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Hi

I'm a little concerned if I cause offence in the Peer Review converstion on TM, sorry if I came across as high handed.


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Did you? I wasn't in the least offended. It's a long time since I did TM in the form I was taught. I stopped doing TM following very heavy pressure from my then partner. The TM movement may be very different today to what it was when I did it.

I later found that mantra meditation was very similar to TM (although I was told by my TM teacher that each student has a particular mantra chosen specifically for him/herself). I was told never to divulge my mantra to anyone - and I never have). I did wonder whether everyone was given the same one, but if each person had the same warning, no-one would ever know this. I now thinkd that is less likely. I've worked with Sufi zikrs and wazifas and know that they are given to the student (mureed) to work with according to need.

Oh good, I was a bit worried. Mainly because this is the first time in Peer Review when I haven't acted on a suggestion that was made by another researcher. I'm not usually the sort of person to say "I know better than you" on anything.

To be honest I know people who have divulged their mantra's, it was one of the things you did at school to rebel, and yes they were different, there's a former TM teacher who's published all the mantra's and the way that they're choosen on the internet...

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