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Visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://tmfree.blogspot.com/">TM-Free Blog</a> or see the <a href="#links">Links section below</a> for other websites and sources for current news and information. Also, be sure to read the <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.</p> </td> <td align="left" valign="middle"><p> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237js_/http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&up_source_language=en&w=160&h=60&title=&border=&output=js"></script></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><div style="margin:10px auto; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://tmfree.blogspot.com/"><img src="/web/20190118011237im_/http://minet.org/tmfree-blog-screencap-fade-500.png" alt="Visit the TM-Free Blog"></a></div></td> </tr></table><p> <div align="center"> </div> <h2>Resources</h2> <a href="mantras.html"><b>The Transcendental Meditation Techniques</b></a> - Complete, basic summary of the TM, advanced TM, TM-Sidhi and Primordial Sound techniques, collected together in one place. Includes all the TM mantras. Provided for historical and research purposes only, NOT for instruction in meditation of any form. Read the <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>. <p> <a href="research.html"><b>Negative and Inconclusive Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program</b></a> compiled from various sources.<p> <a href="/web/20190118011237/http://minet.org/Documents/index.html"><b>Other Documents</b></a> concerning the Transcendental Meditation program<p> <a href="/web/20190118011237/http://minet.org/TM-EX/index.html"><b>TM-EX Newsletters,</b></a> 1990 - 1994 - Newsletters of the Transcendental Meditation Ex-Members Support Group<p> <a href="Audio/"><b>MINet Audio</b></a> - five old radio programs featuring Transcendental Meditation movement leaders, produced for a campus radio station in 1979-1980<p> <p><hr width="85%"><p> <a name="links"></a><h2>Links</h2> <b>Analysis of current issues and news coverage</b> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/how-to-design-a-positive-study-meditation-for-childhood-adhd/">How to Design a Positive Study: Meditation for Childhood ADHD</a> <i>(Space City Skeptics)</i></li> </ul> <b>Current news and discussion</b> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://tmfree.blogspot.com/">The TM-Free Blog</a> - "A Skeptical View of Transcendental Meditation and the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi."</p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/">Yahoo group Fairfield Life</a><p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://goldentrianglenewspapers.com/fairfield_daily_ledger/front/">Fairfield Ledger</a><p> </ul> <b>Transcendental Meditation program critics</b> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2008/05/thirty-years-later-what-was-all-that.html">Thirty Years Later: What was all that about?</a> <i>(a series by minet.org creator Mike Doughney)</i><p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-i-believe-transcendental-meditation.html">Why I Believe The TM Org is Dangerous</a> <i>(John Knapp)</i><p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://www.suggestibility.org/">Falling Down the TM Rabbit Hole</a> <i>(Joe Kellett's suggestibility.org)</i><p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/donandmarcy/TM.html">Don Krieger's Web Site</a><p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://web.archive.org/web/20040606082458/http://trancenet.org/">TranceNet</a> <i>(via archive.org)</i> and <a href="/web/20190118011237/http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/">a more recent mirror</a><p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://www.behind-the-tm-facade.org/">Behind the TM Facade</a><p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://skepdic.com/tm.html">The Skeptic's Dictionary: Transcendental Meditation</a> </ul> <b>Other helpful resources</b> <ul> <li>Visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://www.ex-cult.org/">ex-cult Resource Center</a> for more links.<p> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://www.paulmason.info/">Paul Mason</a> has placed his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://www.paulmason.info/themaharishi/mmytitle.htm">revised biography of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi</a> online.<p> <p><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_meditation">Wikipedia entry for Transcendental Meditation,</a> which may or may not contain reliable information<p> </ul> <p><hr width="85%"><p> <p> <b>Notice: </b> This website is primarily a static archive for old "TM-EX" newsletters and other historical material, and is irregularly updated. See the <a href="#links">Links section above</a> for other websites and sources for current news and information.<p> <a name="disclaimer"></a> <h2>Disclaimer</h2> <p>Opinions expressed in articles and files on this website are those of the contributors and those opinions may not necessarily be shared by anyone involved in the creation of this website. </p><p> <b>All information here is provided for historical and research purposes only. Information and program details obtained from this website are not to be used for the purpose of meditation. Website contents are not furnished for the facilitation of, or use in, meditation, any kind of mental practice or exercise, or for any other purpose whatsoever. This website and its author do not and will not provide meditation instruction by any means.</b> </p><p> <b>All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.</b> </p><p> E-mail or snail-mail sent to the archive maintainer regarding anything here will likely be ignored.</p> <p> <address>Archive Maintainer: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190118011237/http://www.doughney.com/">Mike Doughney</a><br> <i>Last updated: April 7, 2012</i><br> <a href="/web/20190118011237/http://minet.org/sitemap.html">Sitemap</a> </address> <p> </td></tr></table> </div> </body> </html>