I wrote: (snip) ."..what Maharishi wanted known about the origins of Transcendental Meditation"
(iranitea's italics) Iranitea wrote: Nicely and carefully phrased, Judy. That would be the streamlined party-line - any resemblance to truth is purely incidental. What would be "the streamlined party line"? I wouldn't call Domash's account "streamlined," nor is it the "party line," at least not in any of the origin-story versions I've ever heard. The one I've heard most often is that what Maharishi taught as TM is what Guru Dev taught, which is not what Domash says. I've made that point more than once on FFL. Nor does Domash suggest that Guru Dev ever encouraged Maharishi to teach, or even had any idea that Maharishi might one day do so. But that's another feature of the "party line" versions I've heard, that Guru Dev more or less groomed Maharishi to teach in his name. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Seraphita, if you're interested in what Maharishi wanted known about the origins of Transcendental Meditation (i.e., the specific technique he taught), see here (it's a 1993 post from the Usenet newsgroup alt.meditation.transcendental, now archived on Google Groups): http://tinyurl.com/34bras http://tinyurl.com/34bras The post contains the first half of the introductory essay by Larry Domash to the first volume of the Collected Papers (research studies on TM, published in 1975). The whole thing (that is, the whole first half) is of interest, but Domash gets to the nitty-gritty about the origins of TM in the paragraph beginning "As an unusually talented student..." if you want to skip the background. Rick Archer has said he was present when Domash read the essay to Maharishi for his approval, so we can be pretty sure it reflects the account Maharishi wanted told. (Whether it's 100 percent accurate is anyone's guess.) It doesn't exactly answer your question, but it seems clear that Maharishi didn't simply parrot the meditation instructions given by Guru Dev (or at least didn't want that to be the story).
