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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Transcendental Meditation sham exposed!
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Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 00:30:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 12 00:30:41 1984
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
Lines: 16

I know nothing about the TM folks, but it seems to me that whether or not
TM assigns one, two, 12, or 20,000 different mantras to their clients (and
ascribe importance to that) is about the most irrelevant observation you
can make about the organization.  A mantra is simply something to be used.

People derive value from TM, and they do it themselves--no one gives it
to them.  If I had taken TM, practiced meditation and felt better for it,
and then found out that there were only 16, I'd have a good laugh,
and get on with my meditation.

I haven't read "Big Secrets", but from this one story, it sounds pretty
juvenile.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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