On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:18 AM, sparaig wrote:
Also, it's of little interest if the Buddhist and Hindu research on
samadhi is relevant to just me. What made the Gamma-coherence samadhi
research so interesting was not only that it was the first to
replicate the samadhi of Patanjali yogins, but it was also the first
recent example of a highly coherent EEG state outside of waking,
sleeping or dreaming. That's why it's of major interest and received
such worldwide acclaim.
Who says that the state is a non-waking, dreaming or sleeping state?
Cites?
That's why it's called (in Hindu parlance) "The Fourth", Turiya or
Turiyatita, beyond even the Fourth (the other three being waking,
sleeping and dreaming states). Gaudapada would be a good start.
In the Tibetan tradition these yogis refer to the state as "dmigs-med
snying-rje", "compassion with no reference point" or "rigpa
cogbzhag", "freely resting in vidya or pure knowledge, the
veda" (loose translation). It's really the type of thing that one has
to become accustomed to before it could be understood, but it's not
exactly like any of the other states but the other states can be
accessed from it.
A standard EEG text might help you understand what the EEG is like
for waking, dreaming and sleeping. I would suspect if an unsuspecting
scientist were to witness an EEG of a yogi in samadhi without
knowledge of the subject being examining, they would think it was a
patient with some neuro-pathology, like a brain tumor.
