Re: Transcendental Meditation - Dangers
- Subject: Re: Transcendental Meditation - Dangers
- From: jkn@symbionics.co.uk (Jon K. Nicoll)
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 18:03:56 GMT
I can't resist replying to this one...
Colin Wolrich wrote:
> mstanarevic@mailsmtp.bunge.com.au wrote:
> >
> > Dennis wrote :
> >
> > Suggest you study eastern techniques of letting go ...
> > the old "TM" type meditating is a good way to stifle
> > the conscious from interrupting.
>
> My "opinion" ( I know many will disagree, that is your right) is that
> "TM" is VERY dangerous. I personally know of people who have levitated a
> couple of feet, and seemingly unrelatedly have had terrible emotional /
> spiritual / physical experiences after the fact.
Seemingly unrelatedly? then why mention them in the same sentence?
Remember, folks, this is from the guy who (from memory, not an actual quote),
has seen limbs regrow, people raised from the dead, etc. I doubt your
veracity as a witness.
I am no apologist for TM, BTW - I know little about it and trust its
proponents less.
> Don't "play" with this "technique". Demons are real and will happily
> involve themselves in your life if you give "permission".
>
How, (specifically ;-) do you give (them) permission?
> Life is not a game.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Colin.
sarcastically,
jon N