On 07/31/2013 03:41 PM, authfriend wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Seraphita" <s3raphita@...> wrote: >> Re the quote below I copied from another website, two things >> puzzle me: "[Maharishi]didn't have much to say about the >> Scientology techniques because the comparison was obvious to >> us.": is the speaker implying that Scientotlogy techniques are >> similar to TM? Complete nonsense surely? > Don't think so. I'm no expert; what follows is just what > I've picked up from reading here and there, and I could > be way off. > > It seems to me there's an obvious similarity between > Scientology's "auditing" and what is said to occur in > TM. Auditing releases "engrams," which are the close > equivalent of "stresses" in TM; and once one has > released all one's "engrams," one is said to be "clear"-- > a state whose description sounds a lot like TM's of > Cosmic Consciousness. > > There are a number of differences in how the techniques > are performed, but one *crucial* difference is that in TM, > one does not examine the stresses that are released; > whereas with auditing (which is conducted by an auditor), > the engrams must be thoroughly analyzed to be released. > >> Perhaps the speaker is saying we're already able to compare >> for ourselves Scientology's methods and the TMO's technique >> and Hubbard's are of no interest to us. Odd way of implying >> that sense! > FWIW, that's what I took this sentence to mean when I first > read it. Any TMer would quickly recognize the similarity > with auditing, I should think, but would also reject the > notion that the engrams/stresses must be examined and > analyzed. > > >
I had a girlfriend who was excommunicated from the Church of Scientology and she gave me a stack of their manuals. The e-meter thing that is used in Scientology for auditing, sometimes referred to as the "cans" because they used a couple of tin cans that the person being audited would hold for sensors, measures the galvanic skin response. They have these sets of questions and if the meter goes off then that person has a problem in that area. Then they work through that with some kind of psychotherapy. I was fascinated with Scientology and read up on it and of course asked her questions about it though it was something she really wanted to leave behind. I had no interest in trying it however. I also had a bunch of musician friends who got way into it.
