Showing posts with label deception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deception. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Book Review: "TRANSCENDENTAL DECEPTION: Behind the TM curtain - bogus science, hidden agendas, and David Lynch’s campaign to push a million public school kids into Transcendental Meditation while falsely claiming it is not a religion" by Aryeh Siegel

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Published 2018 by JanReg Press 222 pages Reviewed by Laurie This book is different.  This book is special. "...'Will my pra...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Review of "Greetings from Utopia Park; Surviving a Transcendent Childhood" by Claire Hoffman

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Greetings from Utopia Park; Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman (2016) HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 265 pages ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Another Deception By Maharishi Uncovered?

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Another Deception by Maharishi Uncovered?  " Puja Feeling" as related to the "Purity of the Teaching" To the ...
Friday, February 17, 2012

I'm really sorry that I lied to you.

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A trip down memory lane. Admitting a mistake and making amends. Pondering the power of mind control. Healing. Clearing your conscience. Wha...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Unhooking From Maharishi's Teachings: Laurie Interviews Sudarsha about the Puja (Ceremony)

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I (Laurie) left TM 30 years ago, after 10 years in the TM movement, and I have been "deprogramming" myself ever since. I now belie...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Essential Documents, and Open Thread

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I've made a few changes here on the TM-Free blog, and one of them is the links in the right-hand column. You'll have to scroll down ...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Lying: A Core Practice of Transcendental Meditation. (A Seven-Part Series). Part 3: Lies and the TM Hierarchy

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There are so many different ways to lie. There are lies of omission, lies of commission, bending the truth, creeping around the truth, chan...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Lying: A Core Practice of Transcendental Meditation. (A Seven-Part Series). Part 2: First Lie

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What was the first lie you spotted? When did you first notice Maharishi Mahesh Yogi or the Transcendental Meditation organization (TMO) lyi...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Lying: A Core Practice of Transcendental Meditation. (A Seven-Part Series.) Part 1: Broken Promises

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When I learned TM in 1971, my initiator promised me that if I practiced TM for 20 minutes twice a day I would become enlightened in eight to...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

New York Times on exiting and exposing a cult (Scientology)

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The New York Times of Sunday, March 7th (hard copy edition) had an interesting front page article about exiting and exposing Scientology. Th...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

When did you first realize that the Transcendental Meditation organization and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi were fraudulent?

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Two of our readers have recently written in the "Comments" section of TMFree Blog that they are interested in the above question,...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Critiquing Transcendental Meditation's "scientific research"

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Question: How valid is TM's scientific research? Answer: Not very. A Brief Overview of TM Research: According to the Transcendental Me...