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...next nine years, Gray traveled everywhere with Maharishi, eventually becoming the guru's personal assistant. Along the way he picked up a bachelor's degree and an M.A.--in the Science of Creative Intelligence--at Maharishi International University; most of the credits came from such "projects" as helping Maharishi set up his teacher-training programs. (Wonder how he earned the right to call himself "Doctor"? He earned his Ph.D. in a correspondence course in psychology and counseling offered by Columbia Pacific University in San Rafael, Calif.) He was a meditator par excellence, he recalls, and would hear angels singing...
Gray maintains that he also learned from Maharishi's mistakes. "His movement became all about him," he says. "What I try to do when I'm onstage and my gift is shining--and it is very impressive to people--[is to] reveal parts of me that aren't so shiny and impressive." This is, in part, his justification for spreading his seed, as it were--for selling his name and methods to others...
Though Gray says Maharishi told him, "In 10 years you will own this movement," Gray eventually left TM and moved to California. By then, as Gray is fond of saying, he had been a "celibate monk" for nine years. "Sex became my new ecstasy," he says. After a few months of sleeping with a lot of women, including the woman who is now his wife Bonnie, he married his first wife, Barbara De Angelis, who has herself become a self-help guru, the author of How to Make Love All the Time, among other books. The two began giving...
...such a heady environment, it isn't surprising that Mia's godmother was gossip columnist Louella Parsons or that Charles Boyer lived next door. But celebrity seems to follow her. Her girlhood pet was the real Lassie's grandson. When she retreated to the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who should turn up but all four Beatles. They sang the night away. And while Farrow was in Hanoi undoing an adoption snag, she went to a commissary and found Mother Teresa eating breakfast...
...follower of the Maharishi Yogi who has qualified for federal matching funds, Hagelin advocates transcendental meditation and "yogic flying" for all American voters...