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...TM is even setting up a television station in Los Angeles. Channel 18 is scheduled to go on the air in November with taped lectures by the Maharishi and variety shows featuring such famous meditators as Stevie Wonder, Peggy Lee and the Beach Boys, who have written a one-line TM song ("Transcendental Meditation is good for you"). Station KSCI will report only good news. there is talk of a TM network sending smiles from...
...TM is often mistaken for other nostrums of the '60s and '70s, but it has little or no relationship to most of them. For example, Esalen, which inspired the encounter movement in the '60s, in cludes such therapy as nude communal bathing and rolfing?deep-probing, painful massages that are supposed to release the unawakened consciousness. Arica, a nationwide spiritual organi zation, searches for "the Essential Self through, among other things, Egyptian gymnastics and African dances. Meditation is only incidental to Arica, and involves concentrating on the plan ets Jupiter and Saturn and the colors blue and black...
...only exotic component of TM, indeed, is the some what mysterious figure of the Maharishi himself. Questioned about his past, he roars with laughter. "You see," he explained to TIME'S Robert Kroon, "I am a monk, and as a monk I am not expected to think of my past...
...only real no-no in meditating is trying. If you try to be a good meditator, you will, paradoxically, almost certainly be a bad meditator. Meditating, TM officials insist, cannot be forced, and it must be done in all innocence, a word they use over and over again. "If you list instructions, you can't do it," asserts Charles Donahue, coordinator of TM's Northeast region. "It's like falling asleep. You can tell someone what he has to do?brush his teeth, put on his p.j.s and so on?before going to bed. But how do you describe...
...Even TM officials admit that 20% to 25% of the people who try TM give it up after a while. Others claim the apostasy rate is still higher. One of those who quit is Victor Zukowski, owner of a Sharon, Mass., beauty parlor. "Look, I really tried," he says. "I paid my $125, attended all the sessions, and submitted to a ridiculous initiation ceremony. I meditated for six months, and do you know what happened? I fell asleep ev ery time. I just don't think it's right to charge people $125 for nothing...