Maharishi & Me

by Susan Shumsky

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  “Ex-Beatle remembers his spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.” Outlook. February 7, 2008. http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/ex-beatle-remembers-his-spiritual-guru-maharishi-mahesh-yogi/543012.

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  Hamblin, James. “The Seduction of ‘Wellness Real Estate.’” Feb. 27, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/wellness-real-estate/517560.

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  Hoffman, Claire. “David Lynch Is Back … as a Guru of Transcendental Meditation.” Feb. 22, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-meditation.html.

  Hudson, Alexandra. “Beatles’ guru Mahesh Yogi dies.” Reuters. February 6, 2008. http://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-31787520080206.

  Kang, Bhavdeep. ”How Ravi Shankar broke with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and became Sri Sri.” Mar 21, 2016. http://scroll.in/a/805429.

  Kipp, Rachel. “2. Dear Prudence.” The Beatles White Album. http://www.thewhitealbumproject.com/songs/side-one.

  Knapp, John M. “Deepak Chopra Interview.” “Exclusive interview of Deepak Chopra on spirituality, free speech, the Maharishi, leaving TM, and much more.” Trancenet. August 1, 1996. http://web.archive.org/web/20040606082458/http://trancenet.org.

  Knapp, John M. “Earl Kaplan’s Letter.” TM-Free Blog. April 2, 2008. http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2008/04/earl-kaplans-letter.html.

  Knapp, John M. “Letter from David Kaplan.” TM-Free Blog. April 2, 2008. http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2008/04/letter-from-david-kaplan.html.

  Lutes, Charles F. “Memoirs of Charlie Lutes: Chapter 4: Making Teachers, Shagging Yogurt.” http://www.maharishiphotos.com/mem4a.html.

  Lutes, Charles F. “Memoirs of Charlie Lutes: Chapter 2: Holy Man from the Himalayas.” http://www.maharishiphotos.com/mem2a.html.

  “Maharishi, Maharishi Not.” Leaving the Art of Living. December 14, 2009. http://artoflivingfree.blogspot.com/2009/12/maharishi-maharishi-not.html.

  Mason, Paul. “Introduction to Lifestory and Teachings of Guru Dev Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/introduction.htm.

  Miles, Barry. Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997, Chapter 9. http://www.wingspan.ru/bookseng/myfn/bmiles09.html.

  Miles, Barry. Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997, Chapter 10. http://www.wingspan.ru/bookseng/myfn/bmiles10.html.

  Lennon, John. “The Maharishi Song.” Genius. https://genius.com/John-lennon-the-maharishi-song-lyrics.

  Maass, Peter. “Welcome to Silicorn Valley.” Wired. Septemer 1, 1997. https://www.wired.com/1997/09/callback.

  “Maharishi Talks of His First Sight of Gurudev Transcript.” http://www.alkpurusha.net/maharishi-talks-of-his-first-sight-of-guru-dev-transcript.

  Mardas, Alex. Statement to New York Times. March 4, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/arts/music/07yogi.html, with Editor’s note appended. Link to: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf.

  Mason, Paul. “Introduction to Lifestory and Teachings of Gurudev Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati.” http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/introduction.htm.

  McCartney, Paul. “Paul Pays Tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.” February 7, 2008. https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/paul-pays-tribute-to-maharishi-mahesh-yogi.

  McKinley, Jesse. “Doug Henning, a Superstar Of Illusion, Is Dead at 52.” New York Times. February 9, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/09/arts/doug-henning-a-superstar-of-illusion-is-dead-at-52.html.

  Mendes, Evencio. “Guru Bhati in the Ninth Bhava.” https://www.scribd.com/document/82054532/Guru-Bhakti-in-the-Ninth-Bhava.

  Miles, Jeremy. Dancing Ledge. https://dancingledge.wordpress.com/tag/jenny-boyd/

  Mitra, S. “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Successful Meditation.” India Today. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-visits-new-delhi-to-attend-vedic-conference/1/410282.html.

  Morse, Steve. “McCartney Breaks His Silence with a Rock ‘N’ Roll Album.” Boston Globe. October 3, 1999. www.billsartbox.com/id185.html.

  “Multi-million pound ending to Yoko Ono family feud which started in Majorca with Lennon.” Majorca Daily Bulletin. January 19, 2001. https://majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2001/01/19/2177/multi-million-pound-ending-yoko-ono-family-feud-which-started-majorca-with-lennon.html.

  “NASA Beams Beatles’ ‘Across the Universe’ Into Space.” https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/across_universe.html.

  Nikhilananda, Swami. Vivekananda A Biography. Chapter 4: Training of the Disciple. http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda_biography/04_training.htm.

  “Nityananda.” Sages, Saints, and Avatars. http://www.cosmicharmony.com/Av/Nityanan/Nityanan.htm.

  “Om Namo Narayani Om Hari Durga Ma.” Sri Ananadamayi Ma. http://www.anandamayi.org/bhavas.

  Orme-Johnson, David, PhD, “Societal Effects.” Truth About TM. http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/SocietalEffects/Rationale-Research/index.cfm.

  “Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Live Webcast Today.” Uncut. April 3, 2009. http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/paul-mccartney-a
nd-ringo-starr-live-webcast-today-april-3-56504.

  Pillai, Ajith, and Pushpinder Singh. “Remains of Yesterday.” Frontline. http://www.frontline.in/arts-and-culture/remains-of-yesterday/article5085673.ece.

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  “Rgvedasamhita, Mandala 9,” http://www.theasis.net/RgV/rv9_2.html.

  “Ringo Starr Leaves India.” March 1, 1968. The Beatles Bible. https://www.beatlesbible.com/1968/03/01/ringo-starr-leaves-india.

  Rooney, Ben. “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru to Beatles, dies.” The Telegraph. February 6, 2008. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1577866/Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogi-guru-to-Beatles-dies.html.

  Shankar, Jay. “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru to pop celebrities, dies at 91.” Vancouver Sun. February 6, 2008. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20080206/281801394649389.

  “Stories about Maharishi.” http://mmy.klemke.de/M1000000.htm.

  Sudarshan. “A brief account of Sri Sri Ravishankar and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.” October 9, 2010. https://aolfree.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/a-brief-account-of-sri-sri-ravishankar-and-maharishi-mahesh-yogi-by%C2%A0sudarshan.

  “Swami Kriyananda: In Memoriam.” May 1, 2013. https://www.ananda.org/news/2013/swami-kriyananda-in-memoriam.

  Thompson, George. “Celebrities Who Meditate.” The Telegraph. June 28, 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8602265/Celebrities-who-meditate.html.

  Tomkins, Mike. “The Growth of Maharishi’s Movement.” http://pages.citebite.com/i6t7e2l8cyov.

  Vivekananda, Swami. Raja-Yoga. Chapter 1: Introductory. 1893. http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_1/raja-yoga/introductory.htm.

  Wenner, Jann S. “John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview, Part One.” January 21, 1971. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-john-lennon-19710121.

  “When Maharishi Threw Beatles Out.” The Times of India. February 15, 2006. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/When-Maharishi-threw-Beatles-out/articleshow/1415230.cms.

  Whistleblower. “His Holiness Titles & Lineage.” June 2, 2010. http://aolfree.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/his-holiness-titles-lineage.

  “William Blake Quotes.” Brainy Quote. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/williambla396783.html.

  Wofford, Ben. “His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to Inaugurate World Class International Center for Peace and Well-Being.” http://www.hcpress.com/news/his-holiness-sri-sri-ravi-shankar-to-inaugurate-world-class-international-center-for-peace-and-well-being.html.

  Zehme, Bill. “Lost in the Funhouse.” http://andykaufman.jvlnet.com/aktime.htm.

  MOVIES AND INTERNET MOVIES

  “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – The Seven States of Consciousness – Part 1 (1967) Vinyl.” You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScwYJ7GHixw&t=21s.

  “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Transcendental Meditation - Biography.” Vimeo. History Channel International, 2007. https://vimeo.com/120745864.

  “Maharishi on History Channel eng heb.” You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaErBuD9-E.

  “Maharishi’s First Sight of Gurudev.” http://vimeo.com/23247596.

  “The most embarrassing thing I’ve ever been on” - John Lennon and Paul McCartney Beatles Interview. You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fprFK62dY.

  Parker, Alan G. It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: Sgt Pepper & Beyond. 2017.

  “Paul McCarney & John Lennon 1968 Full Interview.” You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0i90n0BP8.

  Richardson, Gary. “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Beatles Urban Legend.” You Tube. History Channel International. July 31, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je5-Bs_3iHU.

  Sieveking, David. David Wants to Fly, GoodMovies, 2010. http://www.alluc.ee/l/David-Wants-to-Fly-2010/y8xe7d2g.

  ENDNOTES

  CHAPTER 1

  1. Tweedie, The Chasm of Fire, 47-48.

  CHAPTER 2

  2. Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 92.

  3. Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 93.

  4. Tweedie, Chasm of Fire, 41.

  5. “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – The Seven States of Consciousness.”

  6. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  7. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

  CHAPTER 4

  8. Mason, The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India, 38.

  9. Ramanujam, “The Guru,” 67.

  10. Brown, The Love You Make, 231.

  11. Mason, Paul. The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India, 57.

  12. Coleman, Lennon, 339-340.

  13. Blakely, The Secret of the Mantras, 184.

  14. Parker, It Was Fifty Years Ago Today.

  15. Mason, The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India, 79.

  16. Shotten, John Lennon In My Life, 139.

  17. “On the Newsfronts of the World,” 26.

  18. Wainwright, “Invitation to Instant Bliss,” 26.

  19. Howard, “Year of the Guru,” 52.

  20. “Mystics: Soothsayer for Everyman,” Time, 86.

  21. Lefferts, “Chief Guru of the Western World,” 44-58.

  22. Ramanujam, “The Guru,” 67.

  23. Hedgepeth, “The Non-Drug Turn-On Hits Campus,” 68-78.

  24. Horn, “A Visit with India’s High-Powered New Prophet,” 66.

  25. Horn, “A Visit with India’s High-Powered New Prophet,” 66.

  26. Mason, The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India, 114.

  27. Badman, Beatles, off the Record, 342.

  28. Lapham, “There Once Was a Guru from Rishikesh, Part 1,” 28.

  29. Paul McCartney & John Lennon 1968 Full Interview

  30. “The most embarrassing thing I’ve ever been on.”

  31. Norman, Shout!, 324.

  32. Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 286.

  33. Lapham, “There Once Was a Guru from Rishikesh, Part 1,” 25.

  34. “William Blake Quotes.” Brainy Quote.

  35. Mason, The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India, 58.

  36. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  37. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  38. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  39. Orme-Johnson, Inside Maharishi’s Ashram, Location 2694.

  40. Tat Wale Baba-Rishi of the Himalayas, Copyrighted: Free Use.

  41. Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0).

  CHAPTER 6

  42. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  43. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  44. Batchelder, Ram Das, Rising in Love, 27.

  CHAPTER 7

  45. Tweedie, The Chasm of Fire, 105.

  46. International Symposium, 21.

  CHAPTER 8

  47. Calio, “Yoko Ono’s Ex-Husband, Tony Cox, Reveals His Strange Life.”

  48. “Multi-million pound ending to Yoko Ono family feud.”

  49. E.L.E. “John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Arrested in Mallorca.”

  50. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  51. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  52. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  CHAPTER 12

  53. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  54. Inauguration of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment, 24.

  55. Inauguration of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment, 24.

  56. Inauguration of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment, 2.

  CHAPTER 13

  57. Mason, “Introduction to Lifestory and Teachings.”

  58. Mason, “Introduction to Lifestory and Teachings.”

  59. “Maharishi Talks of His First Sight of Guru Dev Transcript.”

  60. “Maharishi on History Channel eng heb.”

  61. “Maharishi’s First Sight of Guru Dev.”

>   62. Mason, “Introduction to Lifestory and Teachings.”

  63. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  64. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  65. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  66. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  67. Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love, 59.

  68. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  69. “Maharishi’s First Sight of Guru Dev.”

  70. Mason, “Introduction to Lifestory and Teachings of Guru Dev.”

  71. Tomkins, “The Growth of Maharishi’s Movement.”

  72. Tomkins, “The Growth of Maharishi’s Movement.”

  73. Lutes, “Memoirs of Charlie Lutes: Chapter 4.”

  74. Lutes, “Memoirs of Charlie Lutes: Chapter 2.”

  75. Mason, The Maharishi, 37.

  CHAPTER 14

  76. Wainwright, “Invitation to Instant Bliss,” 26.

  77. Tweedie, The Chasm of Fire, 82.

  78. Orme-Johnson, Inside Maharishi’s Ashram, Location 2151.

  79. Orme-Johnson, Inside Maharishi’s Ashram, Location 2151.

  80. Batchelder, Ram Das, Rising in Love, 142.

  81. Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 119-120.

  82. Tweedie, The Chasm of Fire, 94.

  CHAPTER 15

  83. Mendes, “Guru Bhati in the Ninth Bhava.”

  84. Susan Shumsky’s handwritten lecture notes.

  CHAPTER 16

  85. Farrow, What Falls Away, 122.

  86. Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love, 167.

  87. Cross, Beatles-Discography.com, 173.

  88. Blakely, The Secret of the Mantras, 146.

  89. Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love, 168.

  90. Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love, 171.

  91. Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love, 171.

  92. Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love, 171.

  93. Cooke de Herrera, All You Need Is Love, 172.

  94. Bruns, Dear Prudence, 201-202.

  95. Mason, The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India, 149.

  96. Farrow, What Falls Away, 125.

  97. “Maharishi on History Channel eng heb.”

  98. Badman, Beatles, off the Record, 340.

  99. Miles, Paul McCartney, Chapter 10.

  100. Miles, Dancing Ledge.

  101. Lennon, A Twist of Lennon, 169-170.