--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Major states of consciousness may have 6 billion > > different flavors, but there are consistent > > features found in just about all 6 billion > > variations of the themes. > > Has Fred published much on this?
On waking, dreaming and sleeping states? He started his career as a basic sleep researcher, BTW, but he apparently only published one sleep paper before returning to MUM. He did his PhD work at MIU around 1981 I think. BTW, the thalamus stuff is unpublished as yet. He's just been looking at all the brain imaging of TMers that he can find and "sure enough...." He and Kieth Wallace proposed the mechanism back in paper #9 in 1999 and he presented his recent investigation on brain imaging at this year's Tucson Consciousness convention: http://www.maharishischooliowa.org/news/media/2006_05_travispaper.html On the TC/CC side of things, he's published quite a bit: mdeline search keyword: travis f http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed Travis F, Arenander A, DuBois D. Related Articles, Links Psychological and physiological characteristics of a proposed object-referral/self- referral continuum of self-awareness. Conscious Cogn. 2004 Jun;13(2):401-20. PMID: 15134768 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 2: Travis F, Arenander A. Related Articles, Links EEG asymmetry and mindfulness meditation. Psychosom Med. 2004 Jan-Feb;66(1):147-8; author reply 147-8. No abstract available. PMID: 14747649 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 3: Travis F, Tecce J, Arenander A, Wallace RK. Related Articles, Links Patterns of EEG coherence, power, and contingent negative variation characterize the integration of transcendental and waking states. Biol Psychol. 2002 Nov;61(3):293-319. PMID: 12406612 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 4: Travis F. Related Articles, Links Autonomic and EEG patterns distinguish transcending from other experiences during Transcendental Meditation practice. Int J Psychophysiol. 2001 Aug;42(1):1-9. PMID: 11451476 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 5: Travis F, Olson T, Egenes T, Gupta HK. Related Articles, Links Physiological patterns during practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique compared with patterns while reading Sanskrit and a modern language. Int J Neurosci. 2001 Jul;109(1-2):71-80. PMID: 11699342 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 6: Travis F, Tecce JJ, Guttman J. Related Articles, Links Cortical plasticity, contingent negative variation, and transcendent experiences during practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique. Biol Psychol. 2000 Nov;55(1):41-55. PMID: 11099807 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 8: Travis F, Pearson C. Related Articles, Links Pure consciousness: distinct phenomenological and physiological correlates of "consciousness itself". Int J Neurosci. 2000;100(1-4):77-89. PMID: 10512549 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 9: Travis F, Wallace RK. Related Articles, Links Autonomic and EEG patterns during eyes-closed rest and transcendental meditation (TM) practice: the basis for a neural model of TM practice. Conscious Cogn. 1999 Sep;8(3):302-18. PMID: 10487785 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 10: Travis F, Pearson C. Related Articles, Links Pure Consciousness: Distinct Phenomenological and Physiological Correlates of "Consciousness Itself" Int J Neurosci. 1999 Jan;100(1-4):77-89. PMID: 10938552 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] 13: Mason LI, Alexander CN, Travis FT, Marsh G, Orme-Johnson DW, Gackenbach J, Mason DC, Rainforth M, Walton KG. Related Articles, Links Electrophysiological correlates of higher states of consciousness during sleep in long-term practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation program. Sleep. 1997 Feb;20(2):102-10. PMID: 9143069 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 14: Travis F, Wallace RK. Related Articles, Links Autonomic patterns during respiratory suspensions: possible markers of Transcendental Consciousness. Psychophysiology. 1997 Jan;34(1):39-46. PMID: 9009807 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 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/