--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> 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.
When I meditate (haven't said my mantra in years), I'm not making a prayer to anyone. Sounds to me like you're not practicing TM, but some faux-hindu version you picked up from hanging around faux hindus too long. > > 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. > Why do you adopt it then? > Dude, the first stage of escaping cults is realisation that you've > been duped in the first place.. Never been duped. I just don't buy into all the Maharishi-isms. Lawson
