To the editor:
A couple days ago, I was sitting at my computer when a gentleman knocked on my door. When I asked what he wanted, he asked me if I was concerned with what was going on in the world such as child abductions and other crimes. I said of course I was. He replied that he would like to speak with me about a solution. I said that he must not know about the U.S. Peace Government and what we were doing which would end this and other crimes. He said he know about it but that the whole thing was just a sham.
When I tried to tell him that he was wrong and basically didn’t know anything about it, he said he didn’t want to debate me and when I tried to show him how he was wrong he literally jumped off the porch and ran down the sidewalk.
I know that this person was going to tell me what his religion says and to try to convince me that the only way to end the crimes is to become a member of his religion or pray with him and others.
For anyone to think that the U.S. Peace Government and the knowledge it is based on is a sham is frankly quite absurd, for a number of reasons. First, it would mean that all those who benefited from the technique really didn’t. (They must be deluded.) Second, it would mean that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who brought the TM technique to the world, is a liar or is also deluded or something. Third, it would mean that all the research (or perhaps only some I\of it), research that has been published in some of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world and which shows, among other things, that the crime rate falls when the number of TM meditators (or yogic flyers) in an area is high enough, that the practice reduces illness by as much as 90 percent, that it increases mental potential, etc., is all fake and that the scientists who did the research and also the ones who accepted the research for publication, were somehow in collusion to perpetrate a hoax on the entire human race. It would mean that the yogic flyers are not really levitating but are only pretending to and that the research that shows that the brain wave coherence within and between the hemispheres increases dramatically when they are levitating is nothing but a bunch of lies. It would mean that the seven judges in St. Louis, Mo., who are sentencing offenders to practice the TM technique are basing their decisions on nothing. It would mean that the students who said they found schoolwork easier, more enjoyable and got better grades and enjoyed school more, have been lying or are also deluded.
It’s clear that it’s not the meditators who are deluded. It’s those who think that the meditators are who are deluded. It is very unfortunate that many of those who think that way do so because of what their religion tells them.
When I was going to church, I remember being told that Jesus was an example of what we could all become. By now, it should be clear that one can’t become like him by going to church or praying. If that was true, by this time, thousands of members of all religions would have become like him and would have gained the ability to perform “miracles.” Not only have religions not achieved this, many clergy have committed some of the heinous acts imaginable. Yet those who practice the TM technique can describe what Jesus called the “Kingdom of Heaven within.” They can describe it because the TM practice allows one to experience it.
Laurence Topliffe, Fairfield
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