I'd like to know his take on Fred Travis' article published in the New York Academy of Sciences that discusses the preliminary research on Cosmic Consciousness:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12316/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12316/full Specific research on pure consciousness discussed in that paper: Breath Suspension During the Transcendental Meditation Technique http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/44/2/133.full.pdf Electrophysiologic Characteristics of Respiratory Suspension Periods Occurring During the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/46/3/267.full.pdf Autonomic patterns during respiratory suspensions: Possible markers of Transcendental Consciousness http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/transcendental-consciousness.pdf Correlates of stabilization of pure consciousness, aka "Cosmic Consciousenss" -the preliminary stage of enlightenment in TM-theory: Psychological http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf physiological http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf L ---In [email protected], <LEnglish5@...> wrote : Hast thou never heard of Daisy Cutters and other super-conventional weapons? There's no need to advocate our going nuclear against any small country, ever. L ---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote : On 5/2/2014 9:22 PM, curtisdeltablues@... mailto:curtisdeltablues@... wrote: > Harris advocates a first strike against Iran? > A first nuclear strike against Iran may be the only option considering the goal of Sunni Islam is the annihilation of the Western world. The enemy is the closed society that preaches violence and death against everyone that does not believe in Allah. Harris pulls no punches - he is a pragmatist. > > That's not controversialy, that's insane. > So, in order to avoid the danger that lies ahead - vast human atrocities - maybe we should consider the nuclear option. According to Harris, this may be the only option available to us, "given what Islamists believe in the event of an Islamist regime such as Iran acquiring nuclear weapons capability." Work cited: 'The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason' by Sam Harris W. W. Norton, 2004 p. 129 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com http://www.avast.com
