Without statistics about how many professional athletes there, how many learned TM when they were kids vs after they became adults vs never learned at all, etc, you can't conclude anything at all about TM and athletes, any more than you can about TM and deep sea divers.
What you CAN do is look at the long-term physiological effects of TM and see what highly sucessful non-TMing athletes look like vs not-so-sucessful athletes. Such a study was done a few years ago comparing the EEG alpha coherence, and how people respond to the question "describe your self" in two groups: athletes who compete in world-level events like Olympics and world-cup, and score in the top-10 every competition for 3 years in a row vs athletes who compete in world-level events, but never break out of the bottom 50 percent. That's top 10 (not top 10%) vs bottom 50%, so if there's less than 20 competitors, its a bit odd. The results were that people in teh "world champion" category are far more likely to have an EEG signature that approaches the TM enlightenment EEG signature than people in the bottom 50%. Both groups compete in teh same world-level games, and both groups spend at least 1,000 hours practicing every year. The same difference holds for how they describe their "self": world-champions are more abstract in their description, and non-world-champions are more concrete in their description. Interesting, eh? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : I rarely reply to your posts since most of them are so inane, but in case you missed it I was not posting a list of athletes who bowed to guru devs pic after puja - I was posting a few long lived athletes and made the comment that none of them had done TM From: "'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on "witnessing" On 5/21/2014 11:29 AM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The list goes on and on and not a goddamn one of 'em ever did TM. > For someone who claims to know how to use a computer, your search capabilities really suck. Go figure. List of athletes who have learned TM: Arthur Ashe, professional tennis player Buddy Biancalana, Major League Baseball Larry Bowa, Major League Baseball Pete Broberg, Major League Baseball Mark Bunn, Australian rules footballer Steve Carlton, Major League Baseball Paul Dimattina, Australian Football League Jerry Grote, Major League Baseball Jim Lonborg, Major League Baseball player Pete Maravich, NBA player Brent Mayne, Major League Baseball Willie McCovey, Major League Baseball Joe Namath, professional football player Martina Navratilova, tennis professional Bill Robinson, Major League Baseball Del Unser, Major League Baseball player Willie Stargell, Major League Baseball This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
