--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "matrixmonitor" > <matrixmonitor@> wrote: > > > > I'll have to use the Golden rule in posting his [Jerry's] > > e mail address on any forum; personally, I wouldn't like > > it for myself; but OTOH I can't act as some type of > > intermediary. He's on his own! > > ...in regard to contacting Jerry, that's a > > great idea and IF his e mail is on some brochures he's > > going to send me on his Institute, then I will consider > > that as public information and post the e mail on this > > forum... > > Thank you for the updates, mm, and for your > discretion with regard to Jerry Jarvis. > > My personal feeling is that if Jerry has remained > inaccessible for this many years, and silent on > his reasons for it, that's the way he wants things. > And thus that's the way I'd want things to remain > for him. > > I can't imagine anything more annoying than being > pestered by people who want to know the "real" > story of his story. I can only imagine that he > has spent the years since we last saw him exactly > as many people here have spent them -- trying to > sort things out in his mind and coming to some > feeling of equanimity about them. Clearly from what > you have reported he still has positive feelings > about some of the things Maharishi is trying to > accomplish, and that's just fine with me. > > As much as many people might like to hear Jerry's > "take" on Things TM and want to ask him about it, > I think we already *have* it. It's called silence. > He's kept his for all this time, and I for one think > it might be rude to ask him to break it now.
I'll tell you why I disagree with you. Jerry was not only a figurehead in the movement but took positions on the teaching and his place in it. For example: that TM is a technique and path that can bring about many fantastic things, not only in the life of the practitioner but in society and the world at large. This is the position he took and he took it publicly and continually. He "preached" that to us. He both inspired us and encouraged us to join him on the path -- a lifelong path! -- that he himself had embraced. It wasn't a private thing he did and it wasn't a thing he did in silence. He did it publicly, brashly, and in a position of leadership and by example (and he did a pretty darn good job of it, if you ask me, better than anyone in the TMO before or since). And then, without a word, he disappeared. So, no, I think it neither rude nor inappropriate that we ask him "why" and find out what he's been up to all these years and what the backstory of his break with the TMO. Indeed, I believe it would be entirely inappropriate for him to continue in silence without addressing the many questions that we have. And guess what? I got a whole slew of 'em.
