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From: tischler@ihuxv.UUCP (Mark D. Tischler)
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Subject: Re: Transcendental Meditation sham exposed!
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Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 13:02:26 EST
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	It also should be mentioned that there have been 2-page ads in
recent Time magazine issues (and maybe other magazines as well) that try
to sell Maharishi's methods.  The article was hilarious to read, and served
to point out a number of fallacies in this whole business of TM.  Maharishi
over and over again has claimed that a country needs one percent of its
population to convene and meditate to bring peace and harmony to the country.
His ad states that "the square root of 1%", that is 10%, is needed
(apparently he never took a math course).  The amount of name dropping in the
article is incredible.  It's as if Maharishi has just heard about people like
LaGrange, Abel, Hamilton, and LaPlace, but has never taken the time to sit
down and find out what they did.  There are numerous other hilarious points
in the ad.  If anyone comes across it, read it; it's worth a few minutes of
your time.
	By the way, I once tried TM, and my brother was most likely at the
recent gathering of 7000 people in Iowa to meditate to bring peace and
harmony to the country (they have already taken credit for the stock market
upsurge, and Maharishi has said that all crime in the world will disappear
by the end of 1984), although we haven't queried him about it yet.  So, I
know what I'm talking about.