I got my first and only advanced technique on TTC from Maharishi. Many
others did too. Something strange happened on the flight home as some
were asking people if they remembered the advanced technique they got.
Seems some didn't. I was confused for years between two versions. Each
gave a different experience. Remember this was years before the mantras
were posted online. And two mantra check letters to Maharishi got me
nowhere. This is part of why I soured on the movement. Just like
software, you get no support you go elsewhere.
On 01/21/2016 11:55 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
The last penny I gave the TMO was for fourth advanced technique back
in the 90's.
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*From:* salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:28 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday! David Lynch Turns
70 Today
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
LOL! Me to!
Yeah, I found it very annoying to listen to him as well. Wish I could
have fallen asleep.
I was usually good for about ten minutes but when he closed his eyes
and started rambling it was like WTF!
But the problem with dozing during rounding courses is that it can all
sink in and you start believing it all anyway, and before you know it
you're saying "I got some nature support today" when what you meant to
say was "There was an available table at the cafe this morning."
There's a vast gulf in sanity between those two statements, and it
creeps up on you without you realising it, and before you know it
you've got the yagya service on speed dial....
Not that I ever did any of that obviously....
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*From:* salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:46 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday! David Lynch Turns
70 Today
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
I once heard Maharishi talk about his early days while in Germany. He
said that the German teachers had told him, in so many words, "if you
can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit", an
old W.C. Fields quote. Of course M didn't use those words but that was
the gist of it. Try to talk *above* your audience. And of course, that
explains the *flowery* speak the TMO is noted for. You're so baffled
by the idiocy of how something is presented to you that the substance
escapes your critical thinking.
If it wasn't for the food and the fact I like meditating I would have
run a mile when they said that I shouldn't try and understand it, but
let it sink in at a deep level. Marshy's lectures always annoyed me
with the rambling and the logical inconsistencies, I used to fall
asleep and let it all wash over me until the dinner gong went.
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*From:* salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:51 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday! David Lynch Turns
70 Today
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
It's called *getting them in the door, by hook or by crook*. If you
were a student of foreign languages, someone would come up with a
study that says TM fine tunes the ear, making it easier to hear and
thus pronounce words in a foreign language better. Whatever floats
your boat in other words.
Yes, I was being rhetorical. It's obvious he's a front man for the
same old BS from the TMO, blind 'em with science and hope they don't
follow the links from the impressive looking list of journal references.
Remember the references they cited when they wanted everyone to buy
houses that faced east? A list of 10 papers in the International
Journal of Neurophysiology no less, but follow the link and it turned
out to be a bunch of interesting, but irrelevant, stuff about how rats
find their way about in the dark. Nothing about inherent direction
finding in mammals, and even if there was it would be magnetic and
therefore north/south based. Why would a mammal be east sensitive?
Anyway, they were obviously hoping no one would actually go and look.
I always thought Lynch was there to project an image simply of the
benefits of meditation without all the silly woo-woo that is
associated with TM like the levitation that isn't, and yagyas and
world peace creation. That stuff goes down well with the True Believer
but the average Joe will see through it in a second, hence the need
for a new approach with a bit of apparently independent celebrity
endorsement. The website looks great but it looks like he's borrowed
the same approach - and undoubtably written by the same people - from
the TMO.
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*From:* salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 20, 2016 3:14 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday! David Lynch Turns 70 Today
My first glance at Lynch's website doesn't fill me with hope that the
TMO have started playing straight with the facts. He makes a claim for
51% reduction in physical problems associated with HIV/AIDS and
provides a link to references. Follow the link and there are only two
papers related to HIV/AIDS, one unpublished one by MUM, and another
that admits in its own abstract that the sample size was too small to
justify the claims and further research is needed for validation. And
in any case, was only related to vitality and not physical problems.
I know people who have died of AIDS and I am pissed off that the TMO
would potentially try and get the hopes up of sick people with the
usual dump of impressive sounding claims that aren't backed up. So
where is the data, did I miss something? My best guess from reading
that lot is that they are extrapolating from their other unconnected
"research", but look down the list of references and it's all the same
old stuff from the collected papers that no one ever rated as quality
research, sure some of the newer stuff might be better but is it
relevant?
Another of the claims for TM as an HIV/AIDS treatment great for
anxiety and depression, are there any papers on mental health TM and
AIDS patients? No. There's a few website testimonials but we all know
they prove nothing. Besides, I know so many long term TMers that get a
bit of extra help for personal problems that I've lost count, just as
well they weren't included in the research huh? And then there's the
FF Mental Health Alliance, does Lynch know about this blatant
contradiction of the claims on his website?
I'm curious, can anyone else find a decent bit of research actually
showing that TM helps people with AIDS in the way they claim on
Lynch's site?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mikemail4you@...> wrote :
Birthday Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1hUSumUc4k
THE GREEK HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG FOR DAVID LYNCH, sung by Demetrios
Kanellakos, JANUARY 20, 2016
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DAVID LYCH INSPIRED HALF OF HOLLYWOODS STARS
TO SPONSER THE DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION
TO BRING TM TO MORE THAN 200 000 SCHOOLKIDS
AND VETERANS AND OTHERS WHO NEED HELP
TO BECOME FIT FOR LIFE AND DEVELOP THEIR
FULL POTENTIAL.
AMONG THE STARS WHO MEDITATE ARE
JERRY SEINFELD AND KATHY PERRY,
THE 2 MOST SUCCESSFULL ARTISTS OF 2015...
PLEASE ENJOY DAVIDS WONDERFULL INSPIRING WEBSITE:
https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
“The Quiet Time Program is the most powerful, effective program I’ve
come across in my 40 years as a public school educator. It is
nourishing these children and providing them an immensely valuable
tool for life. It is saving lives.”
—James S. Dierke, Executive Vice President, American Federation of
School Administrators
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