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I agree, Susan, Jerry Jarvis is an amazing person, with all the qualities you mention, plus a sense of humor, an example of the best in the TMO. Years ago he met with MIU staff and someone was telling him about all the unstressing they were doing. And he said with a gentle laugh, be glad you're unstressing and not instressing. From: "waybac...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 8:47 PM Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow Hmmm. You know, Jerry was around Maharishi all the time for years and years. He might be accurate. And it appears he has never wavered in his devotion thru hard times and probably some upset with organizational issues - a true devotee!! It sure is interesting how things play out over time, perceptions differ, good hearted and smart people arrive at different conclusions. What an amazing man Jerry is. He inspired such love and confidence in people. He was compassionate and down to earth and smart. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Age and proximity to Marshy is no signpost of common sense or clarity of perception - Jerry Jarvis told my friend Bill over the phone a few weeks ago that all the allegations by Mark Landau, Billy Clayton and the other skin boys were all ridiculous. He said he spent more time around M than any of those guys and he never saw a hint of any wrongdoing of any kind. From: nablusoss1008 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 5:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an interview with Prudence Farrow Dear Prudence – an interview with Prudence Farrow This entry was posted in Knowledge & news on September 8, 2013by Andrew Lawson Kerr. Prudence Farrow achieved international fame through the Beatles song ‘Dear Prudence’, where they sing of her dedicated focus on meditation during her teacher training course in Rishikesh with Maharishi, which John Lennon and George Harrison also participated in. Here is a recent interview with Prudence where she talks of her time then and since. Interview: Priya: Which brings me to the subject of song, “Dear Prudence” which was written for you by John Lennon. It’s such a beautiful, expansive song… Prudence: It actually captured the feeling of that course (that we took with Mahesh Yogi). Priya: That’s interesting. Great songs seem to capture things in layers – distilling so many things in any given moment… Do you want to elaborate on what you mean when you say it captured the course? Prudence: It captured that period that we were there. Especially the feeling of India… and of that meditation course… none of the other songs that they ever wrote have that…to me… And when I hear it I just feel that time in India, that course. And that course was very powerful for me. It was a monumental experience. At that time Maharishi did not realize, this is what he said, is that he did not realize that we, the young people from the West, carried so much stress. And I was kind of a prototype of many that were to follow. I was just leading the way of many, many others that would come after me. You know, after that course, he didn’t have people meditate solidly. But on that course, he had people do it just as long as you could do it, and you’d just be meditating all the time. But meditation is also a practice of purification and while its packing in and integrating that silence of your experience. So for me, it was horrendous and amazing at the same time. It was a huge game-changer… To go into the solitary guidance of such a great man. I totally trusted him beyond anybody I’d ever met. So I could safely give myself over to the process of just complete silence and deep, deep, deep meditation. So it was extraordinary of course. Priya: I believe that in your own words you’ve called your dedication to meditation “fanatical”…that you were in your room non-stop meditating while others took time off, the Beatles rehearsed. I think you mention that even your sister Mia went out to hunt tigers while you stayed in your room. What for? Prudence: After that experience of my father, there could be nothing that could match that. So I became ferociously hungry for more. Priya: Did you find what you were looking for? Prudence: I did. I did. You know, originally I wasn’t allowed to go. Because of my age and all that…So I went to Lourdes for a miracle. You know, so that I could go to Rishikesh…Cos I figured I just have to go! There’s nothing else for me. I don’t want anything else. Priya: Did you just say you went to Lourdes to get a miracle? Prudence: Yes, because they wouldn’t accept me on the course. And I tried in California. I tried in New York and then I tried in England and it just wasn’t going to happen. I had to be twenty yea
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I have an apron that my dear Granny Long gave me. It's not because I worship her. It's because we loved each other. As for Jerry Jarvis, I think he is the epitome of devotion, something I aspire to. Ann wrote: I fail to see how keeping a passport of MMY's or his sandals is any weirder than someone keeping the same items belonging to any other celebrity, famous writer, musician, politician etc, etc, etc that someone had the good fortune to have in their possession. One person's treasure is another person's trash, as they say (or something like that.) From: Michael Jackson To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:20 PM Subject: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow I liked him when I knew him in Atlanta - but that doesn't keep me from seeing he still suffers from a case of Marshy worship - he still has an old passport of Marshy's that he keeps almost like Mark L kept his sandals. From: "waybac...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:47 PM Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow Hmmm. You know, Jerry was around Maharishi all the time for years and years. He might be accurate. And it appears he has never wavered in his devotion thru hard times and probably some upset with organizational issues - a true devotee!! It sure is interesting how things play out over time, perceptions differ, good hearted and smart people arrive at different conclusions. What an amazing man Jerry is. He inspired such love and confidence in people. He was compassionate and down to earth and smart. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Age and proximity to Marshy is no signpost of common sense or clarity of perception - Jerry Jarvis told my friend Bill over the phone a few weeks ago that all the allegations by Mark Landau, Billy Clayton and the other skin boys were all ridiculous. He said he spent more time around M than any of those guys and he never saw a hint of any wrongdoing of any kind. From: nablusoss1008 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 5:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an interview with Prudence Farrow Dear Prudence – an interview with Prudence Farrow This entry was posted in Knowledge & news on September 8, 2013by Andrew Lawson Kerr. Prudence Farrow achieved international fame through the Beatles song ‘Dear Prudence’, where they sing of her dedicated focus on meditation during her teacher training course in Rishikesh with Maharishi, which John Lennon and George Harrison also participated in. Here is a recent interview with Prudence where she talks of her time then and since. Interview: Priya: Which brings me to the subject of song, “Dear Prudence” which was written for you by John Lennon. It’s such a beautiful, expansive song… Prudence: It actually captured the feeling of that course (that we took with Mahesh Yogi). Priya: That’s interesting. Great songs seem to capture things in layers – distilling so many things in any given moment… Do you want to elaborate on what you mean when you say it captured the course? Prudence: It captured that period that we were there. Especially the feeling of India… and of that meditation course… none of the other songs that they ever wrote have that…to me… And when I hear it I just feel that time in India, that course. And that course was very powerful for me. It was a monumental experience. At that time Maharishi did not realize, this is what he said, is that he did not realize that we, the young people from the West, carried so much stress. And I was kind of a prototype of many that were to follow. I was just leading the way of many, many others that would come after me. You know, after that course, he didn’t have people meditate solidly. But on that course, he had people do it just as long as you could do it, and you’d just be meditating all the time. But meditation is also a practice of purification and while its packing in and integrating that silence of your experience. So for me, it was horrendous and amazing at the same time. It was a huge game-changer… To go into the solitary guidance of such a great man. I totally trusted him beyond anybody I’d ever met. So I could safely give myself over to the process of just complete silence and deep, deep, deep meditation. So it was extraordinary of course. Priya: I believe that in your own words you’ve called your dedication to meditation “fanatical”…that you were in your room non-stop meditating while others took time off, the Beatles rehearsed. I think you mention that even your sister Mia went out to hunt tigers while you stayed in your room. Wh
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who said it was weirder? I made no judgements of gradations of strangeness of Marshy worship to non- marshy worship. Simply that Jerry being a nice guy does not prevent him from wearing a pair of rose colored glasses, each lens of which has a permanently etched image of Marshy as saint. From: Ann Woelfle Bater To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 11:19 PM Subject: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow I fail to see how keeping a passport of MMY's or his sandals is any weirder than someone keeping the same items belonging to any other celebrity, famous writer, musician, politician etc, etc, etc that someone had the good fortune to have in their possession. One person's treasure is another person's trash, as they say (or something like that.)
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow
Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow
I fail to see how keeping a passport of MMY's or his sandals is any weirder than someone keeping the same items belonging to any other celebrity, famous writer, musician, politician etc, etc, etc that someone had the good fortune to have in their possession. One person's treasure is another person's trash, as they say (or something like that.)
Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow
I liked him when I knew him in Atlanta - but that doesn't keep me from seeing he still suffers from a case of Marshy worship - he still has an old passport of Marshy's that he keeps almost like Mark L kept his sandals. From: "waybac...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:47 PM Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an i nterview with Prudence Farrow Hmmm. You know, Jerry was around Maharishi all the time for years and years. He might be accurate. And it appears he has never wavered in his devotion thru hard times and probably some upset with organizational issues - a true devotee!! It sure is interesting how things play out over time, perceptions differ, good hearted and smart people arrive at different conclusions. What an amazing man Jerry is. He inspired such love and confidence in people. He was compassionate and down to earth and smart. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Age and proximity to Marshy is no signpost of common sense or clarity of perception - Jerry Jarvis told my friend Bill over the phone a few weeks ago that all the allegations by Mark Landau, Billy Clayton and the other skin boys were all ridiculous. He said he spent more time around M than any of those guys and he never saw a hint of any wrongdoing of any kind. From: nablusoss1008 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 5:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Dear Prudence – an interview with Prudence Farrow Dear Prudence – an interview with Prudence Farrow This entry was posted in Knowledge & news on September 8, 2013by Andrew Lawson Kerr. Prudence Farrow achieved international fame through the Beatles song ‘Dear Prudence’, where they sing of her dedicated focus on meditation during her teacher training course in Rishikesh with Maharishi, which John Lennon and George Harrison also participated in. Here is a recent interview with Prudence where she talks of her time then and since. Interview: Priya: Which brings me to the subject of song, “Dear Prudence” which was written for you by John Lennon. It’s such a beautiful, expansive song… Prudence: It actually captured the feeling of that course (that we took with Mahesh Yogi). Priya: That’s interesting. Great songs seem to capture things in layers – distilling so many things in any given moment… Do you want to elaborate on what you mean when you say it captured the course? Prudence: It captured that period that we were there. Especially the feeling of India… and of that meditation course… none of the other songs that they ever wrote have that…to me… And when I hear it I just feel that time in India, that course. And that course was very powerful for me. It was a monumental experience. At that time Maharishi did not realize, this is what he said, is that he did not realize that we, the young people from the West, carried so much stress. And I was kind of a prototype of many that were to follow. I was just leading the way of many, many others that would come after me. You know, after that course, he didn’t have people meditate solidly. But on that course, he had people do it just as long as you could do it, and you’d just be meditating all the time. But meditation is also a practice of purification and while its packing in and integrating that silence of your experience. So for me, it was horrendous and amazing at the same time. It was a huge game-changer… To go into the solitary guidance of such a great man. I totally trusted him beyond anybody I’d ever met. So I could safely give myself over to the process of just complete silence and deep, deep, deep meditation. So it was extraordinary of course. Priya: I believe that in your own words you’ve called your dedication to meditation “fanatical”…that you were in your room non-stop meditating while others took time off, the Beatles rehearsed. I think you mention that even your sister Mia went out to hunt tigers while you stayed in your room. What for? Prudence: After that experience of my father, there could be nothing that could match that. So I became ferociously hungry for more. Priya: Did you find what you were looking for? Prudence: I did. I did. You know, originally I wasn’t allowed to go. Because of my age and all that…So I went to Lourdes for a miracle. You know, so that I could go to Rishikesh…Cos I figured I just have to go! There’s nothing else for me. I don’t want anything else. Priya: Did you just say you went to Lourdes to get a miracle? Prudence: Yes, because they wouldn’t accept me on the course. And I tried in California. I tried in New York and then I tried in England and it just wasn’t going to happen. I had to be twenty years old and I had to finish college. And that, to me, wasn’t going to happen. So I really felt, at the point wh