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| 1. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 7:51 PM |
| JVSCant |
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Dead at 90-something. A brief bit of Lynch in this NYT story:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Obit-Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogi.html?hp If memory serves, just a week or so ago he handed over control of a lot of his responsibilities, so I guess it was little surprise to him, at least. (EDIT: 3 weeks)
 
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| 2. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 8:03 PM |
| Booth |
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QUOTE: Maharishi Yogi, Who Was a Spiritual Leader, Dies |
Is it just me, or is that a strange headline?
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| 3. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 8:20 PM |
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Nope, not just you. I'm thinking first draft. Alternate reading is smartassey, like "where's your god now, godboy?"
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| 4. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 8:27 PM |
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Ha, they've changed it now.
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| 5. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 1:31 AM |
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Including the Beatles makes for a more interesting headline. I was actually just telling that Mia Farrow story before I got on the Gazette. Curiouser and curiouser? I thought that guy's gotta be old. And now, what? Nirvana? Reincarnation? And if so, as what?
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| 6. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 1:26 PM |
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Mahareeshi was an old guy when he was with the Beatles. Is there a second in command to take over this outfit with it's significant real estate and money, or a committee? The sucession plan....
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| 7. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:16 PM |
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QUOTE:Mahareeshi was an old guy when he was with the Beatles.
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51 is old? Really?
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| 8. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:40 PM |
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Yes, M has always looked old, like he hardly changed in looks the last 35 years. And back then 50 was like 60 is now. Also, we are not 100 % sure of his age. Ageed Mr. Booth?
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| 9. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 5:33 PM |
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I guess I can agee with that.
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| 10. Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:19 AM |
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Sorry I haven't kept up with the life and times of this Yogi...but wasn't he completely discredited many years back as a scam artist? Much like Sai Baba and the rest, he's basically running a money-making scam and raking in the loot for his own personal pleasures? I was surprised to read that a news agency still cares about this fraud.
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| 11. Tuesday, February 19, 2008 6:40 PM |
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Economist Obituary
'I look for an opening, do you understand?'
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| 12. Monday, February 25, 2008 11:23 PM |
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In response to cybacat, he made people happy. Your laundry detergent may make you feel happy, and you may pay a little extra for it because of what the ad says it can do for you, even though it's just soap. Maharishi Mahesh was kind of like Jesus in that respect. People want a spiritual leader, someone's going to be there to fill that slot. I have to get MMY credit for, in a round about way, getting The Doors together. According to Ray Manzarek, he Robby Krieger and John Densmore all met at a six part seminar he was giving in the LA area. Ray's producer of his former label, Dick Bach (who was big-time back then) recommended it to him as a "natural high." A way to "feel like you were on acid all the time without having to take acid." (Ray kept having bad trips and wanted to try a mantra.)
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| 13. Monday, March 10, 2008 11:56 AM |
| John Neff |
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I don't want to expound too greatly here, but Maharishi did not live an extravagant lifestyle. He lived very simply in a small wooden home in Vlodrop. The money raised was to support the organization and the University and the retreats/ashrams. All who worked for him worked for very little money and had small plain residences. Regardless of the press Maharishi got, his aims were simple and pure; World Peace, higher states of enlightenment through Transcendental meditation, and one you probably haven't heard of, and on which he spent a great deal of effort - local, sustainable, organic farming. His organization helped underdeveloped tribes and nations in various parts of the world learn these farming techniques and brought to them a way to support themselves as well. There is a version of it taught at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, that is highly adaptable anywhere in the United States.
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