--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > A friend sent me this. As I read it I thought of the people on FFL who feel > that TM is a watered down, ineffectual technique. You know I have my issues > with the TM Movement. I agree that the research is cherry-picked for use as > a PR tool. Decades of TM practice doesn't necessarily make you an honest, > ethical, compassionate person, etc., etc. But I take issue with > fundamentalists on either side of the issue who see the world in black and > white. There are many accounts of dramatic transformation with TM, including > my own, my mother's and others I have witnessed firsthand. I think that a > balanced perspective requires acknowledging these, then throwing in all the > crazy stuff, then trying to make sense of it all. >
Rick, When did the TM critics on this forum ever offer a "balanced perspective?" Those who think TM doesn't do anything will ALWAYS think TM doesn't do anything. Even with your generous preface acknowledging their same of tired complaints: TM is watered down TM is ineffectural TM research is cherry-picked TM doesn't make you an ethical person It seems to me the fundamentalist you refer to are the TM critics NOT TM'ers like Judy, who answered the TM critics to this post with measured logic. The only respondents that bashed your post with outrageous comments and DO have an ax to grind are TM critics, FFLife's own brand of fundamentalist so attached to attacking anything positive about TM they can't piss or see straight. Not one TM critic had the balls to challenge you personally for saying TM had a positive effect on your mother. Why is that, Rick? Fucking cowards that they are, the fundy TM critics are willing to make up shit about someone you posted about and ignore what you posted about your mother. If they had any integrity at all they would challenge your positive claims for TM as well as the claims of the post you shared with us. Let's see them hold YOUR feet to the fire. Ha! Ain't gonna happen. Cowards. > "I initiated his mother, who was in the hospital. It was a very dramatic TM > benefit. She had had ovarian or uterine cancer and the radiation treatment > had destroyed most of her intestines, pretty much turning them into Swiss > cheese. The doctors needed to operate but she was too weak. She kept asking > for more pain meds every few minutes. > > "I initiated her in the hospital. She was just alert enough to follow the > instructions, but too weak to sit, she was lying down, only slightly propped > up. After her first few minutes of TM she looked at me wondrously and said, > "I feel good." When I came back for the first night of checking, her son met > me at the door and said the nurses were all wondering what she was doing > because instead of asking for more pain meds every few minutes, when they > came to give her her shot she sent them away, saying she was meditating and > didn't need or want it. At the end of the week she was strong enough for > surgery. I heard from her son several years later that she had made a > complete recovery and was still well." >
