--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > <snip> > There have been a number of large well-designed studies > recently, such as the Templeton study, of 'intercessionary > prayer', which seem a lot like yagyas. These studies failed > to show any effect.
Is intercessory prayer *enough* like yagyas to extrapolate the results of the prayer tests to yagyas? I can think of several differences that could render such extraplation pretty weak. > Psychic, long-distance phenomena have been studied for years > without making a dent in the scientific community as the > results have never been clear cut, and studies have been > found to contain serious flaws which became evident when > replication attempts failed, such as the Targ-Puthoff long > distance viewing study many years ago. The result of this > study seems to have been mentioned by MMY in the Science of > Being and Art of Living as an established fact, but in fact, > the result was disproved. Or rather, the results were not confirmed, right? Do you have a cite for this?
