Posted on 10/16/2012 11:01:24 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Candy Crowley, moderator of the second presidential debate may have a trick up her sleeve if things get tense between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney - she practices transcendental meditation twice a day.
The CNN anchor, who will be in charge of the 'town hall' style debate at Hofstra university on Long Island, New York, took up meditation after the 2008 election and managed to achieve what one website called a 'natural state of restful alertness'. She also credits the practice with her weight loss.
And in a campaign in which red meat rhetoric designed to attract party 'base' voters is ever present, she is a committed vegetarian.
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In May, Crowley gave the commencement address for students at the Maharishi University of Management. The university was set up in 1974 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who created transcendental meditation, in Fairfield, Iowa.
Its mission is to 'provide a consciousness-based education holistic, relevant education for a successful life — not just a career — to ensure our happiness and to make real contributions in the world' and 'meditation and spiritual growth, self-exploration, higher consciousness, spirituality, and inner peace through the transcendental meditation technique'.
The meditation involves the repeated repetition of a sound, called a mantra, and is practiced for 15–20 minutes twice per day, while sitting with closed eyes.
Crowley told the gathered students: 'To get to where you want to go, you first have to stand and be who you are,' she said.
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HA, HA, HA!!
“repeated repetition of a sound”-—well, sure. That’s the definition of a democrat. I usually call it whining. In Candy’s case she used to call it “eating”. And some just call it a cheap high-—humming yourself to sleep.
Transcendal Imbibition.
Weight loss...? Looks like it found her again.
Puff piece from across the pond. It won’t be Candy but who’s and what questions get selected. Watch for these “independents” using references to the Bush era. No questions about energy supply, gas prices, Solyndra, fracking, veteran benefits,unemployment in the black community, etc etc etc. Expect (pardon the pun)a whitewash.
I’m hoping she cracks and channels Howard dean . If Romney does as well as last time it would be great. Hopefully he doesn’t slip. That would be catastrophic .
Obama will be more livelier but too much and it will look fake.
Any time one is encouraged to empty ones mind and let go, it’s leaves one wide open for whatever spirit wishes to come in. As Christians we are to be alert and sober
Wouldn’t she just rock backwards. Perhaps her breasteses would balast her. Or she might just look like that little woodpecker who pecks his beak in a beaker of water and then goes goes back through a rocking cycle. Whichever it might be Candy doing the lotus does bring to mind a vile picture.
“Quote me one passage in the Bible where it says meditation is Satanic.”
Not exactly Satanic, but the current meditation fad isn’t scriptural. I believe that any time “meditate” or “meditation” is referred to in the Bible, it refers to meditating specifically about God/Christ or specific spiritual things. Current medication is generally self-centered — all about “me” (or donuts in the case of Ms. Crowley).
Your interpretation of what you think the Bible says in order to conform to your own personal prejudices is not the same thing as what the Bible actually says.
Lastly, nobody is worshipping anything when they meditate.
How is saying a word that has no meaning the same as worshipping Satan?
You have no biblical defense of this whatsoever.
You really are stretching the realm of plausibility here to suit your own personal prejudices.
And, like I said, you have zero evidence to demonstrate the people who meditate are evil, devil worshippers.
Jai, Guru Dev!
Like wow, man. Jane Asher and Patti Boyd in 1967. Some kind of yummy!
Years ago I practiced TM. I don't recall it hurting me, at least I didn't think so.
TM, as well as other meditations and Christian prayer can be very soothing.
In the past two years, I have had 2 hip replacements and two bouts of bacterial infection, or whatever they called it. I've had four dental inplants and daily deal with Multiple Sclerosis.
Yeah, kind of a mess but meditation (TM) or not and, and even better still my prayer and intervention prayer from people too numerous to count.
With TM, you go into the deep recesses of brain waves. And, some of those recesses relieve pain.
I'll take prayer, intervention prayer, and meditation any day of the week. I haven't seen it as diabolical or the devil's joy.
I know God knows why I do it. I hope it does not count against me.
The devils I’ve known have been churchgoers condemning to hell meditation (which is incidentally what Catholic monks engage in, whether they call it Transcedental or not.)
Humming for 15 minutes,sitting with eyes closed, twice a day-—————silly me. That’s the standard bathroom terlet drill for lots of guys. How was I to know those guys were losing their mojo?
Weight loss!?!?
What a pig!
What did she look like before!
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Never mind... I don't want to know.
The scripture link you posted does not state what you claim. Try again.
Well, that settles it, one look at her tells you it works./sarc
PS...I've raised hogs and they wont get that fat eating just veggies out of the salad bar.
I agree with radopolis...meditation in and of itself isn’t evil, in my opinion.
I do tai-chi to cope with stress and improve my balance...it doesn’t mean I worship the Chinese or Satan or anything else.
I admit to not knowing much about TM, so if it means you have to repeat to yourself over and over again your fealty to Satan, I might change my mind.
But heck...if it is just repeating something to yourself, I guess I am guilty...when I go on long hikes, I often get a piece of music stuck in a repeating cycle in my head. Granted, if it were rap, I would say that was a crime against nature...:)
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