>>>> Rick Archer wrote: >>>> It seems that no matter how clearly someone relates an experience, >>>> you misunderstand it. Michael just related the time Muktananda >>>> visited MMY, and at one point in the evening, sat next to MMY on >>>> his couch and hugged him. Hundreds of people were there and it was >>>> videotaped. I saw the tape myself. Re-read what Michael wrote – >>>> several times – and maybe it'll become clearer.
Richard, Rick is correct in what he says here to you. I am clear with my words, and said exactly what I meant to say in my telling of the story of the meeting of Maharishi and Swami Muktananda. Your extrapo- lation of my words, bending them into something very different, is in- deed strange! Please CAREFULLY re-read what I wrote. Richard, I've never said anything remotely like what you've repeated- ly attributed to me. I've let it pass for days, thinking that you'd drop it, but you continue to repeat your bizarre interpretation of my story, and to plaster my name along with it - so you've inspired this note. I'll correct your errors below. >>> Richard J. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: >>> But according to Mr. Goodman, he never once, >>> despite having spent years in the upper echelons >>> of the TMO, and countless hours in the presence >>> of the Marshy, never once saw anyone wrap the >>> Marshy in a hug, sit down next to him, or snuggle >>> up against the Marshy, but you and the others are >>> convinced that the Marshy took to bed countless >>> female students over a number of years for the >>> purpose of sexual gratification. >> Rick Archer wrote: >> It's clear from Michael's account that Muktananda hugged him as a >> fellow yogi. Richard, Rick is mostly correct - although I'd say he hugged him as a 'force of nature', as a 'cosmic polarity', rather than simply as 'an- other yogi'. The main point is that I didn't even remotely hint at any kind of mundane, individual sexual energy in that scene. Cosmic 'sex- ual energy' - yes, in the sense of the cosmic duality of silence and activity, Shiva and Shakti, yin and yang, "fullness moves, emptiness pounces"... > Richard J. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > So, who are you going to believe, Rick - Michael Dean > Goodman and dozens of others, who spent years with > the Marshy, in his room or outside his door, who all > said they never saw Marshy hug anyone, or one or two > disgruntled back-sliders who said they saw Marshy > hug many female students? > In your case, you obviously believe the few disgruntled. FIRST: I've never claimed to have "...spent years with the Marshy, in his room or outside his door". Richard, you just MADE THAT UP!!! I was too busy working at my job on International Staff, or on my assign- ments on projects out in the world, or diving deep within on courses. I have no direct perceptual knowledge of what Maharishi did in his room - one way or the other. [I am not supporting what Rick claims to have been told - just saying that I wasn't in a position to personally know. Very few people were.] SECOND: I never said that I "never once saw anyone wrap the Marshy in a hug, sit down next to him, or snuggle up against the Marshy" in the vastly expand- ed way that you've chosen to interpret it. My meaning was clear: in lec- ture halls or group meetings, in the places where I and most people saw Maharishi, whether live or on videotape, in those thousands of hours that most of us could witness Maharishi's behavior, I don't remember ever see- ing anyone sit down next to Maharishi, or touch him, or hug him. Again, I wasn't privy to what Maharishi did in private, and I made no comment on that. Richard, you BIZARRELY EXAGGERATED THE OBVIOUS MEANING OF WHAT I SAID!!! THIRD: I call Maharishi by the name he uses to speak of himself. This is com- mon courtesy. To change someone's name (to shorten it, make it 'cutesy', or whatever - as in 'The Marshy') is usually the mark of strongly-gripped individual ego - either to show off, or to appear more intimate than we actually are, or to put someone down, or to express anger in a childish way. Maharishi is my Master; for me, he delivered; I'm delighted with where he's guided me. I don't want my name and words to be associated with strange, disrespectful versions of his name, like you've invented. It would be like my calling you (Richard Williams) 'the Rich/hard [boy who] Wills yams', or 'Willytex', or any such nonsense, over and over, just to show off how clever my individual intellect is at word-play or at disrespecting you. I could demean you in that way to score a few ego points - but what a waste of human intellect and heart! In conclusion, please stop twisting my words - and using my name - to make some point that is important to you. And please stop as- sociating me with your disrespectful word games. I resent being used! 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