On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:42 AM, hugheshugo wrote:
Another problem is mystics confusing the issues by misunderstanding concepts and pinching scientific terminology to give their ideas a veneer of respectability. For instance Maharishi will tell you that science is close to understanding the unified field and that the UF is consciousness. The truth is that science is close to unifying classical physics with quantum field theory. There is quite a difference between the two. But anyone watching will think he is talking about the same thing.
And given that now the vast majority of all TM research, the basis of which was previously discredited by The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness has now been fully discredited (with a few passers, probably unduplicatable) by a broad study of meditation research, scientists aren't looking too favorably on the Reesh's specious "Vedic science" claims.
Another example is John Hagelins' recent lecture on quantum physics and astrology, using terms like quantum entanglement, which we've all heard but few understand, to explain this ancient hokum makes me seethe. He knows damn well it's rubbish but most people watching don't. It obviously serves the TMO to have people believe it but science it is not. BTW I reckon he should hand his PHD back.
All typical TMO sleight of hand. And it's wearing thin. Now that their research has been (almost) completely undermined, the only people who will any longer believe this mythological schlock are TB's and What the Bleep? fans.
