I've never been impressed by Randi as I found his "research" often just
to be a "magic trick" itself. I was even less impressed after seeing
the documentary. I noticed that as a kid he was already cocky and
narcissistic and this whole shtick has been to make himself look smarter
than others. I also noticed that through his career he seemed to avoid
the field of Indian philosophy and yoga.
Sure there are charlatans out there but there is also whole fields of
applied physics not yet understood.
On 12/09/2014 08:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
If you think my writing are harmful to the subtle bodies, at least to
mine, I wonder what you think the fate of people like James Randi will
be? I just wish he has gotten a-hold of faker liar Marshy during his
huckster lifetime.
Randi did investigate the Maharishi Effect when it was first announced
in Fairfield. They claimed that so much peace had descended because of
the meditators on the town that the police were laying people off
because they had nothing to do.
One phone call to the chief later, and it turned out the opposite was
true and they were hiring new officers. Randi felt that was all the
research he had to do. Others got stuck in to the published papers on
the ME but I would have loved to see the TMO take up the now defunct
$1,000,000 challenge to prove they could create action at a distance,
that would have made for some quality TV.
I also found this:
"Randi came to be aware of TM through his friend and fellow magician,
Doug Henning. “I knew [Henning] very well as a kid, and later as a
mature magician. We were always in touch…” Randi describes a deeply
cultic relationship between Henning and Transcendental Meditation that
would destroy Henning’s career and eventually take his life. Henning’s
career as a television magician was compromised as he strove to hire
only TM initiates to work on the set. According to Randi, this was not
only problematic for the fact that it was difficult to find people
within TM who were talented in television production, but “every so
often they went in to meditation and work just stopped…” Eventually,
TV executives grew weary of Henning’s professional antics.
Henning became even more deeply involved with TM following his
diagnosis of liver cancer, eventually removing himself from contact
with non-TM practitioners. “He gave up all medical care… the Maharishi
had told him that he could recover from his liver cancer simply from
meditating… he meditated himself to death.” Henning died in February
of 2000.
“I’m so angry at the TM movement,” says Randi, “for having taken an
innocent person.”"
Rest is here:
Lies, Levitation, and Defamations Most Foul : THE PROCESS IS…
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