Peter Sutphen wrote:
> --- Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Peter Sutphen wrote: > > > > > --- Llundrub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > The Maharishi Effect is a specious bit of slop > > trop. > > > > While there's no doubt that people meditating > > > > together can produce good vibes and great > > amounts of > > > > silence, some soma for oneself and the > > enviroment, > > > > and soome bubbling bliss, there is no coherence > > > > effect in an open system. The basic premise of > > > > decrease in entropy only works in closed > > systems. > > > > The whole concept was merely an analogy from the > > > > beginning and so it's crazy to tout the > > Maharishi > > > > Effect as if it's something real or proven. > > > > > > Agreed. MMY was never truly interested in a field > > > effect of meditators, but only something > > "scientific" > > > sounding to promote TM. I don't see him doing this > > > insidiously, but he wanted certain results and got > > > those results from his "scientists." > > > > > > > > > > This may or may not be true but I taught in a small > > town, isolated from other > > towns or cities and when it hit the 1% mark, the > > numbers corroborated the M > > Effect. I gathered the data myself from law > > enforcement sources. > > I believe in the "1% effect", don't get me wrong. I > believe that there is a field effect of consciousness, > but I think it is premature to quantify with 1% or > "square root", I just see it as being poorly > researched by the TMO who are more interested in > promoting TM than investigating this effect. As it > stands now, there are too many variables that > influence events to tease-out the consciousness > aspect. I'd love to see your research. > -Peter > > I agree with your observations.... too many variables to nail this down to 1% or 2% or whatever. In the case I mentioned, things were very stable for many years... population etc. My research (which measured only crime statistics) is long gone... that was probably close to 30 years ago. Don To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
