A year ago I would have guffawed and sworn that Transcendental Meditation was pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo designed to take money from the weak minded, but now I see that it’s more of a millennia year old science (without the assistance of computers) designed to free the strong and healthy mind that we all have. And if you think Shakespeare had it tough documentation-wise hundreds of years ago then spare a thought for the Vedic monks thousands of years ago.
Having done Transcendental Meditation for the first time in the TM centre in the centre of Glasgow, I walked down the stairs through the quiet building and out into the busy main street where people went this way and that at the jostling junction, and before my eyes…everyone was in slow motion. I was stunned and tickled but it didn’t persist, and I forgot about it until a later date, when Angela Landers told me that the world looked slowed down to me because I had slowed down. Already I was more calm, and I suppose, in a sense(s), my perspective on the world and on life had already adjusted for the better.
