I meant to comment on this post when it first appeared but I was unable to as I was over that week (or banned for overposting, can't remember which).
I was a student at MIU when Nova ran this show. MIU faculty taped the show and then showed it to us in the Learning Center (that big, round building, I think). What struck me was something that no one else seemed to notice -- not faculty, not students -- was that the TM SUBJECTS THAT WERE BEING STUDIED WERE INSTRUCTED TO BE SUPINE, that is half-vertical, when they hooked them up to the monitoring devices. Well, I don't know about anyone else but those aren't the instructions for TM; TM is done in the sitting up position and if they were studying the effects of TM on people practising TM in that position, they weren't researching TM but something else. No wonder they got different results. Anyway, I tried to point that out but no one thought it very important. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "I am the eternal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many a year ago the US Public Broadcasting System's Nova ran a show on TM. > Jerry Jarvis was the head then. The producer of Nova was skeptical of the > brainwave coherence measurements the TMO was taking so he asked to have his > coherence measured. He did as well as our sidhas. Candice Borland, Ph.D. > psychology, University of Texas said on a residence course that of course > the Nova producer's brain waves would be coherent. What would you expect > from someone obviously highly evolved enough to be the producer of Nova. > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:46 AM, off_world_beings wrote: > > > > The primary difference between controls and experimental group for the > > Buddhist meditators was found in gamma EEG synchrony and power. Gamma waves > > are normally interpreted as a sign of concentration. > > > > > > Incorrect. High-Amplitude Gamma Waves are a sign of "consciousness" and > > "surprised recognition", that is experiencing directly the basis of > > awareness in a state of constant amazement (but beyond the amazer and > > amazement). The subjective experience is that of resting in a nondual > > luminous vacuity. It correlates to samadhi in Patanjali yogins and the same > > signature is found in Buddhist yogins (e.g. the above graph). The primary > > difference is that the above posted EEG of a western Buddhist yogin in > > samadhi, he went, at will, into the state and stayed there for *four hours > > *. The state naturally and spontaneously increased as time went on. > > > > It's been independently replicated 4 times last time I heard. > > > > The TM EEG is fleeting, brief and cannot be duplicated at will for long > > periods of time and consists of coherence levels the same as normally seen > > in waking state. It's actually a snippet of one meditators session, not an > > entire session. > > > > It has not been replicated. > > > > There are a host of other differences, but that should suffice to explain: > > one represents a fragile and shallow, common state, the other a lasting and > > powerful state of consciousness. > > > > > > >
