The basic TM intro in 1955 and the instructions for the practice was the same in 1956 as it is today. According to what I've read, the instructions from MMY are almost the exact same instructions as what I learned from Jerry Jarvis in 1968 at the first SIMMS course in L.A., up to and including the basic intro lecture and instruction by TM Teachers at the TM Ideal Village, home of the the Maharishi Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Radiance, Texas in 2015.
"According to T. Rama Rao, perhaps the very first initiate, the technique of meditation and its instruction was exactly the same as it is taught today by TM teachers throughout the world." Work cited: The Origins of the S.R.M. A scholarly report by J. Randolph Coplin, Ph.D. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : I heard *mother* Olsen/Olson, whatever , give an intro around '67 and don't remember it being anything like what became standard about the time you're referring to. It was very abstract and way over my head. Of course, I was a sixteen year old kid at the time .A lot of talk about Being and Bliss...WTF was that? I just knew the Beatles did it and that made it cool. From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 2:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Question for TM teachers from the 1960's When I learned TM in 1974 the standard intro lecture was TM is a simple, natural, effortless mental technique practiced 20 minutes twice a day. But that seems to have been the TM spin AFTER the science jag Marshy lit upon in about 1970. What was the intro lecture in the 1960's? Anyone here who became a teacher in the 1960's remember what the intro was like?
