Showing posts with label TM initiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TM initiation. Show all posts
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...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Lawsuit in progress: David Lynch Foundation abandons TM "Quiet Time" program in Chicago

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A lawsuit has recently been filed against the David Lynch Foundation (the DLF), a Chicago Public Schools district, and the University of Chi...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Leslie's story: "The Truth Pissed Me Off"

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This is another unsolicited, contributed story from a former TM meditator, Leslie (not her real name). She points out the habits that TM c...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Ashley's story: My experience of my husband's journey into Transcendental Meditation

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Stock photo of a generic young couple, not the contributors. (scop.io) Here's the second of the personal stories contributed by To...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Tony's story of his journey through, and out of, the TM program

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We’ve received here at the TM-Free Blog, a dual submission of personal stories, from Tony, a meditator, and his wife Ashley. Their names ha...