--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Duveyoung > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lutes' account of MMY's > early days > > > > I saw Charlie Lutes in California 30 years ago, and > he said, "In the > next year or two, they'll find Christ's rocket ship > inside one of the > pyramids." > > 20 years later I saw him in one of his last lectures > in Iowa City > (Cedar Rapids?) and I asked him about that rocket > and why it hadn't > been found yet. > > He said, "I never said any such thing." > > I quizzed him a bit more about aliens coming to > earth and that we > should go with the good looking ones -- not the > lizard people. > > Again, "I never said anything about those subjects." > > That was the end of any fascination I had with > Charlie Lutes. > > I always found the tension between SRM and the > mainstream TM movement > interesting. I was in the latter camp, although I > went to see Charlie a few > times. Charlie devotees believed he was expounding > truths cognized or > imparted to him by the White Brotherhood, and that > he was undoubtedly in a > higher state of consciousness because he had been > meditating 15 years, or > whatever. I always figured he was picking up most of > his stuff by reading > esoteric books. But I found him amusing, like the > Weekly World News: > http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/
I think most of us Charlie fans now realize that Charlie liked to tell entertaining stories. And entertain us he did. Now I realize why Jerry was so bothered by Charlie-Charlie just made shit up at times. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091
