Comments interleaved below. --- sparaig wrote: > --- Patrick Gillam wrote: > > sparaig wrote: > > > > > > I think there's a problem with Clay's own understanding of stress > and TM, if he presented things that way: > > > > David Clay didn't define stress in any way at all. He simply > > summed up the evidence that TM does something good > > and concluded that "release of stress" was inadequate to > > explain all the benefits. For example, consider the 1% > > phenomenon. Assuming it is a valid phenomenon -- I know > > we've beaten it up pretty badly around here -- it suggests > > consciousness is a field common to us all that influences > > behavior. > > So how does that change the meditation as anti-stress model? It > implies that a normal (CC) nervous system would *always* be radiating > coherence, which is certainly what the verse that MMY uses to justify > the theory about the Maharishi Effect says.
Sorry, Lawson; I didn't mean to imply that Clay was trying to change the anti-stress model. I believe he was merely trying to drill down to the most profound theory that could be suggested by the evidence. How'd I get on this tangent? Judy, can I blame you, or do I have to take responsibility for my actions yet again? > The interesting thing, to me, is that there > appears to be a close fit between the Western term and the Eastern, > although the Eastern term covers more territory than the normal > Western definition. Which would explain the migration to the Eastern language once it no longer was necessary to dumb down the message for mass consumption (or MMY simply got tired of speaking in "foreign" terms). CORRECTION: I give short shrift to Maharishi's definition of stress above. I left out the physiological abnormality part -- "a physiological abnormality at the material or structure level caused by undue pressure of experience (overload)." - Patrick Gillam 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/
