Weber defined charisma as "a certain quality of an individual personality by
virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with
supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers . . .
[that] are regarded as of divine origin." Weber added, however,
By critical contrast:
How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry.. The secular technique and
its relativist lack of a moral foundation has opened itself up to a host of
dubious uses, called out by its critics as McMindfulness.
Without a critical account of the social context of
The 40th Anniversary, of the 1979 Amherst course.
Taking from current history, a paraphrasing of a NYTimes article:
as something like our own TM movement’s annual January 12th meetings of the
essential group..
Paraphrasing..:
“Facing deepening tensions abroad and anxieties inside,
A Spiritual Regenerative Movement (SRM) in the TM.org?
Is the TM movement currently transformational as regenerative, reform, or
revolution?
Consideration,
TM as Revolutionary Millenarian:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/1di3VYUG13U
Revolution does not have to be violent to be revolutionary. Different than
fomenting violent revolution Maharishi was about peace and he worked in a long
career on improving people’s lives on earth..
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
What Mao
What Mao,could have said to meditators in transcendentalist revolution..
The force at the core leading our cause forward is the Transcendental
Meditation Movement. The theoretical basis guiding our spiritual experience and
thinking is the Meissner Effect, the ME, found in Natural Law and our
Revolutionaries, where it has happened and where revolution has brought change
in broader status quo for humanity it is interesting study to look at and hear
how they said it, how they said it and acted it out such that they compelled
and led broader societal change. Like looking back at
"I’m at peace with myself and the universe. One can’t but come closer to God or
Heaven than to merge oneself with the universal order of things—to become, as it
were, one with all of space and time. " Dr Robert Lanza
“If we measure our individual forces against hers [nature’s], we may easily
The SRM (The Spiritual Regeneration Movement) would be revolutionary.. A
corollary discussion drawing on definition..
Using Foster's Critique of revolutionary movements to consider
Transcendental Meditation (TM) in the 20th Century.
See thread:
Anyone who will effectively meditate according to what the best of modern
science is correlating, anyone practicing an effective transcending meditation
is of their own weight a radical, a free radical revolutionary. -JaiGuruYou
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Well, like an old battle cruiser that had been left with a skeleton crew
decommissioned by bureaucrats the likes of Bevan and Neil the old ship is in
re-fit right now. Gone from speeds of just 200 a month being taught meditation
before 2006 whence the old ship was discovered then in
Thx, sorry but I don't get "it" - the scenario you're describing. After 1975,
the TM Movement suffered a precipitous decline in initiation numbers and by
your own accout, there's only a few hundred initiations per year.
While it's true that a revolution is going on on growing numbers of
Revolutionary, the whole series of large format publications using the
Heidelberg color presses is testament to revolution. The earliest color
productions to come off the Heidelbergs, the embossed tan covered color MIU
Catalog with the embossed cover logo was about revolution. That book
Folks can soft sell him and call him an idealist but he was a revolutionary
plain, expecting and not just waiting idle for the change of broad
transformation. His own life worked at it and led it in so many ways. There
was a deep consistency to his life and that was all about ‘revolution’.
Revolution does not have to be violent to be revolutionary.
Different than fomenting violent revolution Maharishi was about peace and he
worked at a long career on improving people’s lives on earth..
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Yes, as a
Yes, as a Transcendentalist in fact he was a radical. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
plainly was one of the large revolutionaries of the last half of the 20th
Century and early 21st. From the time of his leaving India in the 1950’s he
was systematically looking to affect radical change from the norm.
Transcendence is a word applied to an activity.
That of going from one state of knowing to another.
From what we know or assume, to what we did not know.
We do not know that which we do not know until we know it.
Therefore the result of transcendence cannot be determined
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