On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:32 PM, sparaig wrote:
Do you and Lawson know anything about this new funding for a research
center? Or are you making assumptions based on what Vaj said?
Dawn, on what do you base your assertion that 20 years of meditating
experience is more or less required to draw conclusions on TM's
effects? How many years have you been meditating?
Lawson, I do not believe that there is TM research on their concept
of
unstressing. Are you aware of any?
Nope. But there's myriad articles on relaxation-induced anxiety,
whigh fits
the TM theory to a t...
Well, not quite. Relaxation-induced anxiety (and it's resolution)
isn't meant to be a path to enlightenment.
In fact, if you listen to the recently circulated MMY tapes, you find
out that "unstressing at the level of the nervous system" meant
something altogether different in MMY's eyes...actually something more
"traditional"...
