--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
I've made it a hobby for 30 years to read and analyze the TM research (as best I can with my limited math background --who the hell is Jenkins, and what is he doing in a box?). The physiological stuff has gotten quite sophisticated. The Ayurvedic research is getting pretty mature, also. ME stuff isn't studied any more, AFAIK. 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/
