TM - Maharishi School speaker - introduced to Maine schools
Posted by:
Toni
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Date: June 16, 2006 11:44PM
Read on:
[behind-the-tm-facade.org]
And the latest... if you think "The Stepford Wives" was creepy..
Here it is for real. All houses w/ same floor plans, similar exterior, all facing east, all speak the same lingo, all live with meditaton/dissociation as the central focus of life.
All with a stream of their finances going to TM's bank accounts in Switzerland and India. Kind well-intentioned people, as long you are interested in their lifestyle. Information of various psychosis and suicides are hidden:
[maharishivediccity.net]
[behind-the-tm-facade.org]
And the latest... if you think "The Stepford Wives" was creepy..
Here it is for real. All houses w/ same floor plans, similar exterior, all facing east, all speak the same lingo, all live with meditaton/dissociation as the central focus of life.
All with a stream of their finances going to TM's bank accounts in Switzerland and India. Kind well-intentioned people, as long you are interested in their lifestyle. Information of various psychosis and suicides are hidden:
[maharishivediccity.net]
TM - Maharishi School speaker - introduced to Maine schools
Posted by:
Martin Adanac
()
Date: June 17, 2006 11:01PM
Hi, Toni & Peppermint -- maybe I need to revise my thinking that the manipulative little weasel is scarrier than any possible side effects from TM. There are some really scarry side effects that I have seen: [i:51e2e46c60]you must have been doing something wrong[/i:51e2e46c60] is the always-and-only explanation.
[b:51e2e46c60]TM cannot do harm. Mahesh is the greatest good. Mahesh known best.[/b:51e2e46c60] This seems to permeate what Eric Hoffer called "the true believer", the person for whom [i:51e2e46c60]the leader[/i:51e2e46c60] is sole decision-maker, thus freeing the individual from any worldly responsibility other than living, enjoying the fantasy.
Just how people can make this shift from a world-view they have directly experienced into one that is total fantasy (as least, fantasy from the perspective of that former view) is beyond my ability to grasp. I have seen it in a couple of friends, however, so I know it is real.
This "event" occurs in almost all human activity and, for the most part, goes unnoticed as, for example, people change political alliances, become involved in clubs, social endeavours, charities, hobbies or, most likely to be noted, religions.
TM and Maheshism is not a conventional religion, but is a religion nonetheless. It is destructive in that, as one of Mahesh's own close followers observed behind closed doors: he sucks you dry like an orange and throws away the peel.
People not directly involved in the cult-activity of TM-groups may not be able to or willing to observe this, but extensive observation reveals an organization of benign enough appearance with an armoured underbelly and intentions an ebola virus could be proud of. (OK, that last image is a little over the top.)
But TM/Maheshism is dangerous, do not forget this ever. Its saving grace is that like many a megalomanical undertaking, it is full of disorganized planning, followers trained not to think, muddled goals and grandiose ambitions with little to guide them other than Mahesh's own self-agrandising ambitions and overestimation of his own worth.
Mahesh admired Adolph Hitler and even had one of his followers read,[i:51e2e46c60] Mein Kampf[/i:51e2e46c60] to him (probably because he was too vain to get spectacles). Konrad Heiden, in his introduction to a modern printing of [i:51e2e46c60]Mein Kampf[/i:51e2e46c60] recalles a court case [not totally explained] in which Hitler declared, in part, [i:51e2e46c60]... foreign policy in itself is merely a means to an end. In questions of foreign policy[,] I shall never admit that I am tied to anything. ...[/i:51e2e46c60] -- This idea of foreign policy occurs in the book and seems interpreted by Mahesh as "foreign policy" [or The Holy Tradition] is what I say it is whenever I say it is. -- This is a reflection on how Mahesh and by extension his organization operates. Happily, it is a formula destined for the junk heap, hobbled by its own ineptitude. Unhappily, there will be many innocent lives wasted along the way.
Solution? None, really. Don't get involved. Stand back. (Warn your friends.) Watch if you must; let nature take its course. A friend with a nicely developed personality said that the whole organization was like watching a train wreck: too horrible to contemplate, yet impossible not to watch.
[b:51e2e46c60]TM cannot do harm. Mahesh is the greatest good. Mahesh known best.[/b:51e2e46c60] This seems to permeate what Eric Hoffer called "the true believer", the person for whom [i:51e2e46c60]the leader[/i:51e2e46c60] is sole decision-maker, thus freeing the individual from any worldly responsibility other than living, enjoying the fantasy.
Just how people can make this shift from a world-view they have directly experienced into one that is total fantasy (as least, fantasy from the perspective of that former view) is beyond my ability to grasp. I have seen it in a couple of friends, however, so I know it is real.
This "event" occurs in almost all human activity and, for the most part, goes unnoticed as, for example, people change political alliances, become involved in clubs, social endeavours, charities, hobbies or, most likely to be noted, religions.
TM and Maheshism is not a conventional religion, but is a religion nonetheless. It is destructive in that, as one of Mahesh's own close followers observed behind closed doors: he sucks you dry like an orange and throws away the peel.
People not directly involved in the cult-activity of TM-groups may not be able to or willing to observe this, but extensive observation reveals an organization of benign enough appearance with an armoured underbelly and intentions an ebola virus could be proud of. (OK, that last image is a little over the top.)
But TM/Maheshism is dangerous, do not forget this ever. Its saving grace is that like many a megalomanical undertaking, it is full of disorganized planning, followers trained not to think, muddled goals and grandiose ambitions with little to guide them other than Mahesh's own self-agrandising ambitions and overestimation of his own worth.
Mahesh admired Adolph Hitler and even had one of his followers read,[i:51e2e46c60] Mein Kampf[/i:51e2e46c60] to him (probably because he was too vain to get spectacles). Konrad Heiden, in his introduction to a modern printing of [i:51e2e46c60]Mein Kampf[/i:51e2e46c60] recalles a court case [not totally explained] in which Hitler declared, in part, [i:51e2e46c60]... foreign policy in itself is merely a means to an end. In questions of foreign policy[,] I shall never admit that I am tied to anything. ...[/i:51e2e46c60] -- This idea of foreign policy occurs in the book and seems interpreted by Mahesh as "foreign policy" [or The Holy Tradition] is what I say it is whenever I say it is. -- This is a reflection on how Mahesh and by extension his organization operates. Happily, it is a formula destined for the junk heap, hobbled by its own ineptitude. Unhappily, there will be many innocent lives wasted along the way.
Solution? None, really. Don't get involved. Stand back. (Warn your friends.) Watch if you must; let nature take its course. A friend with a nicely developed personality said that the whole organization was like watching a train wreck: too horrible to contemplate, yet impossible not to watch.
TM - Maharishi School speaker - introduced to Maine schools
Posted by:
Joe K
()
Date: November 09, 2006 07:49AM
Reurrecting an old thread...
To introduce myself, I'm the owner of www.suggestibility.org, an anti-TM site.
TM-the-technique may be a "simple, natural, relaxation technique", as advertised. However, a certain number of people who learn TM-the-technique will be sucked into TM-the-cult. I describe how I think this happens on the web site.
Basically TM is a technique for inducing a dissociative state, wherein people act out a suggestion that they should experience deep relaxation. During TM instruction, there is post trance indoctrination that this "relaxation technique" will produce Enlightenment. A certain percentage of students will internalize this indoctrination, and they gradually begin their descent into the cult.
Margaret Singer told me that she considered TM to be very destructive at "advanced levels" because "advanced practioners" may self-induce dissociation (i.e. "meditate") for hours a day for weeks or months at a time, while receiving a constant stream of post-trance indoctrination.
The result can be dissociative disorders and psychosis.
And a certain percentage of students who learn TM-the-technique will be gradually sucked into TM-the-cult. They may end up here www.mum.edu, or here www.motherdivine.org (TM "nuns") or here www.purusha.org (TM monks), among lots of other possibilities for cult involvement.
To introduce myself, I'm the owner of www.suggestibility.org, an anti-TM site.
TM-the-technique may be a "simple, natural, relaxation technique", as advertised. However, a certain number of people who learn TM-the-technique will be sucked into TM-the-cult. I describe how I think this happens on the web site.
Basically TM is a technique for inducing a dissociative state, wherein people act out a suggestion that they should experience deep relaxation. During TM instruction, there is post trance indoctrination that this "relaxation technique" will produce Enlightenment. A certain percentage of students will internalize this indoctrination, and they gradually begin their descent into the cult.
Margaret Singer told me that she considered TM to be very destructive at "advanced levels" because "advanced practioners" may self-induce dissociation (i.e. "meditate") for hours a day for weeks or months at a time, while receiving a constant stream of post-trance indoctrination.
The result can be dissociative disorders and psychosis.
And a certain percentage of students who learn TM-the-technique will be gradually sucked into TM-the-cult. They may end up here www.mum.edu, or here www.motherdivine.org (TM "nuns") or here www.purusha.org (TM monks), among lots of other possibilities for cult involvement.
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