--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I enjoyed the experience of flying for the ten years I did it, and TM > for 15 years. Once I shifted my view of its value, I never desired > the experience again. I think the experience's value is not as > "self-evident" as some claim. Maybe the belief system has to support > it. Otherwise it just seems odd, and not an experience I would seek > out these days. As far as it benefit, that I no longer buy. I think > it is sort of a mini epileptic fit. Not too dangerous probably, but > not the greatest experience ever. I don't see people who have kept > it up as special in any way I can detect. By now it really should > have produced more of the claimed benefits in people practicing so > long. In the old days we would joke that without TM a person might be > even worse! That claim is getting hollower and hollower each decade. > > As far as transcending goes, I think that experience is also very > overrated as a valuable experience.
Who rates it as valueable? Certainly not MMY. Relaxation seems necessary in my > life in much smaller doses now that I don't do a program. The biggest > wellbeing booster for me is exercise. That experience seems to give > me all the mental clarity I was seeking with TM with the added benefit > of giving me much more energy. All that eyes closed time of the > program seems to sap people's energy despite the claims. I don't hang > out with anyone who needs a nap in the afternoon. (anyone with kids > excluded!) It is just something that people get used to I think. It > took me a few days to get over the need for program, then I just never > considered the need for more rest after sleeping, or in the afternoon. > There are too many activities that give me joy and help me grow. I > have become the busy businessman of the checking notes and wouldn't > have it any other way! > > I always knew that most people drop TM after practicing it. At the DC > center we got a big wake-up call when we tried to contact the 10,000 > people who had been initiated at the center. I don't remember the > numbers but it shocked us at the time. How could so many people drop > the practice if transcending was all that? Who told you it was? 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/
