Susan Shumsky, a former devotee of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, describes her experiences with the guru. Shumsky details how she found the Maharishi, emphasizing the profound impact he had on her life. She recounts her intensive six-year experience as part of the Maharishi’s personal staff and his twenty-two-year influence on...
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Professor Robert Gordon-McCutchan Ph.D. video testimony: Still more evidence
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...
Two women give video testimony about Maharishi’s sex life
As promised we now share a recent video taken during a Zoom conference where two women close to Maharishi gave testimony about their relationship with His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in particular the sexual advances Maharishi made to them. In one case the sexual advance, where Maharishi asked Theresa Olson then 19 years old to...
Book review: Maharishi and Me – part 1
Susan Shumsky a former TM teacher wrote a delightful book in 2018 detailing her experiences in the TM movement. The subtitle of the book is “Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles Guru”, and includes many color photos of her Rishikesh days in India. Like many, she was also forced to leave the TM movement, and after...