Have you run this by Jamesalan yet? I believe he is our self appointed compliance officer.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Well yes, there is a 'faith' aspect for some inside of TM that may be different from those just practicing the meditation. Is that Religious? Possibly, Re-read the Federal District Court opinion about the establishment of religion. Where is the religion in TM? Locate a faith-based element of the TM movement that evidently is at the intersection of a 'Faith and belief' in Maharishi and his teachings beyond just practicing the technique. A significance in faith as it is judged in TM movement culture and organizational policy guideline that proscribes membership is where just being a practitioner can run up against the religious of TM who administrate the TM movement. Where is the religion in just practicing a technique? A: using the criteria laid out by the Federal District Court in its opinion a culture of an organization could be adapted to being a non-theistic new religion by some. Are TM and SCI now new religions for some? [Federal Court opinion: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419588 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419588 ] ..“Indica” of religion: 'Ultimate ideas', 'Comprehensive', 'Structure'.
