"That creates problems in some environments. The dedicated people in those environments -- teachers, therapists, health care professionals and even law enforcement or prison officials -- are DYING for techniques that would help the people they're dedicated to helping. But many of these people are also very Politically Correct savvy, and realize that if they introduce a technique or set of techniques into their environment that is PC-controversial, the controversy is pretty much guaranteed to hit the fan. That's just the nature of the times we live in."
"In comparison, TM is very much proprietary source software. It cannot really ever be completely divorced from its origins in Hindu (or, if you prefer, Vedic) trappings." Except with enough science, and using the mantras only for their 'sound value', could TM or some of these other mantra meditations become secular enough to legally teach in public schools without crossing that church-state line? Can these kind of mantra meditations, like over in that other 'Mantra meditation' thread, ever be something other than creeping hindu-ism into our public schools? Using mantras un-related to meaning but as vibratory sound that seem to work in experience. Prognosis for TM in the schools? Would seems their camel's nose is in under the tent thus far. Does precedent count for something, generally in this? Just wondering. -B --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > "What would a completely secularized set of meditation and > > > self-development techniques LOOK LIKE?" > > > > > > -The Holy Grail > > > > > * * Over the years I have really enjoyed the Holy Grail corpus and loved > > its Unitive emphasis on alchemy, feminism, and ecology, particularly when I > > was unable to completely embrace the church, but is it really completely > > secularized? Or could it be? > > > > > Well, finding the meditation grail as in, = teaching meditation in schools or > other public institutions. >
