--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Another nice review of meditation research can be found in > The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, a textbook for > neuroscientists from Cambridge University. It's section on > meditation and neurosceince objectively reviews some of the > exaggerated claims by TM cult researchers, esp. the specious > claim of "coherence" during TM. It turns out what they've > been touting for years now is statistically insignificant > and often seen in normal waking state!
As Vaj knows but doesn't tell you, there are several *very* serious problems with the treatment of TM research in this study, including that the authors didn't bother to look at the most recent *20 years* of research on TM. See, for instance, posts #168345, #168474, and #168493 for more. The problems with the study have been discussed extensively here. Vaj is most definitely not an objective evaluator of TM research (note his phrase "TM cult researchers" above, just for an obvious and immediate example). He likes to pretend that all TM research has been *disproved*, but of course that isn't the case at all. It hasn't been confirmed either, but the point is that the jury is still out; no definitive verdict has been rendered.
