I think there was one meta analysis indicating that the factor determining TM's effectiveness is its effortlessness. I'd guess that Benson and others were and are smart enough to pick up on that factor.
I've taken Ved and Physiology twice. Are you referring to watching the model when you speak about effortless mindful TM? I'm not familiar with Centering Prayer. Perhaps the Catholics found some root of it in their own heritage and thus didn't feel an attribution was needed. In any case, Phil is a very interesting guy. I would guess he still does TM and feels gratitude for that. But he's appreciative of other systems too. So not a conservative TMer in that sense. ________________________________ From: Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 9:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra found on Mars --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > > Just came from Phillip Goldberg's book signing for American Veda. Standing > Room Only upstairs in Revelations Bookstore and Cafe. Humorous, > intelligent, humble man who began TM and has come to appreciate how all the > systems have benefited Western culture. He interviewed over 300 people. I > think even the most rigorous of the FFL scholars would enjoy his book. > > Yep, Phil Goldberg. It was interesting how upset he was with the Catholics for taking from TM to teach their 'Centering Prayer' without attribution. I guess it is the dishonesty in so doing. But the more generalized observation that meditation taught by a wide range of thought now commonly incorporates 'effortlessness' in to particular systems shows a current trend. Though it even goes the other way too where within TM now they are teaching a guided meditation in the Ved and Physiology class using an effortless mindful transcendence meditation. That was the last technique that Maharishi was working on before his death. The times they are a-changing. Resistance is futile, effortlessness has been assimilated. -Buck in the Dome > > > ________________________________ > From: Richard J. Williams <richard@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:42 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra found on Mars > > >  > > > Shri Chakra found on Mars > > > > wgm4u : > > Finally willytex can rest in peace! > > > Everyone knows the real Sri Chakra is up in > Oregon, Billy. There's simply no way anyone > could fly to and imprint another one on Mars! > > > > "It wasn't. it took them quite a few days, > working in the hot sun. I just took a while > before the National Guard pilot noticed it. > I know the guys involved and see them > regularly to this day: Bill Witherspoon, > Bob Hoerlein, Mark Petrick, I think Michael > Cain, a few others. I've seen photos of them > working on the project. I believe in aliens > and tend to believe they are involved in > many of the crop circles, but they weren't > involved in the Oregon yantra." > FairfieldLife: 184865 > You decide: > http://youtu.be/1mr2G1_UYWY > "About this time a friend asked if I could > make a Sri Yantra. The Sri Yantra is a > traditional design from India that is thought > of as an instance or occurrence (rather than > a symbol) of the deepest laws and forces > of Mother Nature or Mother Divine. I spent a > few months doing extensive library research > on the Sri Yantra and also spoke with people > who had experienced its use in India as part > of the spiritual tradition of Sri Vidya. > Then I decided it would be consistent with > its traditional use to make one from gold > leaf and transparent pigments..." > India Divine: > http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/ >
