you are still an idiot - the book was just published a few months ago, so you
couldn't have read it a year ago - like the TM Movement, you never pass up an
opportunity to tell a pack of lies.
As to the killer, he HAD ALREADY BEEN diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic 2
years BEFORE he came to MUM.
If MUM had applied the same criteria to admission to MUM as they do to get on
one of their po-dunk courses, he would never have been accepted as a student to
begin with, but as is always the case with the Movement, that money (his
tuition and fees) trumped all else.
I didn't say nor imply that his practice of TM MADE him kill Levi Butler, but
as is pointed out in the book:
"In his blog The Honest Truth about TM, David Orme-Johnson, a former professor
of psychology at MUM, pointed to studies that suggest it reduces psychiatric
illness , decreases depression, and can spawn “improvements in schizophrenia.”
Author Denise Denniston, a MUM faculty member, wrote in The TM Book that
“regular practice of the TM technique is excellent insurance against all
diseases, including mental illness.” "
Both statements are lies and as Edg would say "BAH!" and I add, screw the TM
Movement.
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Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] TM in America and Levi Butler
On 7/7/2014 10:04 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
> AM reading the book Transcendental Meditation in America. Pretty ho hum stuff
>for those experienced in TM but a good intro for a look at MIU/MUM for those
>who don't know much about it.
>
>
>Gets real interesting when he gives a fairly detailed account of Levi Butler's
>murder, much more detailed than I have ever seen. Not surprising but good
>account of the absolutely asinine behavior of the faculty and governors who
>mishandled the whole affair and the lies the university told to weasel out of
>trouble about it.
>
Never pass up an opportunity to use a tragedy if you think that will
help you win a religious debate.
>
I just wish his parents had gone to trial and not settled out of court so we
could have heard publicly the testimony of Charles Knowles and Kai Dhrul about
how the university and its (unofficial) policies screwed things up.
>
>
We read the book about a year ago. There is no evidence that
practicing meditation had anything to do with the murder of Levi
Butler. Sem had been a studet at MUM only two months. He was
diagnosed as schizophrenic by the psychiatrist at his trial and the
judge said he was guilty by reason of insanity.
What would you do?
