--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I prefer TM, and have reached my own conclusions about it. > If someone sees benefit in another technique, fine, whether > it produces the same results, or not. > > Scientific facts are great to substantiate our views, but > rarely do they change them, imo. Science operates primarily > in the realm of the intellect, whereas beliefs are held in > the heart.
Scientific facts are also sometimes used as "stand-ins" for experiences that people have not had personally. For example, if the practice in question is theoretically supposed to produce enlightenment experiences but the practitioner has never had enlightenment experiences personally, he or she can point to the research and say, "See...enlightenment does happen as a result of practicing technique X," and feel better about contin- uing his or her practice of that technique. In such a case, the research serves as intellectual fodder, but it also serves as an emotional "carrot." And I guess this is fine, except that the map is not the territory. The scientific "measurements" of enlightenment are never going to be enlightenment. The studies done on higher states of consciousness are always, in my opinion, going to be playing "catch up" to the real thing, trying to describe or measure some- thing that can only be experienced, and that by its very nature can never be described or measured. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
