You're familiar with the EEG of TM and other practices? And I'm not making stuff up, though I understand why you might want to believe so.
L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : Sorry Lawson, but I put in years of study about this with very real teachers plus I also learned to teach TM. You did not and are just making shit up. I understand you want the "home team to win" but this ain't a ballgame. On 05/31/2014 02:18 PM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: You are assuming that it is only the mantra that is different about TM. You are also assuming that, without looking at the EEG, that all practices that use the "proper" mantra work the same. Neither assumption may be correct. The research I am referring to was done on: 13 Tibetan Buddhists, 15 QiGong, 14 Sahaja Yoga, 14 Ananda Marga Yoga, 15 Zen practitioners. All of them showed the same general pattern: http://www.amaye.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/med-connectivity-EEG-tomog.pdf http://www.amaye.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/med-connectivity-EEG-tomog.pdf The globally reduced functional interdependence between brain regions in meditation suggests that interaction between the self process functions is minimized, and that constraints on the self process by other processes are minimized, thereby leading to the subjective experience of non-involvement, detachment and letting go, as well as of all-oneness and dissolution of ego borders during meditation. I haven't seen the research they have been doing on TM, but I am assuming, from the enthusiasm that Fred Travis has revealed when referring to it, that they are finding that TM has a different effect than any of the above practices on the same measure. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : On 05/31/2014 10:48 AM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The thing is, Vipassana and virtually other practice besides TM, affects the brain in a different way than TM. No true at all. There are lots of other meditation programs that use beej mantras (at teach at a fraction of the price of TM). They will get similar or better results than TM often because the beej mantra selected actually suits the individual better than the TM method. Here's apparently your theme song. :-D http://youtu.be/1k8craCGpgs http://youtu.be/1k8craCGpgs And if they teach TM in India according to the student's personal deity what do when it's Shiva?
