TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION NOT REHABILITATION CENTER BUT DESTRUCTIVE SECT: EXPERT THINKS

YEREVAN, AUGUST 1. ARMINFO. Transcendental medication advertised in
Mass Media as a rehabilitation center is a destructive totalitarian
sect in reality, Head of the Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of
the Destructive Cult Alexander Amaryan tells ARMINFO’s correspondent.

He says the Center of Transcendental Meditation (TM) Maharishi
occurred in Armenia in 1989. After the earthquake in Armenia, Mikhail
Gorbachev allowed TM teachers to entry the USSR for post-traumatic
rehabilitation. In 1990, a decision was made by the Ministry of public
Health on education of TM for struggle against alcoholism. In 1990,
followers of TM in Armenia number 12 people, in 2005, they number
40,000 , head of the TM center (professor of Yerevan State University).

Amaryan says the leadership of the sect uses elements to infusion and
deception to control over the consciousness of the followers. Thus,
in the constant reference to the positive responses of scientists to
the TM do not mention hat the authors of these researches were members
of the organization of TM or received orders by the TM. Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi is the founder of the Transcendental Meditation or TM
Movement. In 1957 he founded The Spiritual Regeneration Movement, the
first of several organizations collectively known as the TM Movement,
and began the first of many tours to teach the Transcendental
Meditation technique around the world. The Beatles were among
his students. After some allegations of sexual abuse against the
Maharishi, the Beatles left him, voicing their disappointment in some
songs (“Sexy Sadie”). These allegations turned out to be unfounded,
and single Beatle members, like George and Paul (Larry King Show)
have shown support to Maharishi in later years. The Maharishi’s
Transcendental Meditation has been taught worldwide to over 5 million
people. Over 600 research studies have been made at universities
in over 30 countries. In 90s Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had $4 bln, due
to a number of commercial projects (in total 57 registered trade
marks). Long before Gorbachev’s decision to open a way of TM to
the USSR, in 1997 the Federal Court of the New Jersey State banned
extension of the TM at schools. TM was classified as a destructive
pseudo-religious sect (cult) in the decision of the above court, as
well as in the resolutions of the jury of the Federal Court of Appeal
of Philadelphia (USA), in the determination of the Archierey House of
the Russian Orthodox Church, in the verbal note of the FRG Embassy,
in decision of the Committee for Ethics of Dutch Medical Society,
by the Ministry of Health and Medical industry of RF, and by the
experts of the National Assembly of France.