Below is a recent submission by a former TM Governor. The TM-Sidhi Program is based on the third book of Patanjali's Yoga Darshan, the major source for all knowledge and techniques in the Yoga tradition.
Beginning in the mid-70s, the Maharishi began teaching techniques he claimed would develop supernormal powers in suitably advanced Transcendental Meditation practitioners. But he divided his followers into two groups.
"Governors" were TM teachers who took long meditation courses on which they learned nearly 30 techniques. "Citizens" were non-teaching practitioners who took the Sidhi course in their local centers and learned 18 techniques, without the long meditation program (known as "rounding").
Turns out, as most TMers suspected, the Governors got a little more special sauce than the lowly Citizens. To our knowledge this remains the case. Until today. Below is the full Governor-Only Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Program:
To: jmknapp53@gmail.com
I have a lot of notes, but this should cover all of them.
Original T[ranscendental]M[editation]S[idhi]P[rogram], later watered down and for Citizen Sidha version:
| Friendliness | To develop friendliness |
| Compassion | To develop compassion |
| Happiness | To develop happiness |
| The Strength of an Elephant | To develop superhuman strength |
| The Bronchial Tube | To develop calmness |
| The Trachea | To develop control of hunger and thirst |
| The Navel | To develop knowledge of the body |
| On Soma so that Soma Flows Everywhere | To develop the flow of soma |
| The Coronal Light | To see sidhas |
| Inner Light | To develop knowledge of things hidden from view |
| The Sun | to develop knowledge of cosmic visions (lokas) |
| The Moon | To develop knowledge of arrangement of stars |
| The Pole Star | To develop knowledge of motion of stars |
| The Three-fold Parinamas (or Changes) | To develop knowledge of past and future |
| The Heart | To develop knowledge of the mind |
| The Appearance of the Body | To develop invisiibility |
| Word...Object Implied...the Idea Thereof Overlapping | To develop knowledge of language of animals and all beings |
| The Conquering of the Vital Force Samana | To develop effulgence |
| The Distinction Between Buddhi & Purusha | To develop discriminative enlightenment |
| Purusha & Intuition | To develop prescience |
| Purusha....Divine Hearing | To develop clairaudience |
| Purusha....Divine Touch | To develop divine touch |
| Purusha....Divine Sight | To develop divine sight |
| Purusha....Divine Taste | To develop divine taste |
| Purusha....Divine Smell | To develop divine smell |
| On Relationship of Body and Akasha....Lightness of Cotton Fiber | To develop levitation |
| Soma, Soma, Soma | To develop soma and smooth "unstressing" |
Rest in Shavasana 15 min or longer
If you have information on this or other programs of the Transcendental Meditation Orgs, please contact jmknapp53@gmail.com. Your confidentiality is assured.
UPDATE: In the comment sections below, Barry Wright raises an objection to this post. It may be worth our readers' time to review it. He states that he received his TM-Sidhi Program in 1977 and that there was no difference between his Governor's program and the Citizen program at that time. Everyone benefits from criticism and feedback. I'm certainly no exception. In thinking about Barry's post, two things come to my mind. One of the disadvantages of dealing with an organization that trades in secrets in the way the TM Org does is that you have to trust your sources, but you can never know for certain if you have the whole truth. Our source learned the sidhis in the 1980s. So it seems that some Governors, at least, received different programs from Citizens after the time Barry received them. In the future, I will try to include qualifications of the sort: "according to our source(s)." I hope that addresses Barry's main concern. -- J.
