Someone asked in a post for some quotes
from Sophia Collier's book 'Soul Rush', which is an
autobiography which discusses her involvement with DLM
& GMJ. I must point out that this book was
published in 1978. I am aware that Sophia had a
successful business venture with Soho soda. I believe,
but may be wrong, that she is an owner of Working
Assets, a progressive investment firm. I do not know
what her recent or current feelings are about GMJ or
DLM. Without that information, I don't think it is
fair to ascribe the quotes I include here to her
today. I do think the quotes constitute anecdotal
evidence about what was happening with M and the
organization during the times she discusses. For that
reason, her book is an important source of historical
information.
Readers' quotes
from
Soul rush : 'The odyssey of a
young woman of the '70s',
by Sophia Collier. Published New York : Morrow,
1978.
Here's a little bit from Chapter 9.
She describes premies who came into a community food
store where she worked and tried to get them to stock
the magazine And It Is Divine. Page 108---- 'To change
the world,' they said, 'you have to change the hearts
of people in the world. As long as there is anger and
hatred inside people, there will always be war and
murder.... Knowledge [the name of their brand of
meditation) is the only thing which is going to do it
for people,' they would insist emphatically.
Page 113, she describes comments made by the mahatma
who gave her knowledge. 'Guru Maharaj Ji has the
divine mission of taking this Knowledge to all people.
By learning these techniques today, a bond of love and
commitment is made between you and Maharaj Ji. By
taking this Knowledge you become disciples, and you
must follow his counsel to the letter if you want to
progress and realize union with the God inside you in
this lifetime.'
Page 114, a woman asks the mahatma, 'Why this intense
reverence of the guru?
The mahatma answers: 'Oh sister, to me Guru Maharaj Ji
is the divine father..... To me he is the Lord himself
standing on earth.'
Page 116, the mahatma warns that if the meditation
techniques are taught to anyone else, the premies
would not suffer in this life, but in the hereafter.
They would undoubtedly be reincarnated as snakes.
From the context of the chapter, Sophia received K in
1973, sometime after Rennie Davis.
These passages are an accurate account of what was
being said by and about GMJ during this period of
time, by my recollection. Brings it all back in living
color, doesn't it? I was truly a nitwit.
I'll include some more over the next few days.