Observation, Hypothesis, Test;
Scientific Process.. .
When you get things laid out in time series of publication to look at it
becomes remarkable what Maharishi was doing all along going way back.
There was quite a lot of scientific process (advancement too) which got
specifically propelled by Maharishi all through the years and decades.
Constantly. Quite fairly this is something that distinguishes Maharishi's
spiritual teaching.
Observe, hypothesize, test. The science was actually driving larger policy
that was initiated by Maharishi himself to be able to set up tests and explore
data all along from early on. He was really quite a modern man fusing the
ancient and modern in the science of collecting data, making hypothesis and
testing as process of science on the spiritual; in making hypothesis based on
observation in research that then drives tests and the history of the movement
as science test is also a history of Transcendental Meditation [TM] dating from
early in Maharishi's arrival in the West in the 1950's through the 60's, 70's,
1980's, 90's, 00's to present. “Observe, hypothesis, test”. He really persisted
and in culture pulled quite a coup on religion-ists and atheists alike in a
teaching of science and spirituality.
-Buck
Thanks this science is an extremely important addition to the data around
spirituality.
-Buck in the Dome
LEnglish5 offers:
Fred Travis' article published in the New York Academy of Sciences that
discusses the preliminary research on Cosmic Consciousness:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./nyas.12316/full
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./nyas.12316/full
Specific research on pure consciousness discussed in that paper:
Breath Suspension During the Transcendental Meditation Technique
http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/44/2/133.full.pdf
Electrophysiologic Characteristics of Respiratory Suspension Periods Occurring
During the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program
http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/46/3/267.full.pdf
Autonomic patterns during respiratory suspensions: Possible markers of
Transcendental Consciousness
http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/transcendental-consciousness.pdf
Correlates of stabilization of pure consciousness, aka Cosmic Consciousenss
-the preliminary stage of enlightenment in TM-theory:
Psychological
http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf
http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf
physiological
http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf
http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote :
I have this idea kicking around in my head to try to interview Sam Harris, or
someone like him. An intelligent atheist, as I understand him. I’d want to read
all his books first, and then hash out the likely points of discussion with you
beforehand. We could do it on FFL. My perspective is very SCI-like – that
intelligence is omnipresent, all-pervading, and obvious if one looks closely
enough. I’m interviewing a guy named Bernardo Kastrup in a couple of months who
has written a book called “Why Materialism is Baloney”, but it would be fun to
interview an intelligent materialist, if that’s what Harris is, and see if we
could find any common ground. What do you think?
