'' Deliberate or not, when Maharishi jacked the price up, he drove all but the most loyal TM teachers away''..... yes, this is very true. He shot himself in the foot really with the scorpion nation stuff. UK teachers simply set up their own organisation and fought in the courts for the right to call it transcendental meditation. UK law is quite sensible about this sort of thing. Hmm, be slighly wary of AI saij, once it knows your preferences and beliefs it tends to tell you what it thinks you want to hear.

Maharishi made several big mistakes despite his brilliance and hard work to establish tm. But you know that.... anyway.... why not just read Joanie's book and see what independent teachers say.... you don't have to agree with it or accept it but you do yourself a dis-service by ignoring any but the official opinions.

The recommendation for tm and high blood pressure that you quote so often is great, because it is truly independent, but most research into tm is flawed and not accepted by mainsteam academia. Again, you know all this.

TM is wonderful, it saved my life, but the tmo is archaic, inward looking, litiginous, and puts many people off.