--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to comment on someone's observation that Maharishi took the best > and the brightest of the baby boomers and turned them into bug-eyed cult > zombies.
That's total nonsense. > Another way of looking at it is that he took a bunch of drugged-out > hippies and enabled them to live wholesome, productive lives. When I learned > TM, I had dropped out of high school, had been taking drugs for a year and > was beginning to dabble with heroin, which some of my friends became > addicted to and died from, had been arrested twice, and was in a very > muddled state, mentally. Within a few weeks of learning TM, I had dropped my > druggie friends, gotten a job, enrolled in a community college, made amends > with my father, etc. And things got better from there. Many of us can tell > similar stories. Absolutely. My case wasn't as extreme but Transcendental Meditation got me to stop drug use and to get my act together. My ultra conservative Irish Catholic father whom I'd considered an asshole, became one of my best supporters. After I'd practiced TM for about a year he told me, "That meditation saved your life, boy." And after I became a TM teacher my father asked me to initiate him. Now THAT'S a miracle! And if you had known my father, you'd agree. > This doesn't excuse all the things about MMY and the TMO > that I and others criticize, but I think you have to give credit where > credit is due. It's not fair or honest to paint a totally negative picture. I don't understand what the hell Maharishi has been, and is, doing and I don't like it. But I can't argue with my *experience* of Transcendental Meditation as the best thing I've ever done.
