--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2005, at 10:19 PM, sparaig wrote: > > >>>> Not quite that simple :-) In the final stages it is possible to > >>>> "transcend" for four hours at a time, effortlessly. One sits > > down, > >>>> decides how long they will meditate and finishes when they intend > >>> to. > >>> > >>> And you have documentation of this? > >> > >> Well yes, the text themselves, but more important are good oral > >> instructions. > > > > I meant proof that this is what happens... > > Yeah besides being a long known and practiced phenomenon in many of the > eastern schools, there has been some scientific research going on with > this for quite some time. The Dalai Lama has been meeting with leading > scientists for years on subjects like these. As we discussed recently > there there is also a study going on where a group of (I believe) 30 > people who will practice this over a year in a boundaried retreat-- the > exception being is that they undergo PET scanning and other > neurological testing, etc. So it will essentially be a detailed study > under scientific conditions. If I am not mistaken the three month pilot > study is under way or about to happen.
I've yet to hear of any such study, sponsored by the Dali Lama or anyone else. > > Did you get to see the EEG of Ken Wilber I posted a while back? Yes I did. Do you want me to ask EEG experts to comment on what it shows? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
