On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:03 AM, authfriend wrote:
> They are supported by the original research from the 50's and more
> recently duplicated in modern research. This recent research was
> highly praised and I believe this was simply because, despite a
> flurry of research on meditation, we had never had a duplication
on
> the original 1950's occurrence of high amplitude gamma waves in
the
> advanced Hindu yogis. So the new findings were a big surprise. In
> addition we also have repeats of this phenomenon in unpublished
> research on samadhi (of the correlation between high-amplitude
gamma
> waves and the occurrence of samadhi in humans). It is for this
reason
> that we know that high-amplitude gamma waves correlate with
samadhi.
> Long term, deep meditators show evidence of this even outside of
> meditation. New research on this will be published within the next
> year hopefully providing further evidence.
Again, this is all based on one particular
definition of "legitimate" samadhi taken from
the "traditional" literature. It does not prove
that other definitions are somehow wrong or
illegitimate.
Isn't this where you dust off that old study (Larry Domash?) which
has a reputed and hilarious history of TM that only a certified TB
with Vedic Koolaid® in their veins would believe?
I don't buy it Judy. Maybe you'd have more success with a TB audience.
Maybe you're right and Mahesh isn't practicing in the Patanjali or
Shankaracharya tradition. That would be a good dodge if objective
listeners would buy it. I don't, I think it's just a lame excuse on
your part (one you repeatedly try to use). If he wants to make up a
new definition, then maybe he should call it "Maharishi's New
Samadhi" and trademark it?
