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When I talk to Roma students about why they were so drawn to their teacher, they cite a number of things.

Some care for the spiritualism, the Buddhist magic. Others for the more practical, the professional.

Roma the businessman with the mightest touch. But there's another piece of Roma's teachings, or I suppose his style that also appealed to some of his students.

Roma was very educated, an academic. He had a PhD in literature, something that came through in his lectures.

How he blended Eastern philosophy with Western ideas. Not just popular culture, but also writings.

His doctoral thesis was on the modernist poet, Theodor Rathke.

A while back I came across a poem by Rathke that caught my eye. It's called No Bird. It goes,

Now here is peace for one who knew, the secret heart of sound. The ear so delicate and true is pressed to noiseless ground.

The flow swings the breeze above her head. The grass is whitely stir.

But in this forest of the dead, No bird awakens her.

Raman died in 1998, but his story didn't end there.

From Neonhum and Smokescreen, this is I Am Raman, Chapter 10, Legacy.

Raman's death in April 1998 made national headlines.

It was picked up by the Associated Press, printed in newspapers from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette to the New York Daily News.

In articles, he was called a millionaire, an author, a lecturer.

A couple of them called him a cult leader, and I can count six newspapers that called Raman an alleged cult leader or said he had cult like following.

Lisa Erickson remembers seeing the papers in the next day and weeks.

Someone once said to me, this is perhaps the most useful thing someone said to me. It's a colon.

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