--- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Mike Doughney" <mike@> wrote: > > > > The latest article at the TM-Free Blog: > > Crunching the Facebook Numbers: How Many Meditators Are There? > > <http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2012/01/crunching-facebook-numbers-meditator\ > > s.html> > > Excerpt: > > Through use of an advertising targeting tool on Facebook, it's possible > > to measure the popularity of a number of topics related to > > Transcendental Meditation across age groups, and thus extrapolate from > > that sampling of Facebook users to the general population. This method > > suggests that only about 60,000 people in the United States have any > > current interest in these topics, which is a tiny fraction of the "one > > million meditators" that the TM movement claims currently live in the > > United States. > > > > Watching the DLF videos gives me the impression that it's > mostly Afro-Americans that nowadays learn TM... > > Oh bama lama, doobie doo... ;D >
(Just for fun, not to be taken all too seriously...) "The Aryans who were much fairer in colour than the aborigines of India are the Devas referred to in the name Devanagari (from 'div' - to shine, those of brilliant complexion); and Nagari [~urban -- card] means the Aryan settlements with the precincts of which the sacred language was spoken." -- M.R. Kale, Higher Sanskrit Grammar So, the "importers" of the Vedic culture were "whitish" people from way up North, but the most distinguished representatives of the Vedic culture of India nowadays might be amongst the Dravidian rather dark skinned, tropical(?) Indians from the Southern regions of India. I believe even the Great Shankara had some Dravidian language as His native tongue, or, then again, perhaps not... My wild guess is over 75% of the TM teachers of the 60's and 70's were "Caucasian", but it seems like very soon most of the active US TMers shall be of African American and perhaps also of Latin American origin! :D
