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David Lynch's Guru and His Art

A lot of people adored Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the leader of the Transcendental Meditation Movement, who died yesterday. Maharishi was known as the giggling guru and he preached world peace and pure consciousness for every man.

Strangely, one of his biggest fans and followers was neo-noir film director David Lynch, who has authored films such as Blue Velvet and Lost Highway that explore something that seems more like subterranean consciousness. David runs a charity that aims to teach children TM and he has given many talks on the benefits of meditation.

I gave him a call at his production office here in Los Angeles and see what he was thinking about the day after the death of his guru.

Me: How are you David? How are you feeling?

David: I’m doing OK, Claire, it is a big day, was a big day yesterday.

Me: Do you feel sad?

David: I felt very sad, but also, very happy. Very happy that I knew Maharishi, that I got his meditation and very happy for the world that Maharishi brought out unbelievable cosmic knowledge and was able to bring enlightenment to the people and peace on earth. Now it is up to the people he left behind to follow through and put the pieces in place, Claire, and it’s going to be a beautiful world.

Me: Are you one of the people?

David: Everyone plays a part, I’ll do what I can do. I’m cutting a documentary that I’m making right now of a fifteen country tour I did in November to establish invincible universities for peace, with Maharishi's consciousness based education. For me it’s also just telling people what I know about Maharishi.

Me: What does it mean to you that Maharishi is dead?

David: Well, Maharishi dropped his body. It's like a man is in a car and the car is old and the man gets out of the car and rolls the car into the water into a lake. Do we feel sorry for the man? The car is gone but the man is there. No problems for Maharishi. People are sad because that voice of wisdom is gone.

Me: How do you tell the world what his significance was? In simple terms.

David: Maharishi, you could say, Maharishi is a man of peace. A man of love. A man of wisdom. And if you listen to him, if you take up those teachings, your life will get better and better and better.

Me: How’s your life?

David: Great.Yeah. Sure.

Me: You remember the first time you met Maharishi?

David: I met Maharishi the first time face to face in 1975 in Los Angeles, California. It was at that center of Spiritual Regeneration Movement in LA, where I had started meditating. And Maharishi came to that center and it was his last visit, and I was there that night, along with three or four hundred people.

Me: And what was your first impression?

David: My friend had gotten a bunch of flowers to present to Maharishi and I handed him my flower and for the briefest moment our eyes met and when Maharishi looks into your eyes, and he looks into yours….well…it’s an incredible, incredible moment.

Me: Well, I have to ask, and I know everyone must, but isn’t there a black cloud of negativity in your films?

David: Everyone does ask. I went to to 26 countries, and in each one they say ‘how come if you’re so happy you make these films?’ The answer is films, books, music, all these things reflect the world in which we live. And up to now the world has been a dark and troubling place. Stories have great contrast, through the centuries, they have positive and negative swimming together. But I always end up saying the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don’t have to suffer in their lives

Me: Are you suffering?

David: NO!

(lots of giggling….)

Me: Do you consider yourself part of the TM Movement?

David: NO! I’m not in the movement, I’m a TM meditator, and you know, I have done lots of talks since I’ve heard about Maharishi’s peace creating groups and no one seemed to be listening. I’m not technically part of the movement. I’m just a person who knows what meditation has done for himself.

Me: Did you do a puja [a Hindu ceremony] today?

David: No, no. These things are internal things. Like I said there’s nothing to worry about -- everything is good. Everyone is sorry that Maharishi’s voice is no longer in the world, but there’s more ways than that to communicate. Everything is very good. I just feel that there’s a connection, and everything is very good.

Me: Well thank you for talking to me.

David: Good deal Claire. Write something beautiful for Maharishi.

Me: Um, OK. Ill try.

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God Bless everyone.
fortunate people who experience high levels of consciousness coz they will be free of strains and suffering.
jai guru dev

Franz Richter, Germany:

East and West

When East and West unite
The sun will never decline.
Its light will always shine
Sublime and bright.

When East and West combine
The sun will glow and yet
The moon will never set
And stars will shine.

And all will be in sight,
All things, unmanifest
And manifest, when West
And East unite.

But East and West, they will
Be only unified
When we are wide inside
And very still.

And when we ARE the sun
And when we ARE that field
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self:

I have learned that there are people in this world that would criticize the sky, sun, moon, and stars, if given the forum.

I do TM, in fact the David Lynch Foundation paid my entire fee to do this...And I will always be thankful to Mr. Lynch for setting me on this path...before I started doing TM, I was living in a motel, had no direction, and was floundering with my everyday life, in all ways. The day I started doing TM, my life started changing. Within a month I was living in a new home, full of new furniture, and was feeling better than I ever had before.


It seems alot of people on the outside of TM, criticize it saying it is a religion...a cult, brain wash, etc.

First of all, I put god above everything...I don't pray to TM teachers, leaders, or anything of the sort. They have never asked me for a dime, or claimed to be anything other then what they are.

for me TM is a simple mental technique that I do twice a day...then I go about my day. That's all...Love, peace, pure bliss, this is what TM is, it's aim is to make the world a better place, it turns the individual's enviornment into bliss... It's not something that I really talk about, or tell everyone....it's something you do.

People who have learn of me and TM ask me what it's like? The only answer I have to say is DO IT, and you will know....but if I have to use a metaphor to describe it...think about the water faucet and the purifier filter...well TM is like the purifier filter, it takes out all the bad elements of the individual...and things begin to get better.

Again, I put god above everything, and I do a mental technique twice a day called TM...

God Bless...

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Anonymous:

Note, This is recycled Material From Mr. Moderators D.C. DENNETTE blogg. Please see his link on responding to Letter to B-GONE , B-MAN et al:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/daniel_c_dennett/2008/02/secularists_grin_and_bear_it/all_comments.html


Note F.A.G.G.I.T's; "i" am in Fact NOT a White SuperStupid Racist like you falsley ourport. Please go to talk to some ofg Presidential Wannabe's RON PAULS "Supremists" supporters. Note: There are alot of Ex-Cons who can Vote!

Important: Apocalyptically "CULT" means CULTure. and "SECT" means SECTion.

So please do not say 'Cult', the way yo do & did here n there, by making "SHILOH" ("i" et al, am immune to any anti-Eclati-On rhetoric) look CULTURE Shock lioke, so to speaketh TRUTH (opposite of MYTH).

Soon, Soon, very soon, (you knew & know that "i" am coming Out, so you and others Religious Jealous Psyched (pagans/Wiccans ) people are trying to discredit. But You will loose & WE always Win fool! "i" LOVE YOUR ATTENTION. The More the Challenging!

WE are professional REBUTTALISTS by nature!!!!!!
WE are LAWYERS without Licenses, so to speaketh, under GRIDARIAN DEMOCRACY & via AOPOCALYPTIC CIVILIZATION. It ye HUMANS (pre-Apocalyptarians) that loose to Us HUMATES (Apocalyptarians). Please Forgive Us if ye have trouble learning a slightly different American Lingo. Note We Eclati-Ons speak AMERICAN, not ENGLISH! Capeesh! Ya Ya!

You might just make a nice "P.U.N.K" for some 'Lifer' and a White Supremist too! White Supremists love to S.cew White Pagan Boys! Please get a MONOPOLY Game Board and please "GO-TO-JAiL aye!

Att: B-MAN The 'Homosexual' & lover of THOR's hammer. The PAGAN, Wiccan Witch B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S.!

Note B-MAN;

You have bee posting {stealing] my own Links, out of courtesy & good will, from Moderator Mrs. Claire Hoffman, ON FEB.7th.2008.9:31Pm.

See the entire link here where YOU (not "i") PAGAN/WICCAN/WITCH started this . Thanks.

AND please see "MY Links" (along with the one you justlinked above) But With this WIKIPedeia link that you Devilishly did not supply, or withheld from this Cyber community! F.A.G.i.T!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Levicoff

Interesting: The stub entry via Mr. Steve LeviCoff et al, is Gay, but a 'Mench' so to speaketh about Truth & Facts not Ommission! He is one Gay person "i" will always Respect. But never a Punkarino like you or similar situated!

NOTE: You have not answered my request to come-up with some FRESH info on HARRY THEIAULT [pbuh], like after the 1980's & 1990's involving "SHiLOH" The Photon Bringer Of The APOCALYPSE on Space-Ship Earth??? Well? So you recycle what "i" give ye (1968)?

Note: ECLATi R*E*V*E*L*A*T*i*O*N (opposite of Secrets or hidden like Holy MANNA/UMMAH/KARMA) And TRUTH (opposite of MYTH) cometh 1964 until 1998!

Note: Some PAGAN/WICCAN not long ago audaciously tried to incorporate ECLATARiAN Philosophy & the NEW-SONG knowledge with thier POLY THEO sex driven craparino's Pre-Apocalyptic Evil behaviours!! Wow! Shame Shame, "i" am lost in Translation MOMs!

iNCAMERA (Secret) Did you know that Prez Wannabe & Spoler Mr. Italian Stallion, RODOLPH GiULIANi, when a U. S. Prosecuter in S.D.N.Y. (Manhattan) was an Anti-ECLATARiAN!??? Ya Ya! He brought the CURSE for Flouting the Holy-NO-MEN ECLATi upon Himself.

Please see United States Federal Law Books on case {"i" will not link the "CASES" because of your proving to abuse my links, not yours. and also because WE have been Offered To do a BOOK & MOVIE on Us!) But for a taste please see:

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THERiAULT Vs. QUiNLAN 609 FSupp. 733 (SDNY, 1985) RUDOLPH GiULIANi, U.S. ATTORNEY!
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Important: All this [NOW] is Prophecy! "I am The "CYBER MESSIAH" Mrs/Mr. B-GONE, B-MAN, B-MON et al!

Therefore B-MAN, you cockaaa on ye self, and you only know how to Plagerize & copy cat others people work on this "onfaith 'onreligion' Blogg" (since March2007) . Your a low "I.Q.", and "i" bet self Esteem is also shamefully low!

SECRET (incamera) ANY ONE who Reads & or Hears the APOCALYPTARIAN Philosophy will have opened their "I.Q" to atleast 10 points! So if ye have a 140 I.Q. like me then add 10 more for 150. A 100 I.Q. like yo can increase by 10/15/20 max, in these Temperatures (TIME). Too bad ye are Flouting Eclati!

PS: From Info & Belief there are suddenly alot alot of People intersted in the E*C*L*A*T*i*O*N New-Song coming from all OUR oldy's but Goody's (of the Infixus-Books).

Ah, LiFE/Photons is soo so Beautiful with ECLATi-ON(s) & Never with ye OFF(s)!

Anonymous:

DOWN with OPRAH WINFREY’s ‘THE SECRET-ARMY.


OPRAH et al, is Selling her exclusive bribable Audience , ‘THE-SECRET‘ book!

A pseudo voodo Religion written by a white woman named Rhohnda BYRNE from Australia?)


Please See , Wiki SECRETS linko here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(2006_film) THANKS.


Note: Oprah & Dr. Phil are also involved with this Quasi-Messmerizing-Belief of a Hoaks apokis , as ‘Scam’ on a Mass Marketing Level.

QUESTION: How do you think Borok OBAMMA is getting such an "ATTRACTIVE‘-Reception" lately aye??? What , His Barratone Voice? Pleazzzzzzzzeeee gimmee a brake aye!

Note: "i" also smell TOM CRUISE in-their somewhere, somehow, sometime.

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BEHOLD world: A great Conspiracy is being perpetrated on O.U.R. Holy Cosmic AMERiCA today via PORAH Wnfreys & Obamas “SECRET-ARMY“ (14, 000,000 vieverws & lovers of their BRAIN-SWITCHING tactics!

.HARK: Oprah Winfrey & Obama , Tom Cruise & Dr. Phil are all in cahoots in their Presidential bids.

They are like almost an successful COMMUNIST adherents whom are attempting to TAKE-OVER America with Deception, Deceit etc & unscrupulous Tactics!!
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Remember:

AOCALYPTIC & National MODERN MORALITY is SUPERIOR TO ANY, EVERY & ALL PRE-APOCALYPTIC National BIBLICAL MORALITY thinkers!

“From being a Caterpillar To a Butterfly , all will go!”

PEACE, PAZ, SALAAM, SHOLOM....

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DOWN with wannabe Prez or V.Prez OPRAH WINFREY’s ‘THE SECRET“-ARMY.

DOWN with OBAMA!

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Sivadas Madhavan:

One of the things many fail to recognize is the distinction between the message and the messenger. Maharishi’s message was a simple one from the depth of Hinduism; Truth, love and compassion. One should note that neither this messenger nor his message advocated anything other than this. He did not ask anyone to abandon his own roots or culture or religion. This is the core of Hinduism, and it stands apart from all of the other dogmas.

Maharishi did not ask anyone to regard him as God or worship him as God. A good teacher is the imparter of knowledge and worthy messages selflessly. It is also essential that he practices what he preaches. No one who is born is immune from any of the physical limitations of the human body, never in the past, not now and not in the future. The gurus who know this stand out in a class by themselves. When the disciples expect more than that from their gurus, they will be disillusioned. When a guru fails to teach his disciples this truth, the guru fails.

Maharishi was a good man. Neither perfect nor divine. He was a good messenger and did justice to those who understood the role of the guru.

The Ending of $Cientology & their David Miscavage ARMY!:

Goodbye TOME CRUISE & ye [zero] Scientology & Pre-Apocalyptic Army!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ

Kartika Damon:

I am addressing the comment by Eddie that TM is purely a technique and has nothing to do with faith. Eddie you must have had the 3 days of checking when you were told the meaning of what you experience during meditation. Remember the "knowledge" given, the explanations that require faith in the principals that are underlying the entire meditation practice? Does it not require faith to except that the goal of mediation is the ultimate called Enlightenment - certainly faith enters into this picture somewhere, don't you think?

whattheshotis:

Why are there people like Frank? Why is there so much trouble in this world?

RH:

It's a shame. The experiment that Lynch cites as fact in his book and elsewhere, of a gym-full of TM'ers lowering the crime rate, is completely false and was definitively disproven. How can one person be so smart in one place and such a sucker in another?

Whatever, my only gripe with it is that it's getting in the way of his true work as a filmmaker. If you're functioning as a private individual, David, then function: do what you're here on earth to do: make INLAND EMPIRE 2: Kingsley's Revenge!

davequ:

I took my first TM course in 1969. Since then, for me TM has been an excellent, low-maintenance, natural and healthy relaxation TECHNIQUE.

It is NOT (for me) a religion, philosophy, cult, explanation for the "meaning of life" or any other cosmic bullsh#.

It is simply a mentally and physically healthy & efficient relaxation technique that is likely not much different (in results) than biofeedback, self-hypnosis, yoga, tai chi, etc.

Most of my friends, like me, instinctively and immediately rejected any dogma, brainwashing, philosophies, etc. that were sometimes offered as baggage back then with TM. But the short & simple TM meditation exercise twice a day proved enjoyable, healthy and relaxing for everyone, as it still does for me to this day.

In that respect, despite any / all of Maharishi's human faults:

"Sexy Sadie (Maharishi), - what have you done ...
You made a fool of everyone"
- © copyright John Lennon

... I am grateful that someone was generous enough to share this simple efficient exercise in relaxation that beats the hell out of drugs, alcohol, etc. when it comes to dealing with and healing stress from this everyday world.

Thanks Maharishi. Peace and good luck to you.

please people:

Take your medication.

B-man:

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Yo YO YO!

Prophesies, Apocalypse....Your Scientology version of Christianity is so over the top superstitious, I have to laugh at your put downs of other religions as being superstitious.

HaHaHa

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The Church of the New Song emerged in 1970 as an expression of a new rights movement among residents of penitentiaries in the United States. It was begun by Bishop Harry W. Theriault, a convicted bank robber, in the federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia. The name of the church refers to the new song mentioned in Revelation 5:9 and 14:3, which church members believe is the sound of the new era, and also the new song being sung by the youth. Theriault, his co-founder Jerry M. Dorrough, and others began immediately to agitate for recognition within the prison system. In February 1972 a federal court recognized the church as a legitimate body, and ordered prison officials to permit it to meet and hold services. After that decision the church spread rapidly and became the focus of controversy. It was accused of causing a work strike at San Quentin, and its sincerity was questioned because of a claimed specification that porterhouse steak and Harvey' s Bristol Cream were its communion elements. Theriault was soon transferred to the federal prison at La Tuna, Texas.

According to the church, " Eclat" is the " new name" of the divinity referred to in Revelation 3:2, thus the church is also termed the Eclatarian Movement. Eclatarianity is the highest fulfillment of Christian prophecy. The end of the Christian era, the era of grace, is the beginning of the Eclat era. The church considers the American governmental and bureaucratic system to be so corrupt that there is no more time for grace. The message of the Church of the New Song is the word of life. The Law of Nature is to act and have power. " Eclat is the Light and the deed is love; if you seek the Light, do the deed." Man' s basic needs are said to be shelter, food, and someone to love. When these have been attained, men should busy themselves helping others attain their basic needs. The teachings of the church are summarized in Holy Mizan, termed a " para-testament." The paratestament is a third testament coming after the first, or Old, Testament and the second, or New, Testament.

The church is episcopal in polity, operating within the boundaries of prison existence. Theriault, the bishop of Tellus, is assisted by Dr. Stephen S. Fox, S.R.M. (sealed revelation minister), the international chancellor of information. Fox is also a professor of psychology at the University of Iowa. Other officers include Dr. Richard Tanner, S.R.M., prime coadjutor; Dr. Becky Hensley, envoy international; Robert Copeland, redactor international; and Jerry Dorrough, coadjutor of Tellus. Male Eclatarians are referred to as " Maverites," and females as " Sporades."

By 1972 the church had 27 chapters in state prisons and 16 in federal prisons. The church has grown in recent years both inside and outside the prison system, despite Theriault' s isolation at La Tuna. A militant program concerning religious freedom in the prison system has been pursued. In 1972 Theriault took a Nazarite vow, which included a refusal to cut his hair (a primary requirement in most prisons). He also began to question the government' s subsidy of religion through its salaries to prison chaplains.

Membership: Not reported.

Sources:
[Harry W. Theriault]. Grass Roots of the New Song. Millington, TN: Book University of the New Song, 1979.

Lightbringer Shiloh [Harry W. Theriault]. Holy Mizan, Supreme Paratestament of the New Song. Bend, OR: Sacred Text Press, 1982.

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Is Jovez Mormon?

Who is Jovez:

Who is this person, Jovez and what does he talk about?
What is this apocalytic faith?
Can anyone shed some light on it?

Thanks!

B-man:

Yes, "JJ" is having a bad day...

because I NAILED him.

That and Mitt dropped out, because Mitt Romney was a fraud and the rest of the country couldn't stomach him.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/108793

Athena:

Ahhh... JJ's just havin' a bad day. His boy Mitt just dropped out of the race.

That being said, I'm a proud member of the Lynch Mob and a huge fan of Twin Peaks. Lynch is a strange one, but he's definitely a man of peace.

Raoul Duke, Esq.:

Jeepers. If I had one apolitical, agnostic role model in my life, it was Mr. Lynch. I am surprised he has such devotion to something that I had always considered just another crackpot philosophy that helps people pass the time between drug-induced nervous breakdowns. However, if his beliefs helped Mr. Lynch make films so wonderful and diverse as Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, then who I am to judge? I just wonder whether Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ever saw his films.

Keep up the disturbing work, Mr. Lynch. The world is far more disturbed that you could ever portray it.

Raoul Duke, Esq.

Ja Joz:

Att: B-MAN {Homosexual?}

You have acute "Religious Jealousy Psychosis" & "Pre-Apocalyptic Syndrome" that cannot simply be 'Medit-tated not medicated, Away!!!!

Did you ever hear the expression, " Bend-Over, I'l give ye a raise!????

"i" already PROVED that Buddhism is a Pre-Apocalyptic & imported "Teaching" [not a Religion, yet collects Tax Free Money claiming so, wow wow, shame shame)] ......

Note B-Man, et al; You could take-out other words out of context instead of HOMOSEXUAL o.K.???


Important: FACT your So calle "SWAMi" "GURU" "Rajneesh" is committed Many HOMOSEXUAL ACTS! And from info & Belief that your 'Dead Swami' committed Pedaphelia Acts or Attempted to.

Note: This [un] holy Buddha Loving Spiritual Guru of your (not OURS) via his (not mine) 'Transidental MEDITATION is know to be a PSYCHOTIC individual! And seems that you are just anothe SuperStupidStitious Fool or Follower "B-MAN" et al! Note: if your Gay, please go to a Gay Blogg, or a Gay Bar or Room, but not on this Non-Gay (straight) Bollorino O.K. Punkarino????

Ah, LiFE is soo so Beautiful w/Eclati-On's & never with the OFF(s)! Ya Ya!

Silver Spring:

Maharishi was a beautiful soul who walked the earth to bring the world peace and prosperity by bringing the individual enlightenment.

Maharishi's gift to the world, Transcendental Meditation, allows the mind to settle down, transcend the relative, and experience the absolute. Some might say to find the God within.

Once experienced, pure knowledge is gained. Practiced every day, the enlightenment of the saints.

I will miss Maharishi's talks. Maharishi and his gift will always be with me.

Anonymous:

Oooopssssadaisy.

It's ALBERT EINSTEIN [A.E.]pbuh]

Important: O.U.R. Father [A.E.] & Prophet of the "Holy Cosmic Feelers Faith" [Ho-Co-Fe-Fa] via O.U.R. "ONE UNIVERSAL RELIGION BOOK OF TRANSFINITY [OUR-BOT] had investigated 'Buddhism" Philosophy & Practice & found it to be PRE-APOCALYPOTIC & somewhat Primitive, but Better than All the Other Jewish (of which he was of) faith & the Christian Faith & the Islamic Faith & also the Hindu faith Man-Made (zero ECLAT made) "COMPETING" (for Asperants/Money) Systems!

halozcel:

*Mulholland Drive* was a perfect movie.
Many thanks Dear David Lynch.
Naomi Watts was super as well.
I could understand after four repeat.

blue fish:

David Lynch likes to go fishing..umm.. for ideas.
Except he says: "I always say ideas are like fishing (instead of like fish). Oh well. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPc1N7kf_AQ

David Thebodo:

Those who dream of world peace and inner peace (even secretly) should visit Fairfield Iowa where several thousand practice Maharishi's TM Technique twice a day and live along side local midwest natives to create a community rich in the arts and entrepreneurial spirit and a safe environment in which to raise a family. I arrived in 1974 bringing a car load of students on my way to Calif. I had recently learned TM at an east coast Catholic college in an eastern philosophy course taught by a Protestant minister. I became curious of the social experiment which was about to unfold (east meets west), stayed and became a TM teacher, went to grad school, worked in industry, brought my family here in'86, created three businesses and have enjoyed being part of a unique community. Thank you Maharishi

LD:

Isn't anything to do with faith, spirituality or "ultimate truth" ignorant superstition?

khefera:

it's a shame someone as talented and intelligent as lynch could fall for such ignorant superstition.

Anonymous:

strange cat, the Lynch...

Andy:

Thanks for running this piece. its so important for us to get a glimpse, a reminder, of the spiritual reality...
and David Lynch is brilliant and cool.

egc52556:

Thank you for your article. But handled under the faith / religion section misses one of the key points, and most misunderstood, of Maharishi's teaching: TM is not a faith nor a religion; it is a technique. The technique works without faith just as surely as brushing your teeth makes them cleaner.

Try it, you'll like it.

Eddie Caplan
Fairfield Iowa

egc52556:

Thank you for your article. But handled under the faith / religion section misses one of the key points, and most misunderstood, of Maharishi's teaching: TM is not a faith nor a religion; it is a technique. The technique works without faith just as surely as brushing your teeth makes them cleaner.

Try it, you'll like it.

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