# Maharishi Mahesh Yogi reunites with Lennon and Harrison **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463 "2008-02-06T01:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/1 "2008-02-06T01:30:23Z")
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, spiritual guru of the Beatles and business partner of the late Doug Henning, has entered immortality at 91. [Stories](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=maharishi&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn) The CNN account blames his breakup with the Beatles on their drug use in his compound. I’ve read accounts (Peter Brown’s among others) that the Beatles became disillusioned with him because he made a pass at Mia Farrow’s sister and was just a bit too worldly in his knowledge of banking and tax shelters and the like. Anyone know the straight dope (which I’m guessing is a mixture of the two)? Trivia: He and Doug Henning were planning a multibillion dollar TM theme park at one point but that seems to have ended when Henning refused conventional cancer treatments in favor of New Age alternative treatments. (Unfortunately the dolphins he swam with switched the coffee in his enemas with Folger’s Crystals or something and Henning died, whereupon the TM theme park plans evidently ended.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/2 "2008-02-06T01:45:24Z")
Well, let me be the first to say that I’m glad The Beatles came to their senses: secondly, it is the passing of an icon, and thirdly I don’t particularly care one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/3 "2008-02-06T02:02:42Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] and thirdly I don’t particularly care one way or the other. [/QUOTE] And I think that was his whole message, so he didn’t die in vain for nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/4 "2008-02-06T02:25:20Z")
Let me be the first of probably many to post that I didn’t even know Sexy Sadie was still alive! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/5 "2008-02-06T03:10:46Z")
Haha, I didn’t know he was alive either. I thought he must have died years ago. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/6 "2008-02-06T15:53:15Z")
I knew he was still alive and now I know he’s dead. I don’t really care. IMHO he was a fraud. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/7 "2008-02-06T16:00:41Z")
He may or may not have been a fraud, and even so he may have helped people chill out in spite of any bad intentions - but whatever he was, he helped inspire the White Album, which is an unmitigated positive. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/8 "2008-02-06T17:14:05Z")
Any word on Maharishi Mahesh Boo Boo? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/9 "2008-02-06T20:30:19Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Any word on Maharishi Mahesh Boo Boo? [/QUOTE] OK, this just made me get in trouble by laughing out loud during class. Well played, sir. I will steal this. Namaste. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/10 "2008-02-07T00:50:37Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] …and thirdly I don’t particularly care one way or the other. [/QUOTE] How can you possibly be so callous as to not care? I was particularly moved by his passing. It meant I finally scored in this years Dead Pool… thwartme, who is clearly going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/11 "2008-02-07T01:00:36Z")
[QUOTE=thwartme] How can you possibly be so callous as to not care? I was particularly moved by his passing. It meant I finally scored in this years Dead Pool… [/QUOTE] Only 9 points though. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/12 "2008-02-07T01:10:12Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] He may or may not have been a fraud, and even so he may have helped people chill out in spite of any bad intentions - but whatever he was, he helped inspire the White Album, which is an unmitigated positive. [/QUOTE] and also David Lynch! Anyway, the 60’s are now truly over. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/13 "2008-02-07T02:28:05Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] Anyway, the 60’s are now truly over. [/QUOTE] They have been since Dennis Hopper started wearing a pinkie ring… on commercials no less. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/14 "2008-02-07T03:36:11Z")
[QUOTE=singular1] OK, this just made me get in trouble by laughing out loud during class. Well played, sir. I will steal this. Namaste. [/QUOTE] He was smarter than the average Baba Ram. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/15 "2008-02-07T04:21:29Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] and also David Lynch! [/QUOTE] And for whatever it’s worth, my girlfriend asked me to improvise an instrumental thing about him on guitar, and what I came up with sounded really good. So apparently, even if he wasn’t much of a holy man, he was a decent muse. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/16 "2008-02-07T09:21:21Z")
I wonder if the TM cult will survive. Cults that survive the death of the cult figure rarely do, Scientology being the main exception. Anyway, one down. Now if only Lyndon LaDouche will follow suit. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/17 "2008-02-08T03:46:51Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer] Cults that survive the death of the cult figure rarely do, Scientology being the main exception. [/QUOTE] Not to mention Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-reunites-with-lennon-and-harrison/436463/18 "2008-02-09T12:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Not to mention Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. [/QUOTE] So, we are talking THREE over the last few thousand years. Proves my point.