1984: His Eminence, Cardinal Jaime Sin, Archbishop of Manila, delivered his Pastoral Statement when TM, Transcendental Meditation, threatened to overrun the Philippines.
TM is, as Randy England states in his book, Unicorn in the Sanctuary, “TM is the meditative system popularized by the famous Guru to the Beatles and others, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Called ‘Science of Creative Intelligence’ (SCI), this method is Hindu meditation parading as science, notwithstanding its adherents’ constant claims that ‘this is nor religious.’”
TM is extremely dangerous to all Christian Faiths. In brief, the process allows oneself to be put in touch with sensations of one’s own body. The individual, called a seeker, sits in the Yoga position, and breaths while repeating what is called a Mantra. This could be a word, such as the name, Jesus, or simply a sound like OM. The danger in this comes next; beyond the meditative prayer, as they call it. The mystical experience of Contemplation. This is the absorption of one’s soul into a partial Vision of God. This contemplation is supposedly a gift from God. The danger here is that one could contemplate something evil and the so-called seeker could take that to mean it came from God. The goal of TM is to make one’s mind an empty and open receptacle. This sounds like it was rooted deeply in Gnosticism.