--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Again, though, the circuit is within one's own consciousness, not a circuit between one's consciousness and something external (at least in the esoteric TM context).
About this reply -- Most religions, or at least people's understanding of them, are based on something external to oneself which one is in relationship with. How could anyone who follows a religion embrace the above idea? It seems this argument won't work to convince many people who are invested in a religion that the mantras do not have any implication for their religious convictions.
