--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 4:20 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Jul 8, 2006, at 12:29 PM, new.morning wrote: > >> > >>> I deleted this post a few minutes after sending it, seeing that > >>> Spraig > >>> did respond with a link of cites (a bit of a shotgun) some of wich > >>> possibly support the SA articles point. > >> > >> Possibly. TB's are great at posting such BS, I'd be very careful. A > >> common pattern really among many fundamentalists: dazzle with the BS. > > > > Unlike people who claim to beable to self-induce complete brain- > > death temporarily? > > > LOL, not that's not a claim. Keep in mind true brain death would also > include no cerebral perfusion. > > Will have to wait to see the results as they become available. As of > now there are few clear light meditators in the west to even do much > research on this topic (as compared to basic meditation, where there > are many subjects). And as you know, most funded research is > interested in aimed groups of reproducible practitioners. It will be > interesting to see what the future brings, but I'm not holding onto > great hope for real large scale studies on this calibre of meditators > who are really the 'olympic athletes of meditation'. They're few in > number. However, just as a casual comment, I'd expect we'd see > something similar to Ken Wilber's neurofeedback experiment, the > nirvakalpa samadhi example: flat on alpha, flat on beta and flat on > theta, but maxxed out on delta. (With mantra, ishta or yidam practice > I'd expect witnessing artifact to be present.) >
I hadn't noticed the "maxed out on delta" part. That's not flatline EEG, BTW. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/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/
