Thanks for understanding my little rant. I just see
   Transcendental Meditation as having wormed its way into the
   belief systems of many secular humanists, agnostics and
   atheists, marketing itself as THE NO-GOD SPIRITUALITY quite
   successfully.

   [1]https://www.mum.edu/about-mum/about-maharishi-mahesh-yogi/
   Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was masterful at subtle influence

   He influenced the Beatles for a number of years and became a Pop
   Star in his own right. Much of the furthering of research into
   the more dreamy side of Quantum Physics was thanks to his
   influence to New Age culture, inspiring the smart hippies who
   then went to college with the ideas and were able to explore
   them mathematically.

   TM is a "third way", both Science and Religion and neither
   Science nor Religion - such is how it markets itself.

   That's not to say that it's "bad" per se; I know many people
   knowing practitioners of TM.

   I just have skeptical eyes towards it. I was raised with bits
   and pieces of New Age thought and so they kinda stick out like a
   sore thumb to me.

References

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   1. https://www.mum.edu/about-mum/about-maharishi-mahesh-yogi/