I was just listening to an audio book version of War of the Worldviews in which Deepak Chopra and physicist Leaonard Mlodinow present essays of opposing viewpoints on various subjects such as science consciousness etc. I am surprised in a way that Chopra still sounds a lot like Maharishi, and has especially spongy thinking. Mlodinaw is sharp as a tack. In the audio book (which the authors are reading) you get a better idea of how they are regarding their subject matter. However which author's argument you prefer might be a function of how your brain has been preprogrammed. What is interesting in this exchange is Mlodinow is a real physicist and is not making any concessions to Woo and sloppy thinking.
I heard that the Westchester TM in their Spring Celebration showed a video of Bobby Roth interviewing Cameron Diaz, a TM meditator. What I find interesting is I recently watched a movie with Diaz, Bad Teacher, in which her character displays most of the worst characteristics of a human being, things the TM org would not allow any of their members to display in public, but which behind the scenes they do as a matter of course. As long as it provides a means to advertise TM the org will go for it. One could take David Lynch's films, most of which are dark, weird, and murderous as an example of what TM does for the creative mind. I wonder how many in the TMO have watched Lynch's films. I once mentioned one of his films to the governors running one of the facilities, and I was told I shouldn't watch it. So of course I did. It was brilliantly sick, the product of a truly deviant but very creative mind. I loved the film, but I think a lot of meditators, if they saw these things, would crawl out of the room totally disgusted. Of course young people who have not practised TM but are familiar with Lynch would probably find it intriguing that he is promoting meditation, as they would not be familiar with the weird internal world of the TM org. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Another definition of "shill" -- a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty. You have been conned into believing that Maharishi and the TMO deserve your loyalty. Now think this through. If you -- after spending the countless hours, days, weeks, and years you have spent shilling for TM on the Internet over the years -- were to admit to having visited another spiritual teacher, just out of curiosity, how long do you think it would take the organization you've been shilling for to throw you under the bus? The same length of time it took Maharishi to throw Jerry Jarvis under the bus when he refused MMY's orders to not pay the law firm that represented the TMO in the New Jersey court case, or shorter? The same length of time it took Maharishi to throw Chopra under the bus when *he* refused to do what MMY wanted him to do, or shorter?
