You can get enlightened saying "one," I guess.
mainstream20016 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In
[email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> wrote:
> >
> > >--- Peter wrote:
> > >
> > > The Vedic Atoms created a lot of resentment among some
> > > longtime teachers associated with particular centers.
> > > As Doug notes, this is when initiations started
> > > heading south.
> >
> > An coworker who was working in the SIMS/IMS
> > office at the time said TM instruction halved in
> > February of 1976 (I believe it was), then halved
> > again each month thereafter for five or six months
> > at least, for no apparent reason other than the
> > bursting of the bubble. If this chronology is
> > correct, that's when Maharishi invited people
> > to the first six-month course, a precursor to
> > the sidhis program. Seems to me he saw things
> > tanking and scrambled to correct the slide,
> > rolling out a new product and reorganizating
> > the distribution system. If I've got all this right,
> > I'm more inclined to believe it wasn't the Vedic
> > Atoms that contributed to the slide, but that the
> > slide led to the changes being lamented in this
> > thread.
> >
>
The slide came with the publication of Benson's Relaxation Response, which
claimed that saying one over and over again as you exhaled produced effects
identical to TM. Benson still claims this.
>
How does the TM intelligensia respond to this claim?
(David Orme-Johnson, are you lurking? Would, you, David care to comment on the
topic
of the effective difference in the effects produced by the TM technique vs. the
Relaxation
Response ? )
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