On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:59 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Excellent find Ruth, thanks for posting it. This is exactly what
Sam Harris has been saying:
"You can accept the subjective reality [of transcendent
experiences], without going the extra step and accepting that it
was real outside of the internal theater of the mind," said
Beyerstein.
Since most people who did a lot of program DID have "transcendent"
experiences the questions remains: "What does it mean." And I would
add: "Is the explanation given by a pre-scientific society devoted
to keeping people restricted into a rigid social structure really
the best we can do today?"
Also keep in mind, as reported here before by Turq, myself, and
others, one can have the experience of "transcending the
transcendent" they experienced with TM! What does THAT mean? Perhaps
just that there are deeper or different levels of "transcendence" and
a coached transcendent may not be as important as we were lead to
believe. Or it just could be the brain "doing something different".
TMers believe havin' wonderfabululous alpha coherence is what it's
all about, but neuroscientists disagree.
Siddhi cultivation for it's own sake has long been known in India to
be a way for disreputable gurus to gain control over students.
