Re: [FairfieldLife] Traditional Practices and Evolutionary Advantage

2014-10-12 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
My comment was about your first sentence. The rest I didn't have time to parse but I will say you are correct that most other paths don't need scientific validation. I didn't start TM because of the "scientific studies" but to see if it worked. I suspect you didn't start because of those eit

Re: [FairfieldLife] Traditional Practices and Evolutionary Advantage

2014-10-12 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yea, maybe it's like how people get obsessed with things. Look, everyone here is a fan of science. We get it. But, we don't then discard our intuition or personal experience with something, just because we don't have a scientific study to verify it. Okay, maybe I am exaggerating a tad,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Traditional Practices and Evolutionary Advantage

2014-10-12 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
seerdope, it's a pleasure, and probably even beneficial to the brain, to read writing so...wholesome in both content and tone. I'd add that the efficacy of Chinese approach to health might be indicated by the rise of China as a superpower in the world. I'd bet money that they have an herbal ebol

Re: [FairfieldLife] Traditional Practices and Evolutionary Advantage

2014-10-11 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Bhairitu said: "Science knows shit about tantra and mantra shastra. You're looking the wrong way. " My post was not looking to science to validate tantra or mantra shastra or any traditional knowledge. Just the opposite. My point was a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Traditional Practices and Evolutionary Advantage

2014-10-11 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bhairitu said: "Science knows shit about tantra and mantra shastra. You're looking the wrong way. " My post was not looking to science to validate tantra or mantra shastra or any traditional knowledge. Just the opposite. My point was a statement of disagreement with the claim of ration

Re: [FairfieldLife] Traditional Practices and Evolutionary Advantage

2014-10-11 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Science knows shit about tantra and mantra shastra. You're looking the wrong way. On 10/11/2014 02:56 PM, seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu: "He's not the only guru by a long shot who thought the mantras came about by trial and error instead of being "cognized". So they were

[FairfieldLife] Traditional Practices and Evolutionary Advantage

2014-10-11 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bhairitu: "He's not the only guru by a long shot who thought the mantras came about by trial and error instead of being "cognized". So they were "recognized" instead." I look to science when credible research is available. However, lots of life does not (yet) have substantial numbers of of