--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "The Secret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > The Uniqueness Lie: Exposing the Lies of TM research, one at a time. > > > > The uniqueness lie and the hypometabolic lie. > > > > Question: Does TM, as is still touted in TM tracts, produce a > > "hypometabolic" state, i.e a 16% drop in oxygen consumption? > > > > Answer: No. > > > > 3 groups of 9 TM meditators were studied to see if the claim of 16% > > decrease in oxygen consumption could be replicated. The sample > > included both males and females and novice as well as long-term TMers. > > > > Researchers found TM did not produce Wallace's claims of -16% O2 > > consumption. Researchers Pagano and Warrenburg instead found the > > following: > > > > "As one reviews the data...the outstanding features are the similarity > > of and relatively small changes in VO2 which occurred during practice > > of TM...The 4% decrease in VO2 found during treatment for the TM group > > is considerably less than Wallace's reported 16% decrease and calls > > into question his claim that the state produced by TM is > > "hypometabolic". > > > > Meditation: In Search of a Unique Effect. Robert R. Pagano and Stephen > > Warrenburg. > > > > > But the idiom of today is science. So since we can't tie them up and > flog them like the missionaries did until they embraced TM, woo them > with badly controlled studies which demonstrate, not double blind > random control group studies which prove. They'll never know the > difference. And it's cheaper and we get more amazing results.>>
And yet no science published in respected peer-reviewed scientific journals to prove your pathetic medieval rantings. How sad for you. The pain you feel at this will pass though, and you will one day feel like the old father at the end of the movie Billy Elliot when he first visits London to see his son dance in the Opera...watch it and you will understand who you are. OffWorld
