Premanand Paul Mason wrote: > > So the assumption that by transcending > one becomes incapable of error > of judgement is non-science
Right. Assumption *is* non-science. But there's plenty of science available on which to base understandings. I'm thinking of the five or six studies the Nidiches published in peer-reviewed journals (I believe they were) demonstrating that TMers score higher on tests of moral development than did people who studied for the tests. > and we ought > to rely on better methods to > determine whether we are right or not. Better methods such as the studies cited above? > Else we become fundamentalists > who can do and say nothing that is out of key. Fairifield Life has done a pretty thorough job of investigating TMers' True Beliefs and exploding the fundamentalism in them. That's one reason I'm here. But we've yet to really lift a finger when it comes to examing the scientific studies. Every now and then someone ways "that sample size was too small" or "I know a researcher who fudged the statistics on that study," but in my time here we haven't posted a study or a link to a study and deconstructed it the way we do each other's opinions. There are rationale reasons to tie improved social behavior to growth of consciousness, and there is a fair body of research on TM and social behavior. I'm not willing to toss it all out because True Believers participated in the research. But neither am I in a position to review and evaluate the research. So I ask these questions to see what others have to say. - Patrick Gillam 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/
