--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: David Orme-Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:29 PM > > > To: David Orme-Johnson > > > Subject: New section on TM and Cults posted on Truth About TM > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Friends and Colleagues, > > > > > > > > > > > > The links below will take you to a new page and subsections on > > > www.TruthAboutTM.com <http://www.truthabouttm.com/> , which presents > > > evidence that the Transcendental Meditation program in not cult. > > You can > > > see some of the post below. > > > > > > > > > > > > All the best, > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------- > > > > > > Individual Effects > > > > > > Issue: Is the Transcendental Meditation Program a Cult? > > > > > <http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaCult/index.c > > fm > > > > > > > > > > Summary: > > > > > > The Transcendental Meditation program cannot be called a cult > > because it > > > develops independent, intelligent, creating thinking and its > > founder, > > > Maharishi, has in many ways encouraged personal independence, > > > integration with society, and good citizenship. > > > > > > Contents: > > > > > > Table Comparing the Transcendental Meditation Program and Cults > > > > > <http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaCult/index.c > > fm > > > #tablecult> > > > > Change the word "programme" to "movement" and then see what you get. > > > > The TMO is a cult by just about any definition. Here's the first > > dictionary you get in google: > > > > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cult > > > > ". a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and > ceremonies." > > > Which system of religious worship with reference to rites and ceremonies do > YOU practice when you sit down for 20 minutes x2?
Actually I said: Change the word "programme" to "movement" and then see what you get, because I'm not convinced you can seperate the two. When I say my mantra I'm making a prayer to Lakshmi, and it the mantra came via a ceremony praising, indeed bowing down before, all manner of gods, deities, "aspects of natural law" whatever you want to call them it couldn't be any more obvious, once you've read the English translation. And the TMO considers me initiated. Initiated into what exactly? And that is before you adopt the highly strange and obviously religious belief system that the TMO will insist is the absolute truth against all the available evidence. Dude, the first stage of escaping cults is realisation that you've been duped in the first place.. > Lawson >
