---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : Thank you very much for this program! San Francisco is an amazing city and everything helps keep it that way. Please do not be overly concerned by some self-centered people here, just out to tear down TM, more in keeping with their unsuccessful lives. LOL, look at the rest of your posts tonight, it utterly kills me that you think a casual observer will look at your "Bawee" obsession as the product of a healthy mind and one that's been doing TM for decades, and not only that has attained some sort of spiritual goal! This poor guy will cancel his TM project if he reads too much of the deluded bilge that gets posted here by the "enlightened" LOL, this place is the worst advert for TM! Sal, for a guy who seems to have a sense of humour, a brain in his head and has the fortune to be British on top of it all you seem to miss one small but important fact: how bawee acts and the things that he writes gives away all anyone needs to know about the guy. Our director of operations who just posted would have no delusions about bawee's character or his MO. I'm also sure he doesn't give a shit anyway nor would this person be interested in judging Mac one way or another since Mac's responses to bawee are simply any normal person's response to someone as judgmental and obnoxious as bawee is. Capiche? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <infocwae@...> wrote : I am the Director of Operations for the school meditation project in San Francisco that uses TM, where the students were found to be the happiest in the city. I would like to try and correct some misunderstandings that may have occurred as a result of certain comments made here recently. 1. There is a post that suggest we 'stole' couches from a one of the high schools we worked in. This is incorrect. We purchase used couches from outside sources, specifically for the Quiet Time program. We own them. 2. That the windows and doors in the rooms we used at a high school were papered over so that no one could see in, and that the school had to remove the papering after we left. A single door to a small room was partially papered only during training sessions to reduce the distraction from other students walking by during passing period. This paper was taken down each day, and was not remaining after the meditation training staff left the school. 3. That we had been kicked out of at least 2 schools in SF since Jan of this year. One school decided to discontinue the Quiet Time program at the end of the spring semester due primarily to a vote from faculty regarding time constraints. There are many schools throughout CA and nationally requesting the program, so we only work with those that are able to fit it into their schedule. After providing this to 7,000 students, teachers, parents and administrators for the last 7 years, we have had over a 90% program satisfaction rating. An extremely small minority of parents, teachers and administrators have had issues with the program, usually because of biases or misunderstandings. 4. That most of the research referenced by the TM organization is "either bogus or deeply flawed" There are over 100 studies on TM published in reputable, peer reviewed scientific journals indicating various positive mental and physical health effects. Research has been done at Stanford, Harvard, University of California and other reputable institutions. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded over 24M worth of research into TM and heart health. In order to be published in peer reviewed journals or to be funded by the NIH, rigorous assessment is performed by highly experienced scientists. If the research was bogus or deeply flawed, the research would not be funded or published.
