--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > I am solely addressing the issue recent posts raised in my mind of > > "how widespread is the term and concept 'brain-wave coherence' (BWC) > > used by scientists not associated with the TMO". > > For the record (not suggesting that you are > suggesting this, but to avoid possible confusion > and/or preemptively rebut attempts at obfuscation > on the part of others), my comments in a recent > post did not claim that brain-wave coherence was > widely accepted scientifically as beneficial. > > I was addressing Barry's erroneous claim that the > concept of brain-wave coherence was something TM > researchers had invented by finding some EEG > pattern in meditators, calling it "coherence," and > then maintaining that it was beneficial because they > wanted to get strokes from MMY. > > In other words, I was dealing with an entirely > different issue than that of scientific acceptance.
I understand and appreciate the distinctions you raise. Independent of the other issues and how they are framed, I personally am interested in whether BWC is a "BFD" in the mainstream world -- primarily now, but also at the time the cohenrence related studies were published. If it was a BFD in the past eras when the coherence articles were published, then common practice in scientific publications would have been to cite past studies and implications on "coherence" -- relaying what past EEG and other studies had found, and establishing that prior studies had found BWC = BFD. For those that have the CPs, do you find such cites in the coherence related studies? Re: TMO use of coherence: Coherence was a TMO "buzzword" prior to flying (77). But it was not focussed on BWC as I recall, but a more generalized coherent functioning of mind or ns. As far as timing, I remember the summer of 1973 at MIU SB, at the MA program, Domash gave his two courses, and at least one, QM, stressed coherence -- particularly using Laser as an example (Laser having been Larry's focus (nice pun, huh) at Princeton, IIRC. And he used the Meisner Effect, and superconductivity -- other coherence phenomenen, as an analogy to TM. I was with MMY 3 months at the end of 72 and I don't remember coherence being used much -- though Domash was there. At Fuiggi, spring 71 -- I don't remember it at all. Same with 1st yr Mallorca, ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/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/
