There's so much wrong with what Sal says here, I can't possibly cover it all. So I'll limit my comments to the most egregious misstatements.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@...> wrote: <snip> > Seriously, there have been some studies but most have > to shown to have been fixed in some way. Simply not the case. <snip> > Of course you can > learn it from a book. Only self-important pompous > fools would try to convince you you needed to shell > out a huge amount of $$ to learn a "secret word." > Don't believe 'em, Denise. The mantra is a different issue from the method of using the mantra. You can get a mantra from a book, but not the method. <snip> > Plenty of people have breached the secret, and I'm pretty sure > you can find it on the Web. Pick whichever mantra appeals to > you, sit down and repeat it for 20 minutes, coming back as > necessary, and voila. You're a meditator. But you'll be highly unlikely to be doing TM.
