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| willytex@yahoo.com 2005-06-15, 12:19 pm |
| We were just a few guys from Texas and we all liked to play music. Me?
I was a wiseacre ex-military brat who thought he knew everything. I had
just completed a three year apprenticeship with a Yaqui shaman down in
South San Antonio - I drove a flashy car, had a fat wallet and I hit
the West Coast in 1964 to team up with my old buddies from the Vulcan
Gas Company: Doug Sahm, Johnny Winter, and the 13th Floor Elevators,
all local boys.
When Paul Horn told me about the Maharishi and his mantra meditation,
he caught my interest and so I decided to check it out. After I got
initiated by the Maharishi, I gave my copy of Aldus Huxley's "The Doors
of Perception" to Jim Morrison. John Densmore wrote in 'Riders on the
Storm' (Bloomsbury 1991): "We went to a meeting in the Wiltshire
district and listened to a mellow man in a business suit. His name was
Jerry Jarvis, and his eyes seemed to express a remarkable inner
contentment."
Densmore decided to take the plunge too. I told Mike Love - who shook
Maharishi's hand and said "All of a sudden I felt the prescence this
guy had!" (Gaines, 'Heroes and Villains', Grafton 1986).
Allen Ginsberg went to see the Maharishi at Helen's (Helen Olsen, 'A
Hermit in the House', Donnelley 1971). Maharishi warned Allen about LSD
and told him that recently half a dozen hippies had come to his room
and that they smelled so bad that he told them to go into the garden.
Allen was outraged!
Allen said: "I said what? You must have been reading the newspapers."
He said he didn't read newspapers. He insisted that hippies smelled.
(Ginsberg, 'International Times' 26 February 1968, quoted in Paul
Mason, Maharishi: The Biography).
Namaste' and Jai Guru Dev!
P.S. To my fan club: Barry moved to France and John moved to Brazil, so
I am seriously considering moving to Mt. Kailash. Maybe I'll hunt for
rare fungi, as part of my Yoga sadhana. Do they have WiFi up there yet?
If not, I have a great collection of Gilbert Shelton Comics I could
take with me to read!
Please send any comments you might have to this fellow - otherwise you
can be leaving a message with Rita at Whole Foods in Austin - I'll get
back to you.
Richard Williams
General Delivery
The Valley of the Saints
Attention: Post Office Wallah
Uttar Kashi, Garwhal, Himalayas, India
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| omjaroo 2005-06-23, 9:00 am |
| Does anyone related to this post know Dan Daniels of KPPC, (Pasadena,
CA, circa 1968)?
Jared
Namaste
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