Robert was a skin-boy, and close to Maharishi. The skin boys were those men who carried Maharishi’s dear skin to the lecture halls so that Maharishi could sit on it. They were close to Maharishi and often were also “door watchers” who would sit in front of Maharishi’s door. They were also Maharishi’s secretaries, who did errands for Maharishi. They were in a position to see things and hear things other course participants would not know about. He was also a brahmachari or celibate, who also followed Maharishi’s example in this way.
Please view the first RajaLeaks article about Robert, if you haven’t already seen it.
In this segment, Robert speaks more deeply about his feelings and what he saw regarding Maharishi’s sex life. In particular, he recants an episode where one lady who was Maharishi’s girlfriend and another lady Maharishi was supposedly courting or perhaps even sleeping with met up and they compared notes, about what was going on. Talk about worst case scenario! A real-life soap opera ensued where in the end the two ladies got so upset that they both left the course with the help of a third lady who also knew about these things. Maharishi was left with neither one. One lady flew back to Seelisberg Switzerland. Robert who was in Maharishi’s close inner circle was asked to wait outside Maharishi’s room, while Maharishi called the lady who already arrived in Seelisberg. According to Robert Maharishi was pleading with the lady like a lovesick teenager who wanted to get his girl back.
Robert makes a point that in Maharishi’s passport, it was written that his profession was “bal brahmachari”, which means lifetime celibate. This is just to confirm that Maharishi did consider himself a lifetime celibate.
Robert also tells a story about how Charlie Lutes, who was a great leader of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement in the United States and elsewhere, confronted Maharishi about the rumors going around the TM movement regarding Maharishi’s attempts to seduce women. According to Robert, Maharishi told Charlie Lutes “I know nothing about sexual desire”.
If this is true, in other words, that Maharishi denied anything about the sex stories, then we have to reconsider many things we thought were sacred about Maharishi. Robert mentions the word “hypocrite” which is how this can be viewed.
Robert makes mention of what happened to Theresa Olson when she was 19 years old when Maharishi attempted to seduce her one evening while her parents were sleeping in the room next door.
Robert said this was a deeply ugly violation of trust, and added:
“You do not try to fuck the teenage daughter of your benefactors in their own home”.
The Olson couple were one of the founders of the TM movement, and mother Olson, Theresa’s Mother was held in high esteem by Maharishi. Maharishi often would stay at the Olson home, and essentially it was the head office of the TM movement in the USA. Maharishi was a guest, that Theresa Olson’s parents supported financially and otherwise, so the TM Movement could get going in North America. Theresa was about 8 years old when Maharishi became a regular guest in the Olson home, and ten years later Theresa Olson became an object of sexual desire by the spiritual master many considered to be in unity consciousness.
One person on the Zoom call blasted Robert for daring to say these things about Maharishi who is in Brahman Consciousness as she said, and started talking about the clash of cultures – East vs. West. This elicited a response from Robert, and it must be remembered that Professor Robert Gordon-McCutchan”s Ph.D., trained at Princeton University one of the best Universities in the world, is an expert in religious and spiritual matters. Robert stated: “If that’s enlightenment I don’t want it”. He continued by naming a few major religions, including Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, and brought up the point that in those religions it is immoral for priests to sleep with the members of their parish. “You just don’t do it”, stated Robert. He continued, by saying that he did not know of any spiritual tradition where lying and hypocrisy, and greed are OK. He said these are just basic moral failures.
We just want to warn people, if your master is trying to get into your pants, get out as fast as you can, explained Robert.
Robert spoke for several minutes about the benefits of transcendental meditation and all the good that he got from the TM movement. He is very grateful for his time in the movement, and the wonderful things that happened to him. However, he is upset that it didn’t become a very large organization like the Mormon Church which he used as an example. He believes the movement took many wrong turns, which he blames on fundamental problems such as money greed, ethics, and moral values of the master.
Here is the video testimony taken a while back, which is the topic of this article.
Here is the link to the SRM website where all their videos can be seen.
We at RajaLeaks would like to thank Robert Gordon-McCutchan for sharing his wonderful insights and experiences and hopefully, we hear from him in the future as well. We especially would like to thank Theresa Olson, Judith Bourque, and Jessie Mercay who have come forward with their stories. Special thanks to writers-researchers Philip Goldberg, and Susan Shumsky who have shared their findings. In addition, we would like to thank Gary Benner, who set up the srm.news website and did the video editing. Last but not least, we would like to thank Bryan Lee, who became a seed molecule in this expanding crystal growth called the “HIVE” and its active messenger group called the “DUCKS”. Bryan’s invaluable experience working with Maharishi for many years, his experience running the New Zealand TM Movement and the many International courses he managed, and his realizations about that the RAJA KINGDOM, or as he calls it the “EMPIRE” has been an inspiration to us.