--- In [email protected], "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote: > > One thing no revolutionary is about to do is conform wholeheartedly to the > status quo, whether in terms of science or religion. Maharishi would have > gotten nowhere fast had he looked to science to validate his techniques. So > like all visionaries, he spoke the language of his audience as appropriate, > and kept spreading his message. Nothing unusual about that, nor do I see > anything unethical or deceptive about it. His primary aim was to raise the > world's consciousness. In terms of his expression: "The world is as you are", > he succeeded in spades.
Don't you mean "had he NOT looked to science..."? I mean, in Hermit in My House (Maharishi at 433), Helen Olson describes how they set up a little shed in the back yard so that scientific experiments could be done to validate his meditation technique and that would have been 1959.... Lawson
