--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know, that's one of the claims I'm inclined to > think may be accurate, based on my own experience. > > Fairly shortly after I'd started TM, I attended a > lecture at Lucis Trust at a friend's urging. They > began the program with a group meditation. I > expected a group meditation with several hundred > people would be pretty neat, based on my experience > of having meditated with a group before TM advanced > lectures. (I hadn't at that point heard anything > about only meditating with other TMers.) > > So they began the meditation. I did TM; I don't know > what others were doing, but I assume most of them > weren't doing TM. And I was disappointed, because > it felt kind of chaotic, not at all like meditating > with others at the TM center. > > That's been my experience on several other occasions > as well when I participated in a group non-TM > meditation.
Yes, I believe I know what you mean, Judy -- I have experienced similar "disappointments" with large groups of non-TMers on occasion -- though I have experienced the same sort of quality in the dome at times, and also at times experienced a terrific coherence in small groups of non-TMers. So while not invalidating your experience in the slightest, I am not in a hurry to embrace the other pole either :-) 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/
