--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Caveat: I don't think either of these studies, the > Jerusalem or the D.C. study, are any more than > suggestive; they're certainly not conclusive. I'm > extremely skeptical that the ME theory can ever be > conclusively documented to be valid, even if the > ME does actually exist. >
The biggest problem is that it's not possible to study it in a labratory setting. Fred Travis did part of his PhD research on "field effects of consciousness" but that study has never been replicated. Fred's latest research shows why: there's a ceiling effect on EEG coherence that happens within 4-5 months of TM practice. You can't find tiny fluctuations, at least consistently, in something where the tiny fluctuations stop being detectable. I recently ran across reference to a technique for obtaining "instananeous" EEG coherence figures and passed it on to Fred. He may already have been familiar with the technique and decided it wasn't appropriate, or perhaps not. If not, it is conceivable that the ceiling effect for EEG coherence averaged over 40 seconds time might not exist for much smaller time intervals, in which case small scale interpersonal EEG coherence studies might be possible to perform with non-negative results. If THOSE can be replicated by non-TMing researchers, that would be tremendous support for the ME. 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/
