Fascinating, Michael, that you would see this comment as describing TMers (presumably TB TMers).
TMers generally are fairly well educated, first of all. And if they didn't "question the world around them," they would be unlikely to become committed to TM to start with, given that TM is promoted as the way to fix everything that's wrong with the world. Second, how extremely odd to characterize TMers as living "by the routine and the mundane" and being thrown by "new innovation, or new way of doing something." Even sitting to meditate twice a day is a "new way of doing something" for the vast majority of people. And then there's, you know, the TM-Sidhis and Yogic Flying, Ayurveda, Sthapatya Veda, yagyas, etc., etc., that TB TMers engage in. Hardly "routine and mundane," wouldn't you say? Bottom line, it's the folks this comment describes who are least interested in and most resistant to TM exactly because it's a "new way of doing something." You have it exactly backwards. For better or for worse, TM is very much a "new innovation" that appeals to those who become TMers and scares off those who live in a "limited, blinkered world." I love the comment one person posted on this Washington Post article - fits perfectly with sooooo many TM and other like mind set people. "Frau Kalhammer is simply of a mindset that was once common, but which still exists today, & may, in fact, be more to do with genetics & brain development than with culture or upbringing. I had relatives like this..... they didn't have much education... I'm not really sure if they would have succeeded beyond the point where they left school. They don't question the world around them. They hate questions because questions upset routine. They, instead, live by the routine & the mundane. If you step outside of those, they can't handle it. Any new innovation, or new way of doing something throws them. Therefore, they live in a very limited, blinkered world. It is, simply, who they are."
