--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > > <groups@> wrote: > > > > > > on 8/21/06 10:17 PM, new.morning at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >> > And it lacks integrity to claim an awakening > > of ones own defitinion is > > > >> > in fact TMO style enlightenment. > > > > > > > Maharishi necessarily generalized in describing > > these states. He has been > > > heard to say that everyone¹s enlightenment has a > > different flavor. > > > > > > > Just as dreaming and sleeping and waking states do. > > Thre's some pretty clearcut common > > features though, found in just about everyone except > > those with what are usually called > > "pathologies." > > > > For instance, during the dreaming state, not only > > does the thalamus not accept outside input, > > but the part of the brain responsible for voluntary > > movement tends to shut down as well. > > When it doesn't, you get sleepwalking, and other > > abnormal "acting out" of your dreams. > > Actually, sleepwalking occurs in sleep state. What > you're talking about is REM behavior disorder that > occurs during dream state where the brain fails to > block the motor impulses and the muscles fire based on > the dream content. It's a very serious disorder and > often found along with narcolepsy where a person > enters dream state for several minutes directly from > waking state usually triggered by a strong emotion.
Thanks for the correction, but the voluntary motor areas are usually shut down during sleeping/dreaming states except in pathological cases right? That's my main point: there are sets of very common physiological correlates for the major states of consciousness, and just about everyone shows them except people with pathological conditions. By extension, you would expect this kind of thing (common set of correlates) for people in samadhi if samadhi (TC) really is a major state of consciousness. 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/
