When some of the Trappist monks visited MIU later in the 1970’s in their visit
they sat in with philosophy and religion classes. Relating their own
observation based on their experience they found that meditating with ™ mantras
in untranslatable sound value was better than using ‘JESUS’ as ‘the
Actually, Trappist monks in the early 1970’s visited TM looking closely for
spiritual technique outside what they saw as their own confine of practice
within the Church, seeking spiritual experience which the Church evidently did
not have, the monks came then to learn ™ as a spiritual practice.
Interesting though to note the Church in this document carefully carves out
space to reform spirituality within their progressive ranks for Centering
Prayer as taken from TM.
Excerpt in the last paragraphs of the document..
“Many people are convinced that there is no harm in 'borrowing' from
Not New Age?
TM at Vatican Conference,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg
“..I have only a small
flickering light to
guide me in the darkness of a
thick forest. Up comes a
theologian and blows it
out.” -Denis Diderot
---In
“..I have only a small
flickering light to
guide me in the darkness of a
thick forest. Up comes a
theologian and blows it
out.” -Denis Diderot
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Thanks for posting this. It is a remarkable document. Very mental. The
Thanks for posting this. It is a remarkable document. Very mental. The mind
certainly can come up with all kinds of rationalizations, excuses and
perspectives to perpetuate itself. Their defending market share by both
defining the enemy and castigating seems a strategy of sorts of like ™
JESUS CHRIST (not Aquarius) THE BEARER OF THE WATER (OF LIFE)
...Some of the traditions which flow into New Age are: ancient Egyptian occult
practices, Cabbalism, early Christian gnosticism, Sufism, the lore of the
Druids, Celtic Christianity, mediaeval alchemy, Renaissance hermeticism, Zen