--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > [...] > The much-touted witnessing of advanced TMers is seen in normal humans all the > time, but esp. in the elderly and people in pain. Big whoop. >
Derealization during pain isn't the same as witnessing during the waking state, and the finding that world champion athletes compared to non-world champion athletes show more of the same kind of EEG signature as long-term TMers do compared to short-term TM meditators, certainly suggests that there's something more going on... > As the Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness put it "Other relaxation > techniques have led to the same EEG profile, and studies that > employed counter-balanced control relaxation conditions consistently found a > lack of alpha power increases or even decreases when comparing > relaxation or hypnosis to TM meditation." > Citing research that is 25 years old to refute research that is only a few months old only shows the lack of ethics and/or common sense of the authors of that book and the people who believe what it says. > I hope those folks who are so wowed about TM remember to take an Ativan > before they ever venture into Disneyworld or a Benihana steak house. > Um, OK. L.
