--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" <anitaoaks4u@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > wgm,Good video clip. I admire you took this bull by the horns and did this > > Youtube clip. It's a good attempt at teaching in a way the TM movement > > can't now. > > > > I do very much remember Maharishi lecturing in detail about this on my TM > > teacher training course (1973). Then at some point in the discussion some > > pointy headed intellectual skeptic got up to the microphone and started a > > line of questions, "...where exactly is this column in the spine?" > > "Where?" After a while of this I could see Maharishi think to himself , > > "well fuck this..." he clammed up entirely right there on the subject and > > went back to transcending meditation 101. He never publicly revisited the > > subject using these terms. > > > Hadn't heard that, thanks. I think it at least needs to be known what the > tmorg's position is on Kundalini, etc. Doesn't mean they have to overtly > teach it, just acknowledge it, it's basic Yoga 101. > >
Yeah, looks like the new TM 'Ved and Physiology' course offering is about as close as they will come. It was already in the works as the founder died so it is okay to release it as a new kind of technique. Their challenge as they evidently see it is to position it given all the railing they have done for so long against other contemplative and concentrating (attention) practices and maintain their market position of the brand and market share. So it is buried now more inside for now as continuing education and narry a chakra or kundalini mentioned. There is certianly a chance the Maharaja will do it with more traditional language as the Ved and Physio model is billed as something he did together with Maharishi. Different from TM though, he could probably progress this and modify the technique of the Ved and Physiology course in a way that TM is more sacrosanct and they would not. It is an interesting dynamic to watch in this post-founder era. -Buck > Don't know enough about Roger Ram's book to discern if it's in there...(maybe > it's 'cloaked' under a different name :-), like vayu (airs) which are prana, > or something. >
