On Jun 19, 2007, at 1:19 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 19, 2007, at 12:46 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > > go into it at will and often chose the duration. This makes it > > > easier to measure. Being "insensible" to surroundings is easy to > > > measure. While the subject is in samadhi, you plunge the arm into > > > ice cold water and look for a response to physiological > > > measurements. Testing the startle reflex is another relatively > > > simple test. > > > > That's a test for your (and Das and Gastaut's) > > definition of samadhi. > > > > And it isn't even an EEG test. Ooops! > > Actually their research was the first to discover the direct > correlation between samadhi and high-amplitude gamma waves... Between their definition of samadhi (they refer to it as a state of "mental concentration") and gamma waves, you mean.
Actually they used a number of descriptions.
Vaj, you've made some high-sounding claims that you haven't even begun to document.
It was not nor is it my intent to write a paper documenting their findings. What is interesting in this case, is the lack of evidence for samadhi in TM, not the presence of it in forms of truly deep meditation. Even more interesting to me is the recent studies on this same phenomenon from a totally different style of meditation.
