more from the website: (btw doesn't bother me in the least. It's both pathetic
and amusing. I just continue practicing the technique.)...
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He learns that its rajas pay $1 million for their exalted rank. At a
groundbreaking ceremony for a TM university in Switzerland, we see Lynch
introduce Raja Emanuel, TM's King of Germany, who wears a gold crown and
offers a provocative pledge: I'm a good German who wants to make Germany
invincible. Jeers erupt from the crowd and a voice yells, That's what Adolf
Hitler wanted! Emanuel replies: Unfortunately, he couldn't do it. He didn't
have the right technique. Trying to quell the catcalls, Lynch leaps to the
raja's defence, and hails him as a great human being.
Sieveking interviews several TM defectors, including Colorado publisher Earl
Kaplan, who donated over US$150 million toward the construction of a vast
meditation centre in India, where 24-7 shifts of 10,000 yogic flyers would
create world peace. Visiting the project site, Sieveking finds an abandoned,
half-built ghost town. And he shows footage of yogic flying, which looks more
like cross-legged yogic hopping. We also meet the Maharishi's former personal
assistant, who says, He'd use people and discard them when they ran out of
money. And although the guru preached celibacy, the ex-aide says one of his
jobs was to bring women to the Maharishi's room for sex. Another ex-disciple,
Judith Bourque, reminisces about her torrid love affair with the Maharishi,
which ended when he found another young woman.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:
Flying yogis and ï¬ying millions
Acolyte David Lynch isnât happy with this exposé of Transcendental
Meditation
by Brian D. Johnson on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:40pm - 40 Comments

He was the original guru pop star. Made famous by the Beatles in the
1960s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the godfather of the Transcendental
Meditation movement, known as TM. He inspired such acolytes as author
Deepak Chopra and filmmaker David Lynch, and remained TMâs
figurehead until his death in 2008 at the age of 94. The Maharishi
was once dubbed âthe giggling guru.â But now it appears he may
have been giggling all the way to the bank. David Wants to Fly, a new
documentary shown last week at Torontoâs Hot Docs festival, offers
compelling evidence that the Maharishiâs empire of enlightenment is
more devoted to shaking down its followers and amassing wealth than
transcending the material world. (...)
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/05/19/flying-yogis-and-ï¬ying-millions/
