Do you think I would have had the super deep experiences I did have, like seeing the white pearl, to name one? Now I know the blue pearl is standard fare, but my pearl was white, and I'm not joking. That white pearl was beautiful.
I can't see me having that experience with Benson's technique, but who knows. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : On 3/24/2014 8:09 PM, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: But I think we need to find a different way to transform that environment, I'm afraid. > All these problems would probably not even exist if MMY had made TM free of Hindu elements of devotion in the first place. The efficacy of meditation was pretty much proved by Benson - you don't have to use a Sanskrit syllable or phrase and indulge in a religious ritual - in fact, almost any mnemonic device will work for the transcending - there's no special magic in using Hindu tantric mantras. If MMY had refrained from letting his fantasy run wild, and if he had made TM truly secular, he could have retired in 1965 before he met the Beatles and left the movement alone - without all the baggage of the TMSP and the other Maharishi pants. That's what I think.
