--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> --- 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?
>
Doesn't sound accurate. I read that book thoroughly when it came out and there
was no Autobiography of a Yogi stuff in it. It is all about integrating TM into
society.
