--- In [email protected], "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of BillyG. > > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 10:10 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: need feedback on MMY audios > > > > > > > > How exciting to be able to talk to Jerry after all of these years, we > > all loved Jerry.......did he get the boot too? :-) > > > > Apparently. Some say it was because he pursued the NJ court case against > > MMY's wishes. Maybe he just needed to get away from the outer guru > to find > > the inner guru. > > At some point I heard Jerry and Charlie had a meeting and apparently > (just rumor) Jerry wanted to divorce the TM movement from its somewhat > Religious packaging, puja, etc., OR wanted autonomy for the US branch > (wouldn't that have been nice) and Charlie balked and walked away, > apparently after that Jerry was persona non grata....FWIW. (For what > it's worth).
Charlie freely hypothesized on many subjects, and we enjoyed Charlie's discourses, but on the topic of Jerry Jarvis and the reasons for Jerry's disassociation from the TM org, I'm uncomfortable creating a default understanding in my memory bank out of the theory presented above - specifically, that Jerry wanted to eliminate the puja from TM instruction, and thus was summarily dismissed. That supposed theory of Charlie's sounds like an organizational face-saving disinformation campaign to cast doubt upon the judgement of a defector that conveniently lessened the impact of the bombshell news of his Jerry's departure, and perhaps inflamed the faithful (who considered a proposal for puja elimination to be a gross violation of the "purity of the teaching"), and thus inflamed, the faithful more easily digested and thus, and perhaps looked with righteous disfavor toward Jerry Jarvis. Without a direct thorough documented explanation from Jerry Jarvis himself, dated during the era that the defection occured, what more can one say? One might also ponder the effect of the outlandish 'Fly like Superman' PR campaign of the Sidhi program in '77 and '78 had on Jerry's decision. Wasn't Charlie a big front-man for 'fly like Superman' ? Wasn't Jerry reluctant to promote the Sidhis?
