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...under sharp attack. A nationwide Coalition for Religious Integrity announced plans to file a federal lawsuit to stop the classes, offered by the schools under a $40,000 grant in HEW funds made through the New Jersey Department of Education. The coalition argues that TM is a form of Hinduism and that the program therefore violates the First Amendment requirement of church-state separation...
Patton says that TM literature replaces God with the phrase "Creative Intelligence," which he claims is a synonym for Hinduism's pantheistic deity. Brooks Alexander, a former TM meditator turned evangelist with the Berkeley group, explains that TM novices are not indoctrinated outright in Hinduism, as they might be in Judaism or Christianity. Rather, they are gradually conditioned to accept a Hindu world view, after which many move into a deeper involvement through meditation. Meanwhile, two prominent Protestants in Iowa, where the movement's Maharishi International University is located, have argued in the liberal Christian Century that...
...great religions of the East, Hinduism and Buddhism, have never swung away from mysticism as the pinnacle of holiness, though they also value deeds of compassion. Traditional Islamic belief views the saint or wali (friend of God) as a person with a foot in both worlds-one whose special communion with Allah coincides with his excellence in good works. As for Christianity's own rich tradition of monastic mysticism, which goes back to the fabled desert anchorites of Egypt, it seems to be undergoing a revival there and elsewhere...
...still dominated by the same kind of nationalism that had led to the World War. Toynbee insisted that Britain could only be understood as a small part of Western Christian civilization, and that Western Christianity was only one of five contemporary civilizations. The others: Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and the Far East. Toynbee's taxonomy was somewhat arbitrary; he enraged many Jewish scholars by dismissing Judaism as one of several dead cultures that he rated as "fossils"; Africa was ignored almost entirely...
Whatever it has borrowed from Hinduism, TM does owe something to religious tradition, and all major religions?Christianity, Judaism and Islam, as well as the Eastern faiths?at one time or another have included both meditation and the repetition of a mantra-like word. "Clasp this word tightly in your heart so that it never leaves no matter what may happen," advised a 14th century Christian treatise, The Cloud of Unknowing. "This word shall be your shield and your spear...