One more paragraph from what sounds like the same article: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html
During visits to remote monasteries in the 1980s, Benson and his team studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could, by g Tum-mo meditation, raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It has yet to be determined how the monks are able to generate such heat. --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 15, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Rick wrote: > > > But is the heat generated by the metabolic process or in some other > > way? I don't know how else it could be generated, seems like no matter > > how spiritual the source of energy, when it manifests at this physical > > level the effect needs to be expressed in a way that conforms with the > > laws of nature. > > from the previously posted article in the harvard Gazette by a former > TM researcher: > > "The researchers also made measurements on practitioners of other forms > of advanced meditation in Sikkim, India. They were astonished to find > that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64 percent. "It was an > astounding, breathtaking [no pun intended] result," Benson exclaims. > > To put that decrease in perspective, metabolism, or oxygen > consumption, drops only 10-15 percent in sleep and about 17 percent > during simple meditation [e.g. TM]. Benson believes that such a > capability could be useful for space travel. Travelers might use > meditation to ease stress and oxygen consumption on long flights to > other planets." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
