And like so much of what the Movement promotes, it actually undermines the
basic premise of TM being excellent for you, if you just have a little bit of
common sense about you. If you look with a clear mind at what the TMO claims
for all its adjunct programs, you can only come to the conclusion that if you
DON"T have all this stuff, then you are doomed to a crummy life, even if you do
TM. TM originally was supposed to free you from all kinds of bad karma,
stresses whatever. But if you don't have that yagya, that jyotish chart, that
jyotish gem, that oil rubdown, that next rounding course, those pundits praying
to Agni for you, that perfect vastu home then you are falling apart - which
means, if you need this stuff, TM is ineffective after all.
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On Fri, 4/11/14, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Scientifically Validated
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, April 11, 2014, 8:44 PM
Vastu is just common sense from an
iron age farmers perspective. Kitchen in the coolest place,
ability to tell the solstices from looking out the front
door etc. Maybe there's a bit of folk wisdom in waking
up facing the sun being better for you.
Where it all goes wrong is when the
TMO introduce woo woo concepts like perfect health and
invincibility and start telling people that meditating in a
vastu home is like doing it in a group of a thousand. It
isn't, but you might be able to kid yourself if you are
a believer.
Most people I know who rushed to get
into vastu actually thought it would solve all their
problems and be the final missing link in enlightenment. It
isn't, it's just a house. I know loads of people
that live in them and I have stayed with them many times and
will do again. But they got their hopelessly unrealistic
ideas from somewhere. If you've ever been on a vastu
course you'll know the answer to that
one.
I'd like one simply so I can see
the sun rise on midsummer morning directly opposite the
front door. But I'm a bit pagan.
BTW the "rubbish" came from
my disbelief that anyone here would think, after all these
years, that people in the TMO won't grasp at any straw
available to prop up their belief system. It's an
article of faith in the TMO that your brain works better
when facing east. I had a Dr of physics explain to me that
it's because that's the direction the Earth turns.
Go figure.....
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...>
wrote :
Rubbish yourself. It's not at
all obvious they were trying to make woo-woo of it.
"Vindication," quite possibly, but that's not
at all the same thing. And it might well be relevant to
whatever Vastu says about sunlight in the home. From what
I've read, many Vastu principles have nothing to do with
"woo-woo," they're just about making one's
living environment as healthy as possible.
I sleep in
my living room because its windows face east, and I've
always felt more energized when I wake up to morning
sunlight. Nothing to do with TM (or depression, bi- or
monopolar, for that matter).
No, never
saw the stuff about the brain working "better"
when it's facing east.
I think
your "bipolar sleep resetting" idea is something
of a stretch. Sure would be interesting to see the whole
study, see what the authors made of their results, whether
they suggested a possible mechanism for the
effect.
Rubbish,
it wouldn't be the first time they'd picked
something irrelevant or vaguely samey sounding and held it
up as vindication. And it was in a classroom studying vastu,
so it's pretty obvious what sort of hay they are trying
to make.
Remember all the BS the TMO co-opted about the
brain working "better" when it's facing east?
It made a lot of TM brochures and broadcasts and there was a
link to the Journal of Neurophysiology which, when followed,
led you to a bunch of papers about how rats find their way
about in the dark. There wasn't even any preference
among the rat brains for any particular direction. My guess
is they think people don't follow
links.
What did you
think of my ideas about bipolar dawn sleep resetting? Rather
good for a breakfast post I thought....
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...>
wrote :
Salyavin, we don't know what
kind of hay the TMO was trying to make with this study (the
MUMOSA guy doesn't bother to tell us). For all we know,
it was simply that Vastu principles are in accord with
current scientific thinking, nothing woo-woo about
it.
Just thinking out loud because I can't afford
to read every science paper I'd like to either, but if
it is something like this then what right have the TMO got
to claim woo woo? And it doesn't even make sense if they
do because you'd have to have an east facing bedroom
(and not all of them are) and it would matter if the front
door faced south even as we're talking about
windows.
