This article will mainly cover the
Maharishi’s special powers.
In her autobiographical book Call No Man
Master, she suggests that he remotely caused two deaths. In one case the motive
was to remove an obstacle from his path while in the other it was revenge.
As described in the previous article, she
believes that Beatles’ agent Brian Epstein was removed because he stood in the
way of the Maharishi’s plans and Beatle John Lennon was murdered as a
punishment for speaking out openly against the Maharishi.
What did she see and experience during the
time she spent with the guru that could have given her this idea? Why did she
believe that he had the power to destroy people? Why did she believe that he
would use his power so ruthlessly?
Some more extracts from her book
provide answers to these key questions. The incidents described may seem
trivial to some people, but for me they are very significant and provide
independent confirmation of many of my ideas.
Why believe in unseen influences?
One reason for Joyce Collin-Smith’s believing
that the Maharishi Yogi had special powers is that she had already experienced
such metaphysical phenomena as telepathy, hypnosis and remotely influencing
people and outcomes before she met him. What
she saw in the Maharishi was in some cases just more of the same.
There are a few good illustrations of this
point in her book.
Telepathy
A medium once passed on a written message to
Joyce Collin-Smith. The signature made her hair stand on end. She had often
secretly used this Russian name as an invocation in her mind as a child, so it
was a shock to see it appear on the outside decades later.
I have felt this electrification myself, and
for the same reason. I have frozen from the shock of hearing words, expressions and topics
I had been dwelling on in my mind suddenly come at me from outside as if
someone had read my thoughts and was making public what they had picked up.
There are some examples of this in other articles.
The Maharishi too picked up something
telepathically and repeated it.
Bows and arrows
Shortly before she first met Maharishi, Joyce
Collin-Smith had received a kind of psychic message from an old friend; it was
simply, “The crossbow.” It meant nothing at all to her.
She then went to meet the Maharishi. While
listening to his lecture, her mind turned to other teachings that she had
studied. A picture of a double-headed arrow came into her mind - this was a teaching
aid used by Ouspensky. The Maharishi immediately picked this up and said that
the double-headed arrow was no good. The shock of hearing him actually say the
words that she was thinking made her heart beat very rapidly, and she stopped
breathing.
He went on to mention pulling an arrow back
on a bow.
Could this just be chance or coincidence, or
was the Maharishi giving a demonstration of his powers to draw Joyce
Collin-Smith into his group?
Influencing people remotely
She mentions a female friend who from
childhood could use her natural powers to influence other people’s words and
actions. She could make events turn out to good advantage for herself and her
friends. She may have telepathically implanted suggestions and aligned herself
with positive energies as opposed to using willpower, so this was not
necessarily a sign of something sinister. She may even have been a kind of
fairy godmother.
Joyce Collin-Smith believed that what was a knack and a game
for her friend was a disciplined art in the Maharishi.
She describes an occasion when the Maharishi too influenced people remotely and caused two favourable outcomes.
She describes an occasion when the Maharishi too influenced people remotely and caused two favourable outcomes.
The complaining hotel resident
The first incident happened when crowds of
young people were waiting to be initiated by the Maharishi. They were queuing
all along the corridor and stairs of the Oxford hotel where he and Joyce
Collin-Smith were staying.
An elderly resident complained loudly and indignantly about them and
the rows of their shoes that they had removed as requested:
“What are all these shoes doing all down the
corridor? What do all these young men want? Undergraduates everywhere! Disgusting.”
“Good gracious, this is a positive madhouse!”
Joyce Collin-Smith decided to use her large
room as a waiting room, but that didn’t help matters. The irritable elderly
lady only complained all the more:
“Well really, Madam! Twenty young men in your
bedroom. I shall speak to the manageress.”
She did, and the manageress apologetically
asked the Maharishi to move to another floor. She said that Lady So and So should
be humoured as she was a long-established and respected resident.
The Maharishi refused to move; he was silent
for a few seconds than said with a strange expression in his face, “There will be no more
trouble.”
He was quite right. Joyce Collin-Smith goes
on to say:
“To my surprise the old lady had disappeared.
Her door was firmly closed and no further complaints of any sort were ever made. In
fact I never saw her again. It was as though she had been bidden to sleep, to forget,
to disappear from our circles and not to impede us even to the extent of being
conscious of our presence anymore.”
So once again a person who was causing
difficulties was disposed of - although not fatally like Brian Epstein!
I find this anecdote both amusing and
sinister.
The hotel bill
The Maharishi suddenly decided to return to
London,. When the hotel bill came, there was not enough money to pay it. Extra
rooms had been needed to hold the initiates and many of them had not been able
to give very much.
The telephone suddenly rang and the apologetic
manageress said that there had been an error and the amount would be reduced
because the Indian gentleman had been disturbed and inconvenienced by a certain
lady.
This seems a strange turn-around. Did the
Maharishi influence the manageress remotely?
Normal negotiation is best
There is more to say about the Maharishi, but
this article will end with some thoughts about the hotel incidents.
I agree with the proposition - expressed by
Terry Pratchett among others - that people who have special powers should wherever
possible use normal methods to get what they want or get themselves out of a
tight corner. Negotiating and stating their position is more ethical and less
likely to have unpleasant consequences than using telepathy and mind-power to influence and
control people.
In the first case, the Maharishi could have
asked Joyce Collin-Smith to sit the old lady down, calm her down and explain to
her what was going on. She could have even been offered the chance to meet the
great guru in person.
In the second case, they could have explained
that the bill was much higher than expected and asked for it to be checked.
They could have asked if there was any chance of a discount in return for the publicity that they had
brought to the hotel.
Maybe the elderly resident might even have
helped out financially if she had been treated better.
In other words, although the outcomes were
favourable for the Maharishi, they might have been even more so if he had dealt
with - or asked Joyce Collin-Smith to deal with on his behalf - the problems in
the normal way.
The Maharishi Yogi would not have agreed with this!
