--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've never heard of anyone with a bone to pick trying to speak with > him at all- they mainly try their case in the court of public > opinion, so to speak. > > I have yet to read of someone describing their attempts to speak > with Maharishi and being repeatedly rebuffed, once they already had > access. Not saying it never happened, but I just have never heard of > it. >
Ok, here's one for you, it at least partially expalins the wall aournd him. Different era but this happened to me, I was there, it really happened. It was an ATR course attended by maybe 200 initiators, in Mallorca, at the end of 1971. Lots and lots of problems of all kinds-housing, busing, food, but we were young then, innocent, most things were tolerable. Like standing for 8 hours, in front of our hotel at the beginning of the 4 week course waiting for our bus to come get us and take us to the other side of the island. Every 10 minutes or so we were told, "it's almost here." And getting to where M was, and getting rooms with no heat, no hot water, no electricity, it was freezing, and when we asked for different rooms we were told "you're just unstressing." SOOOO, at the very end of the 4 weeks, next to last meeting, Maharishi asked us, "What can I do to make these courses better." I thought he really wanted to know, so I got up to the microphone, he called on me, and I said: "Maharishi one thing you can do to make these courses better is to have them planned better before we get here." Well, instantly the Big Cheeses (Joe Clarke, Stan Crow, Charlie Donanue) starting waving me off the microphone. M noted this yet he looked at me and gave me the a nod of the head-a go-ahead-to keep talking. I explained to him all about an airline mixup, about the buses, about the no heat/hot water, about how rudely the housing people were to us, etc. and he was looking at me, really listening. All this while-maybe 3 or 4 minutes Stan Crowe, Joe Clarke, Charlie Donahue, were hissing at me, waving me away from the microphone, finally YELLING "Sit down, sit down." The one good thing about it was, at our very last meeting, before we got on the buses, as M was giving us our sendoff, he said, in the midst of his spiel, "...and we will do a much better job of planning for your next course..." and while he was saying these words he was looking around the room to find me and our eyes met for a split sec. It was great vindication for me, but it never stopped The Big Cheeses from being idiotic about "protecting" M from anything not perfect. Which was always a stupid thing to do, imo. There are many other stories like this that I witnessed and it expalins that there is a vast wall around him. At least I think there is. Chaim L. 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/
