Thinking back, some of those darshans, dancing with 'Lord', were the best times in my life.

I don't think Maharaji was ever Lord, but I think he was a channel for something, and I remember with gratitude the feelings which were unlocked among us at the time.

I remember them with shame, to tell you the truth.  I'm ashamed that I suppressed that little cowering part of me which recognised mass hysteria for what it was; which saw parallels with the Nuremburg rallies; which detested the whole ignorant sloppy organisation of the thing.

I don't take any pride in being conned by a fakir's trick, & maybe you can't understand this, but I really want to see his rope collapse.

My history with Maharaji was always about integrating the deep feeling within with the ethical requirements of Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and so on. This in its own terms works very well.

Ho fucking ho. What's with the so on ? Does that include the Aztecs & their human sacrifices, the Muslim Jihadists, & the present day believers in flying saucer theory?

The experience of meditation remains true, wherever this comes from.

Just don't press too hard on your eyeballs, actually you shouldn't put any pressure on there, however light, unless you want to go prematurely blind.

And it is made valid in our everyday lives through an acceptance and practice of the values bequeathed by the greatest of accepted teachers such as Jesus, Buddha, and so on.

There you go again.

I'd like to see you in a mosh pit with a Jesuit. I know who I'd put my money on.

Doesn't it revolt you that the cult goons are seeking intellectual backup from a bunch of fuzzy minded, grey souled, 'academic' wankers who are dead keen to make a name for themselves in a 'new' field.

Well, it does me.