Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
. The simple conclusion, as people understand the degree of statistical import now of the science on the Meissner-like beneficial effect from meditation there comes a community duty to others to meditate regularly and to meditate in groups. It is time. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “12 published, peer-reviewed articles on violence prevention through the TM and TM-sidhi program have put hard-to-ignore numbers on something that otherwise might seem like an exercise in wishful thinking." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing ™ and the ™-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ‘ ..the ‘Not everyone agrees’ defense against correlations of science: “We don’t know..it is only probability, ‘correlation is not causation’, it is not certain, therefore it may not exist and it would cost too much to implement or make any change in public policy, better we should not do anything until we know for certain, we should even stonewall the correlation, fire the messengers if they get too far with this!’ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brilliant and a fine extension of the scientific process (discourse). Thanks. I will forward a link to this to higher authorities for their review. yifuxero writes: Let's review some hypotheses and assumptions. 1. In regard to "modern" scientific inquiry, we may be in agreement that such methodologies are quite limited in scope, since there are vast bodies of phenomena beginning with simple psychic experiences that most people "believe" are true based on subjective experiences and the testimonials of others. This body of "unproved" phenomena extends into such areas as crop circles, alien appearances and abductions, cattle mutilations, Big Foot sightings, etc, and ultimately, the ME. ... 2. Most profoundly and of great importance, is the nature of Gnosis (Self-knowledge of the Atman leading to complete Brahman realization). We can go back to the early Gnostics to see how this as a Movement gradually gave way to Dualistic dogmatic religion. In the 20-th century prior to WWII, there were minor revivals such as the "I AM Movement". After WWII, we have Yogananda, Kirpal Sing, Eckankar,, etc; but most important, MMY. Ultimately, we come across (through subjective experience,) the Self - Purusha and find a true Paradox: The Self (Purusha) is indeed "experiential" but purely so, and as such, is not by It's very nature objectively provable or demonstrable to others. Thus, in terms of the ongoing evolutionary development of mankind (Cf. MMY, Eckart Tolle, and others); the hypothesis has been promulgated that the long term "Salvation" of individuals and of mankind is innately connected to Gnosis, rather than the dogma of belief systems and dualistic religions. Thus, the only way to "prove" Purusha is to experience It for yourself; and a tipping point in evolution will occur when vast numbers of people simply "overpower": those endowed with dualistic perception alone. This is the hypothesis of Tolle's "Heaven on Earth" concept. When large numbers of people are Self-aware, such Gnosis will simply take it for granted as being an intrinsic part of life, having no need for "modern science" to prove It's existence as the basis of reality. 3. OTOH, the ME is a SHAKTI-basic phenomena. Among those practicing TM for any significant length of time, a type of perception awakens in which Shakti as a subtle type of energy creeps into overall awareness, with a "Shakti-meter", allowing people to discriminate between various people and places radiating that Energy. In a sense, Shakti can be considered a subtle type of "field". Thus, the TMO's use of the term would be appropriate. 4. Unfortunately, at this state of modern scientific inquiry, there's no empirical evidence for the existence of . higher dimensions beyond our materialistic, naturalistic world. The fact that may people have experienced contact with Angels, the dead, and interdimensional phenomena is a moot point. Such personal testimonies maketh not what's acceptable as "science". If this were the case, nut cases claiming Alien abductions and others such as Scientologists AND the TMO would (and have!) attempted to make a spurious and dishonest claim for their own versions of what "should" be the true post-modern science. 5. Factually, we are dealing with MODERN scientific methods, not such futuristic model of what science "should" be like. If that were not the case, the TMO would (and does), ha
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
Long before ‘science’ has come along now to know it the founding Quakers were experienced in the Meissner-like ‘field effect’ of their silent group meetings, in method. Jai Guru George Fox. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The simple conclusion, as people understand the degree of statistical import now of the science on the Meissner-like beneficial effect from meditation there comes a community duty to others to meditate regularly and to meditate in groups. It is time. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “12 published, peer-reviewed articles on violence prevention through the TM and TM-sidhi program have put hard-to-ignore numbers on something that otherwise might seem like an exercise in wishful thinking." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing ™ and the ™-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ‘ ..the ‘Not everyone agrees’ defense against correlations of science: “We don’t know..it is only probability, ‘correlation is not causation’, it is not certain, therefore it may not exist and it would cost too much to implement or make any change in public policy, better we should not do anything until we know for certain, we should even stonewall the correlation, fire the messengers if they get too far with this!’ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brilliant and a fine extension of the scientific process (discourse). Thanks. I will forward a link to this to higher authorities for their review. yifuxero writes: Let's review some hypotheses and assumptions. 1. In regard to "modern" scientific inquiry, we may be in agreement that such methodologies are quite limited in scope, since there are vast bodies of phenomena beginning with simple psychic experiences that most people "believe" are true based on subjective experiences and the testimonials of others. This body of "unproved" phenomena extends into such areas as crop circles, alien appearances and abductions, cattle mutilations, Big Foot sightings, etc, and ultimately, the ME. ... 2. Most profoundly and of great importance, is the nature of Gnosis (Self-knowledge of the Atman leading to complete Brahman realization). We can go back to the early Gnostics to see how this as a Movement gradually gave way to Dualistic dogmatic religion. In the 20-th century prior to WWII, there were minor revivals such as the "I AM Movement". After WWII, we have Yogananda, Kirpal Sing, Eckankar,, etc; but most important, MMY. Ultimately, we come across (through subjective experience,) the Self - Purusha and find a true Paradox: The Self (Purusha) is indeed "experiential" but purely so, and as such, is not by It's very nature objectively provable or demonstrable to others. Thus, in terms of the ongoing evolutionary development of mankind (Cf. MMY, Eckart Tolle, and others); the hypothesis has been promulgated that the long term "Salvation" of individuals and of mankind is innately connected to Gnosis, rather than the dogma of belief systems and dualistic religions. Thus, the only way to "prove" Purusha is to experience It for yourself; and a tipping point in evolution will occur when vast numbers of people simply "overpower": those endowed with dualistic perception alone. This is the hypothesis of Tolle's "Heaven on Earth" concept. When large numbers of people are Self-aware, such Gnosis will simply take it for granted as being an intrinsic part of life, having no need for "modern science" to prove It's existence as the basis of reality. 3. OTOH, the ME is a SHAKTI-basic phenomena. Among those practicing TM for any significant length of time, a type of perception awakens in which Shakti as a subtle type of energy creeps into overall awareness, with a "Shakti-meter", allowing people to discriminate between various people and places radiating that Energy. In a sense, Shakti can be considered a subtle type of "field". Thus, the TMO's use of the term would be appropriate. 4. Unfortunately, at this state of modern scientific inquiry, there's no empirical evidence for the existence of . higher dimensions beyond our materialistic, naturalistic world. The fact that may people have experienced contact with Angels, the dead, and interdimensional phenomena is a moot point. Such personal testimonies maketh not what's acceptable as "science". If this were the case, nut cases claiming Alien abductions and others such as Scientologists AND the TMO would (and have!) attempted to make a spurious and dishonest claim for their own versio
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
The simple conclusion, as people understand the degree of statistical import now of the science on the Meissner-like beneficial effect from meditation there comes a community duty to others to meditate regularly and to meditate in groups. It is time. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “12 published, peer-reviewed articles on violence prevention through the TM and TM-sidhi program have put hard-to-ignore numbers on something that otherwise might seem like an exercise in wishful thinking." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing ™ and the ™-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ‘ ..the ‘Not everyone agrees’ defense against correlations of science: “We don’t know..it is only probability, ‘correlation is not causation’, it is not certain, therefore it may not exist and it would cost too much to implement or make any change in public policy, better we should not do anything until we know for certain, we should even stonewall the correlation, fire the messengers if they get too far with this!’ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brilliant and a fine extension of the scientific process (discourse). Thanks. I will forward a link to this to higher authorities for their review. yifuxero writes: Let's review some hypotheses and assumptions. 1. In regard to "modern" scientific inquiry, we may be in agreement that such methodologies are quite limited in scope, since there are vast bodies of phenomena beginning with simple psychic experiences that most people "believe" are true based on subjective experiences and the testimonials of others. This body of "unproved" phenomena extends into such areas as crop circles, alien appearances and abductions, cattle mutilations, Big Foot sightings, etc, and ultimately, the ME. ... 2. Most profoundly and of great importance, is the nature of Gnosis (Self-knowledge of the Atman leading to complete Brahman realization). We can go back to the early Gnostics to see how this as a Movement gradually gave way to Dualistic dogmatic religion. In the 20-th century prior to WWII, there were minor revivals such as the "I AM Movement". After WWII, we have Yogananda, Kirpal Sing, Eckankar,, etc; but most important, MMY. Ultimately, we come across (through subjective experience,) the Self - Purusha and find a true Paradox: The Self (Purusha) is indeed "experiential" but purely so, and as such, is not by It's very nature objectively provable or demonstrable to others. Thus, in terms of the ongoing evolutionary development of mankind (Cf. MMY, Eckart Tolle, and others); the hypothesis has been promulgated that the long term "Salvation" of individuals and of mankind is innately connected to Gnosis, rather than the dogma of belief systems and dualistic religions. Thus, the only way to "prove" Purusha is to experience It for yourself; and a tipping point in evolution will occur when vast numbers of people simply "overpower": those endowed with dualistic perception alone. This is the hypothesis of Tolle's "Heaven on Earth" concept. When large numbers of people are Self-aware, such Gnosis will simply take it for granted as being an intrinsic part of life, having no need for "modern science" to prove It's existence as the basis of reality. 3. OTOH, the ME is a SHAKTI-basic phenomena. Among those practicing TM for any significant length of time, a type of perception awakens in which Shakti as a subtle type of energy creeps into overall awareness, with a "Shakti-meter", allowing people to discriminate between various people and places radiating that Energy. In a sense, Shakti can be considered a subtle type of "field". Thus, the TMO's use of the term would be appropriate. 4. Unfortunately, at this state of modern scientific inquiry, there's no empirical evidence for the existence of . higher dimensions beyond our materialistic, naturalistic world. The fact that may people have experienced contact with Angels, the dead, and interdimensional phenomena is a moot point. Such personal testimonies maketh not what's acceptable as "science". If this were the case, nut cases claiming Alien abductions and others such as Scientologists AND the TMO would (and have!) attempted to make a spurious and dishonest claim for their own versions of what "should" be the true post-modern science. 5. Factually, we are dealing with MODERN scientific methods, not such futuristic model of what science "should" be like. If that were not the case, the TMO would (and does), have the
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
“12 published, peer-reviewed articles on violence prevention through the TM and TM-sidhi program have put hard-to-ignore numbers on something that otherwise might seem like an exercise in wishful thinking." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing ™ and the ™-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ‘ ..the ‘Not everyone agrees’ defense against correlations of science: “We don’t know..it is only probability, ‘correlation is not causation’, it is not certain, therefore it may not exist and it would cost too much to implement or make any change in public policy, better we should not do anything until we know for certain, we should even stonewall the correlation, fire the messengers if they get too far with this!’ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brilliant and a fine extension of the scientific process (discourse). Thanks. I will forward a link to this to higher authorities for their review. yifuxero writes: Let's review some hypotheses and assumptions. 1. In regard to "modern" scientific inquiry, we may be in agreement that such methodologies are quite limited in scope, since there are vast bodies of phenomena beginning with simple psychic experiences that most people "believe" are true based on subjective experiences and the testimonials of others. This body of "unproved" phenomena extends into such areas as crop circles, alien appearances and abductions, cattle mutilations, Big Foot sightings, etc, and ultimately, the ME. ... 2. Most profoundly and of great importance, is the nature of Gnosis (Self-knowledge of the Atman leading to complete Brahman realization). We can go back to the early Gnostics to see how this as a Movement gradually gave way to Dualistic dogmatic religion. In the 20-th century prior to WWII, there were minor revivals such as the "I AM Movement". After WWII, we have Yogananda, Kirpal Sing, Eckankar,, etc; but most important, MMY. Ultimately, we come across (through subjective experience,) the Self - Purusha and find a true Paradox: The Self (Purusha) is indeed "experiential" but purely so, and as such, is not by It's very nature objectively provable or demonstrable to others. Thus, in terms of the ongoing evolutionary development of mankind (Cf. MMY, Eckart Tolle, and others); the hypothesis has been promulgated that the long term "Salvation" of individuals and of mankind is innately connected to Gnosis, rather than the dogma of belief systems and dualistic religions. Thus, the only way to "prove" Purusha is to experience It for yourself; and a tipping point in evolution will occur when vast numbers of people simply "overpower": those endowed with dualistic perception alone. This is the hypothesis of Tolle's "Heaven on Earth" concept. When large numbers of people are Self-aware, such Gnosis will simply take it for granted as being an intrinsic part of life, having no need for "modern science" to prove It's existence as the basis of reality. 3. OTOH, the ME is a SHAKTI-basic phenomena. Among those practicing TM for any significant length of time, a type of perception awakens in which Shakti as a subtle type of energy creeps into overall awareness, with a "Shakti-meter", allowing people to discriminate between various people and places radiating that Energy. In a sense, Shakti can be considered a subtle type of "field". Thus, the TMO's use of the term would be appropriate. 4. Unfortunately, at this state of modern scientific inquiry, there's no empirical evidence for the existence of . higher dimensions beyond our materialistic, naturalistic world. The fact that may people have experienced contact with Angels, the dead, and interdimensional phenomena is a moot point. Such personal testimonies maketh not what's acceptable as "science". If this were the case, nut cases claiming Alien abductions and others such as Scientologists AND the TMO would (and have!) attempted to make a spurious and dishonest claim for their own versions of what "should" be the true post-modern science. 5. Factually, we are dealing with MODERN scientific methods, not such futuristic model of what science "should" be like. If that were not the case, the TMO would (and does), have their own make-believe version of science, the Scientologists theirs, and the UFO-ologists theirs.. Do I "believe" in the existence of Angels, interdimensional entities, and Aliens, as well as very common psychic experiences. Yes! But all such beliefs are moot. There must be agreed-upon ground rules for e
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
What was the procedure used to eliminate all other possible influences, both subtle and mundane; and what procedure was used to quantify the levels of Shakti generated by countless groups that could have contributed to the effects? How about the undesirable stats such as increased opioid addition and heroin deaths and the thousands of dead people in Syra. Also, the starving people in Somalia.? Sounds like a case of selection bias. Again for the umpteenth time, correlation is not causation. Thanks, Shalom
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
e give the citation. If no such evidence an be provided, the proponents of such "field" effects have no foundation for their claims. WIKIPEDIA:. Robert L. Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Park, research professor and former chair of the Physics Department at the University of Maryland, called the study a "clinic in data distortion".[14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-Park2000pp29-31-14 In 1994 a science satire magazine, Annals of Improbable Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Improbable_Research, "awarded" Hagelin the Ig Nobel Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize for Peace, "for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C."[34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-34[35] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-35 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In defense of the research it is said, “..in order to be published in a leading independent scientific research journal, our papers are subject to a rigorous review process by non-meditating scholars, most of whom are highly skeptical of our theory, and who intensively review our research and methods to insure that they meet the highest standard of research quality. Only a very small proportion of all scientific research of any kind is done well enough to be accepted into leading peer-reviewed journals.” "..Many people have many opinions on how to improve things-- better policing, healthier economies, more guns, less guns, etc. But all these interventions are hard to agree on or hard to implement.” -Article published in the FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The dispute seems mainly to be over how science works. One could wonder about some of the skepticism given out on the internet, given some nature of some personal narrative of a hurt with the meditating movement or personal ideologies of some of the people who are in categorical vehemence against meditation and ™ in particular, if they could read this research with objectivity. “The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes.. Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its dominion, the individual is pauperized.” -Carl Gustav Jung ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In context these papers being published are movement ahead just doing the science evidently disputing the old saws of criticism. As painful as this current science seems to be for some of the skeptical, evidently for different reasons, the ‘replications’ and statistical p-value significance of this science are in fact noteworthy interesting science process in the postmodern. That's the problem: There's zero "controlled testing". Just another feeble attempt to prove the ME (The Maharishi - Effect, now called the Meissner-like effect.. I'm not saying there's no ME. It's simply beyond the capacity of modern science to measure it objectively. Correlation is not causation. How many times do people need to repeat that? Yes, more controlled study is certainly needed to to drill down into understanding the Meissner-like effect mechanism of meditation. Healthy skepticism of the correlation hardly negates the certainty of the published research. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact them. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promoti
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
. Personally, I highly recommend doing such things a Yagyas, pujas, group meditations, etc; since a. I perceive that such performances and rituals radiate Shakti, which can be perceived through human physiology. b. Such activities have life-supporting effects, so therefore doing more of the same would benefit humanity, and has in UNKNOWN ways since karma is unfathomable. However, a. as already pointed out, presenting arguments based on faulty science in an attempt to "prove" certain effects have taken place such as lower automobile deaths or whatever; is simply unachievable in the context of modern science. b. Again, there is no scientific method available apart from subjective human perceptions of demonstrating the existence of subtle Shakti to others. This would be basically on the same level as attempting to prove the existence of higher dimensions. Such dimensions are hypothesized in the context of string theory but as yet there's no evidence for such dimensions. c. The effects can't be isolated (say automobile deaths), and neither can the causes, since there are countless sources of Shakti in the world influencing events continuously. A scientific study would require that these cause be isolated out, measured, and eliminated as possible causes. Given the countless number of Pun dits in India doing pujas, yagyas, as well as householders doing pujas every day, one would have to measure these influences and that's impossible. d. The simplest way to prove the ME would be to first devise a machine that can detect Shakti. Set it up outside or inside the Domes, and measure the influence in some units analogous to those in various branches of physics, say Watts or Joules. Next, set up the machine in a control area, perhaps the police station, and measure the Shakti as a control. To conclude, the MUM papers on the ME are complete rubbish since a. no controls. b. competing influences are not identified and culled out. c. the measurement problem: there is no machine or device outside of the human nervous system that can detect and measure the subtle Shakti. If anything has been published so far in any physics journal attesting the existence of such subtle Shakti energy, let's see the reference. The fact that one cannot prove the existence of the ME or even present the case in the context of modern science should not dissuade people from doing it. I agree that the ME has beneficial effects, but such effects can't be scientifically measured To those promoting group meditation, Yagyas, chanting of mantras, pujas, and even ordinary prayers, keep up the good work. You are doing a great service to mankind, but are diminishing the credibility of such Sattvic activities by claiming that the causes and results are within the domain of scientific inquiry. I agree that modern scientific inquiry is limited in scope, but there as yet is no post-modern set of scientific methods. It's fine if one says "the ME has been confirmed by our own post-modern set of ad hoc rules"; but not the rules of modern physicists.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing TM and the TM-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact them. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation. There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison, though some journals rank 0. Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21 and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25. These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be published, then you look for lower ranked journals to try to get published. The journal wants almost $30 for a PDF of the full paper, which is only summarized by the PDF posted here. Does one of the scientists have a copy they could send you which you could post? They usually have these things on hand. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/0024/F0020001/art3 The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingen... By Cavanaugh, K.L. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/00000024/F0020001/art00003 Another point, Scientific Journals are not Scripture. But continue to meditate. The byproducts of meditation, whatever they are, are not as important as enlightenment. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Observations and correlations about meditation and well-being were made throughout the last half of the 20th Century in published pilot research. A rightly skeptical criticism of that body of scientific research conducted has been that much which was substantial was without “replication”. The challenge in 'repetition' from a general decline in the teaching of meditation to new practitioners and the separation of many experienced practitioners from organized group practice of group meditations in the 1990’s and 2000’s was then obtaining repetition in that scope of research occurring previously in the 1970’s and 1980’s in the shear size of those previous meditating groups to measure with controls. This s
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
Doug, you;'re in a state of denial. Let's review some hypotheses and assumptions. 1. In regard to "modern" scientific inquiry, we may be in agreement that such methodologies are quite limited in scope, since there are vast bodies of phenomena beginning with simple psychic experiences that most people "believe" are true based on subjective experiences and the testimonials of others. This body of "unproved" phenomena extends into such areas as crop circles, alien appearances and abductions, cattle mutilations, Big Foot sightings, etc, and ultimately, the ME. ... 2. Most profoundly and of great importance, is the nature of Gnosis (Self-knowledge of the Atman leading to complete Brahman realization). We can go back to the early Gnostics to see how this as a Movement gradually gave way to Dualistic dogmatic religion. In the 20-th century prior to WWII, there were minor revivals such as the "I AM Movement". After WWII, we have Yogananda, Kirpal Sing, Eckankar,, etc; but most important, MMY. Ultimately, we come across (through subjective experience,) the Self - Purusha and find a true Paradox: The Self (Purusha) is indeed "experiential" but purely so, and as such, is not by It's very nature objectively provable or demonstrable to others. Thus, in terms of the ongoing evolutionary development of mankind (Cf. MMY, Eckart Tolle, and others); the hypothesis has been promulgated that the long term "Salvation" of individuals and of mankind is innately connected to Gnosis, rather than the dogma of belief systems and dualistic religions. Thus, the only way to "prove" Purusha is to experience It for yourself; and a tipping point in evolution will occur when vast numbers of people simply "overpower": those endowed with dualistic perception alone. This is the hypothesis of Tolle's "Heaven on Earth" concept. When large numbers of people are Self-aware, such Gnosis will simply take it for granted as being an intrinsic part of life, having no need for "modern science" to prove It's existence as the basis of reality. 3. OTOH, the ME is a SHAKTI-basic phenomena. Among those practicing TM for any significant length of time, a type of perception awakens in which Shakti as a subtle type of energy creeps into overall awareness, with a "Shakti-meter", allowing people to discriminate between various people and places radiating that Energy. In a sense, Shakti can be considered a subtle type of "field". Thus, the TMO's use of the term would be appropriate. 4. Unfortunately, at this state of modern scientific inquiry, there's no empirical evidence for the existence of . higher dimensions beyond our materialistic, naturalistic world. The fact that may people have experienced contact with Angels, the dead, and interdimensional phenomena is a moot point. Such personal testimonies maketh not what's acceptable as "science". If this were the case, nut cases claiming Alien abductions and others such as Scientologists AND the TMO would (and have!) attempted to make a spurious and dishonest claim for their own versions of what "should" be the true post-modern science. 5. Factually, we are dealing with MODERN scientific methods, not such futuristic model of what science "should" be like. If that were not the case, the TMO would (and does), have their own make-believe version of science, the Scientologists theirs, and the UFO-ologists theirs.. Do I "believe" in the existence of Angels, interdimensional entities, and Aliens, as well as very common psychic experiences. Yes! But all such beliefs are moot. There must be agreed-upon ground rules for exchanging information that conforms to accepted "rules" of science. Do I "believe" that the ME exists? Yes, but . 6. There's no objective way in modern science to measure the magnitude and range of the ME; and indeed, there's no SCIENTIFIC evidence for the existence of Shakti. This fact alone invalidates all of the MUM research involving the ME, since the ME is a Shakti-effect, NOT an actual Meissner-effect. The Meissner effect involves a real, observable form of material Shakti. The ME is based on an ONOBSERVABLE (but feelable) form of Shakti not even recognized to exist by modern science. Beyond this fact alone, all other considerations such as data analysis become secondary. Since the TMO can't prove the existence of the subtle Shakti, the whole hypothesis of ME becomes completely unsupportable 7. The MUM work fails to have adequate controls. The results are not a binary choice between such effects and "random" possibilities, but rather the influence of the SHAKTI vs other possible influences. Anybody can with equally (and nonsensical) validity - claim that such effects were due to Benjamin Creme's "Maitreya" or perhaps the Scientology God. Due to the unfathomable nature of karma, it's not possible to isolate individual effects from the complete Totality of existence. The causes likewise lik
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
In defense of the research it is said, “..in order to be published in a leading independent scientific research journal, our papers are subject to a rigorous review process by non-meditating scholars, most of whom are highly skeptical of our theory, and who intensively review our research and methods to insure that they meet the highest standard of research quality. Only a very small proportion of all scientific research of any kind is done well enough to be accepted into leading peer-reviewed journals.” "..Many people have many opinions on how to improve things-- better policing, healthier economies, more guns, less guns, etc. But all these interventions are hard to agree on or hard to implement.” -Article published in the FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The dispute seems mainly to be over how science works. One could wonder about some of the skepticism given out on the internet, given some nature of some personal narrative of a hurt with the meditating movement or personal ideologies of some of the people who are in categorical vehemence against meditation and ™ in particular, if they could read this research with objectivity. “The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes.. Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its dominion, the individual is pauperized.” -Carl Gustav Jung ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In context these papers being published are movement ahead just doing the science evidently disputing the old saws of criticism. As painful as this current science seems to be for some of the skeptical, evidently for different reasons, the ‘replications’ and statistical p-value significance of this science are in fact noteworthy interesting science process in the postmodern. That's the problem: There's zero "controlled testing". Just another feeble attempt to prove the ME (The Maharishi - Effect, now called the Meissner-like effect.. I'm not saying there's no ME. It's simply beyond the capacity of modern science to measure it objectively. Correlation is not causation. How many times do people need to repeat that? Yes, more controlled study is certainly needed to to drill down into understanding the Meissner-like effect mechanism of meditation. Healthy skepticism of the correlation hardly negates the certainty of the published research. “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing TM and the TM-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact them. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
The dispute seems mainly to be over how science works. One could wonder about some of the skepticism given out on the internet, given some nature of some personal narrative of a hurt with the meditating movement or personal ideologies of some of the people who are in categorical vehemence against meditation and ™ in particular, if they could read this research with objectivity. “The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes.. Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its dominion, the individual is pauperized.” -Carl Gustav Jung ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In context these papers being published are movement ahead just doing the science evidently disputing the old saws of criticism. As painful as this current science seems to be for some of the skeptical, evidently for different reasons, the ‘replications’ and statistical p-value significance of this science are in fact noteworthy interesting science process in the postmodern. That's the problem: There's zero "controlled testing". Just another feeble attempt to prove the ME (The Maharishi - Effect, now called the Meissner-like effect.. I'm not saying there's no ME. It's simply beyond the capacity of modern science to measure it objectively. Correlation is not causation. How many times do people need to repeat that? Yes, more controlled study is certainly needed to to drill down into understanding the Meissner-like effect mechanism of meditation. Healthy skepticism of the correlation hardly negates the certainty of the published research. “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing TM and the TM-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact them. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation. There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison, though some journals rank 0. Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21 and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25. These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
In context these papers being published are movement ahead just doing the science evidently disputing the old saws of criticism. As painful as this current science seems to be for the skeptical, evidently for different reasons, the ‘replications’ and statistical p-value significance of this science are in fact noteworthy interesting science process in the postmodern. That's the problem: There's zero "controlled testing". Just another feeble attempt to prove the ME (The Maharishi - Effect, now called the Meissner-like effect.. I'm not saying there's no ME. It's simply beyond the capacity of modern science to measure it objectively. Correlation is not causation. How many times do people need to repeat that? Yes, more controlled study is certainly needed to to drill down into understanding the Meissner-like effect mechanism of meditation. Healthy skepticism of the correlation hardly negates the certainty of the published research. “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing TM and the TM-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact them. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation. There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison, though some journals rank 0. Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21 and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25. These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be published, then you look for lower ranked journals to try to get published. The journal wants almost $30 for a PDF of the full paper, which is only summarized by the PDF posted here. Does one of the scientists have a copy they could send you which you could post? They usually have these things on hand. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/0024/F0020001/art3 The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingen... By Cavanaugh, K.L. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/0024/F0020001/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
The metering of Shakti.. fair observation here about Shakti, that spiritual presence of life force. A couple weeks ago I was at a meeting where there were about 20 new students who had just learned to meditate. One of them asking from their own new experience now how to more quickly develop this presence? Hence, the recent FFL thread here about ‘advice to new meditators’. Yes, an experience with awe to see is the awakening that can happen while initiating someone in ™ as they open up to the presence of shakti. In nature. Anybody meditating over a relatively short time should have developed in internal "Shakti meter" than enables them to discern the Shakti, especially when the Shakti is highly concentrated (such as the Domes perhaps). A Shakti was certainly noticeable when the Invincible America Assembly began, called for in 2006. Right away meditators veteran of the old meditating movement gathered to Fairfield from all over the world. Lebanon had fallen into civil war that summer. The Russians, it seemed all of Islam, the US, and Europe were looking at the outbreak of a world war in the Mideast. The call went out for meditators to come to assembly in Fairfield, Iowa. The old meditating movement assembled and there was some powerful palpable Shakti back in the area then. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thx, (somebody put in "Meissner-like"). That's a good thing, since the actual Meissner effect is an observable electromagnetic field. Wasn't the "ME" previously called the "Maharishi-Effect"? How ridiculous! But I suppose that Meissner-like is ok with the "like" qualifier; i.e. an unobservable Shakti effect that people can feel especially when radiated by certain Gurus (like Muktananda) through "Shaktipat". Instead of attempting to appropriate a sense of scientific validity by using scientific jargon, just call it what it is: Shakti. Anybody meditating over a relatively short time should have developed in internal "Shakti meter" than enables them to discern the Shakti, especially when the Shakti is highly concentrated (such as the Domes perhaps). Since I've never been in a Dome, I can't testify to that, but I've been in other places such as the 'Ramakrishna Vedanta Temple in Hollywood. On another topic, tampering with TM in an attempt to make it more "palatable" to those unfamiliar with it, may easily backfire. Since, if one eliminates the puja in a bogus attempt to say that TM has no religious roots, a major source of Shakti is eliminated. Simply learning the mantras from a book will eliminate the Shakti altogether, although a small remnant may remain in certain mantras such as "OM NAMAH SHIVAYA"., and the Shakti may be magnified by tuning into the Youtube presentations of experienced Pundits chanting that and other mantras. SHALOM
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
Or, did the opiate addiction accelerate as the numbers meditating here collapsed. That certainly is a hypothesis to test too using published public health data also. More than likely to show the inverse relationship given these other extremely high P values of probability from these other tests. The 'cred' problem a while ago with the original research was there were no 'replication' tests of the hypothesis. 'Replication' seems to be running in spades now against those uncomfortable with the implications. Science. # . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : An equally valid assertion is that groups of TM'ers meditating together have caused the increase in Heroin deaths. The probability of this assertion is %99.9
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
An equally valid assertion is that groups of TM'ers meditating together have caused the increase in Heroin deaths. The probability of this assertion is %99.9
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
“..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the homicide rate could simply be due to chance.” It only takes what? Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same place at the same time doing TM and the TM-sidhi program. New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in replication) how meditation can change the world for the better. -FF Weekly Reader ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact them. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation. There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison, though some journals rank 0. Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21 and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25. These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be published, then you look for lower ranked journals to try to get published. The journal wants almost $30 for a PDF of the full paper, which is only summarized by the PDF posted here. Does one of the scientists have a copy they could send you which you could post? They usually have these things on hand. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/0024/F0020001/art3 The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingen... By Cavanaugh, K.L. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/0024/F0020001/art3 Another point, Scientific Journals are not Scripture. But continue to meditate. The byproducts of meditation, whatever they are, are not as important as enlightenment. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Observations and correlations about meditation and well-being were made throughout the last half of the 20th Century in published pilot research. A rightly skeptical criticism of that body of scientific research conducted has been that much which was substantial was without “replication”. The challenge in 'repetition' from a general decline in the teaching of meditation to new practitioners and the separation of many experienced practitioners from organized group practice of group meditations in the 1990’s and 2000’s was then obtain
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact them. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation. There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison, though some journals rank 0. Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21 and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25. These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be published, then you look for lower ranked journals to try to get published. The journal wants almost $30 for a PDF of the full paper, which is only summarized by the PDF posted here. Does one of the scientists have a copy they could send you which you could post? They usually have these things on hand. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect | | | | | | | | | | | The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingen... By Cavanaugh, K.L. | | | | Another point, Scientific Journals are not Scripture. But continue to meditate. The byproducts of meditation, whatever they are, are not as important as enlightenment. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Observations and correlations about meditation and well-being were made throughout the last half of the 20th Century in published pilot research. A rightly skeptical criticism of that body of scientific research conducted has been that much that was substantial was without “replication”. The challenge in 'repetition' from a general decline in the teaching of meditation to new practitioners and the separation of many experienced practitioners from organized group practice of group meditations in the 1990’s and 2000’s was then obtaining repetition in that scope of research occurring previously in the 1970’s and 1980’s in the shear size of those previous meditating groups to measure with controls. This scale of size recurred again, occurring for a period of time running between 2007 and 2010. These published papers as hypothesis testing appear now as 'critical' replications in the correlation process of science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ArcherAngel, It would seem you could legitimately lodge your beefs on the research with the journals themselves and their peer review processes. It would be interesting to hear their responses. You did n
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
Yes, and apparently there are more papers coming to be published with a similar level of certainty based on publicly available public health stats. The 'replication' in certainty of their observations coming in to an aggregate as statistical fact seems to get more and more uncomfortable for some critics who may for ideological reason would like to believe otherwise, sort of like it seems for science-deniers in other areas of public policy and publicly available data sets. These papers on meditation will probably be available to read from other channels in time, places like Truth about ™ and Honest Truth about ™. They are not in the farm journals I subscribe to. I will see who I run into around here as to getting copies that we can all easily read. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : .. is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation. There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison, though some journals rank 0. Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21 and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25. These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be published, then you look for lower ranked journals to try to get published. The journal wants almost $30 for a PDF of the full paper, which is only summarized by the PDF posted here. Does one of the scientists have a copy they could send you which you could post? They usually have these things on hand. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/0024/F0020001/art3 The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingen... By Cavanaugh, K.L. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2017/0024/F0020001/art3 Another point, Scientific Journals are not Scripture. But continue to meditate. The byproducts of meditation, whatever they are, are not as important as enlightenment. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Observations and correlations about meditation and well-being were made throughout the last half of the 20th Century in published pilot research. A rightly skeptical criticism of that body of scientific research conducted has been that much that was substantial was without “replication”. The challenge in 'repetition' from a general decline in the teaching of meditation to new practitioners and the separation of many experienced practitioners from organized group practice of group meditations in the 1990’s and 2000’s was then obtaining repetition in that scope of research occurring previously in the 1970’s and 1980’s in the shear size of those previous meditating groups to measure with controls. This scale of size recurred again, occurring for a period of time running between 2007 and 2010. These published papers as hypothesis testing appear now as 'critical' replications in the correlation process of science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ArcherAngel, It would seem you could legitimately lodge your beefs on the research with the journals themselves and their peer review processes. It would be interesting to hear their responses. You did notice and open in the original post on this topic that a pdf of the research was included? As replication testing of hypothesis these papers seems s
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Sorry, Meissner effect is NOT an electromagnetic field; Wiki: The Meissner effect is the expulsion of a magnetic field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field from a superconductor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state.
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Shaktipat is actually quite easy as some of the folks who learned it form the traveling gurus who visited Fairfield and taught it was well as those who went to India to learn it from another traveling show. I learned from my tantra guru. However there are some qualifications for giving it out and avoiding depleting one's self of shakti. As I have said before, we were taught to give out beej mantras (the "a" is silent in Hindi) because they don't actually require activation. The puja probably helps. Some people might not get results but even with the puja some people did not get results. I also know someone who got shaktipat and the Shiva mantra at a Muktananda SYDA center and had no results. He was even from a spiritual family (parents were Rosicrucian). So mileage may vary. TM didn't keep up with the times. Back in the 1960s folks were used to going to courses in evenings (starting a 8 PM not 6 PM). But nowadays a simpler weekend course should suffice which what other paths do. On 03/02/2017 04:40 PM, yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Thx, (somebody put in "Meissner-like"). That's a good thing, since the actual Meissner effect is an observable electromagnetic field. Wasn't the "ME" previously called the "Maharishi-Effect"? How ridiculous! But I suppose that Meissner-like is ok with the "like" qualifier; i.e. an unobservable Shakti effect that people can feel especially when radiated by certain Gurus (like Muktananda) through "Shaktipat". Instead of attempting to appropriate a sense of scientific validity by using scientific jargon, just call it what it is: Shakti. Anybody meditating over a relatively short time should have developed in internal "Shakti meter" than enables them to discern the Shakti, especially when the Shakti is highly concentrated (such as the Domes perhaps). Since I've never been in a Dome, I can't testify to that, but I've been in other places such as the 'Ramakrishna Vedanta Temple in Hollywood. On another topic, tampering with TM in an attempt to make it more "palatable" to those unfamiliar with it, may easily backfire. Since, if one eliminates the puja in a bogus attempt to say that TM has no religious roots, a major source of Shakti is eliminated. Simply learning the mantras from a book will eliminate the Shakti altogether, although a small remnant may remain in certain mantras such as "OM NAMAH SHIVAYA"., and the Shakti may be magnified by tuning into the Youtube presentations of experienced Pundits chanting that and other mantras. SHALOM
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
Thx, (somebody put in "Meissner-like"). That's a good thing, since the actual Meissner effect is an observable electromagnetic field. Wasn't the "ME" previously called the "Maharishi-Effect"? How ridiculous! But I suppose that Meissner-like is ok with the "like" qualifier; i.e. an unobservable Shakti effect that people can feel especially when radiated by certain Gurus (like Muktananda) through "Shaktipat". Instead of attempting to appropriate a sense of scientific validity by using scientific jargon, just call it what it is: Shakti. Anybody meditating over a relatively short time should have developed in internal "Shakti meter" than enables them to discern the Shakti, especially when the Shakti is highly concentrated (such as the Domes perhaps). Since I've never been in a Dome, I can't testify to that, but I've been in other places such as the 'Ramakrishna Vedanta Temple in Hollywood. On another topic, tampering with TM in an attempt to make it more "palatable" to those unfamiliar with it, may easily backfire. Since, if one eliminates the puja in a bogus attempt to say that TM has no religious roots, a major source of Shakti is eliminated. Simply learning the mantras from a book will eliminate the Shakti altogether, although a small remnant may remain in certain mantras such as "OM NAMAH SHIVAYA"., and the Shakti may be magnified by tuning into the Youtube presentations of experienced Pundits chanting that and other mantras. SHALOM
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Mr. Hamilton, is there a published data set of dome numbers since the construction of the domes? It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such as safer cars. The promotional PDF states, "For example, the reduction in motor vehicle fatality rates could not be explained by the total number of vehicle miles traveled, weather patterns, the proportion of young drivers, improved vehicle safety features, improved roadway conditions, or alcohol consumption." But the promotional document gives no indication how those conclusions were arrived at. The paper needs to disprove these alternative explanations, not just dismiss them. Maybe they are in the full paper? The federal government seems to think auto safety features are the reason for the fatality decline, which is the most plausible explanation. There is also Journal Quality as a metric for published research.There is something called the h-index which is a metric used to evaluate this. The top Journals Nature, and Science, have an h-index of 948 and 915 respectively while the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks 49, not very good by comparison, though some journals rank 0. Another ranking called SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) has Nature and Science at 21 and 13 respectively, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies ranks at 0.25. These rankings indicate that poorer quality scientific papers get published in this consciousness journal, that fewer scenentists are interested in stuff published here. If you are a scientist, not very good, and want to be published, then you look for lower ranked journals to try to get published. The journal wants almost $30 for a PDF of the full paper, which is only summarized by the PDF posted here. Does one of the scientists have a copy they could send you which you could post? They usually have these things on hand. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect | | | | || | | | | | The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingen... By Cavanaugh, K.L. | | | | Another point, Scientific Journals are not Scripture. But continue to meditate. The byproducts of meditation, whatever they are, are not as important as enlightenment. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published Observations and correlations about meditation and well-being were made throughout the last half of the 20th Century in published pilot research. A rightly skeptical criticism of that body of scientific research conducted has been that much that was substantial was without “replication”. The challenge in 'repetition' from a general decline in the teaching of meditation to new practitioners and the separation of many experienced practitioners from organized group practice of group meditations in the 1990’s and 2000’s was then obtaining repetition in that scope of research occurring previously in the 1970’s and 1980’s in the shear size of those previous meditating groups to measure with controls. This scale of size recurred again, occurring for a period of time running between 2007 and 2010. These published papers as hypothesis testing appear now as 'critical' replications in the correlation process of science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ArcherAngel, It would seem you could legitimately lodge your beefs on the research with the journals themselves and their peer review processes. It would be interesting to hear their responses. You did notice and open in the original post on this topic that a pdf of the research was included? As replication testing of hypothesis these papers seems significant, like to.. The probability that the reduced trend for motor vehicle fatalities could simply be due to chance was reported to be 3.7 in 10 million million and for fatalities due to other accidents, less than 8.4 in 1 million. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : There are other explanations for this outside the TM organization's universe, it is attributed to better vehicle construction, and now that vehicles are appearing that can sense potential danger, the drop in fatalities should continue to go down. Correlation is not causation. One of the problems of designing a study is making sure there are no other plausible explanations for an effect, something TM scientists are particularly adept at avoiding. Those years also included the beginning of the recession and included large fluctuations in gasoline prices, perhaps people also drove less as prices increased. "Federal transportation officials believe that much of the
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Observations and correlations about meditation and well-being were made throughout the last half of the 20th Century in published pilot research. A rightly skeptical criticism of that body of scientific research conducted has been that much that was substantial was without “replication”. The challenge in 'repetition' from a general decline in the teaching of meditation to new practitioners and the separation of many experienced practitioners from organized group practice of group meditations in the 1990’s and 2000’s was then obtaining repetition in that scope of research occurring previously in the 1970’s and 1980’s in the shear size of those previous meditating groups to measure with controls. This scale of size recurred again, occurring for a period of time running between 2007 and 2010. These published papers as hypothesis testing appear now as 'critical' replications in the correlation process of science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ArcherAngel, It would seem you could legitimately lodge your beefs on the research with the journals themselves and their peer review processes. It would be interesting to hear their responses. You did notice and open in the original post on this topic that a pdf of the research was included? As replication testing of hypothesis these papers seems significant, like to.. The probability that the reduced trend for motor vehicle fatalities could simply be due to chance was reported to be 3.7 in 10 million million and for fatalities due to other accidents, less than 8.4 in 1 million. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : There are other explanations for this outside the TM organization's universe, it is attributed to better vehicle construction, and now that vehicles are appearing that can sense potential danger, the drop in fatalities should continue to go down. Correlation is not causation. One of the problems of designing a study is making sure there are no other plausible explanations for an effect, something TM scientists are particularly adept at avoiding. Those years also included the beginning of the recession and included large fluctuations in gasoline prices, perhaps people also drove less as prices increased. "Federal transportation officials believe that much of the credit for saving lives in accidents goes to the enhanced safety systems that are now available in many automobiles." Traffic Accident Fatalities Drop to Lowest Level in Decades https://www.helmerlegal.com/blog/Traffic-Accident-Fatalities-Drop-to-Lowest-Level-in-Decades/ Helmer, Conley & Kasselman, P.A. Put over 400 years of legal experience on your side. Contact us today for an initial consultation. We are here f... https://www.helmerlegal.com/blog/Traffic-Accident-Fatalities-Drop-to-Lowest-Level-in-Decades/ It would be nice if the TM effect could be studied under more controlled conditions, for if it is real, then scientists, not just those in the movement, would take notice. As it is, these effects are not believed outside the TM movement. Outside the movement, movement studies are mostly regarded as poor quality science designed for the promotion of TM rather than the discovery of truth. As long as this situation continues, the use of science this way denigrates the value of TM to this audience and ultimately undermines the purpose of doing studies. Example: The fact I lived in the United States during this period and engaged in certain activities during this time not related to meditation also has the same correlation with the reduction of accident fatalities. What were accident statistics prior to this period, when Dome numbers were often much higher, such as during the big courses in the 1980s? I think meditation is valuable, but there are other factors in TM science that need to be eliminated before the research is solid. The quality of meditation research, even outside the TM sphere, tends to be low. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published In the postmodern one would hope that public policy could be enlightened by science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : These published papers are critical replications in the correlation of science. The statistical significance of a 8.4 in a million chance that these observations are just random should not be missed on people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Attached is a summary of a new Maharishi Effect article, just published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. Please feel free to share widely. "The study found that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® program
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published
It would seem you could legitimately lodge your beefs on the research with the journals themselves and their peer review processes. It would be interesting to hear their responses. You did notice and open in the original post on this topic that a pdf of the research was included? As replication testing of hypothesis these papers seems significant, like to.. The probability that the reduced trend for motor vehicle fatalities could simply be due to chance was reported to be 3.7 in 10 million million and for fatalities due to other accidents, less than 8.4 in 1 million. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : There are other explanations for this outside the TM organization's universe, it is attributed to better vehicle construction, and now that vehicles are appearing that can sense potential danger, the drop in fatalities should continue to go down. Correlation is not causation. One of the problems of designing a study is making sure there are no other plausible explanations for an effect, something TM scientists are particularly adept at avoiding. Those years also included the beginning of the recession and included large fluctuations in gasoline prices, perhaps people also drove less as prices increased. "Federal transportation officials believe that much of the credit for saving lives in accidents goes to the enhanced safety systems that are now available in many automobiles." Traffic Accident Fatalities Drop to Lowest Level in Decades https://www.helmerlegal.com/blog/Traffic-Accident-Fatalities-Drop-to-Lowest-Level-in-Decades/ Helmer, Conley & Kasselman, P.A. Put over 400 years of legal experience on your side. Contact us today for an initial consultation. We are here f... https://www.helmerlegal.com/blog/Traffic-Accident-Fatalities-Drop-to-Lowest-Level-in-Decades/ It would be nice if the TM effect could be studied under more controlled conditions, for if it is real, then scientists, not just those in the movement, would take notice. As it is, these effects are not believed outside the TM movement. Outside the movement, movement studies are mostly regarded as poor quality science designed for the promotion of TM rather than the discovery of truth. As long as this situation continues, the use of science this way denigrates the value of TM to this audience and ultimately undermines the purpose of doing studies. Example: The fact I lived in the United States during this period and engaged in certain activities during this time not related to meditation also has the same correlation with the reduction of accident fatalities. What were accident statistics prior to this period, when Dome numbers were often much higher, such as during the big courses in the 1980s? I think meditation is valuable, but there are other factors in TM science that need to be eliminated before the research is solid. The quality of meditation research, even outside the TM sphere, tends to be low. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published In the postmodern one would hope that public policy could be enlightened by science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : These published papers are critical replications in the correlation of science. The statistical significance of a 8.4 in a million chance that these observations are just random should not be missed on people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Attached is a summary of a new Maharishi Effect article, just published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. Please feel free to share widely. "The study found that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® program by participants in the Invincible America Assembly at Maharishi University of Management (MUM) was associated with a 20.6% reduction of US motor vehicle fatalities over the four-year period 2007–2010. The rate of all other accidental deaths was also reduced by a total of 13.5% over the same period. The study estimates that 19,435 motor vehicle fatalities and 16,759 other accidental deaths were averted by the significantly reduced trends in accident rates. From 2007–2010 the size of the group was above or near 1,725 participants, the size predicted to have a positive influence on the US quality of life. This predicted threshold represents the square root of 1% of the US population." A new Maharishi Effect paper has just been published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3
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There are other explanations for this outside the TM organization's universe, it is attributed to better vehicle construction, and now that vehicles are appearing that can sense potential danger, the drop in fatalities should continue to go down. Correlation is not causation. One of the problems of designing a study is making sure there are no other plausible explanations for an effect, something TM scientists are particularly adept at avoiding. Those years also included the beginning of the recession and included large fluctuations in gasoline prices, perhaps people also drove less as prices increased. "Federal transportation officials believe that much of the credit for saving lives in accidents goes to the enhanced safety systems that are now available in many automobiles." Traffic Accident Fatalities Drop to Lowest Level in Decades | | | | || | | | | | Helmer, Conley & Kasselman, P.A. Put over 400 years of legal experience on your side. Contact us today for an initial consultation. We are here f... | | | | It would be nice if the TM effect could be studied under more controlled conditions, for if it is real, then scientists, not just those in the movement, would take notice. As it is, these effects are not believed outside the TM movement. Outside the movement, movement studies are mostly regarded as poor quality science designed for the promotion of TM rather than the discovery of truth. As long as this situation continues, the use of science this way denigrates the value of TM to this audience and ultimately undermines the purpose of doing studies. Example: The fact I lived in the United States during this period and engaged in certain activities during this time not related to meditation also has the same correlation with the reduction of accident fatalities. What were accident statistics prior to this period, when Dome numbers were often much higher, such as during the big courses in the 1980s? I think meditation is valuable, but there are other factors in TM science that need to be eliminated before the research is solid. The quality of meditation research, even outside the TM sphere, tends to be low. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published In the postmodern one would hope that public policy could be enlightened by science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : These published papers are critical replications in the correlation of science. The statistical significance of a 8.4 in a million chance that these observations are just random should not be missed on people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Attached is a summary of a new Maharishi Effect article, just published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. Please feel free to share widely. "The study foundthat group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® program byparticipants in the Invincible America Assembly at Maharishi University of Management (MUM)was associated with a 20.6% reduction of US motor vehicle fatalities over thefour-year period 2007–2010. The rate of all other accidental deaths was alsoreduced by a total of 13.5% over the same period. The study estimates that 19,435 motor vehicle fatalities and16,759 other accidental deaths were averted by the significantly reduced trendsin accident rates. >From 2007–2010 thesize of the group was above or near 1,725 participants, the >size predicted tohave a positive influence on the US quality of life. This >predicted thresholdrepresents the square root of 1% of the US population." A new Maharishi Effect paper has just been published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta Connect Keywords: TM-Sidhi programme; accidental fatality prevention; consciousness and collective behaviour; intervention analysis; motor vehicle fatality prevention; time series regression models INGENTACONNECT.COM #yiv3743026624 #yiv3743026624 -- #yiv3743026624ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font-family:Arial;margin:10px 0;padding:0 10px;}#yiv3743026624 #yiv3743026624ygrp-mkp hr {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;}#yiv3743026624 #yiv3743026624ygrp-mkp #yiv3743026624hd {color:#628c2a;font-size:85%;font-weight:700;line-height:122%;margin:10px 0;}#yiv3743026624 #yiv3743026624ygrp-mkp #yiv3743026624ads {margin-bottom:10px;}#yiv3743026624 #yiv3743026624ygrp-mkp .yiv3743026624ad {padding:0 0;}#yiv3743026624 #yiv3743026624ygrp-mkp .yiv3743026624ad p {margin:0;}#yiv3743026624 #yiv3743026624ygrp-mkp .yiv3743026624ad a {color:#ff;text-decoration: