Of course the TMO doing it's own research would be a little like Verizon or AT&T doing research on the benefits mobile phones. ;-)
On 09/09/2012 10:17 AM, sparaig wrote: > Like anything else, TM can become a crutch. > > That said, the research coming out of the VA and DoD will be interesting, and > the ongoing multi-year (multi-decade is the stated plan) research on the > Norwich University cadets will offer a lot of insight into how exceptionally > physically healthy young men and women respond to regular TM. > > You can't survive 4 years of military training in a military academy if you > are physically frail and modern military training is supposed to weed out the > weaklings without killing them, so this will be about as ideal a test of TM's > effects on healthy individuals as you could hope for. > > L > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74" <mjackson74@...> wrote: >> There have been a lot of posts here on FFL about TM scientific research. >> Personally I think, all EEG and EKG evidence aside, there is ample >> subjective, anecdotal evidence that TM has positive benefits. I still do it >> after 37 years (its not the only practice for me - chi gung and other mantra >> meditations). >> >> But in fairness I think one has to also weigh that against all the people >> who learned TM (the Movement says, what 6 million or so?) and dropped the >> practice AND the many many many casualties of doing TM long term and we >> alllllll know some people who fall in that category. I just think it >> disingenuous not to take such things into account. >> >> Maybe its partly just a Movement failing, in that in any TM facility there >> never were any programs in place to deal with people who were going through >> heavy "unstressing" - it was either get straightened out or get lost. >> >> And that is the problem that I think most of us who ever had problems with >> TM. Meaning that the behavior of the people who have always run the Movement >> has NEVER been in line with the high ideals the Movement officially >> espouses. And if the behavior of the people who have been meditating for all >> those years is as awful as it consistently is, you gotta wonder just how >> grand the effects of TM really are. >> > >
