Sounds like you were THERE! He wore make up too? LOL!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Accurate insight, in my opinion, Vaj. Ture believers will always find > reason to believe. Like the Jehovah's witnesses, the more you point > out the flaws, the stronger they grow. When they come to the door I > just tell them I'm a reformed Druid (we're allowed to worship > bushes). It's an old M*A*S*H* joke. > > If you read Joyce Collin-Smith's "Call No Man Master" or Paul Mason's > Mahesh bio, it's perfectly clear that Mahesh is all about getting > himself worshiped. > > I clearly remember the newspaper stories: he declared his mission > failure and said he was retiring to the Himilayas. It was AFTER this > that the Beatles made him famous and he bounced back with a vengence. > First he created huge numbers of TM teachers (Mallorca, Fiuggi, La > Antilla). He coo'd like a dove cooing to another dove from whom it > hoped to borrow money (favourite Wodehouse quote) at the peak of > rounding: no one can love you like I can, you are going to save the > whole world, get the money from an auntie, from your gran .... > > Mahesh could be a real slime ball. And, what did he teach on his 6- > month courses? Stuff borrowed and re-worked from Yogananda. I did all > of the Yogananda lessons after TM, out of curiosity more than > anything else. There were the A of E techniques and contacts provided > more information about the 6-month courses. Just more of Yogananda > with his lovely spin on it. > > And the 'sidhi' stuff? He had no idea, literally. He sent people to > India to find yogis; he got obscure translations, he fiddled and > fumed and tinkered ... but what worked best was the cooing, get 'em > all spacey and suggest hopping. How simple; he'd always known that > people would pay him for what they expected to get in return and that > he never had any trouble convincing them it was their fault it wasn't > working. He still bitches about too much negativity, too little work > being done by others, yadda, yadda. > > The "real" Mahesh is someone completely imaginary for most people. > But, yes, there was an inner circle, people who liked what they were > doing and since he was providing room and board and the company of > each other, they didn't particularly object doing it for him. But > behind closed doors, the discussion shifted to how completely bonkers > Mahesh was. Stripped of his public facade, he was a nutter with > charm, intelligence, charisma by the sackful. But his ideas and his > wast wedic wevelations were total kaka. It was all provided by people > who not only told him what the Sanskrit said, but what the Sanskrit > meant. > > It was all spindoctoring based on the work of others. > > Do nothing, accomplish everything took on a whole new meaning. YOU > bust your balls and I take all the credit. > > Well, that was fun. Nothing new, but fun. Those who see, see. Those > who don't see, still see. A finger points at the moon. Some will > always and only consider the finger. > > Happy trails. There are better things to do than worry about some Jim > Jones type dressed in sheets and wearing makeup. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
