On 1/7/2014 5:09 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > M's movement that shows it was clearly religion. > You must have been taught a different basic "TM" than I was taught. There was no mention of any beliefs in my instructions from Jerry Jarvis. My instructions were so simple I could repeat the here in just a few words: Sit quietly and close your eyes, then feel the body as a whole; start the mantra, just like any other thought; when you realize you're not thinking about the mantra, just come back to it. Do this for about 20 minutes morning and evening. If you need tobe checked on your mediation, it's free. Nobody mentioned anything about God or gods in my instruction.
It's pretty difficult to make a religion out of a simple stress relief program. From what I've read, you may have slipped into a trance-induction state. Some people also have a condition known as susceptibility in which they become very prone to being manipulated in order to get some free work done, such as baking bread for students in a cafeteria and living in a pod. You took a simple relaxation technique and tried to turn it into a religion - and when it became unsatisfying you quit the TM, but kept the conditioned mindset. In psychology this is called transference - you transferred your own personal spiritual failure to believe into a means to blame others for your down disapointment. If you had just stuck with the basic TM instead of trying to turn it into a cult, you would probably have done much better. You failed to realize that MMY or the TMO have NOTHING to do with your transcending.
