I think the domes have some effect, much as I have gripes against the movement. I used to teach school at MIU Elementary, often missing the domes because I was in rebellion at the time, or just plain busy correcting papers. Every day when superradiance time came, I felt an intense calm, an intense inward pull, that was undeniable, despite how much I detested the movement at that time. The fact used to piss me off, actually. I wanted TM to be either all bad or all good. One event engraved this experience in my memory. I had had a bad ear infection some months before, requiring a tube insertion. When the doctor removed the tube, the hole in the eardrum was expected to close. But it never did. Months went by, and the doc said I needed surgery to close the hole, as it wasn't going to close spontaneously. I said, "What is the longest time I can wait til I have to get the surgery?" He said, "Another month tops, but why wait? It isn't going to close if it didn't do it within the first few weeks." About two weeks after that conversation, while I was playing hooky from superradiance as I liked to do, sitting in my dorm room reading, suddenly - POP! - something happened inside my ear. Turns out the hole spontaneouly closed, I'm assuming in that moment. About 100 yards from the dorm in my "frat room." I think we can affect the universe by touching down on the deepest layer of consciousness and thinking thoughts from there. That's one thing TM had right. We may not be established in pure consciousness, but that isn't necessary to move nature. You just have to get your fingers on the keyboard of the cosmic computer for a few moments and tap in whatever you like. Formulaic expressions, as we got in the siddhi sutras, aren't necessary. Not even that useful, in my opinion. Kinda like canned vegies as opposed to the real ones, which is probably why they don't produce many results. But Patanjali's principle is sound: you can create reality by thinking thoughts from the heart of consciousness. That is, after all, the generation point of the universe. - Bronte
"BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my short stay in the dome in the 80's I'm sure I was counted as being one Siddha in the dome, and I can say that I am NOT enlightened and therefore was NOT functioning from the Home of ALL the Laws of Nature, far from it! So you do the math, how could the ME effect possibly be accurate? Now if you mean I had some *faint* awareness of Being (or the home of all the laws of nature)then yes, but has Hagelin (or MMY) ever defined what it means to be functioning from the home of all the laws of nature? and just what IS the *Home of all the Laws of Nature*? --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.