--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone ever hear of the placebo effect? >
************ I'm too intelligent, too field-independent, after 4 decades of TM, to be susceptible to placebo effects of any kind, or any other suggestibility-influenced items, like hypnosis. But if you win the Florida lottery, feel free to conduct a double- blind experiment: like get a pair of identical twins, and have them live in two houses with their families, one the worst vastu, the other ideal vastu. Tell the subjects that they are evaluating a medicine of some sort, give them sugar pills, and ask how they are feeling over the course of the study. Double-blind it by hiring grad psych students to administer the questions who are unaware of the true purpose of the study. But this study would certainly be a waste of time for me, since the effects of vastu are now clear to me, although I was a reluctant convert to this notion, more so because it seemed silly with the slight penetration of TM in the world to be talking about rebuilding every city in the world. It simply does not matter if vastu-talk makes the movement look silly -- very soon the consciousness- expanding powers of Vedic technology will convince everybody of the worth of Vedic culture. > --- shukra69 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "claudiouk" > > <claudiouk@> wrote: > > > > > > Seems rather simplistic to me - like saying > > vegetarianism = 50% > > > spirituality... There are striking "Vastu" > > Similarities between > > > Indian and Incan / Mayan Sacred Structures.. > > > http://www.vastu-design.com/ht-article.htm > > > .. doesn't seem to have fostered much natural law > > in those Vastu > > > dwellers, what with human sacrifices, Spanish > > conquests etc.. > > > MMY's comments about living within transparent > > Vastu walls and fears > > > of going now into non-Vastu buildings may just be > > related to ageing. > > He is speaking somewhat metaphorically, fear for the > > loss of > > efficiently of his enlightenment generating > > activity, not fear for his > > person like some easily frightened senior. > > > > > Like he said for most of his life he didn't care > > much about the > > > buildings he inhabited. I'm wondering whether this > > Vastu business > > > should be read, like the Bible, metaphorically. > > Orienting one's own > > > inner temple/indwelling towards the East - the > > inner Sun etc. Then > > > yes that may contribute 50% of spirituality.. > > > > > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante > > <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "shukra69" > > <stephen4359@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > According to the ancient Maharishis, Vaastu > > equals 50% of > > > > > spirituality. It solves 80% of life's > > problems. > > > > > "It's better to live in a hut under a tree > > than to live in bad > > > > > Vaastu," he states. > > > > > > > > http://www.kaleshwaravaastu.com/enu/vaastu_kaleshwaravaastu.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ************ > > > > > > > > It's been my own experience that bad vastu does > > crimp life (and > > > what > > > > little good vastu I have been in has an > > uplifting effect), and > > > anyway I > > > > can't argue with MMY's assignment of > > authenticity to Vedic lit on > > > vastu > > > > (by extrapolating confidence gained by my 4 > > decades of practice of > > > TM). > > > > But this guy's web site is typical of the > > muddled thinking in India > > > > which has made a mess of life there. What MMY > > has done has re- > > > introduce > > > > the centerpiece of Vedic life, expanded > > awareness, without which > > > the > > > > Vedic guidelines are scrambled by confused and > > limited thinking, as > > > is > > > > this guy's claim that some south entrances are > > OK: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.kaleshwaravaastu.com/enu/vaastu_example1.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________ > Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. > http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php >
