--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.musik" <futur.musik@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > > > <anartaxius@> wrote: > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > There have been a number of large well-designed studies > > > > recently, such as the Templeton study, of 'intercessionary > > > > prayer', which seem a lot like yagyas. These studies failed > > > > to show any effect. > > > > > > Is intercessory prayer *enough* like yagyas to extrapolate > > > the results of the prayer tests to yagyas? I can think of > > > several differences that could render such extraplation > > > pretty weak. > > > > > > > Psychic, long-distance phenomena have been studied for years > > > > without making a dent in the scientific community as the > > > > results have never been clear cut, and studies have been > > > > found to contain serious flaws which became evident when > > > > replication attempts failed, such as the Targ-Puthoff long > > > > distance viewing study many years ago. The result of this > > > > study seems to have been mentioned by MMY in the Science of > > > > Being and Art of Living as an established fact, but in fact, > > > > the result was disproved. > > > > > > Or rather, the results were not confirmed, right? > > > > > > Do you have a cite for this? > > > > > Doesn't sound accurate. I read that book thoroughly when > > it came out and there was no Autobiography of a Yogi stuff > > in it. It is all about integrating TM into society. > > Actually I meant a cite for the Targ-Puthoff results being > "disproved." I don't know about SBAL mentioning the study. > Don't care about that one way or the other.
I just recall that SBAL had a comment that long distance action or something like that was in there as if it were an established fact. The only experiment I knew of around the time the book came out were the Targ-Putoff experiments. Unfortunately I do not have a copy of SBAL with me, and perhaps I have incorrectly remembered this comment. I read it somewhere. It also might only be in the version not edited by the TMO published as a paperback, that is the very first printing before the revised edition came out. But MMY's book came out in 1963 before those experiments, so if I remembered correctly, it could not have been a reference to Targ and Puthoff's work. Maybe MMY (if I am not mistaken,that is) got it from Charlie Lutes, who was pretty esoteric in those early days.
