have taken women to Marshy's room? BTW the guy at the beginning is Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist who did a study of TM research and published the book "TM and Cultmania" TM and Cult Mania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_and_Cult_Mania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_and_Cult_Mania TM and Cult Mania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_and_Cult_Mania TM and Cult Mania is a book authored by Michael Persinger, Normand Carrey and Lynn Suess.[1] It was published in 1980 by Christopher Publishing Hous... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_and_Cult_Mania Preview by Yahoo The TM Movement CULT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQMKxrLnOGc The TM Movement CULT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQMKxrLnOGc View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQMKxrLnOGc Preview by Yahoo
