if you believe in the third eye that is - the entire chakra system may be one big con, or hallucination.
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 9:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: mindfulness, TM, etc. I am curious, why are forms of meditation not geared to opening the 3rd eye 'unfortunate'. What is the 3rd eye going to get you in terms of enlightenment? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <yifuxero@...> wrote : Efrim Zymbalist, Jr. (actor) died in 2014; an early follower of MMY. Note: as shown on 60 minutes, there's been a recent upsurge in mindfulness meditation on the East Coast.This is an unintended consequence of the high price of TM. CNN's Anderson Cooper says that mindfulness has changed his life for the better....Recent article in Sci Am on the physiology of meditation (a vast improvement over Wallace's 1972 article; since the Sci Am article shows which parts of the brain are activated with different types of mental activity....Basically, TM, mindfulness and much of Buddhist meditation are in the same category (imo); ...i.e. "the default" part of the brain of restful alertness....Unfortunately, such forms of meditation are not geared toward opening the 3rd eye. #yiv9480593490 #yiv9480593490 -- #yiv9480593490ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font-family:Arial;margin:10px 0;padding:0 10px;}#yiv9480593490 #yiv9480593490ygrp-mkp hr {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;}#yiv9480593490 #yiv9480593490ygrp-mkp #yiv9480593490hd {color:#628c2a;font-size:85%;font-weight:700;line-height:122%;margin:10px 0;}#yiv9480593490 #yiv9480593490ygrp-mkp #yiv9480593490ads {margin-bottom:10px;}#yiv9480593490 #yiv9480593490ygrp-mkp 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