I was Getting into Guru Marajie ( the thirteen year old kid who was said to be god back in the 70s ) followers meditated on the music , the nectar and the light I had several friends who gave him every thing of wealth they had . The music was the pulse you heard from your thumbs pressed to your ears , the nectar was the mucus in the back of the throat and the light was reached by pressing the fingers against the closed eye . This was called the knowledge . It was the first time in my life that I thought there was a god . Then He got busted trying to smuggle the millions out of the country and I came back to my senses .

@Besalbub There sure are a lot of gimmicks and scammers out there. The reason I picked TM was because the mantras are based on the individual and not on any type of standard, such as OHM...the science behind it is that depending on when you learn, your neurons in the brain have been conditioned in a certain way. Individual mantras work based on these conditions. There is no "concentration"...you sit, your mantra appears, comes and goes without trying anything. I also have ADHD.

If you are struggling, have you been to a checking session recently? I found my checking sessions to be very helpful and recentering.

My mantra was given to me in a ceremony...it is supposed to be checked every few years or so to adjust to your level of being able to "transcend", but I was not even sure there were people/teachers anymore to do this...

@thinktwice well I don’t subscribe to these things you describe. To me all forms of meditation are exercises in focusing your mind, and different traditions use different focus points.

@tsacrey indeed...there is no right or wrong practice...I was merely looking for others so I can get myself checked..

@nutrition_nerd I find it helpful to think of transcendence as the concept of “transcending” the notion that YOU are defined by the thoughts, feelings and sensations that arise in your consciousness.

Everybody most of the time is walking around in a fog of confusion.

I am angry. I am sad. To transcend this is to experience things differently such that the correct way to describe it would be:

I see or sense anger. Or sadness is arising or present.

When we do not identify with our thoughts, feelings and sensations, we have transcended them. It sounds metaphysical in a way but what it is getting at is a state of mind where everything flows freely through consciousness and “you” merely observe this flow.

@tsacrey excellent explanation...just silencing the noise so you can relax and think more clearly

@thinktwice Check in on tm.org. They have a find a teacher section.

@boatdude87 thanks!

Very good info ... Thanks for sharing. Your philosophy that your surroundings FLOW through the conscience is very profound. I used to run 10/15 miles a day and I found myself in a meditative state while running...I was there...my legs were pumping...everything was going in around me but I was kind of ghosting through all of it and was not an active part of my surroundings...loved that feeling.