I think historically is the wrong word to use. History has completely
forgotten early TM research, mostly because it wasn't very good. A similar
question mark is frequently raised about new TM research. But it does do
something, and it does get published. Whether that something is the best thing
ever remains to seen. Big time.
The collected papers also contains stuff about how groups of people hopping up
and down causes outbreaks of peaceful behaviour in human societies, and at a
distance! Certainly important, if it was true. You may want to remove the word
scientific from those papers. Other than that
It's a good game though, my vote for the most pivotal books of the last
century would be, The selfish gene By Richard Dawkins, Lila by Robert
Persig, QED, the strange theory by Richard Feynman and erm...The fabric of
reality by David Deutsch.
You can learn lot from those, genuinely original and groundbreaking stuff.
Will probably think of a much better list in a minute though.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
It should be quite fairly said in summation that one of the historically more
pivotal and important books published in the 20th Century was, Scientific
Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program Collected Papers Volume I
(1976). The “Collected Papers” though not as well known as the Auto-biography
of a Yogi (1946) or Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1966) though none
the less, the Collected Papers (1976) was similarly transforming in scope.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
“Given the strength of these results, their consistency with the positive
results of previous research, the grave human and financial costs of violent
crime, and the lack of other effective and scientific methods to reduce crime,
policy makers are urged to apply this approach on a large scale for the benefit
of society.”
Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program on
Preventing Violent Crime in Washington, DC: Results of the National
Demonstration Project, June-July 1993
http://www.istpp.org/crime_prevention/index.html
http://www.istpp.org/crime_prevention/index.html
Published in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program
Collected Papers Volume I (1976)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
Well you see, according to the science, having numbers of people meditating
together does evidently matter. Numbers and proximity. That makes a lot of
sense in my experience too.
Like, just look at the science on meditation now. Folks here should sober up
really quick. Farmers are practical scientists and as an Iowa farmer I must
make decisions all the time everyday based on the science of nature. By science
it seems it is certainly time for a Compulsory National Service Campaign
towards creating a compulsory peace between us and nature, by everyone taking
the quiet time for meditating. Every day twice a day.
I feel people who would reject this are anti-social in the least.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
Frankly, I can't see why people would live here in Fairfield, Iowa and not go
to the Domes to meditate. That, not making the time in life to meditate in the
Dome with the group, is just an incredibly lost opportunity in a lifetime.
-Buck
