Date: Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:18:11 (GMT) From: EddyTheTurtle Email: None To: Everyone Subject: Question to Michael Dettmers Message:

Michael...you say that M was outright drunk five out of every seven days for years and years. Is this really serious? Could you quantify exactly what he was drinking and how much during the day? Congac? Whiskey? Gin? Half a bottle a day or more? It is impossible for anyone to function normally and rationaly in this state for such a prolonged period ...years..I guess you could really say he was an alcoholic... I am really interested in the events of the last year of Bob Mishler's time with the mission. Could you write a post about this. Exactly what went on in Mishler's mind. Apart from the major confrontation with the malibu residence, what else did he confront M with? Did Bob discuss with u M's drinking problems? What do you know about Mishler's death?. It was so sudden?. How was the news taken in the M camp?

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Date: Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 15:10:15 (GMT) From: Michael Dettmers Email: dettmers@gylanix.com To: EddyTheTurtle Subject: My response Message:

Eddy The Turtle, I will briefly answer your first question now and save the Bob Mishler question for a few days until I catch-up on some of the other questions. First, let me clarify that Maharaji was not drunk five out of seven days a week. He did drink cognac every single day during the time I was around him and he always drank in the evening after dinner. Sometimes he would limit his drinking to two or three shots and that seemed to have no effect on him whatsoever. Often he would drink five or six shots, which made him slightly inebriated. Once or twice a week however, he would exceed that amount and that is when he became out-and-out drunk. Those were the times he often slurred invectives at people and situations that displeased him as I reported in an earlier post. To reiterate what I said earlier, he was never drunk or inebriated when he was flying. He always stopped drinking the night before a flight at the prescribed hour specified by the FAA. However, he often drove when he was slightly inebriated and occasionally when he was drunk. I remember an incident where he got extremely upset during dinner with his entire family at a posh restaurant in Palm Beach because he thought that Marolyn was flirting with a gentleman at a nearby table. He abruptly demanded that everyone in his party immediately leave the restaurant. He brushed aside his driver and took the wheel himself even though he was really drunk. With his entire family in the car he proceeded to their hotel which was about three miles from the restaurant. I followed in a car just behind his and was horrified to see his car swerving all over the road. It is a wonder that he didn’t crash into something or that the cops didn’t pull him over. This is just one of several such examples. Michael

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Date: Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 23:18:06 (GMT) From: Susan Email: None To: Michael Dettmers Subject: interesting little darshan story Message:

He sounds like a sort of typical 'sort' of creep. Getting drunk, paranoid about his beautiful wife, and taking it out on everyone around him. I felt really sorry for the children when I read that.

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Date: Thurs, Nov 23, 2000 at 00:54:18 (GMT) From: Marianne Email: None To: Susan Subject: If it's darshan, I never wanted it! Message:

Geez Susan, calling that event darshan is chilling to me. The scene Michael described is right out of life with my alcoholic father. Your comments about the kids really hit me. I suspect some of them must struggle to make sense of this whole situation. Nothing is what it seems. Marianne

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