--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 12/28/05 10:09 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I didn't notice any particularly dramatic changes after > > starting TM, but my father apparently did. A lifelong, > > card-carrying Americans for Democratic Action liberal, > > he declared that henceforward he would vote for any > > politician who practiced TM, *even if s/he were a > > Republican*. You'd have had to know my father to > > realize what an astonishing statement that was. > > I remember my dad lying on the couch crying a few months after I learned TM. > He had seen a huge change in me and decided to learn also. He also underwent > a profound transformation - felt wonderful - but stopped taking his epilepsy > medication because he thought he no longer needed it, so he had a blackout > and drove through a stone wall. He meditated for years and attended quite a > few residence courses, including courses with Maharishi, but could never > overcome his alcoholism. Ended up dying by falling down drunk and hitting > his head on the sidewalk. >
Did he ever go 12-step? TM is wonderful, yadda, yadda, but MMY often (always?) added that it was good to address specific illnesses with medicine (and other treatments) rather than use TM as a cure-all (at least inthe short-run). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
