--- 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. > > 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 >
But the jury is still out. Still a question as to whether TM helps reduce seizures or increases seizures or it depends on the person or it depends on the practice (2 times 20 vs. siddhi program vs. rounding). Interesting stuff in any event.
