1) What, exactly, are the pundits supposed to be paid, beyond room and board? 2) As long as the young students are old enough to be practicing the sidhis, and have been trained in whatever it is they're supposed to be doing, I don't see why its any big deal that they're youngsters. 3) It's impossible to prove any scientific theory. The best you can hope for is corraborating evidence. It's very difficult to conduct large-scale studies on something like this anyway, and while I'm reasonably certain that there is a 'file folder effect" [carefully filing away studies that don't find an effect, rather than publishing them], that doesn't mean that there isn't an effect. And what does "human cognition" have to do with the Maharishi Effect? 4) What the heck are you talking about? 5) I'm sorry if farting and people drinking water drove people away. On my sidhis course 20ish years ago, we definitely noted that swamp gas might be the main ingredient for getting off the ground during Yogic Flying, and I've always tried to do my farting before starting my program but sometimes it doesn't work that way. 6) Again, not sure what you're talking about: I managed to practice TM while in USAF basic training, which is certainly not a place conducive to respect or to sitting for any length of time with your eyes closed. Certainly, its harder to make time to practice meditation if society doesn't respect the practice, but Maharishi Mahesh Yogi almost single-handedly changed Western attitudes about meditation, IMHO, so I think whatever blockages you're finding towards maintaining regular practice are due to internal issues, not external ones. 7) as to whether or not meditation or group Yogic Flying or whatever program-du-jour Maharishi is calling for can have an effect on the rest of the world...
Who can say? But I still don't see where this "mutual respect" issue comes in. If the pundits are doing their thing and it has an effect, then it has an effect whether or not you're getting the respect you think that you deserve. If you're not, then go someplace where you do. What else can I say? --- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not convinced that the pundits are slaves, and I fail to see how the > Maharishi Effect can > be denounced as something not worth achieving because there's no mutual > respect > involved in the process. > > ----There are no groups of trained pundits because they are not paid. What > groups of pundits might exist are, as has been ascertained through eye witnesses, groups of young pundits who don't question people's decisions. See or fail to see. Imagine what you like. > > ----The Maharishi effect has not been proven because the Movement relys on pseudoscience. All notions of some coherence effect based on superconductivity and entropy apply to closed systems and human consciousness is not a closed system, therefore no coherence or entropy can be predicted. If anything, human cognition is more sporadic than the weather. Sem proves this with a punctuation. > > ----Finally, respect has much to do with why the Fairfield community has > ceased to grow. Lack of respect for one another by the Movement lead to people leaving and therefore coherence, as if, has declined. > > > There's no mutual respect involved in practicing TM, either. It seems to me > that the > process under which the alleged ME operates is completely different than > things like > "mutual respect" and the like. > > ----From a TM dynamics there is the mutual respect of inward and outward > 'strokes.' The supression of one or the other os which would prevent the 'effortlessness' of the technique. > > ----One can't have the peace to sit still if no mutual respepct is > considered. People uncapping hot water bottle all through the Domes or farting uncessantly was a lack of respect that made people stay away. Respect is at the heart of all things. In fact, transcendence itself could be called the respect of the awareness. Support of nature could be called mutual respect for that respect given. > > ----Damn Lawson, you made me forget what I meant in the first place by this > post, and that was this, that without mutual respect of society, one can't even self reflect because no condition will support it. Previously in the world people were burned and tortured for merely having a different thought much less for practicing a whole sitting meditating technique. Even now kids with the propensity towards spiritual practice are considered psycho and given drugs. > > ----What there is no proof of is how peace of mind and freedom from war can > be had without mutual respect. Meditation or not. > > ----- > > > > > > 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 > > a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 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/
