Thought I'd take a shot at answering some of my own questions:
What would a completely secularized set of meditation and
self-development techniques LOOK LIKE? If you were to design one or
speculate about one, what would it involve and not involve?
No teacher reverence, and no hierarchy. There
Today I found myself remembering something Vaj said -- that one of the
reasons mindfulness is making inroads into PC-sensitive environments
such as publicly-funded schools, in which other techniques such as TM
might encounter difficulties, is that mindfulness can be completely
secularized. It can