--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Good point. Of course none of this matters to people who do the > > practice and like it. The larger question of what this brain > > activity "means" is pretty wide opened from what I understand. > > TM has taken a position of advocacy here. Other scientists may > > be more cautious. > > I think a point that many of the TBs miss is that > they've been *told* that "coherence" in the brain > actually means something, and means "something good > is happening." > > The problem with "TM science" is that the researchers > set out to find something that proves TM or the siddhis > are good. They *start* with an assumption, and then > they try to find something -- anything -- that supports > that assumption. So they hook a few people up and they > find some things they call "coherence." And because > they *are* looking for soemthing -- anything -- they > declare "coherence" to be important. They *have* to > find *something*, otherwise they won't get any strokes > from Maharishi. And the whole *point* of performing > the research is to get strokes from Maharishi. > > These are *not* scientists. They are religious fanatics > hoping to get a little attention from the teacher they > consider enlightened. And the way you get strokes from > this teacher is to find things that he can use to sell > his theories to the world. > > If it hadn't been "coherence," it would have been > soemthing else -- enhanced Beta, Gamma waves that > looked unusual, something. They *had* to find some- > thing, and so they did. > > But it's fascinating to me that the people reading > this "research" just buy it hook, line, and sinker. > Because they *have* to find something, too. They've > been told that it's there, by the teacher they > consider enlightened. Therefore it's there. Done > deal. > > It *has* to be there, or they might have been > wasting their time all these years... >
What you say is certainly true-ish, but it applies to the Buddhist meditation researchers as well, with the added bit that they don't even read the research that exists in the field. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
