--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > If it WAS in common use, they couldn't have made it a trademark > > > > > > BTW, Transcendental Meditation couldn't be > > > trademarked in the U.K. and several other > > > countries precisely *because* it was > > > considered to be too common a phrase. > > > (Not an *everyday* phrase, certainly, but > > > common enough, presumably in spiritual > > > circles.) > > > > P.S.: I'm not suggesting that what the non-MMY > > term referred was the same as TM. And come to > > think of it, it isn't impossible that he stuck > > in "deep" at first to distinguish what he was > > teaching from whatever else was being taught or > > referred to as transcendental meditation. > > Again, it was NOT a common phrase with or without deep > before MMY started using it.
Not an *everyday* term, as I said, but in use in spiritual circles and discourse (without the "deep"). > The UK law precludes the trademarking of words that are simply descriptions of the > product service, but prior to MMY, "transcendental meditation" and "transcendental deep > meditation" were NOT common phrases. > > Show me where the Transcendentalists (for example) used > either phrase. I don't believe I claimed the Transcendentalists used it, did I? I gave you two URLs to sites that use it without any reference to TM or Maharishi. As I said, to find other references I'd have to go to a library that carried older spiritual books to find other uses, but obviously I'm not going to go to that sort of trouble for such a silly dispute. If you want to conclude that I'm lying about having heard many complaints about MMY's appropriation of the term, fine, believe what you want.
