---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <upfronter@...> wrote :
(snip) Also, looking at the early supposed TTC training script (unless it has been doctored to provide a falsehood), I notice that the giving of the mantra should be done in such a way as to make the initiate feel that they are getting a unique mantra that nobody else has. Now, I can understand why this would be beneficial, but in my mind, this is not 100% honest. Is such white lie-ing really necessary or am I just being unfair or have I got my facts wrong? I would prefer to just know the truth, that it is done by age or whatever way it is done. (snip) FWIW, by the time I learned TM (1975) or very shortly thereafter, they had stopped pretending that each person was given a unique mantra. There is at least one TMO-published book that's very forthright in affirming that there were only a dozen or so mantras used in TM, that many TMers therefore had the same mantra, and that it was chosen based on simple information from the application form. I don't think the book said explicitly that the information was age and sex, but this had filtered out and was generally known.
