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--- In [email protected], Shain McVay <shainm307@...> wrote:
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> Actually what I
> should say is there was at least a whole bunch of neutral people with
at least
> one skeptic, which was either the police chief of fire chief of
Washington DC.
> He said it would take a foot of snow to reduce crime rate by the
predicted 20%.
> However, after the study was done, they didn't reduce the crime
rate by 20%, they reduced it by 25%. So this just goes to show the
amount of evidence behind the Maharishi Effect.
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> From: Shain McVay shainm307@...
> To: "[email protected]" [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Consciousness and Quantum Gibberish
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> Whoever wrote that never truly did their research. I mean when they
did the Washington DC study, they had a whole bunch of skeptics in with
them making sure the study was conducted correctly. When they did the
study not only did all the skeptics agree to all the ways the study was
conducted, but also they agreed to the findings of the study. The
Maharishi people weren't the only one's directing and analyzing the
study. The findings of just this one study are overwhelming in
presenting that the Maharishi Effect is true. Now they've done the
studies over 90 times and they've found the same thing happen everytime
- the crime rate goes down.\
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> ________________________________
> From: Yifu yifuxero@...
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 5:09 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Consciousness and Quantum Gibberish
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> from Skeptic.com, by Dr. Heinz Pagels, physicist.:
> ...
> "
> The claim that the fields of modern physics have anything to do with
the "field of consciousness" is false. The notion that what physicists
call "the vacuum state" has anything to do with consciousness is
nonsense. The claim that large numbers of people meditating helps reduce
crime and war by creating a unified field of consciousness is
foolishness of a high order. The presentation of the ideas of modern
physics side by side, and apparently supportive of, the ideas of the
Maharishi about pure consciousness can only be intended to deceive those
who might not know any better.
>
> Reading these materials authorized by the Maharishi causes me distress
because I am a man who values the truth. To see the beautiful and
profound ideas of modern physics, the labor of generations of
scientists, so willfully perverted provokes a feeling of compassion for
those who might be taken in by these distortions. I would like to be
generous to the Maharishi and his movement because it supports world
peace and other high ideals. But none of these ideals could possibly be
realized within the framework of a philosophy that so willfully distorts
scientific truth (Pagels).
> What Chopra is peddling is quantum gibberish."
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