tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14701409.post3335060239585677939..comments2024-03-07T03:40:54.443-05:00Comments on FLOTSAM: Maharishikmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14701409.post-26798243657209071202008-02-07T10:12:00.000-05:002008-02-07T10:12:00.000-05:00Falstaff: Completely agree with the fruitcake comm...Falstaff: Completely agree with the fruitcake comment. Just like The Who found Meher Baba.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14701409.post-88373539078814810132008-02-07T08:23:00.000-05:002008-02-07T08:23:00.000-05:00I don't know. I agree that MMY and the Beatles wer...I don't know. I agree that MMY and the Beatles were a tipping point, but I'm not sure how much that had to do with MMY specifically. I mean, he was just one generic Eastern mystic, right? If he hadn't been around presumably the Beatles would have found some other fruitcake to latch on to. <BR/><BR/>I would say it seems to me that MMY never understood the gravity of what he achieved with the Beatles, but then, he never understood gravity, period.Falstaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09791162324919462038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14701409.post-13252233587344074822008-02-06T18:12:00.000-05:002008-02-06T18:12:00.000-05:00Lekhni: hey, it could happen. David Lynch seems to...Lekhni: hey, it could happen. David Lynch seems to believe it.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14701409.post-90145130806665701622008-02-06T18:02:00.000-05:002008-02-06T18:02:00.000-05:00Yes, I guess it's the "Yogic flying" that everyone...Yes, I guess it's the "Yogic flying" that everyone will remember about Mahesh Yogi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14701409.post-44538145811947367992008-02-06T17:09:00.000-05:002008-02-06T17:09:00.000-05:00LOL@ comedic hopping :) Sure, Yehudi Menhuin, Ravi...LOL@ comedic hopping :) <BR/><BR/>Sure, Yehudi Menhuin, Ravi Shankar - and before them people like Aldous Huxley, Isherwood, Ginsberg, Watts etc - were instrumental, but MMY and the Beatles were definitely the tipping point for the masses.<BR/><BR/>Think of it as the Internet before Compuserve and AOL came along.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14701409.post-81820971424693867102008-02-06T12:50:00.000-05:002008-02-06T12:50:00.000-05:00One could say that America's present-day interest ...<I>One could say that America's present-day interest in Yoga, meditation, Eastern religions and alternative systems of medicine would not have happened without the Maharishi.</I><BR/><BR/>Oh, <I>come on</I>. When the Beatles met the Maharishi, "Norwegian Wood" was already a couple of years old. The west had known Indian music, via Ravi Shankar, for a decade and a half or so, courtesy Yehudi Menuhin and others. Yoga came to the west from B K S Iyengar, again by way of Menuhin. "Eastern religion", "alternative medicine" (acupuncture etc) had been well studied in the west; but that meant mostly east-Asian culture. Only recently (since the 1980s?) have Hinduism and ayurveda attracted the same level of interest, and I don't quite see the Maharishi's contribution, given that even the Beatles got tired of him rather quickly. His greatest legacy is his comedic value, in particular the yogic hopping...Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.com