In SF, Paul Brown is alive and active, still teaches out there. He was back visiting in Fairfield recently, in great, hale and good form. There is another crop of TM teachers on station doing it now. At the recent reunion here of 1960’s-1970’s TM teachers there was hosted a panel with newer or younger ™ teachers, some of whom have taught many hundreds and some teaching thousands of meditators now since the efforts to rekindle the teaching from 2006 and after. As Hagelin (USA TM National leader since 2006) pointed out in his talk then, there had been no national leader for the United States since the later 1970’s. There was administration but no national leader watching over it connected to Maharishi. The metrics fell from initiations of over 30k a month in 1975 to less than a hundred a month in 2006 when someone actually looked at the metrics. ™ evidently lost or skipped a generation. It is doing better now at a rate of 2000 or more a month with some better coordinate attention being given to supporting it.
Between 1975 and 1980 most everybody got displaced with a new order then that Maharishi put in place. Sort of like what happened within the 'Cultural Revolution' in China. The great leap forward became a giant step backwards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : I was initiated in San Francisco in 1975 during the Merv Wave. Does anyone know what happened to the various teachers in San Francisco between 1975 and 1980? One of my favorite personalities at the center was Catherine (Katherine?) Lyons.
