Showing posts with label Open Thread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open Thread. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2015
Open Thread
What's on your mind relating to TM, Maharishi, personal stories, etc. etc.? You're always welcome to open a new topic in the "Comments" section, below.
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
Open Thread for Readers, continued
Commenting for each post automatically closes after 30 days. Therefore I am posting this today to re-open the system so that readers may continue writing comments. Thanks, everyone, for your intelligent and caring comments!
Friday, July 12, 2013
Open Thread
What's on your mind re: TM, Maharishi, recovery, mind control, memories, etc. etc. This is your thread! Write about whatever you are musing about and want to share.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Readers' Open Thread on Transcendental Meditation
Season's Greetings from TM-Free.Blog!
It's time for an open thread. You, the reader, get to choose the topic, whether serious or light-hearted. What's on your mind about TM?
I've got a few thoughts on my mind too, so I'll start the ball rolling.
3. Mahesh experimented on TMers in order to develop the TM-Sidhis program. He instituted the "Six Month Course" and the "Age of Enlightenment Course" where he tried out various meditation techniques until he came up with what he called the TM-Sidhis. My question is, as human guinea pigs, was anyone injured on those courses? And what became of them?
Those are my musings. What's on your mind?
It's time for an open thread. You, the reader, get to choose the topic, whether serious or light-hearted. What's on your mind about TM?
I've got a few thoughts on my mind too, so I'll start the ball rolling.
1. Who designed those awful crowns? They look like Old King Cole crowns, nothing like the crowns real monarchs wear. Are they solid gold? Are the rajas embarrassed to wear them? Are they embarrassed to wear those funny gowns? Do they realize the outfits look absurd on everyone, and especially on overweight men? And what's with the white cloth in the interior of the crowns?
2. I finally understand that TM isn't a dessert topping, but - is it a religion, or is it actually a money-making scheme? (I mean, where does all that money for $2,500 initiations go, or the $4,000 for the yagyas? Where did the money from the "Million Dollar Course" go?) Or is it actually a political world order scheme? Or is it Mahesh's attempt to be very important? Or was it his attempt to make the whole world happy? or spiritual? Or what the heck???
3. Mahesh experimented on TMers in order to develop the TM-Sidhis program. He instituted the "Six Month Course" and the "Age of Enlightenment Course" where he tried out various meditation techniques until he came up with what he called the TM-Sidhis. My question is, as human guinea pigs, was anyone injured on those courses? And what became of them?
Those are my musings. What's on your mind?
Monday, June 27, 2011
Open Thread for Readers
Is there something on your mind related to TM, the TM organization or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi that you'd like to discuss? Feel free to bring up topics here!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Open Thread
What's on your mind? What would you like to discuss relating to TM, Maharishi and Maharishi's movement?
Comments are closed for the last Open Thread - so start a new conversation here!
Comments are closed for the last Open Thread - so start a new conversation here!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Bevan Goes On Tour, and open thread
Here's the latest "news," and I use that term here very loosely, from the Global Good News people. They were trying to create a group of some magic number of Yogic Flyers... how many decades ago? They're still at it, right now, and even with the subsidy of millions of dollars from Howard Settle, they're still saying they can't reach that alleged goal.
This was sent on various TM movement e-mailing lists, you can also see the whole thing on the Global Good News website.
This was sent on various TM movement e-mailing lists, you can also see the whole thing on the Global Good News website.
As always, these sorts of grandiose plans of the TM movement are tinged with a hint of megalomania. They're now talking about the task of changing "the trend of time itself and the destiny of the human race." It's downright ludicrous that the members of a shrinking core of true believers think that they have that kind of influence, just by simply thinking some very special thoughts, bouncing on foam rubber, and calling it "flying." From the "Event Highlights:"
US: National Invincibility tour begins 10 April in Texas
by Global Good News staff writer
Global Good News
28 March 2011
National Invincibility Tour April / May 2011
Dr. Bevan Morris, Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace
President of Maharishi University of Management
Working with Maharishi for 42 years
Dr Bevan Morris will be touring the United States in April and May, to inspire the permanent creation of the national invincibility group of 2,000 Yogic Flyers in Maharishi Vedic City and in the Golden Domes of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.
∙ How to achieve the goal of Dr. Howard and Dr. Alice Settle,* supported by Dr John Hagelin—to achieve the number of 2,000 practicing Yogic Flying morning and evening on a permanent basis—which Maharishi said would fundamentally change American society, and change the trend of time itself and the destiny of the human race.The TM-Free News Brief is on hiatus... until there's some real news, unlike this drivel from the folks at "Global Good News." Don't forget to like us on Facebook if you haven't already.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Open thread, and a micro news brief
Briefly: David Lynch teleconference with University of Montana Media Arts students is blogged by the campus newspaper; the paper characterized the event as a "lesson" in Transcendental Meditation... More news on David Sieveking’s film “David Wants to Fly” that's slowly making its way across the U.S. The film may have been the subject of an on-campus Q&A at MUM with Bobby Roth earlier this week... Onetime MIU student Jeff Peckman is running for mayor of Denver... TM promoters are again attempting to propagandize for the use of TM to treat PTSD among soldiers, this time in the Sri Lanka Guardian. They must be out of media outlets that will cover what they say, because this Guardian freely admits that it's a website that will run almost anything - see their disclaimer... Ramani Ayer, retired insurance executive and board member of both the David Lynch Foundation and MUM, joins the board of directors of XL Group, a global insurance firm... How many racehorses are named Maharishi?
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TM-Free News Brief, 9 March 2011. Published irregularly here on Wednesdays by Mike Doughney, who's solely responsible for its content unless otherwise noted.
The TM-Free Blog is on Facebook, where you'll see both pointers to new postings here at the Blog and news articles and other items as we receive them.
There's also a TM-Free Twitter stream.
TM-Free News Brief, 9 March 2011. Published irregularly here on Wednesdays by Mike Doughney, who's solely responsible for its content unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Your Brain on East-Facing Buildings, and open thread
Here are a few images found on the web. These are from an online presentation, "Intro To Maharishi Sthapatya Veda," which is the TM movement's architecture and construction product, promoted by the very same people who attempt to sell Transcendental Meditation as some kind of "scientifically validated" practice.
Despite the reference to "neuro-scientific research" in the second slide, there is zero scientific evidence that indicates that physical orientation has any direct effect on the human brain. Of course, that doesn't stop the promoters of TM from making these sorts of outrageous claims, that aren't even clearly supported by the religious traditions of India. In other words, it appears "Maharishi" and his entourage may have made this stuff up. It's a uniquely megalomaniacal stance, this claim that almost all buildings across the planet should be bulldozed and rebuilt according to their rigid strictures.
The first slide is very similar to a poster I once found taped to the doors of a since-demolished building at the Maharishi University of Management, announcing that certain doors were not to be used. Here's my previous article with a picture of that poster, and more about the 70 million dollar office building that was built near Washington, DC, to comfort those few people who've developed this kind of peculiar phobia about the orientation and design of buildings. Or as a peculiar gimmick to sell the building to renters - funny, that trick doesn't seem to have worked, at last glance the building still sits mostly empty.
The TM-Free News Brief is on hiatus this week.
If you don't see an "add your comment" link below, click on the article title to see the comments. Disqus seems to have broken something this morning. It's fixed.
Despite the reference to "neuro-scientific research" in the second slide, there is zero scientific evidence that indicates that physical orientation has any direct effect on the human brain. Of course, that doesn't stop the promoters of TM from making these sorts of outrageous claims, that aren't even clearly supported by the religious traditions of India. In other words, it appears "Maharishi" and his entourage may have made this stuff up. It's a uniquely megalomaniacal stance, this claim that almost all buildings across the planet should be bulldozed and rebuilt according to their rigid strictures.
The first slide is very similar to a poster I once found taped to the doors of a since-demolished building at the Maharishi University of Management, announcing that certain doors were not to be used. Here's my previous article with a picture of that poster, and more about the 70 million dollar office building that was built near Washington, DC, to comfort those few people who've developed this kind of peculiar phobia about the orientation and design of buildings. Or as a peculiar gimmick to sell the building to renters - funny, that trick doesn't seem to have worked, at last glance the building still sits mostly empty.
The TM-Free News Brief is on hiatus this week.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Big TMO buildings facing south, and open thread
The TM-Free News Brief is on hiatus until next week, here's a few photos instead.
These are from my personal collection, taken by me one Saturday afternoon in the early eighties. I've long thought it rather amusing that, with the movement's superstitious obsession with avoiding south-facing doors and entrances in recent years, one of its most prominent real estate holdings had an entrance that faced exactly south.
This is the former Annapolis Hotel, 1111 H Street, Washington, DC, in the early 1980's, and like many such movement facilities it had to have a big pretentious name, so this was the "MIU College of Natural Law." (The movement has always had its own strange interpretation of what the words "research," "college" and "university" actually meant, often involving rooms full of foam rubber.) When these photos were taken, if I recall correctly, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi himself was in this building announcing various new Ayurvedic products and programs.
A few years later this building would be stripped of anything of value, sold, and flattened for a new office building. The Washington Convention Center, next door to it in the second photo, was then a brand-new building, and it's also since been demolished.
The TM-Free Blog is now on Facebook, where you'll see both pointers to new postings here at the Blog and news articles and other items as we receive them.
There's also a TM-Free Twitter stream.
These are from my personal collection, taken by me one Saturday afternoon in the early eighties. I've long thought it rather amusing that, with the movement's superstitious obsession with avoiding south-facing doors and entrances in recent years, one of its most prominent real estate holdings had an entrance that faced exactly south.
This is the former Annapolis Hotel, 1111 H Street, Washington, DC, in the early 1980's, and like many such movement facilities it had to have a big pretentious name, so this was the "MIU College of Natural Law." (The movement has always had its own strange interpretation of what the words "research," "college" and "university" actually meant, often involving rooms full of foam rubber.) When these photos were taken, if I recall correctly, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi himself was in this building announcing various new Ayurvedic products and programs.
A few years later this building would be stripped of anything of value, sold, and flattened for a new office building. The Washington Convention Center, next door to it in the second photo, was then a brand-new building, and it's also since been demolished.
The TM-Free Blog is now on Facebook, where you'll see both pointers to new postings here at the Blog and news articles and other items as we receive them.
There's also a TM-Free Twitter stream.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
A snack for the guru, and open thread
The TM-Free News Brief is on hiatus this week and next, so instead of that, here's a photo and an open thread.
This is an old Polaroid in my personal collection, from a TM center, um, "Capital of the Age of Enlightenment" celebration in the early 1980's.
The TM-Free Blog is now on Facebook, where you'll see both pointers to new postings here at the Blog and news articles and other items as we receive them.
There's also a TM-Free Twitter stream.
This is an old Polaroid in my personal collection, from a TM center, um, "Capital of the Age of Enlightenment" celebration in the early 1980's.
The TM-Free Blog is now on Facebook, where you'll see both pointers to new postings here at the Blog and news articles and other items as we receive them.
There's also a TM-Free Twitter stream.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Open Thread on Transcendental Meditation
At the recent request of a commenter, we are offering another "Open Thread." This is your chance to choose the TM-related topic! What's on your mind?
If anyone ever wants an Open Thread, please just let us know in the "Comments" section and we'll be glad to oblige!
If anyone ever wants an Open Thread, please just let us know in the "Comments" section and we'll be glad to oblige!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Transcendental Meditation Open Thread
Commenters, this Open Thread is for you! Please feel free to bring up topics of interest to you, ask questions, etc. on this "Open Thread."
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Open Thread on Transcendental Meditation
Hey, what's going on? No new articles in a week? The contributors must all be on vacation! (Except me.) So, here's an "Open Thread." I invite our readers to discuss whatever's on their mind relating to TM....
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Open Thread for Night Owls!
A nightly offering of space as fresh, clean, and untouched as any Transcendental Meditation Nun.
Discuss amongst yourselves!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Open Thread for Night Owls!
A nightly offering of space as fresh, clean, and untouched as any Transcendental Meditation Nun.
Discuss amongst yourselves!
Friday, July 03, 2009
Open Thread for Night Owls!
A nightly offering of space as fresh, clean, and untouched as any Transcendental Meditation Nun.
Discuss amongst yourselves!
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Open Thread for Night Owls!
It's my pumpkin time again. But here's a reward for all those courageous souls still reading TMFB at such a late hour:
A fresh Open Thread to discuss the news of the day or any other topic you so desire!
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Open Thread for Night Owls!
Hey, don't you guys know that the Maharishi said the last angel train leaves at 11 pm?
Well, I for one am going to bed.
Talk amongst yourselves!
(Nightly Open Threads are a regular feature of TMFB. They offer fresh space for you to discuss whatever's on your heart and mind.)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Open Thread for Night Owls!
Hey, don't all you former practitioners of Transcendental Meditation know that the Maharishi said the last angel train leaves at 11 pm? (Or did he say 10 pm?)
Well, I for one am going to bed.
Talk amongst yourselves!
(Nightly Open Threads are a regular feature of TMFB. They offer fresh space for you to discuss whatever's on your heart and mind.)
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