Meditation Information Network 1996

"Supporting critical examination of the programs associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi"

Breaking News!

Apocalyptic Pronouncements from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
TM movement leader announces imminent "genetic and biological warfare."
Trancenet press release, details and alert page.
Natural Law Party Press Release
"Of all the poisonous side-effects of modern technology genetically modified organisms are most dangerous threat of all." This press release may well be the most shrill and panicked communication ever publically released by the TM movement. It also appears to have been hastily written, and was placed on the MUM web site in this form on June 3, 1996.
View Directory and File Dates View Similar File Dates at MUM
TRANCENET ALERT: Perspective
Commentary by Mike Doughney
An Ethical Stand Against Genetic Engineering (netlink-Backup)
MUM press release on Fagan's position.

Articles concerning MUM (MIU) Professor John Fagan's return of NIH grant money in protest of genetic research, in November 1994.

Scientist Returns Research Grant to Show Concern about Dangers of Genetically Engineered Organisms
Jay Blowers, "NBIAP News Report." U.S. Department of Agriculture (December 1994)
Note that Dr. Fagan's moderate position, as explained in a November 1994 Washington Postarticle, has apparently been replaced by a blanket condemnation of all genetic engineering in recent MUM and Natural Law Party press releases.
Take This Grant And . . . The Scientist, Vol:8, #24, p.4, December 12, 1994
Genetic Engineering Dangers
Letter from John Fagan appearing in The Scientist, Vol:9, #9, pg 12, May 1, 1995

California Voters Wrongly Registered Into Natural Law Party
Investigation planned into possible fraud. Los Angeles Timesarticle

Important New Stuff, and Highlights

Article critical of the Natural Law Party and TM makes the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle
Politics and Transcendental Meditation by Edward Epstein (December 29, 1995)
Reaction to article from NLP Congressional candidate
John Knapp, editor of Trancenet has received two e-mails from David Smithstein, an NLP candidate. The messages and John's replies, listed below, appeared in the alt.meditation.transcendental newsgroup, among others.
1. Initial message
2. Message of January 2, 1996
MINet Audio Archive includes radio programs aired in 1979 and 1980, and a TM Introductory Lecture. Hear the extraordinary claims and emphasis on "supernormal" powers, straight from the mouths of the TM movement's "Chief Minister" and top lawyer. Also hear a TM teacher's "blame the victim" response when confronted with a report of unexpected negative consequences of TM practice during an introductory lecture.
New Independent Web Site!
Trancenet: INDEPENDENT RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE and the related programs associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Also mirrored here at MINET.
alt.meditation.transcendental Newsgroup Articles and Index
The TM Techniques - Complete, basic summary of the TM, advanced TM, TM-Sidhi and Primordial Sound techniques, collected together in one place. Includes all the TM mantras.
Newsgroup articles by Barry Markovsky
Highlights of Barry's contributions to the alt.meditation.transcendental newsgroup, including a critical analysis of Maharishi Effect research.

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