--- In [email protected], "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 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?
As I recall (perhaps from Mason's book?) it was Charlie who told MMY: if you go ahead with this flying thing, it will destroy the TMO. Which it did.
