--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <ruthsimplicity@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" > > <ruthsimplicity@> wrote: > > Serious seizure > > > disorder with control issues? I would not be inclined to want that > > > person to practice the siddhis without good evidence of its safety. > > > > > > > > > Love quoting myself. ;) > > > > Brief discussion of the possible issues regarding epilepsy and meditation: > > > > http://www.epilepsy.com/articles/ar_1150815334 > > > > "The jury is still out." > > > However, one issue is the assumption that all meditation techniques produce neuronal > synchrony in the limbic system. As far as I know, the kind of neuronal synchrony that TM > produces isn't at all related to that traditionally associated with seizures and its not a > primarily limbic synchrony, IIRC.
> > In fact, TM may well REDUCE activity in the limbic system anyway. > Just saw a documentary on acupuncture. According to a placebo controlled study using a state-of-the-art MRI scanner, a needle in the point "de qi" caused a remarkable *deactivation* in the pain matrix of the limbic system, which seemed like a huge surprise to those researchers. Playing with words, "de qi" might well be related to "caturthaH praaNaayaamaH"* (the Chinese sure now how to spare "letters"...) caused, at least in my case, by basic TM-technique. *) stambharuupo gativicchedaH (praaNasya?) - Bhoja-raaja > The following is from a talk Fred Travis gave a couple of years ago at the Tucson > Consciousness Convention: > > http://www.fredtravis.com/talk.html > > Lawson >
