A few months back, I posted an interview with Dr. Prudence (Farrow) Bruns, the Dear Prudence of the famous Beatles song from India and sister of Mia Farrow.
This month, they released her talk from the Our Conscious Future conference in the summer of 2013. Here she goes into much more detail about her early spiritual period. They oddly twice start playing the song over the first part of her talk but then can it. Her allotted time is far too short and she only gets as far as settling into the India course in ’68. But I enjoyed the story to date, if incomplete. And yeah, I grew up on the Beatles music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd6PqgS0Ya8
How delightful, David! Prudence was the first one to teach me yoga asanas; it was in 1969, when I was on my first residence course in TM.
And when she and her husband had their son Logan, I wrote a poem for them. Prudy was the first woman I knew who was more-or-less my age who had a child.
Just a bit long ago….
Just a bit…
The longer prior interview has a broader brush of her life but doesn’t have the detail of this story, sadly cut short.
Hi David
This is a great talk, thanks for posting it. Wonderful to hear about her meeting with Maharishi, and about John and George, and about conditions in India/Rishikesh/Maharishis ashram. It was the first generation that did it, we are just continuing, and now it is about to come into full bloom, with the mini-Satyuga. What a fine woman, and also the TM-teacher with most initiations in the US, what a fantastic contribution.
Hi Kjetil
The government later made the ashram part of a wildlife preserve, shutting it down. However, it became a pilgrimage spot. So much of the Beatles later music, including the White Album, came out of their time there. Eventually, the site was somewhat restored and is now a tourist site.