On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:04 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Jonathan Chadwick wrote:
The very point is - thanks to M., "Guru Dev" is a bit of a pop
culture phenomenon (e.g. Lennon's "Across the Universe" has been
covered numerous times). That this guy was the real deal nobody, I
think, really doubts. And then he ends up sending us his
administrative assistant (I guess that shows how important we all
really are . . .). Certainly you can't blame M. for not promoting
SBS to the max.
That's just it: he didn't send him. He told Mahesh not to teach.
I keep hearing this. WHEN did he tell MMY this?
Now whether in the end it helped or hindered in the overall scheme of
things, we may never know. Many were helped and many were harmed.
Documentation?
If you haven't heard stuff like the following, you should take your
head out of the sand my friend! It's rather sad to say this only
scrapes the surface:
List of TM Casualties
(...)
The following is a short list of incidents which have occurred to
other TM practitioners. Our research into reported incidents is
continuing and we will continually update our findings.
[Victim #1]
Chairman of the MIU Philosophy Department, the Ad board and student
counselor. Advisor to Bevan Morris. [Victim #1] was a respected
member of the faculty of MIU. [Victim #1] was actively engaged in
soliciting participants to engage in sadistic and masochistic
activities with men on the campus of MIU. [Victim #1] advertised in
local newspapers and wrote articles for magazines and periodicals
which specialized in these activities. His special interest was
discovering the true meaning of a "master disciple relationship." He
invited individuals to urinate and defecate on him while he begged to
be disciplined.
[Victim #2]
Worked on staff at Livingston Manor NY. The directors of the Academy
were aware of her recommended she continually take repeated SCI
courses. Because she was wealthy and influential the advisory board
at Livingston Manor finally approved her for a teacher training
course. While attending her course in France she became hysterical
and threw herself off of a balcony and was found dead by the teacher
training course leaders. These leaders later were advised by the TM
movement not to mention the incident.
[Victim #3], Fairfield Iowa.
[Victim #3] is a housewife and a member of the TM community in
Fairfield, Iowa. [Victim #3] was experiencing mental difficulties
from her practice of the sidhis. One afternoon, she was seen leaving
the dome dazed. She later poured gasoline over her head and ignited
herself becoming a human torch. She remains disfigured, and crippled
from the incident.
[Victim #4], Los Angeles, California
The former wife of Dr. Keith Wallace lived in the TM center in Los
Angeles. She was under the personal guidance of MMY and was permitted
to live in the center with MMY's personal permission. In a
hallucination while practicing the TM-Sidhi program she felt an older
woman was drawing energy from her body preventing her from
levitating. She purchased a gun and shot the woman during their
practice of TM Sidhis.
[Victim #5], Long Island, NY
Attempted to take the TM Sidhi program while on [sic] living on Long
Island. The local center refused to recommend her to take the Sidhi
program because of her history of mental instability. She left Long
Island and took the Sidhi program in California. Later she returned
to the same Long Island Center and proceeded to practice the Sidhi
program with the same people who refused to recommend her. They never
disallowed her to practice at the local center. Her mental condition
continued to deteriorate while practicing TM and the Sidhis. She
murdered her mother shooting her to death after practicing the Flying
technique at the local center.
[Victim #6], Long Island, NY
After attending an extended rounding course in Europe [Victim #6] in
a fit of severe depression severed his testicles, slit his wrists and
throat with broken glass. The teahers [sic] in the Long Island area
knew of this incident. [Victim #6] is an active member of defendants
organizations and has been instrumental in helping organize large
assemblies in the Washington D.C.
[Victim #7]
During an "Executive Governor" training course in Europe a group of
ladies have reported that one woman threw herself out of a window
after hallucinating. The other course participants were told by TM
movement representatives not to report the incident or discuss the
incident after returning home. This group followed their instructions
until recently.
[Victim #8]
Director of MIU-Press at the ASCI-NY facility was housed in a padded
room from 1974-1976. During this period he would howl, scream and
continually threw himself into walls only during his practice of TM.
[Victim #9]
A teacher of TM and a course participant during my AEGTC course,
[Victim #9] was asked to leave the Fairfield community by
representatives of the movement after being caught molesting children.
[Victim #10]
Promised by Mahesh and the TM organization that a four year graduate
of MIU would be enlightened (cosmicly consciousness[sic]) and would
be incapable of making mistakes by the time he received his BA
degree, [Victim #9] attended MIU. After returning to the Philadelphia
area to work, [Victim #9] was last seen walking downtown in womens
clothing. He has become a professed transvestite and is undergoing
psychotherapy.
[Victim #11]
The defendants also were aware of a [n] MIU professor, employed by
the defendants organizations, who administered thorazine by injection
when handling meditators who had a severe reaction to the practices.
The organization itself was no stranger to the use of powerful
sedatives by injection to control "freak outs" during courses. In one
case Mahesh ordered one of his own private secretaries drugged and
placed in an assylum[sic] in order to keep her quiet. She had
threatened to expose the organization and its practices.
[Victims #12]
There is no question the movement knew of these incidents and
numerous others. My own review of files in La Antilla, the results of
rounding courses in Majjorca[sic], Spain and Fiuggi, Italy confirmed
these same disastrous consequences for many individuals. Additionally
administrators of MIU are aware of incidents like the student who
jumped through a plate glass window, the staff member who couldnt
[sic] be found and was later discovered in a dumpster, the student
president who proclaimed he was Arjuna and was sent home, and they
are aware of the individuals involuntary [sic] committed to local
mental institutions. They have witnessed and experienced for
themselves the courses in which everyone was screaming, shaking and
convulsing. They have had their own employees administer thorzine
[sic] by injection to 'freak outs." They know and have known of
students, former students and course participants who after leaving
MIU or other movement facilities later committed suicide.
The movement has been repeatedly put on notice regarding these
instances and chose to ignore the hard cold fact that these practices
are dangerous.
