--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > Certainly, the Congolese refugee study is likely to be an outlier. However, > it might not be. The situation that triggered the PTSD was different than for > veterans and first responders, and equal-ish numbers of men and women were > tested, though I don't recall if any gender-related differences were found. > > The study was very straight-forward, short-term, with both clinically and > statistically large effects, so we can be sure that people will attempt to > replicate it -especially people with no connection to the TM organization. > > You appear to be assuming that the study is deliberately fraudulent or was so > badly done that the results are meaningless. I make no such assumptions.
I think it's important not to make assumptions. I remember learning TM and getting a real buzz and thinking this must be the cure for all ills, the book certainly said so. It didn't last though and since then I've done a few things that started with glow of potential but fizzled out later. I suspect it's some sort of neural network thing, a kind of freedom you get from a sense of hope or at least a change of mental scenery. Or placebos, and they don't last very long either Time will tell for people with PTSD but as even you say about people uncovering and releasing stress that makes them act out of character in unpleasant ways, can we be sure that teaching a technique known to do this to combat vets a great idea? > L > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > Don't fret Lawson, it won't be. > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: sparaig <LEnglish5@> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 5:00 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: a WONDERFUL formula > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> > > wrote: > > [...] > > > I actually agree with you that Marshy was wrong. There is what > > > actually happens to meditators (not all that much if we are honest) > > > and there is the supporting dogma that everyone still clings to that > > > makes TM out to be the most amazing thing of any kind ever. > > > > If the most recent research on TM and PTSD is replicated by independent > > studies, only former True Believers will continue with this line of > > reasoning. > > > > L > > >
