THE SEXED, MARIJUANA AND LSD GOD OF THE BEATLES - MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI
WESTERN EUROPEAN NEW RELIGIONS ARE BAFFLING!
Maharishi (The Sixth Beatles!) inspired (hippyised) Christianity deluded Beatles, but died leaving £2b and rape rumours.
They would find
it wrong to allow Muslims Halaal (Kosher) food in public institutions
and free time for Salaat (prayers) at work, but are praising VEDANTIC
MEDITATION as good in the work place where you can be allowed free time
to meditate - one or two chunks of 20 minutes a day! (BAFS)
The Beatles - Across the Universe
Uploaded on 4 Sep 2010
With rare films at 2:05
February 1968 alternate take of the song, appeared on Anthology 2 in 1996.
Words are flowing out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting through my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world Jai guru deva Jai guru deva
I wanted to share something that touched me in a really special way. Im in love with the way Maharishi Mahesh Yogi saw and understood life.
Maharishi's nine rules of life:
Don't analyze
Don't complain
Don't compare yourself to others
Don't expect things to be done for you
Don't expect perfection in the relative
Look to the knowledge aspect daily
Own the movement
Problems are all in your head
Hold yourself together
Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth
With out looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Without going out of your door
You can know all things of earth
With out looking out of your window
You could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Arrive without travelling
See all without looking
Do all without doing
"The achievements of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi are profound in the field of knowledge and immense in the field of action. During the past 50 years, more than five million people have learned the Transcendental Meditation technique and are rising to enlightenment through their twice-daily practice. Maharishi has trained over 40,000 teachers, opened thousands of teaching centers, and founded hundreds of schools, colleges and universities. Maharishi Vedic Science programs are being applied in private businesses, public institutions and homes in every country."
http://www.tm.org/maharishi
Maharishi inspired Beatles but died leaving £2b and rape rumours
Maharishi died leaving £2 billion amid rumours of rape and murder.
He was the Sixth Beatle, a spiritual force with the potential to create world peace and end famine.
Or he was an avaricious old man with a penchant for young girls who ruined the greatest pop group in history...
It rather depends on your point of view, but one thing is certain
about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who died this week aged somewhere
between 91 and 97 - he was one of the richest religious leaders in
history.
The 'giggling guru' - so called because of his high-pitched laugh -
lived in an opulent 200-room mansion, with helicopters and dozens of
cars at his disposal, and was worth an estimated £2billion. He was the head of a movement with five million followers worldwide,
all seeking a higher consciousness through transcendental meditation.
But while the Maharishi promised world peace, and cynics laughed at
his wacky teachings and yogic flying, sinister stories of sex,
debauchery, and even murder cast dark shadows over his life.
All but one of the Beatles cut their ties with their apparently
celibate guru after it emerged he'd made a pass at Mia Farrow. The
Maharishi's people, on the other hand, insist they simply fell out when
he discovered the band were using LSD.
Later another British disciple, Linda Pearceclaimed the Maharishi had seduced her when he was in his 60s.
"He was a brilliant manipulator," said Mrs Pearce. "I just couldn't
see that he was a dirty old man. We made love regularly. At one stage I
even thought I was pregnant by him. And I don't think I was the only
girl. There was a lot of talk that he'd tried to rape Mia Farrow."
And there was worse scandal to come. In 1987, when the Maharishi was
living in a highsecurity complex on the outskirts of Delhi, India, the
Telegraph newspaper of Calcutta alleged five boys had died after being
used as guinea pigs in the ashram's "medical institute" searching for
cures for cancer, heart ailments and Aids. Nothing was ever proved.
At the same time the fabulously wealthy guru's employees went on
strike to increase their £10-a-month wages. The Maharishi simply moved
into a five-star hotel in New Delhi until it was over.
Mahesh Prasad Varma (or Mahesh Srivastava, depending on your source)
was born in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, sometime between 1911
and 1918.
The son of a government tax inspector, he initially studied physics
but then trained with a Vedic spiritual mentor, undertaking two years of
silence in the Himalayas where he developed his ideas on transcendental
meditation.
The movement the Maharishi leaves behind, after his death at his
luxurious retreat in Vlodrop in the Netherlands, has been called the
world's richest cult. Yet when he began his first world tour as a
spiritual leader in Burma in 1958, the Maharishi was praised for his
austerity.
One commentator wrote: "He asks for nothing. His worldly possessions can be carried in one hand."
Meeting the Beatles a decade later changed all that. The band had
been encouraged to attend a lecture by George Harrison's wife Patti, and
were impressed enough by what they heard to accompany him to a weekend
retreat in to North Wales.
Along with Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, they took the train to
Bangor - where the Maharishi assumed the mob of screaming fans were
there for him.
Only a day into the retreat the news broke that the Beatles
influential manager Brian Epstein had died from a suspected drugs
overdose.
Rather than let them grieve for their friend and first mentor, the
Maharishi told them their tears would cause "vibrations" which could
trap Epstein's spirit on this spiritual plane rather than let it travel
to the next. And he instructed them to be joyful and laugh.
Months later all four Beatles, their partners and 60s stars Donovan,
Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and Mia Farrow and her sister Prudence
headed off for a three-month retreat to the Maharishi's centre on the
banks of the Ganges.
Funded by a tithe of one week's wages from each of its students, the
bank balance of the ashram received a massive boost from the world's
biggest pop stars.
They expected to find spiritual enlightenment, but what they actually
found was what Ringo called "a bit like Butlins." He and his then wife
Maureen left after a fortnight, desperate for "egg and chips." Paul
McCartney and his girlfriend Jane Asher quit too.
Then came the stories of the Maharishi's attempt to have sex with Mia
Farrow. John Lennon said later: "There was a hullabaloo about him
trying to rape Mia and a few other women. The whole gang charged down to
his hut and I said: 'We're leaving!' He asked why and I said: 'If
you're so cosmic, you'll know why.' The Maharishi gave me a look that
said: 'I'll kill you, you bastard!'"
But none of this dented the Maharishi's growing global popularity.
Travelling the world in a pink aeroplane, his fame and his movement grew
and he featured on the front cover of Time magazine in 1975. His
transcendental meditation technique involved silently repeating a
Sanskrit mantra for 20 minutes twice a day. And since scientific studies
have now concluded it has some real health benefits, it is never short
of new adherents
And at £1,300 per person for a standard introduction course, it's
easy to see where the Maharishi's cash came from. But there were times
when the guru's ego got the better of him... He once told an audience in
New York that if just one per cent of the world's population adopted
his teaching it would "neutralise the power of war for thousands of
years".
Consequently, he claimed credit for peacein the Lebanon and Mozambique, and forreducing crime in Washington and Merseyside.
And after the terrorist outrages of September 11, 2001 the Maharishi
claimed if any government gave him a billion dollars he could end
terrorism and create peace.
His claims were ridiculed - as were his 40,000 yogic fliers who, as
the Natural Law Party, promised that levitating while in the
Lotus position would bring peace and enlightenment.In the end it brought
just 0.4 per cent of the votes in the election.
Last month the guru, who lately communicated through a videolink,
announced his retirement. His spokesman Bob Roth says:"He'd done what he
set out to do."
Apart from world peace.
GURUS: GOOD, BAD & HUGLY
Osho: The "Rolls-Royce guru" - his followers wanted to buy him one for every day of the year.
Charles Manson: Serving life after Manson Family killed Sharon Tate, pregnant wife of Roman Polanski in LA in 1969.
Timothy Leary: Former Harvard professor of psychology championed psychedelic drugs.
Amma: Mata Amritanandamayi - the Hugging Saint - gives her services free to all religions. May have given out 26 million hugs.
This is G. Edward Griffin's shocking video interview, Soviet Subversion of the Free-World Press (1984), where he interviews ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov who decided to openly reveal KGB's subversive tactics against western society as a whole.
Bezmenov explains how Jewish Marxist ideology is destabilizing the economy and purposefully pushing the U.S. into numerous crises so that a "Big Brother" tyranny can be put into place in Washington, how most Americans don't even realize that they are under attack, and that normal parliamentary procedures will not alter the federal government's direction.
He then explains how Marxist leaders use informers to make lists of anti-Communist and other politically incorrect people who they want to execute once they - actually a Jewish oligarchy - come to power. The oligarch's secret lists include "civil rights" activists and idealistically-minded "useful idiot" leftists as well.
Bezmenov provides several real world examples of how Marxist leaders even execute and/or imprison each other. Also he explains how American embassy employees were known to betray Soviets attempting to defect, how there existed a "triangle of hate" in the Soviet government, why he realized that Marxism-Leninism was a murderous doctrine, and how the CIA ignored (or didn't care) about Communist subversion.
He also mentions that revolutions throughout history are never the result of a majority movement, but of a small dedicated and highly-organized group who seize power, whether for good or bad. Next he explains how the American mass media spread lies about life in the Soviet Union.
Bezmenov also explains how the LOOK magazine article falsely claimed that the Russian people were proud of their victory in the Second World War, where in reality the Judeo-Bolshevik-Communist-Marxist government was happy that Hitler had been defeated so that they could remain in power.
Find out how the KGB utilized various individuals to undermine the Western society in its morals and values.
Please mirror this video! Thank you.
THE CROSS REPLACED BY LORD SHIVA'S PHALLUS!
CHAPTER VIII
THE SIXTH BEATLE
(MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI)
Physicist John S. Hagelin ... has predicted that Maharishi’s influence
on history “will be far greater than that of Einstein or Gandhi”
(Gardner, 1996).
You could not meet with Maharishi without recognizing instantly his
integrity. You look in his eyes and there it is (Buckminster Fuller, in
[Forem, 1973]).
Maharishi’s entire movement revolves around ... faith in his supposed omniscience (Scott, 1978).
BORN IN 1918, THE MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI
graduated with a physics degree from the University of Allahabad. Soon
thereafter, he received the system of Transcendental Meditation® (TM®)
from his “Guru Dev,” Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, who occupied the
“northern seat” of yoga in India, as one of four yogic “popes” in the
country. He practiced yoga for thirteen years under Guru Dev, until the
latter’s death in 1953. The Maharishi (“Great Sage”) then traveled to
London in 1959 to set up what was to become a branch of the
International Meditation Society there, with the mission of spreading
the teachings of TM.
Transcendental Meditation itself is an instance of mantra yoga. The
student mentally repeats a series of Sanskrit words for a minimum of
twenty minutes every morning and evening. (Such mantras are reportedly
selected on the basis of the student’s age. And they don’t come
cheaply.)
Maharishi was quick to discourage other disciplines. “All these systems
have been misinterpreted for the last hundreds of years,” he said.
“Don’t waste time with them. If you are interested in hatha yoga, wait
until I have time to re-interpret it. There is no match for
Transcendental Meditation either in principles or in practice in any field of knowledge” (Ebon, 1968; italics added).
The [TM] movement taught that the enlightened man does not have to use
critical thought, he lives in tune with the “unbounded universal
consciousness.” He makes no mistakes, his life is error free
(Patrick L. Ryan, in [Langone, 1995]).
The Maharishi held high hopes, not merely for the spread of TM, but for its effects on the world in general:
He told the New York audience, as he had told innumerable others before
in several around-the-world tours, that adoption of his teachings by 10%
or even 1% of the world’s population would “be enough to neutralize the
power of war for thousands of years” (Ebon, 1968).
In the autumn of 1967, His Holiness gave a lecture in London, which was
attended by the Beatles. Following that talk, the Fab Four—along with
Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull—accompanied the yogi on a train up to
Bangor, North Wales, at his invitation. Reaching the train platform in
Bangor, they were mobbed by hundreds of screaming fans, whom the
Maharishi charmingly assumed were there to see him.
Like Ravi Shankar before him, [the Maharishi had] been unaware of the
group’s stature, but, armed with the relevant records, he underwent a
crash-course in their music and began to illustrate his talks with
quotes from their lyrics. Flattered though they were, the Beatles were
unconvinced by his argument that, if they were sincere about meditation,
they ought to tithe a percentage of their income into his Swiss bank
account. Because they hadn’t actually said no, the Maharishi assured
American investors that the four would be co-starring in a TV
documentary about him (Clayson, 1996).
It was reported that Maharishi’s fee for initiating the Beatles was one
week’s salary from each of them—a formidable sum (Klein and Klein,
1979).
In the middle of February, 1968, John, Paul, George and Ringo, with
their respective wives and girlfriends, arrived at the Maharishi’s
Rishikesh meditation retreat in India. They were joined there by Mike
Love of the Beach Boys and “Mellow Yellow” Donovan, as well as by the
newly Sinatra-less Mia Farrow and her younger sister, Prudence. (The
Doors and Bob Weir, guitarist for the Grateful Dead, were also
enthusiastic about TM, but did not participate in the Rishikesh trip.
More contemporary followers of the Maharishi have included actress
Heather Graham and the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Brian Josephson.
Plus Deepak Chopra [see
TranceNet, 2004], whose best-selling book Quantum Healing was dedicated to the Maharishi. Also, at one time, Clint Eastwood and quarterback Joe Namath.)
As Ringo himself put it:
The four of us have had the most hectic lives. We’ve got almost
everything money can buy, but of course that just means nothing after a
time. But we’ve found something now that really fills the gap, and that
is the Lord (in Giuliano, 1986).
The Beatles’ 1968 stay in Rishikesh was originally scheduled to last for three months.
Predictably, Ringo and his wife Maureen were the first to leave, after
ten days, citing the “holiday camp” atmosphere, the spiciness of the
food, the excessive insects and the stifling midday temperatures. Well,
it was India, after all—what exactly did they expect, if not
deathly spicy cuisine, mosquitos, bedbugs and interminable heat? If they
wanted bland food and cool weather, they should have stayed in
Liverpool, awash in bangers and mash to “fill the gap.”
Paul McCartney and Jane Asher bailed out a month later, pleading homesickness.
John and Cynthia and George and Patti, however, persevered, with John
and George writing many songs which would later appear on the White Album.
Indeed, most of the thirty-plus songs on that disc were composed in the
Maharishi’s ashram. “Dear Prudence,” for one, was written for Mia
Farrow’s sister, who was so intent on spiritual advancement that it was
delegated to John and George to get her to “come out to play” after her
three weeks of meditative seclusion in her chalet.
The overall calm there, however, was soon shattered by various suspicions:
By Farrow’s own
(1997)
recounting, that may have been just a simple misunderstanding based on
the Maharishi’s unsolicited hugging of her after a private meditation
session in his cave/cellar.
Less explicable, though, are reports of the same sage’s offering of
chicken to at least one female student within his otherwise-vegetarian
ashram, in alleged attempts to curry her favor (Clayson, 1996).
The Beatles’ disillusionment with the Maharishi during their stay with
him in India in 1968 involved allegations that Maharishi had sex with a
visiting American student (Anthony, et al., 1987).
“Sexy Sadie” was later composed in honor of those believed foibles on the part of His Holiness.
In any case, within a week Mia Farrow, too, had left the ashram on a tiger hunt, never to return (to Rishikesh).
[T]he Maharishi burst into the Beatles’ lives, offering salvation with a price tag of only fifteen [sic] minutes of devotion a day. “It seemed too good to be true,” Paul McCartney later quipped. “I guess it was”
(Giuliano, 1989).
The Beatles ... parted with Maharishi in 1969 with the public comment that he was “addicted to cash” (Klein and Klein, 1979).
John and Yoko, interestingly, later came to believe that they were the
reincarnations of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, respectively.
(One of Yoko’s songs on their joint album Milk and Honey is titled, “Let Me Count the Ways.”)
No word on who Ringo might have been.
George soon became heavily involved with the Hare Krishnas—as one might
have gathered from the chorus to his “My Sweet Lord” single—although
ultimately leaving them completely out of his will. Indeed, at one point
members of Hare Krishna were signed to Apple Records as the “Radha
Krishna Temple.” They released at least one chanted single on that
label, which made it into the “Top 20” in September of 1969. The
Krishnas’ Bhaktivedanta Manor headquarters in London, too, was actually a
gift from Harrison—which he at one point threatened to transfer to
Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship instead, when the Krishnas were
not maintaining the grounds to his satisfaction
(Giuliano, 1989).
The devotional/mantra yoga-based Hare Krishna movement itself is rooted
in the extremely patriarchal Vedic culture.
It was brought to the United States in the mid-1960s by the now-late
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada—who soon starred in a San Francisco rock
concert featuring the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Janis
Joplin. Prabhupada’s own guru was claimed to be an avatar. (George, John
and Yoko participated in an extended interview with Prabhupada in 1969,
which was kept in print in booklet form by the Krishna organization for
many years afterwards. Harrison also wrote the foreword for
Prabhupada’s book, Krishna: The Supreme Personality of Godhead.)
Details along the following lines as to the alleged horrendous goings-on
within the Hare Krishna community, including widespread claims of child
sexual abuse, drug dealing and weapons stockpiling, have long existed:
The founder of the institution, the late Prabhupada, was allegedly told
about the physical and sexual abuse of minors in 1972, a time when he
totally controlled the institution. The victims allege he and others
conspired to suppress the alleged crimes, fearful that the public
exposure would threaten the viability of the movement
(S. Das, 2003).
[After Prabhupada’s death] the Hare Krishna movement degenerated into a number of competing
[so-called] cults that have known murder, the abuse of women and children, drug dealing, and swindles
that would impress a Mafia don (Hubner and Gruson, 1990).
The movement’s [post-Prabhupada] leadership was first forced to confront
the victims of abuse at a meeting in May 1996, when a panel of ten
former Krishna pupils testified that they had been regularly beaten and
caned at school, denied medical care and sexually molested and raped
homosexually at knife point
(Goodstein, 1998).
Or, as Hubner and Gruson (1990) alleged:
[B]oys were ordered to come to the front of the class and sit on [their
teacher] Sri Galima’s lap. Sri Galima then anally raped them, right in
front of the class. Other boys were ordered to stay after class. Sri
Galima tied their hands to their desks with duct tape and then assaulted
them in the same way.
At night, Fredrick DeFrancisco, Sri Galima’s assistant, crept into the boys’ sleeping bags and performed oral sex on them.
George Harrison was of course stabbed in his London home at the end of
1999 by a man who believed that the Beatles were “witches.”
Interestingly, one of the reasons given by his attacker for continuing
that attempt at murder was that Harrison kept chanting the protective
mantra, “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna”—interpreted by his disturbed
assailant as a curse from Satan.
In any case, returning to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s mission: The number of
people practicing TM grew nearly exponentially from 1967 through 1974.
By 1975 there were more than half a million people in America who had
learned the technique, over a million worldwide, and the Maharishi had
been featured on the cover of Time magazine. Were that
exponential growth to have continued, the entire United States would
have been doing TM by 1979. As it stands, with the law of diminishing
returns and otherwise, there are currently four million practitioners of
Transcendental Meditation worldwide.
In 1973, Maharishi International University (MIU) was established in
Santa Barbara, California, moving a year later to its permanent location
in Fairfield, Iowa. Interestingly, when the Maharishi first touched
down in the latter location in his pink airplane, perhaps influenced by
his contact with the Beatles (“How do you find American taste?/We don’t
know, we haven’t bitten any yet,” etc.), he quaintly announced: “We are
in Fairfield, and what we find is a fair field.”
Approximately one thousand students currently practice TM and study
Vedic theory in that “fair field,” particularly as the latter theory
relates to accepted academic disciplines, including the hard sciences.
MIU has since been re-christened as the Maharishi University of
Management (MUM). Presently, one-quarter of the town’s 10,000 residents
are meditators.
* * *
In 1976, the Maharishi discovered the principles which were to lead to the TM Sidhi [sic] Program—based on the siddhis or powers outlined in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Those include the technique of Yogic Flying, or levitation ... or “hopping down the yogi trail”:
During the first stage of Yogic Flying, the body—motivated only by the
effortless mental impulse of the Sidhi technique—rises up in the air in a
series of blissful hops
(Maharishi, 1995).
“It’s a form of levitation, you’re actually lifted one or two feet by
the exhilaration” that some describe as “bubbling bliss,” explained
Transcendental Meditation spokesman Joseph Boxerman
(Associated Press, 2003).
[Taxi’s Andy Kaufman had a] consuming devotion to Transcendental
Meditation ... he believed it had taught him to levitate (Blanco, 2000).
[T]he guru himself announced in 1978 on TV (“The Merv Griffin Show”)
that he had enrolled some forty thousand students in this [Sidhi]
course! Griffin then asked the obvious question: How many had learned to
levitate? Declared the Great Guru: “Thousands!” (Randi, 1982).
Repeated attempts by the skeptical Mr. Randi to secure documented and
believable evidence of that levitation were unsuccessful. He did,
however, report (1982) receiving the following admission, from one Mr.
Orme-Johnson, director of TM’s International Center for Scientific
Research:
“We do not claim,” he said, “that anyone is hovering in the air.”
Nevertheless, hovering or not, the possible effects of one’s missed
practice on the world were apparently not to be taken lightly:
At MIU and throughout the [TM] movement, guilt was used to manipulate
students into never missing a flying session. When the Iranians seized
the American Embassy, a MIU student friend who had missed a flying
session was called into the dean’s office and blamed for the
hostage-taking in Iran
(Patrick L. Ryan, in [Langone, 1995]).
All of that notwithstanding, by 1994 the technique of “Yogic Flying” had been taught to more than 100,000 people worldwide.
The Maharishi has also claimed that advanced practitioners can develop
powers of invisibility, mind-reading, perfect health and immortality
(Epstein, 1995).
In the early ’90s, four thousand of the Maharishi’s followers spent
eight weeks in Washington holding large-scale group meditations. They
claimed they helped reduce crime during that time. But the District’s
police department was unconvinced
(Perez-Rivas, 2000).
In a more detailed analysis of relevant data, Randi (1982) has presented
many additional, quantitative reasons to deeply question the reality of
the so-called Maharishi Effect.
Such critical analyses aside, however, there seems to be little doubt
within the ranks as to the beneficial effects of TM on the course of
world history:
[A]ll the social good—the move away from potential world-wide disaster
toward global enlightenment—that has developed in the last few years I
naturally consider to be the result of more people practicing
Transcendental Meditation. After all, Maharishi did say that this would
happen way back then [i.e., in the late 1950s], and it has (Olson,
1979).
More recently, “the Maharishi said he intends to bring about world peace
by establishing huge Transcendental Meditation centers with thousands
of full-time practitioners all over the world”
(Falsani, 2002).
Maharishi explains that every government, just by creating and
maintaining a group of Yogic Flyers, will actualize the ideal of
Administration [of the Natural Law “Constitution of the Universe”], the
supreme quality of Administration of government in every generation
(in Maharishi, 1995).
“Natural Law” is “the orderly principles—the laws of nature—that govern
the functioning of nature everywhere, from atoms to ecosystems to
galaxies” (Maharishi, in
[Kraus, 2000]).
Governmental “administration,” further,
is a matter of expert intelligence. It shouldn’t be exposed to voters on the street [i.e., to democracy]
(Maharishi, in [Wettig, 2002]).
Soon every government will maintain its own group of Yogic Flyers as the
essential requirement of national administration, and every nation will
enjoy the support of Natural Law. All troubles on Earth will fade into
distant memories, and life will be lived in perfection and fulfillment
by every citizen of every nation, now and for countless generations to
come
(Maharishi, 1995).
Such anticipated “fading of all troubles into distant memory” will
undoubtedly have been aided by the formation, in 1992, of the
politically “green” Natural Law Party, on the campus of MIU/MUM. The
party has since fielded U.S. presidential candidates, and legislative
hopefuls in California. The late magician and disciple Doug Henning, a
long-time sincere TM practitioner and attempted “Yogic Flyer,” actually
ran for office under the NLP banner in both Britain and Toronto.
In keeping with the hoped-for freedom from our secular troubles, in the wake of September 11, 2001,
the Maharishi announced that if some government gave him a billion
dollars, he would end terrorism and create peace by hiring 40,000 Yogic
Fliers to start hopping full time. No government took him up on the
offer, which clearly irks him
(Carlson, 2002).
And yet, the freedom from war and other troubles anticipated by the Great Sage appears to have its cost:
I have heard Maharishi say on occasion that in the society he envisions,
if someone is not smiling or happy he would be picked up by a
meditation paddy wagon and taken to a checking facility for the proper
TM treatment and then released (Scott, 1978).
* * *
One of the primary selling points of TM has always been its purported
“scientific” nature, and the studies which have been done claiming to
corroborate its beneficial effects. However:
One three-year study done by the National Research Council on improving
human performance concluded that “TM is ineffectual in improving human
performance” and that pro-TM researchers were “deeply flawed in their
methodology”
(Ross, 2003a).
Consult Holmes
(1988) for additional information regarding the reported effects, or lack of same, of TM and other forms of meditation.
* * *
With or without the young Ms. Farrow’s bodacious presence around the
Maharishi’s ashrams, controversy continues to haunt the $3.5 billion
worldwide enterprise of the yogic “Sixth Beatle.” (The late ex-guitarist
Stuart Sutcliffe was known as the “fifth.”)
His compound in India was the focus of allegations [in The Illustrated Weekly of India, July 17, 1988] regarding “child molestation, death from abuse and neglect”
(Ross, 2003a).
The [previous media] reports charged that at least five boys had died
under mysterious circumstances and that about 8000 of the 10,000
children admitted to the vidya peeth in the past five years had run away
from the ashram, allegedly because of the “torture” they had been
subjected to inside....
To make matters more difficult for the ashram administration, [local MLA
Mahendra Singh] Bhati and an ayurvedic physician, Dr. Govind Sharma,
formerly employed at the ashram, charged that some of the boys were also
subjected to sexual abuse by the teachers
(Dutt, 1988).
The ashram itself has denied all of those allegations, in the same article.
And how have other, past problems within the sphere of influence of the Late Great Sage been handled?
It depends on whom you ask; Skolnick
(1991), for one, reported:
“I was taught to lie and to get around the petty rules of the
‘unenlightened’ in order to get favorable reports into the media,” says
[one former, high-ranking follower]. “We were taught how to exploit the
reporters’ gullibility and fascination with the exotic, especially what
comes from the East. We thought we weren’t doing anything wrong, because
we were told it was often necessary to deceive the unenlightened to
advance our guru’s plan to save the world.”
