--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> 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. > > Vaj, you've made some high-sounding claims that > you haven't even begun to document.
But Judy, give him some slack. This is clearly the FIRST such lapse. :)
