dmb, First I would like to thank you for the thoughtful reply. If anything I think you underestimate the importance of mystical experiences and their frequency of occurrence. You say for example, "Insights and epiphanies powerful enough to shake things up and re-arrange the attitude, a new gestalt. Feels like an avalanche, like weight shifting of its own accord." I would say that is exactly what drives most good scientists. It is what I suspect drives almost anyone who is good at anything.
Personally I achieve a feeling of Oneness, unity, identity, unification, wholeness, pure, undivided, immediate and undifferentiated, experience in movie theaters. I like to sit in the first third of the theater, dead center. In a stadium theater with Dolby I am totally absorbed in the film. I also frequently lose myself in driving, reading, playing guitar or diapering my grandkids. I am not saying this to be facetious. I think these are genuine mystical experiences. You say: "If the professor in my department are right, those projects require interdisciplinary methodologies, team work across disciplines and interpretive rather than observational skills. You also need people who can have a mystical experience, who have some actual experience and training. This is a tall order and its not a simple matter. But its simple in principle." Ok, your professor it right. It does take that kind of team and that kind of experimental subject. Here it is. In practice complete with control group: http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/pubs/2004/meditators_synchrony.pdf Your wishes have been granted. What do you make of it? Krimel Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
