--- In [email protected], "Bill (William)Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've heard this term thrown around alot. Coherence is something I think > is naturally attainable without TM and certainly not something that was > discovered or created by Maharishi. Another word for it is simple team > spirit. Look what happens at many major league sporting events.
EEG coherence is a technical term. It means that you do a mathematical analysis of the output of two EEG electrodes at different parts of the scalp and see how similar they are with each other over a period of time. There's other kinds of EEG coherence, I believe, but that's the one the TM researchers look at. It has different implications depending on where it is found and in what situation. Certain kinds of EEG coherence can be a Very Bad Thing for epileptics, for example, and it is often associated with a poorly developed brain that doesn't have mature, specialized connections between the various parts, which explains certain learning and emotional/ social disabilities: there's coherence because there is no specialization--some parts just aren't doing their job very well, if at all, so they don't show up as having a unique activity. In the case of TM, it's apparently just a sign of relaxed and non-stressed functioning of the nervous system, which is generally considered a good thing as long as you maintain a healthy balance between rest and activity. > > The crowd begins to cheer the home team,,,perhaps a "wave" starts in > the stands. The enthusiams generate a sense of or perhaps a real > positive energy and the home team scores. Maharishi Effect,,, hardly, > just a lot of excited sports fans cheering on the home team. > If there's some kind of documentable "crowd cheering" in the EEG coherence between 2 different people who aren't physically relating to each other in any known way, then this is hardly a "hardly" situation... 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/
