Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Controversial Meditation Movement - Shadows Of Paradise - Documentary 

How beautiful thankyou

I agree with you about the Maharishi. Utopia is to be Enlightened in 5-8 years in the Kali Yuga and the cessation of wars. But the cessation of wars would be possible if there were permanent groups of TM Sidhi practitioners on several continents.

But so much baggage, sadly. Deceit and deception. Sexual and financial scandals. Broken hearts. Broken pocket books. A very mixed legacy…

@@sattwa2 I would say that you are not well informed from the inside but from the media

Must not translate well to video. He seems underwhelming and rambles for hours repeating and reiterating the same concepts without saying anything.

I think you guys should look into meditation, shamanism, and metaphysical powers. We can harness our energy and move things with it. It’s super interesting stuff!

thank you

So many of us, think like you. It was a phenomena beyond reasoning really.

I was there, too

Why? By design. Because there is a process. And, TM is taught in person. You learn one-on-one from a trained TM teacher, but not until after you call & go to a TM center, complete the appropriate application, are accepted as a student, and complete a preparation procedure. Why? Because the desire and quest for opportunity to learn a simple, yet pure, meditation technique, in its wholeness, from a long and ancient line/tradition, are NOT superficial pursuits like playing a video game or buying concert tickets. You won't have to sit outside some rishi's cave for months on end enduring inclement weather like in the old days. However, it will cost you something. A bit of money, whether it's precious to you or not, and some time . . . which you definitely won't be wasting. Others may answer your question differently depending upon their own life experiences and knowledge gained. This is just one answer, my answer. I learned TM in 1972, still meditate. If so inclined, learn to meditate from those you are drawn to most and who you trust. Only you can choose for you. Hope you find this helpful.

@@pearlrachel1499How is your life ? are you healthy,happy rich poor what is your state that you found that TM helped in ?

@@Cheeks63091 Dear Cheeks63091, I hope this email finds you well, healthy, and happy. We all have challenges to meet, lessons to learn, and joys to celebrate. Sorry it took me so long to respond. It might be best not to use someone else’s opinions, life situation, wealth, poverty, or experiences as a deciding factor as to whether or not you should try TM, or learn to meditate at all. I think it best to follow your heart’s desire. Your heart’s desire alone, and no one else’s. It is not my intention to convince anyone of anything. I thought if I shared some of my thoughts about TM, meditation, and spiritual development in general, that would be more helpful than trying to answer your questions directly, or to specifically promote TM. I found practicing TM to be a wonderfully positive activity & influence in my life. Then and now. But, to answer your questions: “How is your life ? are you healthy, happy, rich, poor, what is your state that you found that TM helped in ?” only in the light of TM, would not be a fair. I’m 77 years old, and along with TM meditating, have found many wonderful spiritual influences in my life beside friends, teachers, and co-workers. Neville Goddard, Louise Hay, Eckhart Tolle, and Wayne Dyer, top my list, to name a few. Listening to their talks were paramount in getting me through some of the toughest times. I still listen to them, and still find them most uplifting. There’s never just one thing. One quick fix. You have to find who and what ‘speaks’ to you. There is not one path for everyone. And most importantly, everything and anything you do find helpful on the outside (outside of yourself) should merely lead you back to look inward. Meditation is a technique, one of many, to help one look inward. In my humble opinion, there is nothing closer to God, or the answers you seek, than what is within you, in your own heart, mind, and imagination. My journey was/is my journey. Your journey is yours. More of my journey…I deeply wanted to learn how to meditate when I first heard about it, in my mid 20’s. That was my heart’s desire. And although my intellectual understanding of what the word, meditation, meant was limited, I knew it was the right thing for me and what I wanted to do. Ignorant as I was…I was going to learn how to meditate, come hell or high water; and from someone I felt was qualified at the time-from a tradition that preserved the knowledge pure and whole over centuries, or eons of time. From an age-old ‘tradition.’ I was always spiritual, since childhood. Later when I heard about meditation and techniques from the East, I wanted to learn how to meditate from an ‘authentic teacher/guru’ from India. I was very drawn to Paramahansa Yogananda, but wanted to learn from a living teacher. I was so excited when the opportunity arose in 1972 to learn TM as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (MMY). I was newly married, and 25 years old at the time. My husband and I were both initiated on the same day, but in separate ceremonies. Each person learns the TM technique individually, one-on-one, from a TM teacher trained to impart the meditation technique in its fullness and subtleties to another. Yes, I feel that learning and practicing TM has subtly enhanced my life in every aspect. Health-wise when I was younger, I feel meditating helped me overcome panic attacks, nervousness; to stop smoking, and with a number of other things. I am thankful and grateful for the many wonderful people, opportunities, amenities, gifts, and blessings I have in my simple life. Things that many others on the planet struggle to secure. I am poor in that many of my family and friends have passed away, and I miss them-and the opportunities and comforts they brought. I am rich in the beauty of sunrises following the darkness of nights, and in peach-colored sunsets; in the joyful singing of small songbirds just outside my doorway, and I am rich in friends who call to check in on me, and to help me when I need it. And I am blessed with opportunities to help others, if and when I am able. - I think TM is a wonderful tool/technique that could, and most likely would, contribute to anyone’s better health-spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. I think it’s one of the best meditation techniques widely available to Westerners. I feel privileged and very fortunate that I had the opportunity and funds to get initiated into the practice of TM back in 1972. And to attend the TM Movement’s ‘1st World Peace Assembly,’ a 40-Day Course at UMASS during the summer of 1979. Fortunate, indeed. - Do I think TM is the ONLY valuable meditation technique out there, no. There are others, like Mindfulness. You’ll have to do your own research. - I think the cost of TM is steep these days-if that would be a hardship for you, try contacting a TM center to see if something could be worked out. If not, research other options to learn how to meditate. Ask, seek and you will find. - If you are drawn to TM, then, that’s probably what you should do. If that can happen easily, without financial hardship. Otherwise, you will find something else that will be right for you. Only you will know what is right for you. I sincerely hope you will find some of this information helpful. All the best to you.

what do you mean, there are lots of videos showing how to do tm.

Because you have to find out for yourself. Correct me if I'm wrong everyone but I think it's the opposite of doing. The mind is terrified of stopping whatever thing it's occupied with but when you really succeed it brings a new clarity to your surroundings and you can feel true peace and at the same time energized because all energy that was locked in your body to keep a certain view of yourself/reality is now starting to free itself so that it can be of more use to you. Something like that.

Hopping around is not levitating.

You may believe it or not, I do ! It was some weeks after my Siddhis, I had done my regular meditation, then I listendes to the 10th mandala and suddenly it happens.....I felt cold under my back side and i touched under my back with the hands and felt that I was above the mattress, ca. 10 cm above. When I was realizing it it makes a plopp.....and I was again at the ground. It was real and since that day I know that its possible. It needs no practizing the hoppy things, cause its a freeness in thinking, absolutely lightness and no willing...... I'm so thankful that I could experineced this......thats enough.

@@devinaji13 Did it ever reoccur? I've never heard of anyone having a recurrence of the experience you describe.

@@eriksnead3134 sorry, never it had reoccur , but I had another experience which showas me that our body is only a conglomerate of photonen in a very very low vibration......to feel how it is in a very high vibration....thats encredible ! Look at some Stories about levitating people loke Teresa from Avila and John from the cross, they also were possible in levitation. And there is a story from a little child in the countryside in the 18th century, this child was so excited from nature an the things happening there, that she began ti levitate....only from her natural deep innocent joy. I cannot say how it happenened this to me, but it does.

You who hide your name have no perception like those who crucified Jesus. 

Money, yes, and all the pretty White chicks.

Yea, the guy with the hair was too much all over this film.

I’m just watching this seems like Lynch got the information & ran with it ..some humans make it all about themselves & forget those who made the blue print..All i see is these other two guys ..now i could be wrong .but what happened to The Yogi in this ?

True, but it was the decision of the Shankaracharya of Jyothirmath. Why? I'm not sure, they say because Maharishi has been outside of India.

Maharishi was a Kashatrya, not a Brahmin. Kishatryas are cremated. Some say Kashatrya is the higher caste. He was called a Maha Rishi by the saints in India. The hierarchy goes like this -- guru, avatar, sidha, rishi, and maha-rishi or "Great Rishi". An avatar incarnates once every 11,000 years or so to help the world. A Maha Rishi incarnates once in the lifespan of a universe (371 trillion years) to save a planet from total destruction. Maharishi was the first to spread the lost knowledge of TM and the TM-Sidhis to the whole world, then to create a group of pandits large enough to chant the World Peace Yagya eternally which is easing the transition from our dark age of Kaliyug to a. mini-Sattyug of 10,000 years, an age of perfection. As world purity rises from the chanting and meditators, it stirs up the darkness, temporarily creating the chaos we see on Earth right now beginning with the collapse of governments and economies and the threat of nuclear annihilation. Maharishi said the chaos will end sometime between 2023 and 2025, then comes permanent world peace in the new age of Sattyug. The world transition brings attacks on the highest knowledge from the world's ignorant. The dark forces are trying to stop the coming of the Golden Age. But Maharishi always said," Never worry about the world situation. Just keep meditating and wait for Sattyug." Thank you, Maharishi.

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No I don’t feel cheated, because the real benefit of TM and the Siddhi technique isn’t what’s happening when you’re it, It’s in how it changes / enriches the other 23 hours of your day. For me it has been and continues to be great.

@@TLMuir yes I agree, I knew a few friends that spent money chasing a promise after we all initially learnt TM, the more they chased cosmic/unity consciousness the more product Mahesh introduced. Years later I met up with 2 of those friends who finally admitted they felt deceived (not an easy thing to tealise) I have to say I noticed a big change in both of them, from happy go lucky, animated characters to complete dullards almost devoid of emotion

There are several stages of flying described in Patanjali's Yog Sutram. The first is sweating, then shaking, making noises, then hopping "like a frog". With extended practice one hovers for a second, then for longer periods, then moves through the air. In our dark age of Kalliyug, it's difficult to hover in the air. a team of male ghmnasts were invited to try hopping for half an hour with the sidhas, and they couldn't do it. They all collapsed from fatigue while the sidhas kept hopping. The gymnastsall said, "I don't know what it is, but there's someting going on there. The TM-Sidhis create great energy and great bliss. The hovering comes later.

So far, 48 years of hopping, but not a single hover. I can only draw limited conclusions from this state of affairs. @@rickved

Sadly I am watching the same thing slowly happening to my friend as well. There are hundreds of stories like this online @@steve9542000

Time is Always now.

Yes, one has learned to see only the positive.

Praise the lord 🙏🏽❤️

Frank Sinatra.

World peace ? talk to putin in russia

@@apolloli992Talk to the lying, NATO aggressors you mean.

The film is his understanding, and its a great personal story watch to the end for the full effect. You'll be surprised.

As world purity rises from the chanting of the 150,000 pandits Maharishi created and from the millions of meditators he created, it stirs up the darkness, temporarily creating the chaos and danger we see on Earth right now beginning with the collapse of unworkable man-made governments and the fall of economies and the threat of nuclear annihilation. Maharishi said the chaos will end sometime between 2023 and 2025, then comes permanent world peace in the new age of Sattyug. The world transition brings attacks on the highest knowledge from the world's ignorant. The dark forces are trying to stop the coming of the Golden Age. But Maharishi always said," Never worry about the world situation. Just keep meditating and wait for Sattyug." Thank you, Maharishi. Maharishi was called a Maha Rishi by the saints in India. The hierarchy goes like this -- guru, avatar, sidha, rishi, and maha-rishi or "Great Rishi". An avatar incarnates once every 11,000 years or so to help the world. A Maha Rishi incarnates once in the lifespan of a universe (371 trillion years) to save a planet from total destruction. Maharishi was the first to spread the lost knowledge of TM and the TM-Sidhis to the whole world, then to create a group of pandits large enough to chant the World Peace Yagya eternally which is easing the transition from our dark age of Kaliyug to a. mini-Sattyug of 10,000 years, an age of perfection.

@@rickved What a load of bologna.

Jesus didn't multiply himself by creating teachers of a technique that would bring enlightenment to them and to the whole world. Maharishi did. We are witnessing his promises of a golden age come true with our present pralaya, the chaos that arises during the Earth's shift from darkness to light just before Heaven descends to Earth.

@@rickved Did u say maharishi multiplied him self? (U have to add some context when u use words like pralaya)... my point was that TM goes against Jesus because it ignores him and lies to Christians telling them u can be a Christian an practice TM. Im sure it doesnt work that way

This nonsense is not of the Lord

What about Odin? The way Christians insert themself into discussions like this is one of the things that put me off, another was that such a great God that cares so much sent such flawed manipulative people to reveal Him to me

@@jasonmullinder its because its obvious odin is just a made up myth(undeniable) & there is archeological proof jesus existed.

This is false. Maharishi's organization is a non-profit education organization audited twice a year by the IRS. As such, the IRS records are available for the public to read. Maharishi's technique is the only meditation technique to have a large body of scientific research validating its many benefits on the mind, physiology, social relationships, and the occasional large group effects on world events. All these effects are validated with over 600 published in peer-review scientific journals. No other meditation program has this great body of published research. Maharishi didn't need money for himself. Those who appreciated the knowledge he gave them took care of his. needs. He never owned a Ferrari like some; he never owned a motorcycle, like another "guru" does. Every moment of his short time on Earth was spent trying to help the world.

That would build a lot of homes for the poor.

Yep - if you think that will solve for the whole world, if that’s your take then so OK go ahead and you raise it! Might help if you learn tm first tho- that’s how these guys got the heart and the nouse and charisma to engage folks and do good. I’ll watch this space

I did, and practiced for years! What saved my ass was self inquiry, although I didn't even know the term at the time.

@@kenjones7719 I'm aware of no press report, exaggerated or otherwise, that asserts that the TM organization is worth that much. The assets of the TM organization in the USa are several hundred million dollars, and that counts a fully-functional University accredited through PhD, that graduates several hundred people each year.

TM 1972-1989 RIP

What is demonic?? The practice by the original Teacher or the greed by those who claim to be carrying on a legacy??

@@gutchiespencer2714The Greed of those who charges people like me $20,000 to become a TM instructor ..seems to me that is absurd if you love & want all to have world peace

@@gutchiespencer2714 waste of time responding, people jump on comment sections of "spiritual" videos because they think it's their ministry to start arguments and spread the gospel here