---Thanks, Charlie told me the Sidhis program was a bunch of crap. I
tried to get him interested in Muktananda. He went once to see
Muktananda but Charlie said he would always be loyal to MMY. I don't
think Jerry approved much of the Sidhis program - at least now he's
interested in spreading TM and supporting the Yagya/pundit programs
with (hopefully) tons of $$. IMO, one's chances of getting a large
endowment from a billionaire is slim to none. Speaking of "Slim";
Carlos Slim of Mexico recently passed Warren Buffet in assets and
was approaching Gates and may have surpassed him briefly; but that
was before the recent stock market crash.
>
> --- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wgm4u@> 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?
>
