--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a number of heated debates with Charlie devotees. Most of them didn't > seem to care whether or not Charlie was representing Maharishi's teachings. > They considered Charlie to be a member of the White Brotherhood and in an > exalted state of consciousness with direct cognitive or intuitive access to > the things he was saying. I think Charlie tried to give them this > impression. I always argued that he was merely parroting things he had read > in esoteric books, but they didn't buy it. I remember one guy arguing that > Charlie was undoubtedly enlightened "because he had been meditating 15 > years."
In my perspective in those days, the do-as-you're-told follow-the-image crowd in the TMO, mostly represented by Jerry Jarvis and his clique, despised Charlie because Charlie didn't conform to their commonly adopted phony bullshit 'smiles' and 'calmness' image and performance. Charlie DID speak from his own experience while most others just parroted what the party line happened to be at the time. Charlie's presence and manner made those phony asses very uncomfortable. Sincere TMers who weren't into that fake appearances nonsense would very much enjoy and appreciate the refreshing difference that Charlie expressed. It's interesting that Barry brought up that he secretly recorded parts of Charlie's lectures. Now I know who the asshole was who did it. But what Barry didn't tell you, is that the tapes were doctored [I don't know if Barry was in on the doctoring] to make it look like Charlie was contradicting Maharishi. I got that from two insiders who directly knew about it. This is the extent to which certain people hated Charlie and it was on this basis that smears about Charlie began to permeate the TMO via Jarvis' little kingdom and poison the well for Charlie. What's amazing to me is, in spite of the crap he was subjected to, how well Charlie handled it and how unwaveringly he supported TM and encouraged TMers throughout the whole latter part of his life until he got too sick to continue.
