Showing posts with label lies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lies. 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...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Please Help Us Update: How are TM Mantras Chosen?

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The founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,  was insistent that the TM mantras came from a long "Holy...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Transcendental Meditation : Research = Biased Advertising

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At long last, critique emerges of Transcendental Meditation’s so-called “scientific data” which is really just masked advertising.  Mere...
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, December 10, 2011

Mantras and other secrets of Transcendental Meditation

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Recently, a non-TM friend asked me, "In the TM movement, what was secret, aside from the mantras?" That question really got me t...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Book Review: "Robes of Silk Feet of Clay" by Judith Bourque

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"Robes of Silk Feet of Clay" by Judith Bourque, published 2010, is the true story of Ms. Bourque's 1971-1972 love affair with ...
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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Friday, March 19, 2010

My friend's doctor recommended Transcendental Meditation

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My new friend Sherry told me that her M.D. had recently recommended that she learn either Transcendental Meditation or the Relaxation Respon...
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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, January 31, 2010

"Lies, Levitation, and Defamations Most Foul" by Doug Mesner - about Transcendental Meditation's diagnosis of "malignant negativity"

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Seems TM-Free Blog is not the only proponent of free speech about TM Organizations' dysfunction to be threatened with legal action. Anot...
Friday, December 11, 2009

If Transcendental Meditation's Founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Came Back for One Day

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I have a fantasy. What if Maharishi came back from the dead for 24 hours? And what if, for those 24 hours, you could ask him anything you wa...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi University & David Lynch Foundation recruited Bill Clinton to address Native American Conference on TM

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Last weekend Maharishi University of Management held a conference on Native American Sustainability and Invincibility , in the Maharishi Pa...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Flying Fraud

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Betty and Anomalous have made a significant contribution to TM criticism (perhaps a new genre similar to literary criticism). I think it is...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Charisma of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Founder of Transcendental Meditation

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About a month ago, I attended a 2-hour workshop on healing through movement. After this brief workshop, I wanted to immediately buy the pre...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Revisiting the TM-Sidhis. Part 1: The Early Years

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When I became a TM Teacher in May of 1973, the highest status one could obtain in the TM movement was "TM Teacher." But startin...
Friday, February 06, 2009

Post-Hypnotic Suggestion and Trance Logic

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"How could I have believed such dumb stuff? And how come I still believe it sometimes? And how come I went against my morals and lied t...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Revisiting TM Initiation, Part 2: The Puja ("Traditional Ceremony of Gratitude")

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Please note: This is a four-part series. "Revisiting TM Initiation, Part 1," was posted 11/11/2008. "Revisiting TM Initiation...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Revisiting TM Initiation, Part 1

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(Note: This is a four-part series. Revisiting TM Initiation, Part 2: The Puja ("Traditional Ceremony of Gratitude") was posted o...