OK, taking one for the team, the first two are from a series (part 2 and 3) from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Open University and the third is an instructional about how TM is a simple technique yet you must pay us money to learn it.
Unless you are into self abuse, it is pointless to watch them and I recommend nobody watch this unsupported drek.
I have had the full instructions and am, as opposed to Doron, a 'certified' Yogic Flyer. (The reasons for me having had all of this education go beyond the scope of this forum).
However, I am not affiliated to nor am I still practicing TM. I do get the newsletters though...
I even have been to the MOU in Fairfield Iowa. So I know exactly what goes on there.
And I have been to Vlodrop where they still employed slaves(!) (That became a good news item on Dutch Television...)
And finally, I personally know the current Minister of Peace (i.e. the current head honcho).
Whilst they are all nice and forthcoming people, not a single one could show me anything that I could not do or think of.
The Maharishi was quite unknown and unpopular in India until the Beatles came and smoked some Ganja with him; then his movement took off.
The practices in TM are nothing special when compared to any other meditation technique, not even at the most advanced stage.
The so-called personal mantra's are just age-based and can be found on the Internet anyway (just look up your age when you are at the point that you become 'initiated' and you have your mantra).
The whole idea of TM is that the 'everything' is just a manifestation of the one single thing 'existence' and that by transcending you can become one again with all the other things (which are just manifestations of the same unified 'thing').
Transcending in TM is 'achieved' by switching off or removing all artefacts of your specific manifestation, thereby reducing yourself to the core 'existence' and leaving behind all the cumbersome interactions that your manifestation needs to have with other manifestations.
This is about as short as I can make the explanation.
Now, in *all* of my discussions, nobody could ever show me *anything* someone(!) could achieve that could not have been achieved without TM. But, and here is where the cultist aspect comes into play, most people say they achieve things they(!) themselves never could have achieved without TM.
As for science in TM. That's laughable; every single mistake and every kind of Diederik Stapel style fraud that you can think of is employed to give it some semblance of science.
But then again, cults are just like spam (there is an awesome research paper by Microsoft on spam that explains the psychology behind the spam content); they are not even trying to convince intelligent people, in fact they try to keep those away. Cults try to get people that are broken in some respect and use just enough 'sciency' talk and 'facts and figures' that nobody can or wants to verify to get their victims to confabulate themselves into supporting the cult.
Having said that, TM is a rather benign cult in that it teaches people to be happy one must work hard (and give 10% of your income to the Maharishi's family), be nice, live healthy and become wealthy (and give 10% of your savings to the Maharishi's family). So most TM practicioners I know are doing pretty well in their lives and are quite happy.
But not one (1) person, and that includes the Maharishi (and all his predecessors, because Mahesh was just a follow-up guy) have been able to demonstrate transcendence or extraordinary knowledge.
But maybe someone can repeat this to Doron, because he 'ignores' me:
Doron, if you really think TM will enable you to get to unity... why not enlist and practice it? In the whole of 7 years, you only talked *about* it, but never tried it.
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