. . Observation, Hypothesis, Test; Scientific Process.. .
When you get things laid out in time series of publication to look at it becomes remarkable what Maharishi was doing all along going way back. There was quite a lot of scientific process (advancement too) which got specifically propelled by Maharishi all through the years and decades. Constantly. Quite fairly this is something that distinguishes Maharishi's spiritual teaching. Observe, hypothesize, test. The science was actually driving larger policy that was initiated by Maharishi himself to be able to set up tests and explore data all along from early on. He was really quite a modern man fusing the ancient and modern in the science of collecting data, making hypothesis and testing as process of science on the spiritual; in making hypothesis based on observation in research that then drives tests and the history of the movement as science test is also a history of Transcendental Meditation [TM] dating from early in Maharishi's arrival in the West in the 1950's through the 60's, 70's, 1980's, 90's, 00's to present. “Observe, hypothesis, test”. He really persisted and in culture pulled quite a coup on religion-ists and atheists alike in a teaching of science and spirituality. -Buck Thanks this science is an extremely important addition to the data around spirituality. -Buck in the Dome LEnglish5 offers: 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <rick@...> wrote : I have this idea kicking around in my head to try to interview Sam Harris, or someone like him. An intelligent atheist, as I understand him. I’d want to read all his books first, and then hash out the likely points of discussion with you beforehand. We could do it on FFL. My perspective is very SCI-like – that intelligence is omnipresent, all-pervading, and obvious if one looks closely enough. I’m interviewing a guy named Bernardo Kastrup in a couple of months who has written a book called “Why Materialism is Baloney”, but it would be fun to interview an intelligent materialist, if that’s what Harris is, and see if we could find any common ground. What do you think?
