> > To my knowledge he [Herbert Benson] 
> > never got initiated. I drove him from Harvard
> > down to Yale and back one time during the days when the TMO was 
> > using him as a spokesman. He felt that getting initiated would 
> > compromise his objectivity.
> 
> Wonder whether it had occurred to him by that time
> that if he didn't learn TM, he would have fewer
> scruples about writing a best-selling book ripping
> off (what he thought was) the technique, calling it
> Herbert Benson's Relaxation Response and claiming it
> was just as good as TM, making big bucks, and
> becoming world-famous.

Yeah!  What the guy should have done if he'd had
scruples was to rip off a commonly-available set
of meditation techniques from India, give them a
snappy name like Transcendental Meditation, claim
they were unique, make big bucks, and become world
famous.  :-)






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