--- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > www.dci.dk/en/mtrl/tm.html > > 'The allegation that Maharishi is a scientist likewise forms part of > the legend that TM has built up around him. He only studied for one or > at the most two semesters at the Allahabad University, and never took > any exams. He is in all respects self-taught, which is rather obvious > for any critical reader of his writings. But precisely because his > followers are not critical, he gets away with a host of absurdities.'
This article is found on a site promoting Christianity that "debunks" a bunch of "New Religious Movements" (including "Yoga," "Astrology," "Reincarnation," "Alternative Healing," and "Pokemon"). The main page "cannot be found," so it's unclear who runs the site. Some of the articles are attributed, but the one on TM is not. Some of the TM article is accurate, much of it is not. Of the New Jersey court case, it says: "...It was to be Maharishi's biggest defeat ever when, in 1977, a lawsuit in the USA resulted in a verdict which established as a fact that TM is a religious movement and that it is of a distinctly Hindu nature." Well, no, that's not what the verdict established. What it established was that TM/SCI was a religious movement according to the definition used in constitutional cases, i.e., in deciding whether U.S. government funding of a group or teaching was permissible under the First Amendment. The article's description of the TM-Sidhis course: "Following the disaster in court in 1977, Maharishi launched his craziest project so far: 'The Flying Project' (also called the Siddhi Project). Whereas TM usually makes use of Mantras, Maharishi now introduced a number of sutras, i.e. short sentences picked from an Indian manual of yoga (Patanjali's Yoga Sutra) from the time around Christ. "During short and highly intensive courses (for which participants had to pay thousands of dollars), the meditators practiced constant repetition of one such sutra (i.e. 'I am light as cotton'). Simultaneously, they performed some vehement respiration exercises, which provoked spasmodic starts in their muscles. This made them jump during the mediation, leading them to believe that they were hovering in the air, or at least very close to it. Some TM meditators suffered serious mental damage because of these tough and vehement courses." ------------------------ 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/
