--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <wg...@...> wrote: > > My sentiments as well, and yes, I'm sure it is/was tactical, though I > think it will continue to dog them until they come clean and state > emphatically that "TM is not being taught as a Religion" but has its > foundation in Religion and that if you want the benefits of Religion > you must practice Religion. > > They can't have their cake and eat it too, they want TM to be thought > of as non-Religious yet providing all of the benefits of Religion. > Unfortunately, such a course doesn't do justice to TM nor Religion. I > would like it to be called a *Religious Science* which is more > accurate....IMO. >
Pretty good take Billy. My feeling is that MMY thought of TM as surpassing religion. Like religion was for first graders and TM for graduate students. The religion question is partly an east-west issue of the nature of religion. From what I am reading, the mixing of religion and science is common in fundamentalist Hinduism. I posted a link a week or two ago about how fundamentalist Hindus may view Hinduism as inclusive of everything and to illustrate inclusiveness they use the language of science to explain essentially religious concepts. The language of quantum physics has been used not just by the TMO but by Hindu fundamentalists as well. With this sort of world view neither their religion nor their science is ever wrong, and you are just unenlightened or uneducated if you do not buy their reasoning about how it all fits together. Haglin, Nader, et al seem to fall into this camp when talking about TM and science. There are meditators here that fall into the same camp. In contrast, fundamentalist Christians tend towards a more us versus them view of religion and science. If a scientific explanation differs from a religious belief, the science is wrong. Religion trumps science. As another aside, the guys drafted to write letters for Orme-Johnson's site should sound a little less like they had help from the TMO in writing the letters. I am a bit sick of the "600 studies have shown" hoo hah.
