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...SURE I can capture in words the mystery and promise of my initiation. First, as a reader, you must try to sense the expectation of it all. The Maharishi's number one American disciple, Jerry Jarvis, has told us in a preparatory lecture that Transcendental Meditation embodies a simple, mechanical technique, that it never fails, and that its fruits are tangible as well as spiritual...
...left me at the entrance of a darkened room, I walked in. Jerry Jarvis was there seated in a chair, and I took the place next to him. As I watched, mute and fascinated, Jerry offered a short ceremony in thanks giving to Guru Dev, Maharishi's teacher. Then abruptly he knelt down, and motioned me to do the same. There was perfect silence. I felt numb and a little scared--what was about to happen? Then, suddenly, Jerry gave me my mantra--the sound on which I was to meditate thereafter--the essence of transcendental meditation. Although mantras...
...officers of the Student's International Meditation Society, which is Maharishi's subsidiary for the spread of his ideas in universities, the "dropouts" officially don't exist. Spokesmen like Jerry Jarvis, head of SIMS's American branch, soothe their eager audiences with repeated assurances that meditation works for everyone, that nothing can go seriously wrong. In fact, every novice must attend lectures given on the three consecutive nights after his initiation, which supposedly are "advance instruction," allowing one to "refine" his technique. In fact, these "lectures" were question-and-answer periods, and gave me my first feelings of uneasiness about...
...jump from Maharishi'ing around on the banks of the Ganges to facing Frankie at the Fontainebleau, to grooving with Liz and Dick on the banks of the Thames would be quite an adjustment for anybody. Added to that was the pressure of starting work on her second major film role in Secret Ceremony. So Mia Farrow, 23, had a problem. It got out of hand after Mia, in her mini mini, danced until the wee hours at a Burton party at London's Dorchester Hotel, then turned up absent from the scene next morning. After a couple...
...doesn't feel that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's meditation program can succeed where drugs don't. "I think meditation is a bunch of crap," Joe said. "Anybody who says people are poor because they want to be doesn't know what's happening. And anybody who says you can solve the problems of the world through meditation is tripped...