Missouri sentences convicts to transcendental meditation.A few of Missouri's judges are using Transcendental Meditation Transcendental Meditation, service mark for a religious movement based on Vedanta philosophy, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Stressing natural meditation and the liberating pleasures such practices could invoke, the movement's meditation method is believed to help (TM) as a sentencing tool. Judge David Mason
Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Maharishi Mahesh Yogi orig. Mahad Prasad Varma (born 1911?, India) Indian religious leader, founder of Transcendental Meditation (TM). He took a degree in physics before going to the Himalayas to study the Advaita school of Vedanta religious thought with the popularized TM--a derivative of Hinduism--in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and, according to his Web site, five million people practice it worldwide. The site claims TM is easy to learn and requires sitting with eyes closed for 20 minutes two times a day. Allegedly, this form of meditation helps the mind overcome discursive thoughts in order to enter an enlightened state of consciousness. Mason told Riverfront Times, a St. Louis weekly, that he believes TM is a successful tool for rehabilitation. "Of the more than a hundred I've sentenced, maybe three or four have come back in front of me," said Mason. The news weekly reported that five state and federal judges in Missouri also include TM in sentencing. |
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