A Win for Religious Liberty Against Required
High School Hindu Meditation Class
American Thinker,
by
Patty Knap
Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee,
9/7/2025 3:02:30 AM
In a dramatic win for religious liberty, Chicago Public Schools have been ordered to pay out over $2.6 million to high school students in a class action religious freedom case. Former public school students in Chicago were required to participate in a Transcendental Meditation™ program during class. There was no opt-out and no parental permission required. “As part of their in-school curriculum,” attorney John Mauck, partner at Mauck & Baker, explained, “the students were either required to participate in Transcendental Meditation or were deprived daily of a half hour of academic opportunity and made to maintain silence while their classmates focused their minds on secret mantras.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 9/7/2025 3:29:49 AM (No. 2000413)
Then to balance, how about a bunch of Bible study classes? Then the Muslims could have throat cutting and baby murdering demonstrations....with anatomically correct dummies, of course.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 9/7/2025 4:02:29 AM (No. 2000418)
I once worked for a company owned by a married couple that were heavy into TM. It is a cult. They even brought in TM-tinged practices into the workplace; morning affirmations of company and personal goals, staff meetings beginning with a moment of meditation and then sharing, and Indian-type music softly playing in the background. I lasted a year with the company mainly because it was in Del Mar, and those were my beach bunny days. I was saved by a new job in the next beach town to the north, Encinitas. Since my experience with Mr. and Mrs. P., I stay far away from anything having to do with "Transcendental Meditation". I believe it is a portal for evil.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/7/2025 5:47:58 AM (No. 2000426)
As an elective it would be an interesting intro into a practice that is centuries old and harms nobody. As a mandatory class it is a waste of time and money for those not interested when students are not currently grasping basic math, english and science.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/7/2025 8:25:03 AM (No. 2000456)
Secret Mantras and a cult like culture has little to do with the ancient practice of yoga. TM is a fraud for the weak minded rich with too much time on their hands.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Sofia 9/7/2025 9:52:08 AM (No. 2000497)
The class should have been optional, but for crying out loud, this was a meditation class…pretty certain no one got indoctrinated into stupidity.
meanwhile there is the “boys can be girls” class and other such stupidity that is allowed to carry on!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sofia 9/7/2025 9:55:17 AM (No. 2000500)
How dare someone take a moment to breathe , affirm positive goals for the organisation and oneself and lean in on collaboration with team members with music from another country playing in the background!!! Oh the injustice! Oh the cult! Omg what might go wrong!!!
Evil! Evil!
/sarcasm off
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 9/7/2025 10:39:22 AM (No. 2000516)
All of Illinois is a lost cause. They need voters to vote for anybody not a Democrat, but that’s a point hard to get across when their collective IQ is equivalent to the temperature of Lake Michigan on a fall day!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chumley 9/7/2025 12:15:25 PM (No. 2000548)
Meditation is generally a good thing, and it can be done lots of different ways. It allows you to get inside your own head and see some of the good things that are there, as well as communicating with your spirit guides, however you describe them.
The problem is that it always has religious overtones. I'll gladly practice my own religion all day long, but I resent the hell out of being compelled to practice someone else's. Thats not the place of any school system or government entity.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 9/7/2025 12:29:47 PM (No. 2000556)
I think that it is a good idea to have a short meditation before classes. It calms kids down and gets them to focus.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/7/2025 1:03:13 PM (No. 2000571)
From its Wiki page:
The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (or simply DLF) is a global charitable foundation with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and Fairfield, Iowa.[1][2][3][4] It was founded by film director and Transcendental Meditation (TM) practitioner David Lynch in 2005 to fund the teaching of TM in schools.[5]
*****
David Lynch was a weiredo screwball. What kind of fool would put this in our schools?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 9/7/2025 2:34:02 PM (No. 2000599)
One of the most pernicious cults extant today.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pensom2 9/7/2025 4:44:40 PM (No. 2000638)
There's nothing wrong with "meditation" or learning to "meditate." But "Transcendental Meditation" could be another thing entirely.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
5 handicap 9/8/2025 5:48:26 AM (No. 2000748)
Face it, there is Nothing good about Chicago... It's time to write off the entire city and let it and all the useless scum who make up its populace die and go straight to hell.
They have created their own Hell-hole, let em have it, albeit, entirely without any Federal funding!
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