I received Checking notes various times and never saw anything about blackouts...a long time ago but as I remember it.
--- On Sat, 6/21/08, authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [FairfieldLife] More from Knapp To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 2:06 PM First, if you'd like to get a better idea of why many of us do not find Trancenet a reliable source of information <understatement> on TM/MMY/the TMO, have a look at this page: http://www.trancenet.net/secrets/checking/overview.shtml >From my perspective as a long-time TMer and trained (but not certified) checker, this page is a very carefully calculated mixture of truths, fractional truths, deliberately misleading statements, and outright falsehoods. One example: "[1] In the Introductory and Preparatory lectures, the Maharishi has insisted that there are no negative side effects from TM. [2] Yet, a significant portion of both Three Days and Individual Checking Notes are about how to deal with headaches, "blackouts," involuntary movements, and other negative side effects. [3] How does he explain this? By insisting that any such effects come from incorrect practice." [1] True. [2] Deliberately misleading. It's true that a "significant portion" of the checking notes are about how to deal with the various occurrences Knapp lists, but the length of that portion is *vastly" out of proportion to how often it's used in actual checking sessions. It's a just-in-case section that rarely needs to be referred to. [3} False in the case of involuntary movements. Only partially true in the case of headaches (they *may* be caused by exerting subtle effort, but may have other causes). Don't know about "blackouts" because my checking notes don't mention them (I took checker training in the early '80s, so they may have been updated to remove any such mention). I recall meditators asking about blackouts at advanced lectures and on residence courses, but there was never any suggestion from the teacher that they were due to "incorrect practice." Second, I deleted the last paragraph of one of Knapp's Trancenet Alert "press releases" because I wanted to highlight it separately. He writes, in a parenthetical after repeating his warning that another Jonestown may be imminent: "(As fate would have it, the Guyana massacre happened during my Teacher Training Phase III. I remember we all held our breath when the TV anchorman announced a massacre among a religious community in Central America. Was he talking about the Maharishi's World Peace Project? Many of us had TM governor friends in Central America at that very moment, rounding to save the world from nuclear disaster.)" The "World Peace Project" Knapp refers to involved groups of TM-Sidhis practitioners going to various trouble spots (Nicaragua for one) to do their program together. The TMers weren't there to "save the world from nuclear disaster," but rather with the goal of calming down ongoing local hostilities. Nor, of course, were Knapp and his TTC buddies "holding their breaths" because they feared a Jonestown-like tragedy among the TMers in Nicaragua. Rather, they were concerned that the TMers might have become innocent casualties of the fighting--a very real possibility which, thankfully, did not occur. This little "anecdote" exemplifies Knapp's penchant for intentionally misleading his readers with fractional truths, a tendency that pervades the Trancenet material on TM. ------------------------------------ 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
