--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shempmcgurk wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity with New "Intelligent Falling" > > > Theory > > > > > > http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2 > > > > Funny stuff. > > > > But I find it ironic that all of us here on this "TM" forum are > > joining in the jibes. After all, "creative intelligence" and SCI was > > virtually the same attempt at secularizing something spiritual and > > religious...and didn't we all participate in it? > > Sure enough. But at the time I bought the whole notion, > as expressed by Larry Domash, that consciousness-as-a- > source-of-creative-intelligence could indeed be studied > scientifically. In fact, I still believe so.
And so do I! But, of course, the SCI high school course presented pure consciousness and the absolute as...absolutes! You could replace those two terms with the term "God" and it would have sounded like a religious text book. Keep it as science and, yes, it would be a great way to study consciousness...but the TMO didn't keep it as science...they crossed the line. > > The New Jersey SCI curriculum may have fallen short of > that ideal, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be done. Agreed. > > On the last TM course I ever taught (save when I taught > my son) I stepped outside the checking notes a bit to > summarize where we were on the third night: > > - In the intro lecture we posited that consciousness is > the underlying storehouse of knowledge that undergirds all life. > > - In the intervening days we've learned a technique that > taps that storehouse. > > - We've all experienced how tapping that source has > improved life in myriad ways. > > - These changes in our lives suggest that subtle reaches > of consciousness do indeed offer knowledge of how to live life more fully. > > One of the subjects we've investigated in this forum is what > exactly might be the connection between transcending and > relative life. As a former professor of mine was fond of saying, > "That's a testable proposition. How would you design a study > to test it?" > > - Patrick Gillam ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
