--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/11/06 6:04 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > > > > SOme might have enjoyed being with MMY if he was there, and others > > might have attempted to figure out just what was supposed to be so > > special about that particular boat ride. Still others might like boat > > rides, period. > > I was on plenty of those boat rides. One time I was in the back of > Maharishi's car as we were driving up to the dock. There was a big crowd > hoping to be invited onto the boat. Maharishi said to Jacques Verlinde, his > driver and secretary, "Make them go away. They can't all come and it's hard > for me to exclude any of them." (Or something to that effect.) Of course, > Jacques couldn't make them go away, but somehow a boatload of people was > selected. This was always in the wintertime, because in the summer we were > up in the mountains, and in the winter, down on Lake Lucerne. And it was > often at night. I still flash back to those boat rides and cringe when I > imagine what would have happened if a boat had capsized.
...this story and the way the TMO endangers people's lives makes me think that the Suvender Sem/Levi Butler thing was inevitable and if not a murder or a boat capsizing would manifest itself in some way at some point. > They were always > filled beyond capacity, with water lapping at the gunwales, and sometimes > the lake was choppy. Of course, the water was freezing and AFAIK there were > no lifejackets, or I don't remember any being accessible. If you were in the > front of the boat, near Maharishi, you could hear what was going on. > Sometimes interesting, but often some boring working session with Geoffrey > Clements. But if you were more than a few rows back, you sat there and tried > to stay warm. Sometimes more than one boat was hired and the other ones > would just hover around near Maharishi's boat. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
