--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- Brahman wrote: > > > > > > > > in today's New York Times is a book review of > > > > the newly-released autobiography of Donovan, > > > > the popular 60's singer/song-writer. > > > > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/books/28masl.html > > > > > > Interesting line from the review: > > > > > > "[Donovan] adds his version of what has turned out to > > > be the Rashomon event of his era: the Indian idyll arranged > > > by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi." > > > > > > Rashomon is the 1950 Akira Kurosawa movie about a > > > heinous crime and its aftermath recalled from different > > > points of view. Wikipedia says, "Each story is self-serving, > > > and all are mutually contradictory, leaving the viewer > > > unable to determine the truth of the events." > > > > > > I know that TM forums have debated what really happened > > > on that course, but I wasn't aware it had made its way into > > > the mainstream to be described as "the Rashomon event of > > > an era." As we would have said back then, "Far out!">> > > > > That is very cool. Not sure what you mean though :-< > > Are you saying that the Rishikesh debate is now an example of a > > modern approach to history? > > > > Off World > > I'm saying the debate over Maharishi's motives and behaviors > at Rishikesh in 1968 has moved beyond the TM world into wider > circulation, based on seeing the debate alluded to in the New York > Times. The reference to "Rashomon" indicates how many-sided and > inconclusive the story is.>>
Interesting. But it would be more fun if it actually was such an inconclusive story. It seems pretty conclusive. 1. None of the major players and people of note have said anything negative about it that is documented. 2. 3 of the major people (McCartney, Harrison, Farrow...Donavon also?) have recently made it very clear that their experience was nothing but positive. 3. There was one person (I forget who, a beatle associate, or manager or something) who was coveting Lennon's attention, and arrived later than everyone else, and from then on started to deliberately and obsessively cause dissention and try to dedliberately discredit Maharishi. This is documented as a specific and targeted action by this fellow. Therefore it is very conclusive as to what happened, and not a Rashomon event at all. OffWorld ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
