--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <shempmcgurk@> 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 >
The TMO blew it back in the '70s with their High School Curriculum study book. I was a student at MIU at the time and it was a quite beautiful book...but if you replaced the word "absolute" with "god" there would have been no difference between SCI and the way the Bible uses God. They didn't have to do it that way but did. And that's one of the reasons they lost the case, which poisoned the atmosphere to try to introduce TM again, even to this day. 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/
