Re: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html According to James Dierke, the transformation in his school, where Most of the students in our school have a family member who has been shot, who did the shooting, or who saw a shooting, was what led to him receiving the 2008 NASSP Middle School Principle of the Year award. http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 According to this San Francisco article, despite there being 9 shootings in the neighborhood of the school in the month of December 2013 alone, the school was recently found to be the happiest school in San Francisco: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php For THAT school at least, TM DID change their world. But MJ was obviously talking about the Maharishi Effect, which is a claimed non-local and therefore paranormal phenomena that is supposedly caused by groups of meditators, whereas these articles are obviously referring just to the people meditating and not the surrounding area. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. From: srijau@... srijau@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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That's right Sal. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 3:08 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html According to James Dierke, the transformation in his school, where Most of the students in our school have a family member who has been shot, who did the shooting, or who saw a shooting, was what led to him receiving the 2008 NASSP Middle School Principle of the Year award. http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 According to this San Francisco article, despite there being 9 shootings in the neighborhood of the school in the month of December 2013 alone, the school was recently found to be the happiest school in San Francisco: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php For THAT school at least, TM DID change their world. But MJ was obviously talking about the Maharishi Effect, which is a claimed non-local and therefore paranormal phenomena that is supposedly caused by groups of meditators, whereas these articles are obviously referring just to the people meditating and not the surrounding area. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. From: srijau@... srijau@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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He's do better spending his energies on banning GMOs in the US and hanging with Vani Hari. Otherwise he is beating a dead horse. On 11/02/2014 07:35 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: That ship long sailed for MJ, I'm afraid. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Which came first: the deities or the concept of absolute and relative? On 11/02/2014 06:12 PM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. *From:* srijau@... mailto:srijau@... srijau@... mailto:srijau@... *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
[FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi
There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
Re: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi
Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. From: sri...@ymail.com sri...@ymail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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On 11/2/2014 8:03 PM, sri...@ymail.com wrote: There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW /You are supposed to read the messages BEFORE you post your comments. I already reviewed this book on Google Groups. This book is rare and out of print and you probably can't afford it. There is one copy at the Library at the UT Center for Asian Studies - I read it in 1979 when I was a Sanskrit student there. To save you some money I'll post you a direct quote from the book:// // //After Guru Dev's passing, Maharishi went up to the Upper Kashi to meditate; then he went down south to give lectures at the Spiritual Luminaries in Kerala. - Elsa Dragenmark// // //Subject: The Way to Maharishi's Himalaya// //Author: willytex// //Forum: Google Groups// //Date: November 24, 2003// //http://tinyurl.com/o6jszo3/
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Which came first: the deities or the concept of absolute and relative? On 11/02/2014 06:12 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. *From:* sri...@ymail.com sri...@ymail.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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Re Which came first: the deities or the concept of absolute and relative?: My mind has gone completely blank.
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That ship long sailed for MJ, I'm afraid. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Which came first: the deities or the concept of absolute and relative? On 11/02/2014 06:12 PM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. From: srijau@... mailto:srijau@... srijau@... mailto:srijau@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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On 11/2/2014 8:12 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. /You sound prejudiced against Hindus and their religion. Nowhere in the book does the Maharishi say anything about the names the Hindu Gods.//It's one thing to be prejudiced, but do you have to lie as well?/ So much for the meaningless sounds. /Nobody ever claimed the TM mantras were meaningless sounds - the TM mantras are sounds that have no semantic meaning, that's why they are called mantras//, Moron./ The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. /The only lifelong celibate was the campus baker who lived in a pod, but it wasn't because of a vow he took. Go figure./ *From:* sri...@ymail.com sri...@ymail.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html According to James Dierke, the transformation in his school, where Most of the students in our school have a family member who has been shot, who did the shooting, or who saw a shooting, was what led to him receiving the 2008 NASSP Middle School Principle of the Year award. http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 According to this San Francisco article, despite there being 9 shootings in the neighborhood of the school in the month of December 2013 alone, the school was recently found to be the happiest school in San Francisco: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php For THAT school at least, TM DID change their world. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. From: srijau@... srijau@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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On 11/2/2014 9:16 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: Which came first: the deities or the concept of absolute and relative? /First, you have to realize that deities are mythological explanations for diversity, while the theory of the one absolute was the original united-field theory. According to Professor Eliade, the history of religious ideas evolved from the simple to the complicated. //First, there was the One, then it became two and from there it became three and then thirty-three, etc. // // //How many gods are there Yajnavalkya?// // //As many as are mentioned in the Hymn to All the Gods, namely, // //three hundred and three, and three thousand and three.// // //Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?// // //Thirty-three.// // //Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?// // //Three.// // //Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?// // //One and a half.// // //Yes, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?// // //One.// // //Source:// // //Brih. Up. iii, 9/ /Work cited:// // /*/History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries/*/ //by Mircea Eliade// //University of Chicago Press/
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/Thanks for the information, Lawson, but we were talking about the Elsa Dragenmark book in this thread. According to Dragenmark, after the passing of SBS, the Mahesh Yogi went to the Upper Kashi so he could meditate in a cave for awhile.// // //*The Way to Maharishi's Himalaya* By Elsa Dragmark// //Privately published, 1971/ On 11/2/2014 10:30 PM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html According to James Dierke, the transformation in his school, where Most of the students in our school have a family member who has been shot, who did the shooting, or who saw a shooting, was what led to him receiving the 2008 NASSP Middle School Principle of the Year award. http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 According to this San Francisco article, despite there being 9 shootings in the neighborhood of the school in the month of December 2013 alone, the school was recently found to be the happiest school in San Francisco: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php For THAT school at least, TM DID change their world. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. *From:* srijau@... srijau@... *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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I was responding to this: The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : Thanks for the information, Lawson, but we were talking about the Elsa Dragenmark book in this thread. According to Dragenmark, after the passing of SBS, the Mahesh Yogi went to the Upper Kashi so he could meditate in a cave for awhile. The Way to Maharishi's Himalaya By Elsa Dragmark Privately published, 1971 On 11/2/2014 10:30 PM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html According to James Dierke, the transformation in his school, where Most of the students in our school have a family member who has been shot, who did the shooting, or who saw a shooting, was what led to him receiving the 2008 NASSP Middle School Principle of the Year award. http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 According to this San Francisco article, despite there being 9 shootings in the neighborhood of the school in the month of December 2013 alone, the school was recently found to be the happiest school in San Francisco: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php For THAT school at least, TM DID change their world. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... wrote : Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. From: srijau@... mailto:srijau@... srijau@... mailto:srijau@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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On 11/2/2014 9:35 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: That ship long sailed for MJ, I'm afraid. /He didn't take a ship back home after he was kicked off the MUM campus, Steve - he apparently took a Greyhound bus back home to where he belongs. Let's hope he stays there - we don't need no rebels out roaming the country and stirring up trouble like he did up in Iowa, smoking and drinking on campus when he was supposed to be meditating in his pod. / //He needs to be with his own kind. Let the authorities in SC take care of him//if he gets out of line again. // /According to my sources, the women working to run the MUM cafeteria gave him the boot when they found out he didn't even understand how to roll dough, yet he was always trying to boss everyone around all the time. Also, they got just plain tired of his constant and redundant jibber-jabbering. Not to mention he was a clumsy oaf with the dishes he was supposed to be washing and drying. It's probably not complicated. Apparently getting fired for incompetence still upsets him even twenty years later. Some people never get over the youthful rejection from their peers, so they go on social media to try and get help. I wonder how that self-help Kung Foo is working out for him? // The purpose of practicing the Foo is to be able to tap into the unlimited reservoir of energy and intelligence that lies within - the Chi.//Everyone already knows that. Sometimes having two beliefs both at the same time causes a cognitive dissonance. He has been complaining about how he hates the whole idea of self-improvement and motivational talks - that it was a con by the Maharishi to get his money and he fell for it, only the money the Maharishi got from him - was money he got from the Maharishi. Go figure./ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Which came first: the deities or the concept of absolute and relative? On 11/02/2014 06:12 PM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. *From:* srijau@... mailto:srijau@... srijau@... mailto:srijau@... *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW
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On 11/2/2014 11:38 PM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: I was responding to this: The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. /Thanks. It's sometimes difficult to understand the jibber-jaber he posts. He doesn't seem to be able to keep up a simple relaxation response, much less dialog about higher states of consciousness. Go figure./ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : /Thanks for the information, Lawson, but we were talking about the Elsa Dragenmark book in this thread. According to Dragenmark, after the passing of SBS, the Mahesh Yogi went to the Upper Kashi so he could meditate in a cave for awhile.// // //*The Way to Maharishi's Himalaya* //By Elsa Dragmark// //Privately published, 1971/ On 11/2/2014 10:30 PM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: http://blog.sfusd.edu/2012/09/a-quiet-transformation.html According to James Dierke, the transformation in his school, where Most of the students in our school have a family member who has been shot, who did the shooting, or who saw a shooting, was what led to him receiving the 2008 NASSP Middle School Principle of the Year award. http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=56219 According to this San Francisco article, despite there being 9 shootings in the neighborhood of the school in the month of December 2013 alone, the school was recently found to be the happiest school in San Francisco: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php For THAT school at least, TM DID change their world. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... wrote : Read it years ago - nothing to write home about - I am more interested in his first book, Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in which he states very clearly the mantras he gave out are the names of gods, Hindu gods no less. So much for the meaningless sounds. The only meaningless sounds that ever issued forth from his lying mouth were his statements of lifelong celibacy and his predictions of world change from everyone doing TM. *From:* srijau@... mailto:srijau@... srijau@... mailto:srijau@... *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 9:03 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] early book on Maharishi There exists an early book on Maharishi which it seems few people have been aware of. It contains information that contradicts recent accounts of Maharishi early life and the early movement and shows those accounts to be very superficial and biased . It involves first hand accounts from individuals in India. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maharishis-Himalayas-Elsa-Dragemark/dp/B0024Z55RW