--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > It would really depend on what type of hypnosis state you were > comparing it to. And of course TM researchers had no interest > whatsoever in comparing TM to one that was the same, they simply > found one that was different. Think of it as "strawman research". > Some comparisons of TM to hypnosis actually showed alpha coherence > increases in favor of hypnosis when compared to TM! When actually > counterbalanced with a control, it has been shown that sometimes > there is no difference between TM and hypnosis (Morse et al., > 1977; Tebecis, 1975; Warrenburg, Pagano, Woods, & Hlastala, 1980).
Depending, of course, on exactly what is being measured and to what degree of refinement.
