An Important Message Private and confidential for Certified Governors September 22, 2014 Dear Certified Governors, I have received several letters from Governors wondering about a lecture that has been announced for November, in which George Hammond, a Governor from the 1970s, claims that he will be presenting a recent message given to him “directly by Maharishi.” I normally wouldn’t pay much heed to this, as there have been many people throughout the years, and currently, who believe they are in direct verbal contact with Maharishi (or Guru Dev, or Jesus Christ, or Abraham Lincoln in one case). Some of these people have approached me bearing “special messages for me from Maharishi” after I was made Raja. After several encounters like this, receiving messages that ran the gamut from semi-credible to inane, I now politely decline to even listen, explaining that Maharishi trained me very deeply and thoroughly, and continues to reside within my core Being, from where I take my inspiration. This case with George Hammond would be no different, except that our dear friend Jerry Jarvis has allowed his name to be associated with it, with the result that some Governors have sought my advice about it. Although I wouldn’t normally, under these peculiar circumstances, I felt it would be responsible for me to talk with George personally—which I did, in person and at some length. Let me comment on that very briefly, and then offer some general comments. I knew George and taught with him in the 70s, so our conversation was intimate and cordial. He was only willing to share snippets of “the message” with me, wanting to save the rest for his grand public event. But he did offer some highlights, including “messages” to me that were of a personal nature. My takeaway: these messages did not sound to me like the Maharishi we know—neither in tone nor in content. They sounded to me like George Hammond, and somewhat reminiscent of the philosophical books he has been writing since he left his professional work. (Focusing, for example, on grand Judeo-Christian-Islamic themes that Maharishi never showed much interest in.) While I cannot imagine any Certified Governors getting caught up by any of this, I do wish to convey some special cautions: 1. By hosting this event, George is representing, whether explicitly or implicitly, that he, now, is the conduit—the direct channel—to Maharishi. This could be dangerous, if anyone were to buy into it. As we all know, Maharishi, in his final decade with us, carefully created a global organization and structure designed to carry on his knowledge and his legacy. Maharishi personally selected, and spent years training, the individuals to administer his knowledge in every country, and established a Global Council headed by Maharaja to guide and formulate policy as the times require, to ensure the proper and effective presentation of the knowledge. Maharishi structured his organization on the self-perpetuating structure of Natural Law, so that it would endure for generations to come. For anyone to claim, from outside this structure, that Maharishi speaks through them, or that they are the ones who should guide Maharishi’s Movement, or (in some cases) attempt to create their own TM organization, is to completely disrespect Maharishi’s own, clearly and painstakingly laid out plans and intentions. 2. I am actually a bit more concerned about the potential negative impact of George’s event on the public. We have seen wonderful, growing support from government, public education, business, the Pentagon, the VA, and the educated public. To suddenly create the public impression that the Movement is now based on séance, on channeling the departed, or on the hearsay of any individual who is acting entirely on his own… the press would have a field day, potentially turning Maharishi’s entire Movement into a laughing stock. It could undermine our very delicate programs in public schools, the military, the VA, the NIH, with businesses and serious people everywhere. How could I, or any of us, give our support to this? 3. This event flies in the face of Maharishi’s constant, explicit admonitions on how to treat messages, and messengers, with information coming to them in meditation, in dreams, by telepathy, or by psychic communication: that they should simply be ignored in favor of what Maharishi actually said and did, and by what he taught us, so carefully, throughout his lifetime. It would be irresponsible for me, or for Maharaja or any Movement leader, to lend any credibility to this, for all the reasons I have presented. (Of course, if anyone sincerely feels that they have valuable ideas on how Maharishi’s Movement should operate, they are always warmly invited to communicate their ideas to the leaders of the Movement—e.g., to their National Leaders or their Executive Regional Directors or to me directly. This is the structure that Maharishi personally set up. Many of our best, most successful ideas have come from our Governors in the field. But those who choose to disregard Maharishi’s explicit plans, instructions, and channels of communication, and recommend that others do as well, may not realize that it could lead to a weakening of the very foundation of our worldwide organization and the future of Maharishi’s legacy. Maharishi has always taught us that maintaining the purity of the teaching includes maintaining, respecting, and upholding the integrity of the administration he so painstakingly built.) Finally, I conclude with the principle that Maharishi always gave us with respect to our relationship with him. He said we would know him and his thinking best by taking recourse to our own Self-Referral Consciousness. As Governors of the Age of Enlightenment, we don’t need to look outside ourselves for guidance, or to messages from beyond. Maharishi is present within each one of us. We know him. We know his thinking. We are the fortunate recipients and custodians of the greatest gift of humankind—his legacy of Total Knowledge, which offers enlightenment to every individual, and invincibility to every nation. This is our time, and this is our task—to carry that legacy into the future, in its fullness, purity, and perfection. With love and admiration, Jai Guru Dev Raja John
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Whoa. Compare the two? Where is the 'Monday e-mail' sent by John Hagelin to TM recerts, to compare? Or, the 'Sunday' thing posted by John Hagelin mentioned? Anybody have either or both of those to look at? It would be helpful to clarify things around this. This post by Rick it seems is Hammond's response sent by Jerry, then posted to FFL by Rick. Anybody have the Hagelin ones to read? Jai Guru Dev, -Buck rick archer forwards : This was sent to me by a friend. I’m not “in the loop” on any of this. Just passing it along. Jerry Jarvis sent this to John Hagelin the day before John posted his thing (Sunday), along with a cover note asking John to consider it and then to call Jerry. John responded, and told Jerry he'd consider it. But he never called Jerry to discuss before he sent out his message on Monday to the Certified Govs. Compare the two documents. Jerry's point is to show people the info and let them decide for themselves. From: George Hammond Sent: Sep 21, 2014 11:25 AM To: Subject: The Concerns Expressed to You Dear Jerry, In light of the concern some of your friends are kindly expressing on your behalf, I'd like to emphasize a few things we've already discussed: 1) The Explanations Maharishi wants me to convey are designed to dispel the fears many of his teachers have developed. These are not in any way designed to make any organizational change in the TM Movement or its leadership. They are also not in any way designed to give instructions to any individual. No one is being asked to "listen and follow" or anything of the kind. Each individual may hear, or not hear, these Explanations, and may do, or not do, in his or her own life whatever he or she thinks is appropriate afterwards. Maharishi is not interested in making anyone else's decisions for him. But he is very interested in sharing these Explanations because he is convinced they will dispel the unnecessary fears his beloved teachers are experiencing. 2) One reason Maharishi has taken the unorthodox approach of conversing with me like this, which he fully admits he strongly downplayed when he was physically alive, is that there is no other way to reach his teachers while they are still alive. And he is concerned, if they die afraid, that that might spoil their attraction to meditation and to improving their consciousness for some time to come, which is a tragedy he wants to avoid. That is his main motive for making an exception to his general rule about sticking to normal modes of communication. 3) That said, unlike how some people are representing this, Maharishi is not being "channeled". I did not speak with his "ghost". I was neither dreaming nor having a "vision". I had a normal conversation with Maharishi. I was wide awake at the time the original conversation started and I stayed wide awake during the entire time. This has been true of all our conversations since the original conversation as well. None has occurred during my dreams and none can even remotely be characterized as either visionary or channeling. It is simply that the mind we knew well as Maharishi is of course not dead. And he is still just as recognizably unique a personality as he was during his life from 1918-2008. I do not claim that I spent anywhere near as much time with Maharishi as probably thousands of others did. But I did spend time with him, and I know him well, and I am confident no other being could fool me into believing that being was Maharishi. The "feel" of Maharishi's mind is so unique that it would take extremely subtle acting ability on the part of any being to pull off even a half-convincing impersonation. As just one example, Maharishi's unusual sense ofhumor would be very hard to duplicate and his humor has had ample opportunity to be expressed throughout our conversations. 4) As you know, several attempts were made to contact the TM Movement's leadership starting soon after the original conversation with Maharishi on January 2nd. At that time, Maharishi did want those leaders to organize the presentation in the Dome on February 2nd. When that proved not feasible, another option was proposed for July. But Maharishi's requirement that his Explanations be given only once and recorded and not given again, for the obvious reason that more than one version would produce endless nitpicking, was found to be too high a hurdle for the TM Movement's leadership to approve the use of the Dome, for the also obvious reason that whatever would be said in the Dome would most likely be construed as authorized. Given the competing reasonable positions, Maharishi proposed a solution that retained his one-time only requirement without asking his TM Movement's leadership to take such a leap without knowing the content. That solution was to have the presentation at a neutral site and the TM Movement's leadership could determine after the fact whether Maharishi's Explanations were of any value or not. That is why no one is expecting the TM Movement's leadership to attend the 30th November presentation, or is claiming that they will. 5) This "one-time only" requirement should also make it clear that since the Explanations will then be complete, my task as delivery boy will also be complete after November 30th. I have neither been asked by Maharishi to take any position in the TM Movement, nor do I have any interest in doing so. And nothing has occurred since January 2nd that has changed my mind about that in the slightest. So all that is being asked is that John and the other leaders wait until after the event to determine whether the Explanations were very useful or ridiculous. And I am confident that they have both the wisdom and the forbearance to wait the few more weeks remaining in order to hear the Explanations before rendering their judgments. George
