Are Holen is the Leader of the Acem. As a student he learned Deep Meditation (TM) in the early 60ths. In 1964, SRM was established in Norway with SRMS Europe Leder Major Henry Nyburg as President and Stud.Psych Are Holen as 2.Chairman. Are Holen teached Hatha-Yoga in a Group called Royal Yoga in co-operation with SRM. Later on he became a TM-Teacher allowed to only teach students. He was looked upon like some GURU and a Genius in SRM and MMY was really firing upon his Ego. Are became the leader of SIMS. After some years Are Holen and some other students (also TM-Teachers) started to ask critical questions about MMYs teaching (they claimed that this is hidden Hinduism), where does all the money go (50 % went to India), lack of book- keeping - Deep meditation is an universal technique (Not MMY Technique) and so on. And they was reacting about the Dogma, Fanaticism, treating MMY as next to God and so on. Pretty much the same questions we ask to day.
Early in the 70ths Are Holen and those who followed him, was kicked out of the TMO - and he started his own organisation teaching Transcendental Meditation. The TMO sued him - the case was that the TMO did not want Are and his followers to use the term Transcendental Meditation. The result was that the TMO had to pay Are Holen and his organisation a lot of money and Are changed the name to ACEM and ACEM- meditation. ACEM is a great success in Norway. They are everywhere, owns a lot of Academies, are very good administrators and organisators. The course-fee is low - but inside the organisation Are Holen is looked upon as a "Maharishi" - strong rules - what are you allowed to eat, how to behave etc. Throughout the years I have teached TM to ex-Acem-meditators. It seems to be different teaching. No Puja - no personal instruction - a group will all get the same "Method-sound". They meditate 30 min. morning and evening and long meditations as we did with MMY in the 60ths. What the ex-Acem-meditators say - is that the experience is deeper with TM - but the Lectures in ACEM is great and interesting. Are Holen is a well-known Physiatric (with a HUGE EGO) and many of the people around him is well educated and have high positions in the Society. ACEM has recently done some research on the result of ACEM-meditation with good results. Well - this was a short-cut about ACEM. Ingegerd --- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Acem Meditation is easy to learn, and involves the repetition of a > simple sound. The meditation method enables the mind to express its own > needs under conditions of greater inner freedom. The point is not to > control your thoughts, but rather the opposite - to let them go. In > Acem Meditation, your mind sets its own agenda, which is particularly > important when working with unconscious processes. Yet it is an active > technique. Nobody influences you. Acem Meditation is something you > practice on your own. The results obtained are solely the effects of > the quality and length of your own practice of the method - they are > not bestowed upon you from the outside - by the grace of God, a guru, > spiritual powers, or the like. > > acem compared to other forms of meditation: > http://acem.com/newsletter/meditation_practices.html > > research: > http://acem.com/english/hard_facts_acem_meditation.html 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/
