--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > Cool. A high school in same district as mine(during whose > attendance I > > started TM). In an article from a newspaper for which I was once a > > paperboy. > > > > > > http://www.marinij.com/ci_4474770 > > > > Terra Linda High School plans to launch a Transcendental Meditation > > program with the help of a $175,000 grant from noted filmmaker > David > > Lynch. > > > > Lynch established a foundation in his name to spread Transcendental > > Meditation to schools as a method of stress management. The Terra > > Linda program would be the David Lynch Foundation's first in > > California, although others operate in Washington, D.C., and > Detroit. > > > > Principal Carole Ramsey became an enthusiastic supporter after > hearing > > Lynch speak, but some say Transcendental Meditation is rooted in a > > religious movement that is inappropriate for public school. > > > > > If this is a publicly-funded school, it's a no-starter and a waste > of Lynch's time and money. > > Like all of you, I'd love to see TM as part of the curriculum of all > schools but we all know that the religious types will cry "foul" and > that TM violates the separation of church and state...and they will, > of course, be on solid ground for claiming it. > > Not that I believe TM to be a religion, nor that the puja as I was > taught to use it on TTC is religious in any way. But the way the > TMO conducts itself IS religious and too many bugaboos will be > brought into the equation to result in anything but negativity and > failure.>>
If practicing Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists all practice TM without seeing any conflict with their religion/non- religion, then I don't see how any rational people could consider it a religion --- specially with so much published research for its efficacy as a technique. The days of the irrational fundamentalist born-again, anti-this, anti-that, is over. OffWorld 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
