--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I'm not sure if you'l find this relevant but... > I used to work in the TM press office and one day a > really negative article came in that actually had > someone in tears as it was so critical of MMY. I > asked the press officer, a damn nice chap who is > now a Raja bless him. I asked him how bad a peice > has to be before they would sue anyone and he said > they *never* sued no matter what was said because > either they are right, in which case it's our karma. > Or it's wrong, in which case it's theirs. I thought > that was quite an enlightened perspective. He also > caught me spending a lot of time replying to negative > e-mails and told me not to bother because rolling > in the dirt just creates negativity in the mind > when we should be concentrating on the positive at > all times. > > Not as much fun though is it ;-)
Nope! In any case, two TMO-related organizations *did* sue Andrew Skolnick for that disgraceful muck- raking article he wrote for JAMA, and that certainly must have been with blessings from the top. > I used to do the same thing as you for quite a > while, I was always defending the ME and the research > but you might have noticed I'm not so into it now. > Funny how we can change, I never thought I would > get so sceptical about it all. But then I was never > a believer and the only Darwinist at the academy so > maybe it was just a matter of time. Sheesh. What was everybody else? > I think my criticisms of the research are fair but > it's a work in progress. Trouble is they don't do > enough research into the most contentious aspects > of MMYs teachings. Such as? You mean the Maharishi Effect?
