--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: >
> > David's attempt to make the case for TM (even just the practice) not > being a belief system seems bogus to me. There are so many beliefs > that you have to buy into to support the practice of TM and their > source is all the same: Maharishi said so. What happens for long term > practicers IMO is that they forget how many beliefs have to be in > place to make it all work because they have become unconscious > presuppositions which are beyond challenge. Our past discussion about > the complex stress release "normalizing the nervous system" belief > package is a case in point. > Oh yes, you have to take this on faith. They say you do not have to believe anything to practice TM, but I say why would you practice TM unless you believed in it? You don't have to believe in God to pray either. Both are just techniques, after all.
