[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch and initiations fees.

[ruthsimplicity]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote:
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> On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:33 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote:
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> > We have correlated physiological markers to specific described  
> > experiences that occur in more than one person.  We do not know if  
> > the same markers might occur in different people in different  
> > circumstances.  We do not know if there is any "cosmic" meaning  
> > (for lack of a better word) for the experience or the markers.
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> We also know that these traditions have for thousands of years  
> described these states as "extraordinary" in some manner. What's the  
> Sagan saying 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'?  
> Extraordinary states of mind should therefore possess some  
> extraordinary characteristics, that is extraordinary physiologic  
> evidence.
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> If I had to give one overriding impression of most meditation  
> research is that there's little that is truly extraordinary.
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Absolutely agree.  That is why there is little replication work, it just isn't 
that interesting to researchers.