>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On May 23, 2006, at 7:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > Not to mention "killing the messenger."
> > >
> > > And that "killing of the messenger" in this specific context is
an
> > > artifact of clinging to the "idea" that the vedas and science go
> > > hand-in-hand.
> >
> > Or, it's an artifact of being genuinely interested in
> > the degree of validity of various projects aimed at
> > integrating or reconciling science and spirituality.
>
> One comment: Maharishi's "Vedic Science" isn't scientific in the
modern sense of the word,
> but only in the sense that it is a systematic exploration of
knowledge. Modern Science
> requires a certain concensus of practitioners based on
objective/external observation,
> whereas Vedic Science is strictly personal and subjective/internal.
There are overlaps in
> the field of practice and study (e.g. TM practice leading to lower
blood pressure, etc), but
> they are two distinctly different kinds of "science."
Indeed. Nanda seems to conflate the two in a couple
of places in her essays.
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