I’d like to comment on someone’s observation that Maharishi took the best and the brightest of the baby boomers and turned them into bug-eyed cult zombies. Another way of looking at it is that he took a bunch of drugged-out hippies and enabled them to live wholesome, productive lives. When I learned TM, I had dropped out of high school, had been taking drugs for a year and was beginning to dabble with heroin, which some of my friends became addicted to and died from, had been arrested twice, and was in a very muddled state, mentally. Within a few weeks of learning TM, I had dropped my druggie friends, gotten a job, enrolled in a community college, made amends with my father, etc. And things got better from there. Many of us can tell similar stories. This doesn’t excuse all the things about MMY and the TMO that I and others criticize, but I think you have to give credit where credit is due. It’s not fair or honest to paint a totally negative picture.
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