--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > Who are you quoting below?
Dear Rick, Om, actually is un-important who it is saying it. What the person is saying though is proly highly relevant as a description of what is going on here in FF. Is an important journalism that is not much said here on FFL (or the BBC) that I brought over as a chronicle of FF. Criticism here does seems mighty one side-ed and not so much by way of an other side offered. Yes, is a lot of cutting people off at their knees here and lots of other stuff. So, I was suspecting that there is some substantial thinking going on inside the TMmovement; hence, I sought it out from someone who I figured was doing that. This one taken together with the aspects of those other three pastes in that other thread makes a pretty good honest take of things FF. With best regards, -Doug in FF > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Utopian voice in MUM > > > > > > an he's a real TM meditator. We'll have no more shit said about real > meditators here. Okay. Be respectful. > > > > Jai Guru Dev, > > -Doug in FF > > > > <paste> > "For me the radical arguments like the ones you brought to my attention seem > to pose either/or choices. Either the measurement of EEG alpha waves is an > accurate indicator of higher states of consciousness or they are not. But I > have learned to appreciate that the relative universe I have enjoyed for > more than 60 years, is a limitless reservoir of infinite choice. I have > often observed that a concept that our imaginations project as being > 'either/or' is seamlessly integrated into a greater whole as new knowledge > is gained and expands. > > For this reason, I conclude that all the scientific research on > consciousness has some value. In its most elemental form it has a value in > that it will take us to greater knowledge. But more pragmatically speaking, > I believe that there will be an integration of everything that is being > learned as the measurements of consciousness come together to give us an > understanding that is greater than their collective technical components. > > On a final note, I believe it is myopically prejudicial for a critic to say > of a brilliant scientist that he is clinging to his theory because his > theory is what he wants to believe to be true. On the contrary, to my > surprise the brilliant scientist that I have met here at Maharishi > University of Management our true seekers of knowledge, (are) ready, > willing, and able to let the light of science illuminate their path." <end > paste> >
