Thanks for the nod to Watts’ as alcoholic. Gore Vidal was also an extreme alcoholic in later years.

Took me a few minutes to look up what I was thinking of re. the Maharishi—the Beatles repugnance, etc. The famous story of his hitting on Mia Farrow may be a misrecording. Christopher Isherwood had in his diary that Mick Jagger told him the guru made a pass at ‘one of them’, likely Lennon. (“They’re simple north-country lads; they’re terribly uptight about all that.”)