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02-07-2008, 07:13 PM
Post subject: Maharisha Mahesh Yogi Dies... lame
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, has died at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said Tuesday. He was thought to be 91 years old.
"He died peacefully at about 7 p.m.," said Bob Roth, a spokesman for the Transcendental Meditation movement that the Maharishi founded. He said his death appeared to be due to "natural causes, his age."
Once dismissed as hippie mysticism, the Hindu practice of mind control that Maharishi taught, called transcendental meditation, gradually gained medical respectability.
He began teaching transcendental meditation in 1955 and brought the technique to the United States in 1959. But the movement really took off after the Beatles visited his ashram in India in 1968, although he had a famous falling out with the rock stars when he discovered them using drugs at his Himalayan retreat.
With the help of celebrity endorsements, Maharishi — a Hindi-language title for Great Seer — parlayed his interpretations of ancient scripture into a multi-million-dollar global empire.
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here? 
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I practice TM btw
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R.I.P.
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Originally Posted by Massimo
I practice sitting quietly btw
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Originally Posted by Massimo
I practice sitting quietly btw
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fyp |
I practice TM as well
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I grew up with TM. Mom was way into it.
I loved his influence on the beatles, and the way his influence infected all popular music.
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here?
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Originally Posted by Ragnar4
I grew up with TM. Mom was way into it.
I loved his influence on the beatles, and the way his influence infected all popular music.
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Oh damn me too wtf dude, did you live in Fairfield?
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I grew up with TM. Mom was way into it.
I loved his influence on the beatles, and the way his influence infected all popular music.
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Oh damn me too wtf dude, did you live in Fairfield? |
Nope.. Wyoming of all places. We literally grew up scared of having the churches organize and come to our house with pitchforks and torches. My mom was into all kinds of stuff like that. TM, Tarot, Wicca, Pagan ritual, she's into Native American mysticism right now.
Not exactly something that's widely accepted in a 5k population town. Or a red state.
It rubbed off on me.
On a side note I've been experimenting with partial trance states before, during and after poker to see how it affects my game. I'm actually really enjoying the affects of both pre-game meditiation. During game meditation I'm having mixed results. My reads are amazing, but I play waaaaaay too many hands, and I can never remember what happened during the game. lol
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here?
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phil helmuth is into this stuff as well
and he is a great poker player
proof it works
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Protect dog
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warpe, how does this make you feel?
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LOL OPERATIONS
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phil helmuth is into this stuff as well
and he is a great poker player
proof it works
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lol idk if you are being sarcastic but this is similar logic they use.
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warpe, how does this make you feel?
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my hippie days are long behind me. pisses me off tho, 'cause it reminded me of all the Beatles vinyl I gave away
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Originally Posted by flomo
phil helmuth is into this stuff as well
and he is a great poker player
proof it works
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lol idk if you are being sarcastic but this is similar logic they use. |
lol soooo true
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all the Beatles vinyl I gave away
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OOOOOOOOUUUUCCCCHHHHH ! ! ! !
It hurts my feelings to hear you say that.
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RIP Maharishi
fwiw i'm a practitioner of some similar type of stuff too
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