--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2005, at 12:51 AM, Jeff Fischer wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] > >>> Scientologists take note.... > >> > >> An equal opportunity insult... > > > > Yeah, I feel honored to be included in Vaj's 1.1 comment. > > Just an observation really--some groups foster reliance on the > organization rather than independence and personal autonomy.
In the TM case, there's a presumption that intellectual involvement in evaluating one's own technique is detrimental to the practice of hte technique so one doesn't check oneself. The original studies to examine the occurance of transcendental consciousness during TM required meditators to ring a bell when they noted an episode of TC. This was deemed too intrusive and intellectually involving *by TM researchers themselves* so the experimentally procedures have been changed to minimalize such involvement/intrusion because might interfere with figuring out what TC really is, physiologically speaking. In other words, the TM technique, checking procedures, AND the experimental techniques to study the TM technique are quite consistent with the theory that MMY uses to explain TM, so even though you object to everything about TM, there's no contradiction or room for criticism from this perspective, no matter how much you wish there was. [yes, been getting enough sleep lately, and took an adderal on the weekend for the first time in months, so my thoughts are rather more coherent than usual, sorry if this makes you feel uncomfortable] 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/
