Please Help Us Update: How are TM Mantras Chosen?

The founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,  was insistent that the TM mantras came from a long "Holy Tradition,"and that the "purity of the teaching" had to be maintained.  He taught that each individual instructed in TM had to have his or her mantra carefully chosen by a highly trained teacher in order for it to be suitable for that individual and to produce the best results.  It was implied that choosing the correct mantra involved metaphysical knowledge.    

Mahesh cautioned teachers of TM that except during initiation, they were never to say aloud or write down the mantras that he had taught them.  They weren't even permitted to say them to other TM teachers.  So it wasn't until TM teachers got disillusioned, broke Mahesh's rule, and started sharing mantras that they discovered that Mahesh, rather than passing down the categories for mantras with perfection, precision and purity, had actually taught mantras based on changeable categories.
  
Readers of TM-Free Blog and other websites skeptical of TM now know that over the years, Mahesh has taught TM teachers to choose the mantras based upon the initiates' age, or sex, or age plus sex.  On different TM Teacher Training Courses (TTC), Mahesh added mantras, deleted mantras, changed the spelling or pronunciation of mantras, and changed which category got which mantra.

The excellent website minet.org, written many years ago by TM-Free Blog coordinator Mike Doughney, provides the following table, listing which mantras Mahesh taught on different TTCs:

                               The TM Mantra Tables

1961		1969-Male		1969-Female		Fiuggi, 1972
Sex	Mantra	Age	Mantra	Age	Mantra	Age	Mantra
MALE	RAM	0-15	ING	0-15	IM	10-11	ING
FEMALE	SHIRIRAM	15-30	AING	15-30	AIM	12-13	IM
		30-45	SHRING	30-45	SHRIM	14-15	INGA
		46 +	SHIAM	46 +	SHIAMA	16-17	IMA
						18-19	AYING
						20-21	AYIM
						22-23	AYINGA
						24-25	AYIMA
						> 25	SHIRING

1976		1977		1978		October,1978		1987
Age	Mantra	Age	Mantra	Age	Mantra	Age	Mantra	Age	Mantra
03-10	ENG	03-10	ING					0-11	ENG
10-12	EM	10-12	IN	10-12	ENG	10-12	ENG
12-14	ENGA	12-14	INGA	12-14	EM	12-14	EM	12-13	EM
14-16	EMA	14-16	INA	14-16	EMGA	14-16	ENGA	14-15	ENGA
16-18	AENG	16-18	AING	16-18	EMA	16-18	EMA	16-17	EMA
18-20	AEM	18-20	AIM	18-20	AENG	18-20	AING	18-19	AING
20-22	AENGA	20-22	AINGA	20-22	AEM	20-22	AIM	20-21	AIM
22-24	AEMA	22-24	AIMA	22-24	AENGA	22-24	AINGA	22-23	AINGA
				24-26	AEMA	24-26	AIMA	24-25	AIMA
24-30	SHIRING	24-30	SHIRING	26-30	SHIRING	26-30	SHIRING	26-29	SHIRING
30-35	SHIRIM	30-35	SHIRIN	30-35	SHIRIM	30-35	SHIRIM	30-34	SHIRIM
35-40	HIRING	35-40	HIRING	35-40	HIRING	35-40	HIRING	35-39	HIRING
40-45	HIRIM	40-45	HIRIN	40-45	HIRIM	40-45	HIRIM	40-44	HIRIM
45-50	KIRING	45-50	KIRING	45-50	KIRING	45-50	KIRING	45-49	KIRING
50-55	KIRIM	50-55	KIRIN	50-55	KIRIM	50-55	KIRIM	50-54	KIRIM
55-60	SHIAM	55-60	SHIAM	55-60	SHYAM	55-60	SHIAM	55-59	SHAM
60 +	SHIAMA	60 +	SHIAMA	60 +	SHYAMA	60 +	SHIAMA	60 +	SHAMA

Notes: The year at the top of each column indicates the year the teacher was trained.
"Age" is that of the initiate at the time of learning the technique.
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This table was compiled by interviewing former TM teachers who had been trained on different TTCs.  Some of the table comes from the old TM-EX newsletter:  http://minet.org/TM-EX/Spring-91.  (By the way, I looked at this newsletter and found it fascinating.)

It is clear to me that this table is incomplete.  For instance, the mantra "rarim," which my mother received, is not listed anywhere here.  

Can you help us?

If you are a former TM teacher, and you got a different set of mantras or different how-to-choose categories from the ones listed on the table, could you please write us a "Comment" with the list you were taught, and the year and location of your TTC course?

If you are not a TM teacher, but when you learned TM you were taught a mantra that doesn't line up with any of the mantras listed above, could you please "Comment" for us as well?  If it doesn't interfere with your privacy, we'd like to know your sex, your age at the time of initiation, and what year you were initiated.  

We would be interested in any other inconsistencies, oddities  or tidbits, like who your TM teacher was, what TTC they attended, if you learned TM in a group rather than individually, did you learn TM from Mahesh personally and what was that like, etc. etc.

Or if you were under 21 on your TTC, did Mahesh forbid you to teach anyone over 25?  Did he only give you child and young adult mantras?  When you reached age 21, did he give you the mantras for adults?  If so, list those too, if they don't match the table, and let us know what year you received them.  

Or, if you were given "special" mantras for monks, nuns, seminarians, etc., please list those, how chosen, date of receiving them, etc.  We already know that some TM teachers were told to give this group the same mantras that were given out to teens!
  
Many thanks!  Here's for increased truth!