[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Meditation the Push-up for the Brain?

2011-07-15 Thread PaliGap 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:

 (Medical Xpress) -- Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that  
 specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger  
 and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control  
 group. 

Hold on there, that's a troubling finding. Health warning required?

Neanderthals looked much like modern humans... The brain case was
lower but longer housing a slightly larger brain than that of
modern humans http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Neanderthal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is Meditation the Push-up for the Brain?

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Pall 
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:13 PM, PaliGap compost...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
 
  (Medical Xpress) -- Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that
  specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger
  and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control
  group.

 Hold on there, that's a troubling finding. Health warning required?

 Neanderthals looked much like modern humans... The brain case was
 lower but longer housing a slightly larger brain than that of
 modern humans http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Neanderthal


 So perhaps the subject should be changed to meditation (especially TM) is
the push up bra of the brain.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Meditation the Push-up for the Brain?

2011-07-15 Thread John 


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote:

 On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:13 PM, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
  
   (Medical Xpress) -- Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that
   specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger
   and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control
   group.
 
  Hold on there, that's a troubling finding. Health warning required?
 
  Neanderthals looked much like modern humans... The brain case was
  lower but longer housing a slightly larger brain than that of
  modern humans http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Neanderthal
 
 
  So perhaps the subject should be changed to meditation (especially TM) is
 the push up bra of the brain.

IMO, MMY would not like to associate meditation with effort.  It would be 
better to say that the human brain has the natural ability to transcend, which 
is the secret to fathoming the cosmic mind or the unified field.

This ability to transcend is the pinnacle of creation from its basic 
constituent of matter.  Kurzweil's idea of merging the human brain with the 
assumed emergent intelligence of computers would actually be a devolution from 
the present condition of human consciousness.