Might be that some TB's have never left but just don't have or need a current dome badge. Once a transcendentalist always a transcendentalist.
Eternal Transcendent Field grant, we pray To all Meditators, both night and day, The courage, honor, strength, and skill Their lives to serve, thy law fulfill; Be thou the shield forevermore >From every peril to our meditation. Jai Guru Dev, --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > What would it take for you to become a TM TB again? > > I guess almost any miracle could do the trick for me. If lots of folks > started hovering, or one person hovered in a very scientific setting, I'd > immediately start TM again. > > 1. So, I think of hovering as a proof despite the fact that Turq says that > his Rama guy did it in front of crowds and many times. To me something's > hinky with Turq's reporting, cuz, in my world, real hovering is a feat that > gets the CIA kidnapping your ass. Seems likely that the Rama guy was a > magician, not a MAGICIAN. Show me a true MAGICIAN and I'm sold out. > > 2. If Maharishi came back from the dead, mmmm, yeah that'd do for me too. > > 3. If some sort of class-action suit completely exposed all the finances of > the TMO and showed that -- unbelievably -- all the money went to promoting TM > instead of buying yachts for Girish, AND, if some "knock your socks off > scientific measurements" showed at least some mind-over-matter processes > during TM -- such as some blood chemistry marker that's immediately changed > when one starts meditating and that marker is known so well that scientists > flock to get TM instructions, then, yeah, I might be a redneck, er, TB. > > 4. Okay, anyone coming back from the dead and saying TM works -- yeah, that'd > do it too. Maybe even moreso than if Maharishi came back, cuz, maybe > Maharishi never died and merely faked it so that he could seemingly come back > from the dead, but if, say, Hitler came back and espoused TM, sorry Jews, but > I'll be listening to Adolph. > > 5. If some verifiable ancient document was found that predicted the advent of > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and TM in precise and exacting terms (whatever that > means,) well, that'd turn my head, but the verification had better be > non-controversial and widely accepted by scholars. And/or, if some dead sea > scrolls were found that listed all-and-only the TM mantras, I'd go "Urp, say > what?" > > 6. If a UFO lands and out comes some entity with Maharishi's Gita in its > hands/tenticles, and this entity says something like: "Maharishi is the most > famous teacher in all the cosmos and he's incarnate in over 1,000 bodies on > 1,000 planets." Um, it would get my interest. > > 7. If any MAV products were endorsed by the AMA and the FDA to be powerful > healers, and if physicians reported that their patients were additionally > having spiritual experiences of significant intensity, okay, I'll revisit my > "TM only works somewhat" conclusions. > > 8. If the words "Transcendental Meditation Works" appeared on the Moon and > was easily read by the naked eye by anyone on Earth, okay, that's got me just > like the UFO landing concept got me. > > 9. If a nanobot swarm becomes conscious and form itself into the shape of a > human being and then that entity meditates using a TM mantra -- okay, sign me > up again. > > 10. If Curtis, Vaj, Turq, and their ilk started TM again and reported that, > despite the long lapse of time since they last meditated, that they were NOW > having tremendous, full-reality, spiritual experiences with gods, angels, et > al, then, hey, I'd sit in the chair for at least a few attempts. > > You? What would it take? > > Edg >
