https://tmhome.com/books-videos/history-channel-documentary-on-maharishi-mahesh-yogi https://tmhome.com/books-videos/history-channel-documentary-on-maharishi-mahesh-yogi @ 41:50 by Geoff Gilpin, author of “The Maharishi Effect”
“When I came back in 2000, TM was almost an afterthought. I felt that the Movement and Maharishi weren’t just really interested in teaching meditation that much anymore. And instead they had this vast array of products and services pretty much for every aspect of human life.” My opinion is that this point expresses, in the evolution of the TM Movement, where the reality of the definite and clear benefits of Transcendental Meditation were overshadowed by 'the Empire', if I may use that term, of which, apparently, Transcendental Meditation was but a part. If all of the paraphernalia of the present Empire had been left to third-parties for those who are interested in it, and if Maharishi had separated himself and Transcendental Meditation from all of the add-ons, I believe that today this world would be far more positively affected by the effects of people practicing Transcendental Meditation than it presently is. There are a number of reasons as to why I assume this, some of which are: * If all of the money generated from teaching Transcendental Meditation was reserved solely and only in the promotion of the teaching of Transcendental Meditation, then there would be a far larger take-up of Transcendental Meditation by people because it would be far cheaper and therefore more readily affordable and not at a cost which, no doubt, has deterred many from taking up Transcendental Meditation. * Regardless of the theories, I believe that a meditator entering the Transcendent in one country and another meditator entering the Transcendent in different country is as beneficial the world, if not more so due to local influence, than two meditators entering the Transcendent in the same geographical locality. The Transcendent is the Transcendent and it transcends physical space - the effect is there. * I believe that a number of people in the world today might be more likely to take up Transcendental Meditation if it was not inseparably associated with some breakout Eastern philosophies or theories which are expressed as the pinnacle of knowledge, whereas they may only contain some partial or basic truth available elsewhere but in a different format - and besides not agreeable with the one considering taking up Transcendental Meditation. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mikemail4you@...> wrote : DEAR MEDITATORS, HERE YOU FIND 10 BEST VIDEOS ON TM AND MORE >>> https://tmhome.com/books-videos/transcendental-meditation-videos/ https://tmhome.com/books-videos/transcendental-meditation-videos/ TO ENJOY AT HOME... SO HAVE A NICE HAPPY SUNNY WEEKEND, WITH BRIGHT WARMING SUNSHINE INSIDE & OUTSIDE... JAI GURU DEV MIKE Yahoo Mail Stationery https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/features/stationery