I just received this message from Germany. I think it will be of interest Ingegerd
Dear Ingegerd, "just by chance" I became aware of the "FAIRFIELDLIFE" discussion- group and read the "BURGER" thread. (I do not want to join the group at this moment, because I am busy with some TM-research-stuff and group-discussions take away one's time before one even is aware... May be I join the group a bit later) But ... the theme of the independent TM "I TM" burst in Germany, too, especially after the recertification campaign of the TMO. I started a new NETWORK of independent TM teachers, who want to continue their work (teaching, initiating) after having been "kicked out" by the TMO. We made connection with Colin Beckley and Chris Greathead in the UK, whose web-address has just been given by "Claudiouk". I became initiator in 1969 in India and did the first psychological research about TM (was in the booklet 1972, see Coll. papers. No. I). I left the movement in 1988 but continued lecturing, initiating, researching and publishing (about TM-effects) in research papers ever since. Of the 1500 initiators at the end of the seventies there is only a small portion left - may be 100 or 200 - most of them have left the movement and a few are still teaching and initiating on their own. We are interested in interconnecting our network internationally - we do not aim at a new "movement". This is the same with Colin and Chris in the UK - no "movement", but a connection or network of independent TM-teachers worldwide. In Germany about 88 participants are taking the recertification training (don't know the relation between tm-teachers and sidhas). But a considerably greater and still growing number of experienced initiators in Germany are hiding away and initiating on their own without making a fuss about it. There are quite similar price-philosophies as Yours here. We regularly charge 390 Euro and less for students, housewifes etc. Like You, I don't recommend the sidhis to my meditators. You may post this mail to the group or tell them about this initiative in Germany, mail-contacts and questions are welcome. Hope You may understand my website partially ? best wishes Theo Fehr ******************************************************** IPPM Institute of Personality Psychology and Meditation Dir.: Dipl.-Psych. Theo Fehr, BDP Psychol. Psychotherapist Supervisor, BDP Advisory Council, SMMR Society for Meditation and Meditation Research Member, EAPP European Association of Personality Psychology Eftweg 6, D - 46487 Wesel tel + 49 281 97369 fax +49 281 97 22 186 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.i-p-p-m.de ******************************************************** To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
