> > On Jan 20, 2009, at 10:24 PM, grate.swan wrote: > > > At some point some very secular, simple, effective, inexpensive method > > will emerge. With a good narrative. And that does have a marked >effect > > on learning, retention, creativity, synthesis of ideas, etc. >Within 10 > > years it could have 80% saturation. It will happen -- exactly >when and > > how long it will take are indeterminant. > >
Thoughtful swan, & that kind of narative might probably come from a physicist type scientist; not the TMorg, or a buddhist or catholic monk. All those others come along with a lot of baggage for folks to carry very far. Yeah, is coming a time to also let the institutional defending of buisness trademarks & patents go public and just let it go on as one of the 'quiet time' meditation that might be useful. Folks will do it based on their own experience with it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > Non-sectarian forms of meditation are taking off and of course > they're free. Since they're less encumbered by Hinduism or any > particular religion, the chances are they may be the future of >school > based meditation, esp. since good, solid research backs them up. > > I too did TM throughout college and I'd have to say it's primary > benefit was 20 min. of rest, two times a day. In other words, it >was > insignificantly different from just taking a scheduled nap, 2x a > day. Nice, but hardly earth-shattering. >
