On May 28, 2009, at 6:25 PM, sparaig wrote: >> TM activates the areas of the brain for mentation on a vague sound. >> What's big deal about that? > > Er, are you sure that that is all that is going on?
Well, of course there's the relaxation response, which according to a lecture by Benson last month, is induced by TM (and about 9 other meditation methods). You also have the shakti associated with the mantra and no shaktipat given--which will work differently depending on the person. (I needed two different shaktipat "jumps" till I could transcend for longer than 10 minutes continuously). > >> >> Didn't they steal their thalamic gating theory straight out of Zen >> and >> the Brain? >> > > They may have gotten it from that book, or they may have come up > with the idea independently. I thought I heard you make the claim they got it from this book. Maybe that was someone else on FFL. > > > Does it matter? It could; it may be the same phenomenon; it could be desperation, "what he said", "yeah, that's the ticket".
