Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Challenging the positive, popular perception of Transcendental Meditation: a conference presentation

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I put together this conference presentation last year. It was intended for a professional audience, but I think it serves as a good overview...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Judgment entered against David Lynch's foundation and Chicago school board in US Federal Court

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One of the three civil cases brought against the David Lynch Foundation and the Board of Education of the City of Chicago has reached its co...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Maharishi's meeting with Hindu supremacist, right-wing political leaders

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The close relationship between Maharishi and his successors, and some of India’s Hindu supremacist political leaders, has been hinted at fro...
Friday, January 07, 2022

The full text of an early version of Maharishi's "Introduction to the Holy Tradition"

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I've been following along with the latest developments in the lawsuit against the David Lynch Foundation, and others, in the aftermath o...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

Breaking: US Department of Justice allegedly funded Transcendental Meditation "Quiet Time" program in Chicago

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A filing today in the ongoing Federal court case against the Chicago Board of Education, the David Lynch Foundation, and the University of C...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Two former Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment students charged with first degree murder

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(Updated December 11, 2023 - both defendants have been sentenced to life in prison with minimums of 25 and 35 years.) A school yearbook from...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

New PTSD studies: TM as a "black box" - what's inside?

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Recent studies claiming that Transcendental Meditation is effective in treating PTSD, and that it provides other benefits, treat TM as a “bl...
Wednesday, March 03, 2021

Demystifying the Puja, part 3: Misleading everyone for decades about this ritual’s true nature and purpose

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The Transcendental Meditation instruction ritual, the puja , should be viewed in the context of a half-century long attempt to deliberately ...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Demystifying the Puja, part 2: A religious transaction with the divine

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The Transcendental Meditation organization has consistently misrepresented the meaning and nature of the puja , TM's instruction ritual,...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Demystifying the Puja, part 1: Establishing authority and dominance over the meditator

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The Transcendental Meditation instruction ritual, the puja , is much more than just some “simple thank-you ceremony.” Its most important pur...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Introduction: Demystifying the Puja, a 3 part series

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The Transcendental Meditation instruction ritual, the puja , establishes for new meditators the dominance and authority of TM’s founding tra...
Monday, February 15, 2021

You can't spell TM without SCI

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A formal reckoning with attempts by the David Lynch Foundation (DLF) to place Transcendental Meditation programs in public schools, defying ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Maharishi's many euphemisms for "God"

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The TM organization has for almost a half-century now denied the religious nature of its methods and doctrine, almost to the point of absurd...