On Aug 2, 2012, at 8:35 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > While it makes sense that dome admins want and need to have > everyone compliant if they are to actually be doing 'the same > program at the same time'. The not-so-obvious downside of > this is people who practice, say Buddhism or Sufism or whatever > will have other spiritual teachers and other spiritual practices > they do. If such a person is banned from the domes, they'd in > effect be banning them from the practice of their own religion > of choice. So much for TM not interfering with religion, huh? Interesting. I'm thinking not so much about people being kept from the domes because of their religious practices, but whether the dome program *itself* has ever been an issue for religious people.
Well for Jews and Christians there's always been the biblical injunction "Thou shalt have no other gods before me". What happens when a TMer arrives at the heavenly gate and Ole St. Pete senses the mantra of another god or goddess neuroplastically locked into their "mode of functioning"? Purgatory or Hell? Dunno.
This little problem was always danced around by Mahesh & Co. by claiming the mantras were "meaningless sounds". While they are not assigned a specific meaning in the practice of TM, they do, alas, have very specific meanings and gods or goddesses (other than YHVH-1) to which they belong.
Say someone is a devout Muslim. They are supposed to pray at certain specified times of the day, without fail. What if the Muslim in question was participating in the dome program and the time for his Maghrib (sunset) prayer rolls around. Is he supposed to move to the side of the dome, spread out his prayer rug, and do his prayers there, before returning to the TM-siddhi program, or is he supposed to skip his Muslim prayers?
Hmmmm. Now that would be interesting to see.
