--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On Jun 28, 2009, at 11:15 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > >>> Who cares, Vaj? > >> > >> Apparently quite a few people, if this list and others are any > >> testament. I suspect the people it would mean the most (or perhaps > >> least) to are people who lost a loved one because of it, either > >> through bad health advice, suicide, a life wasted in a cult, > >> dissociative disorders, etc., etc. > > > > > > > > > > ...and virtually none of the things you've listed have ANYTHING to > > do with the simply mental technique of TM. > > TM is to the TM Org what the Catholic Mass is to Roman Catholicism. > It's the keystone of the whole business, it's the basis of TM-style > "unstressing redemption" and the glue that holds it all together. > > When it was clear TM didn't work, they introduced other items to sell > that 'you just had to have' for your evolution. TM can no longer even > be taught in a regular building. Heaven forbid it has a south-facing > door! > > Really, if a person insists on wanting to learn commercial Hindu > mantra meditation, they'd be better off getting if from Sri Sri Ravi > Shankar. > Funny, you would mention Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, as the authority... He is a first hand disciple of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi...according to him... So, if you believe Ravi, then your proposition here, makes little sense...
To compare the 'Blood Sacrifice' ceremony of the Romans' to anything which Maharishi taught, is as ridiculous as Roman Catholism is to anything which Jesus really taught... That is Jesus' teaching had nothing to do with 'Guilt', and the Roman Catholic Church bases it's whole teaching on fear and guilt. The whole Roman Catholic thing was made up to extract the Jewishness from Jesus, and make it the state religion of Rome, in the 4th Century... This was followed by the 'Dark Ages' in Europe, and the many horrific instances of murder, in the name of Religion...burning at the stack, the Spanish Inquisition, etc... r.g.
