I like this comment better:
formersufferer
I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with a severe type of
epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting up to five hours, and I became very
unstable and unbalanced. I gave it up and was involved in a TV programme
exposing it, called Credo. Prof Peter Fenwick of the Maudesley Psychiatric
Hospital did some research which he reported on the programme. He explained
that the EEG waves of a person practising TM and those of someone having an
epileptic fit are identical. There has been quite a lot of research showing how
damaging TM is but the TM people have a lot of money which enables them to
override the truth. TM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE
APPEARING TO BE RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might have a
similar effect
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On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com <awoelfleba...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...>
wrote:
One comment I appreciate is this one from
Denis Postle:"I've been
doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate
about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the
hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and awake
and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results .
. . "
David Lynch says something
similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those
who wonder what "transcending" is like, Lynch says
that everyone has already experienced it. When you're
lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you
occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your awareness
dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting
and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is
essentially training you to bounce around at that level as a
regular routine.
Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers
to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning
keep your consciousness at the point where you've just
emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before* any
thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to balance
yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see
the true nature of the Self.
Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch
and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
Funny you
should ask that because while reading their assertion it
simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition
between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my book.
It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than
my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this
up.
