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.
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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 where I
was, where I just couldn’t live…I didn’t want to live without this. And I knew
that this was what I wanted. So I figured, I’ll get a miracle. I’ll figure this
out. I’m going to go.
Priya: Right. I hear you. (laughing)
Prudence: So then I went to Lourdes and I did. I got a miracle. And it was
amazing! And when I came back from Lourdes, on the pillow of my bed, was a
drawing. Some fan of my mother’s was there from Brazil and she was a dentist
and her name was Lourdes. And she heard from my mother that I was coming home
and so without telling my mother anything she just drew this welcome home
drawing, stuck it on my pillow, and it was signed Lourdes, but it was all in
blue. It was like the grotto where I had been! When I saw it on the pillow when
I walked in the door, I just knew I was going to India. It was like this is it!
It’s in the can. I’m going to India! I had no idea how it would work out, but I
knew I was going to India and exactly one year later, Maharishi came to Boston
where I
