>
> --- In
> FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis"
> <tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlist@> wrote:
> >
> > blissbunn1 writes snipped:
> > Whoever asked about how many meditators, siddha's, teachers yadda
> > yadda had abusive childhoods is on to a very illuminating thesis.
> > Do you think a study like that could be included in the collected
> > research on TM?
> >
> > Tom T:
> > From my 12 year experience in Alanon 12 step it would appear to me
> > that virtualy all of us were attracted to the movement because of
> > our
> > abusive backgrounds. Not only were most of us that way but it would
> > appear from my 7 year residency here that the unhealthiest of us
> > ended
> > up moving to FF to get to the bottom of our issues. It would never
> > fly as research on campus but you don't have to talk to very many
> > people to realize that we all came with a heavy load of karma. \
>
> 'Way too much self importance here for me.
>
> I never had the least hint of an abusive life. I think
> the person who originally postulated that theory got
> it *backwards*. People are drawn to TM and movements
> like it because they're *used* to them, but not from
> this life.
>
> That is, they've paid their dues in so many monastic,
> reclusive spiritual communities over the incarnations
> that the first time one appears in one's current life-
> time one tends to glom onto it, thinking it will be
> like the communities one hazily remembers from previous
> lives. Sigh...obviously t'ain't always so.
>
> Then again, maybe all those lives in Asian monastic
> communities weren't nearly as problem-free as we like
> to tell ourselves, either.
>
> Anyway, I just had to go on record as saying that for
> once I completely disagree with Tom T. That's so rare
> it deserved a post. :-)
>
To be perfectly honest, when I started TM, I was a flake. I'm still a flake, but perhaps a
more mature one. A few weeks after I started TM at the age of 18, I called a girl that I
knew from H.S. and chatted a while. She wanted to know what I'd been doing because I
was years more mature than I had been just a month or so earlier. Likewise, when I ran
with a New Age type person a year or two later, everyone in the New Age community
commented that he had an ancient soul while mine was brand new. These days, the New
Age folk often comment that *I* have an ancient soul. Of course, I have solid gray hair
now, so perhaps thats all it is (the guy I ran 30 years ago was the same age as I was or
even younger so it wasn't the gray hair in his case).
I don't know for certain that TM has helped me in any way, shape or form, but I still notice
a reduction in my ability to cope with life when I skip practice, and so does my family.
Not to mention that my dad had already had heart problems by this age, and he was NOT
100 pounds overweight as I am. My BP was 125/70 last I checked and almost never goes
above that.
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