On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:48 PM, sandiego108 wrote:
I don't know of any that do-- all of the Buddhist techniques are so weak there is no chance of it, and there's no evidence that TM and TMSP do. However, when offering something to the general population, anything can be abused. Especially in the West, where the application of more effort to overcome problems is an accepted practice.
Well that's what happens when you label and indoctrinate negative meditational experiences as "unstressing" and then declare "unstressing" as something positive. In a closed system where that doctrine is adhered to and widely disseminated, the only people you are likely to hear it from are one that's, through their own objectivity or through the intervention of others found the TMO unstressing concept incorrect or untenable, found the experiences unhelpful and quit TM/TMSP and/or left the org.
In a closed system like the TMO on-the-program scene, the ones who declare unstressing as actually non-productive are labelled as heretics or off-the-program.
Surely you've heard the stories of people being bussed home or sent away?
Personally I always thought it would be very interesting to study the ones having the severe unstressing more closely and see what it is doing to the physical nervous system and so on. If it's truly "purification of the nervous system" why aren't they studying that in the ones showing the greatest signs of "purification"?
