--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > A beautifully written article about TM and the race to > > inner space. > > Funny how she gets so many of her facts wrong, isn't it? > You'd almost think she'd learned TM from some independent > who'd gone *way* off the range. Among other things, > according to her, her teacher gave out the mantras at the > end of the course, as a "graduation ceremony," and he wore > a robe during the initiations.
It's the first law of journalism: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Everything else is right though, the white hanky, high price, but then you read to the end and follow the links to the "plenty of accounts" and you just get a typical disillusionment story from TM-Free and a blog of zero relevance. I think someone has done a bit of research into TM and acquired enough info to pass themselves off as an initiate so as to give the article extra weight. To anyone who does TM regularly it doesn't convince but to someone who doesn't.... The comments section is good though, apparently six million do TM now! I'm sure all the usual suspects are there with the "fact" sheet on the research and proof that bouncing up and down creates world peace. I dunno how they read to a non-practitioner would but to me they just underline how uncritically accepting of things the true believer can be. The facts here are somewhere in the middle of the hysteria from both sides. I could do a better anti-TM article. I could do a better pro-TM article too. > > http://www.alternet.org/economy/transcendental-meditation-how-i-paid-2500-password-inner-peace > > >
