Transcendental Meditation (TM), a practice Maharishi, the founding-father erected as a science-shaped, named “Creative Intelligence Science (CIS)”, a “new science of consciousness“, is a Vedic science from the Far-East that burst into a very controversial way the modern science history. Epistemology (<gr. epistêmê, “science” and logia,”science“), science that studies scientificity of sciences calls into question its sciencehood.
In fact, this Vedic science (<sanscr. veda, “that displays essential knowledge to maintain a righteous relationship with the supernatural powers“), practiced by the Easterners (Hinduism, Brahmanism, tantric, esoteric, Buddhism, etc.) that most of the scientists (overall the Christian ones) continue to doubt beneficial effects of its practice upon the practicing’s, is unfortunately in the favor with penitentiary authorities of the States of California and Massachusetts. Practice was accepted by these last-mentioned ones to put it into effect upon prisoners insight of having drop of the set-free-prisoners’ rate of committing further offense and that of the prisoners who have come back into prison.
It’s rightly or wrongly that one can find him into prison, i.e. that no one is within prison because he is necessarily guilty or at fault, but because human laws and justice are limited. Guilt for being, without contradicting, of the exclusive realm of the Sin, Only the Genuine Creator, God who holds the instructions of all creation better knows and better says something about who he is really before the Divine Law and Justice, the presume guilty of the human justice.
Salvation, escaping unhurt from the claws of the Sin, only known after the drawbacks of the first sins, comes from Jews. Judaism, that Christianity is the logical continuity, is the chosen people’s (Hebrew-Jew) religion for talking about salvation to all humanity. Jesus Christ who is God’s Lamb that removes the Sin from the world is Divinely talking, God Himself; and humanly, a Great Jew Rabbi, a High Priest who tore up the veil of the Holy of the holy ones due to the superiority of His Priesthood in relation to the Leviticus priesthood.
The Bible, the Holy Book that dictates the Genuine Holiness, doesn’t it talk of the science of the holy ones or of the Holiness through the passage of Proverbs 30:3 and further more passages else?
Consequently, Cadoshology (<hebr. cadôsh, “holy” and logia, “science“), and Peccatology (<lat. peccatum, “Sin” and logia, “science“), sciences whose respective objects of studies are the Holiness and the Sin, new biblical sciences will not do more good in their application upon prisoners than the percentages presented by prisons of California et de Massachusetts?
Teaching Peccato-Cadoshology to prisoners of California and Massachusetts and getting them practice or living the teachings, will not they reduce, even totally delete the rate of committing further offense of the prisoners already released more than some other anti-biblical theories and practices with harmful consequences?
The peccatological theory includes among the sins or peccaminous practices, Transcendental Meditation (TM), Yoga, Esoteric, Taoism, Hinduism, etc.
How could it recommend anybody to make use of one of these practices just for so-call relieving him of for a while or even promising eternal salvation to him, which salvation this person does not hold it by himself?
Judge it by yourselves and keep away that is good, the Bible says.
Rev Dr N’GORAN, the founding-father of postmodern Peccato-Cadoshology
Social programs [from Wikipedia, English version]
“The TM technique has been incorporated in a variety of social programs that address the needs of criminals, the homeless and U.S. war veterans. In 1979, the TM technique was one of the programs offered to inmates at three California correctional institutions: Folsom prison, San Quentin and the Deuel Vocational Institute. A TM representative stated that meditation has been included at “over 25 prisons and correctional institutions”.[166] In the African country of Senegal, more than 11,000 prisoners and 900 correctional officers in 34 prisons received instruction in the Transcendental Meditation technique between 1985 and 1987, and the wardens at 31 prisons signed a proclamation recommending that TM be offered throughout the entire system.[167][168] More recently, the TM technique has been introduced to prisoners in the Oregon Correctional System and a research study is underway to record the effects of the program.[167]”
La Méditation transcendantale dans les prisons [modifier] [extrait de Wikipedia, version Française]
“En 2010, une revue de recherche scientifique portant sur l’application de la Méditation transcendantale dans les établissements pénitentiaires publie des études ayant fait participer des centaines de prisonniers des prisons d’État de San Quentin et de Folsom, en Californie, et la prison d’État de Walpole, dans le Massachusetts. Les taux de récidives auraient été réduits de près de 47 % à la suite de cette pratique. De façon générale, 43 % des prisonniers ayant appris la Méditation transcendantale à la prison de Folsom ne sont pas retournés en prison par la suite, comparés aux groupes contrôles. L’étude de Folsom a également porté son attention sur la mesure de l’anxiété et a trouvé une forte réduction comparée aux groupes contrôles RS 11. (…)”
↑ (en) Himelstein S., « Meditation Research: The State of the Art in Correctional Settings », dans International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, mars 2010 [texte intégral [archive], lien PMID [archive]]