--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:53 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
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Had anyone heard the stories of learning to wear a dhoti and wrap
it a certain way so as to put ice cubes around the testicles?
Cold showers?
You mean John Knapp's "wet diapers" story on Trancenet?
No, never heard that one! No, this was serious. A way to gently
cool the testicles and to preserve ojas and diminish the fires of
desire. A clever idea.
Here ya go:
In the circles in which I participated (not all that high up, I'm
afraid), we were in work camps (Livingston Manor, NY, among others)
on which it wasn't unusual to work 36-hour shifts, we were fed
zucchini-and-rice starvation diets, were asked to sign lifetime
contracts to serve the Maharishi, followed schedules that accounted
for nearly every minute of every day, were required to practice
lifelong celibacy, and more.
Until I have time to write my story, I'll just try to dole occasional
details.
My favorite TM moment came in the fall of 1977, shortly after the
Academy of SCI in Livingston Manor became all male -- by throwing out
all married, female, children, and gay staff, without warning, and
stealing their earned "course credit."
Two managers of MIU Press took small groups of 4 or 5 of
us "boys/aspiring brahmacharis" through a hidden passage into a
secret room on the Academy compound. Our two "instructors" explained
that Maharishi had some special, secret instructions for us -- since
we were very special and dear to him as life-time volunteers.
We were told to strip -- by the way it was freezing because the
heating plant was turned off throughout the Academy in the dead of
Winter. Then they proceeded to show us how to fold and wear what I
can best describe as "diapers" that they claimed would help us "keep
our energy up" -- that is maintain perfect celibacy, without "losing
energy at night" (nocturnal emissions/wet dreams -- major no-nos.)
They had us practice putting on the "diapers" and inspected and
tightened them to the point of pain. Then they had us strip again,
put them on again and inspect each others diapers. We were ridiculed
and mocked if our weren't tight, damp, or cold enough. This
process went on for roughly an hour.
These diapers -- also worn by Hare Krishnas I'm told -- were to be
worn tight, damp, and cold enough to make our testicles curl up
(painful at first, but we gradually got used to it). We were told to
not to take the diapers off except to clean them once a week.
We were admonished to never divulge this practice, that it was common
in Europe at MERU and elsewhere with Maharishi's permanent, private
staff, that we were very fortunate to be given this special knowledge
which would lead to the "quick dawning of Unity Consciousness," and
to always keep it secret because America wasn't ready for such
powerful techniques.
