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I’m curious why you stopped doing Transcendental Meditation? And do you do any other alternative / mind altering processes now? As someone very interested in T

• dr_dshiv 6y ago
  Yeah, it's a payment based system, for better or worse. Need to pay a teacher.
• Cro_on 6y ago
  AFAICT it is a mantra based meditation. All you have to do is hand over all your money to a guru and they will give you some arbitrary mantra with which you meditate with, repeating the single phrase under your breath. IANATMG but I think the mantra should have little personal value; it is used as an exercise, presumably to do with the breath, rather than a personal philosophy type mantra.
• ChuckMcM 6y ago
  I still meditate, it helps clear my mind. What I didn't do is buy into the whole program with its seminars and retreats etc. When I was very much younger I was really curious about the claims of "mind over matter" types who claimed that the laws of physics could be changed to suit one's desires. A friend of mine had done the TM thing and she was enthusiastic and helped fund the intro / level 1 class for me (it was like $100 at the time and I considered that a LOT of money). For me, the primary benefit of meditation is to quiet all of the 'noise' in my head[1]. Some of my best engineering designs have emerged after spending a couple of days alternately meditating and reading. [1] Apparently some people don't have an inner dialog going on in their head, others are like me with a entire congress of competing dialogs all trying to be heard :-)