On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Vaj <vajradh...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:06 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: > >> In TM research there is a prevalence of small, nearly insignificant >> results. This is ripe for seeing a pattern when there is none. If >> the results were dramatic, then the attention of outside researchers >> is attracted and usually the work is either confirmed or debunked. >> Like cold fusion. But if your blood pressure drops two points or your >> IQ increases 2 points, even if statistically significant, it is hard >> to get outside people very interested because it just isn't that >> interesting. > > > Well, the idea and approach of the TM org is to not mention the actual > figures or not mention them in a way makes the obviously insignificant > result seem small. SO instead of saying "TM reduces blood pressure > 0.08 % from normal baseline BP in healthy individuals" they'll instead > push something like "TM reduces blood pressure, TM decreases blood > pressure, TM is good at reducing blood pressure", etc. and saturate > the web and broadcast media as much as they can. In other words, > instead of poisoning the well, they sweeten it. People like "sweet" > news.
I was on a two week residence course years ago in a place outside of Quebec in a former ski chalet. Lac Beauport, if I recall. They ran out of meditator tapes so they started to showing us ATR tapes (big place for ATR). In one tape Maharishi was talking about this very thing. Actually teaching how to speak the truth to the point that it was so sweet it became a lie.
