On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:44 AM, WillyTex wrote: > Robert Keith Wallace's study, using the TM bija > mantras, was published in JAMA in 1972.
Unfortunately most of the claims of these early Wallace studies were later admitted to be fallacious by Wallace. The one that was not was later overturned by further independent research on the TM technique. Perhaps the most important idea that was shown to be incorrect was the idea that TM produced a single, unique, restfully alert, hypometabolic state. It actually turned out that during TM the average meditator investigated spent 39.2% in waking state, 19.2% in Stage 1 EEG sleep activity, 23.0% in stage 2 and 16.8% in stage 3 and 4 sleep! When compared to controls who napped, there ended up being little difference. Wallace, responding in a letter to the journal Science, agreed that this was in fact the case. Go figure, huh?
