It is great that there is an attempt to do research on TM, but TM and other
forms of meditation has a very poor record as far as quality scientific papers,
as this summary in Scientific American indicates.
Meditation is essentially for self-realization/enlightenment. Promoting it for
heath and societal effects so far has not set the scientific world on fire.
It does seem to impress people who know little about the nature of scientific
research and who seem unable to grasp the difference between a scientific study
and what they want to believe.
I think people benefit from meditation, but it is still not clear
scientifically what it does.
Research on TM and Other Forms of Meditation Stinks
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Research on TM and Other Forms of Meditation Stinks
John Horgan
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On Saturday, June 16, 2018, 8:21:24 PM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Paste:
Compelling and Activating,
the evident science research comes now also as Clarion call in life policy to
meditators to come together in meditation practice of transcendence in groups
and change the catastrophic future of mankind into Heaven on Earth. Everyday
matters.
A:
It is a fair descriptor, exponential. Graphs of so many of the variables within
the long differential equation of rapid climate change show exponential growth,
not just some linear changes since the 1870 baseline of the industrial age..
Coal burning, oil burning for internal combustion power, introduction of exotic
greenhouse gases, melt off of polar ice caps, chopping down rainforests for
palm oil production,
These are exponential peer review variable in a long equation that some would
want to wait on more and do nothing..(claiming untested assumptions?) for more
research? The person writing email also makes a good human observation in
expression about the limited capacity of some folks to think their denial and
inaction about this complex compounded problem in only linear ways.. I feel
the conservation biologists are doing a good job of having a rational
conversation about this now in heightening awareness of something very complex
that evidently can overwhelm a lot of people’s thinking.
Archer Angel asks:
Q: What is "exponential science"? I have never heard of it.
Mail: I have yet to find any scientist who understands exponential science,
and who has an expanded consciousness capable of comprehending holistic events
provide valid peer-reviewed scientific arguments contrary to McPherson's
observations.
email: ..members of Mother Divine and to Members of Purusha and every person
who was close to Maharishi (MMY) confided in us that foretold that the
impending phase-transition from Kali-Yuga into full blown Sat-Yuga would occur
between 2020 and 2025 at which time MMY said that chaos would reign in the
streets of the world like a living nightmare too horrible to describe. Oddly
enough, MMY's predictions seem to coincide in time-space with Dr. McPherson's
which in my mind provides a valence of creedence to McPherson's predicted
time-frame.
reply email: Good luck to any serious, rational, science-based person trying to
debunk the science now! There are more peer-reviewed journal hot links than one
could click on and read through in a week!
P.S. The 69 Self-Reinforcing Climate Feedback Loops all with hot links start
about half-way down the essay.
https://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update/
wrote :
Maharishi would host/promote symposia to consider matters. Inviting speakers
and papers. Conversation. Consideration.
Radical Change is happening Now: Rapid Climate Change
This needs wider platform for consideration.Think of the papers that could be
given, the titles..A Conference program, published.. Presentations,
Presenters... Radical Transcendentalism, Phenomenology and Rapid Climate
Change.
Iowa Farming and Carbon sequestration
Greenhouse Agriculture in a Hot House
Public Policy and Transportation
Earth Science
Architecture and Global Warming. Designing for a warmer future.
Civil Order in a Changing World.
Global Economies and Meteorology, Changes in Iowa
etc.,
..a same kind of anti-science discredit they try to pull on meditation
research.
..
FW: emails: reply: Yes, we know that the majority of scientists disagree with
Dr. McPherson.
This does not surprise us since we know that precious few if any scientists
ever accepted Maharishi's scientific work yet we all know the validity of that
body of evidence. I encourage you to do some personal research by peer reviewed
published scientific research before you accept the unsubstantiated conclusions
of others less informed and certainly less validated in their opinions .
It is one thing to disagree with Dr. McPherson's hypothesis it is quite another
to refute the peer reviewed and published scientific papers underlying his
position.
"Three years to safeguard our climate"
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2017-07-02-three-years-to-safeguard-our-climate.html
"..all in one summary essay on conservation biologist Dr. Guy McPherson's
website, including links for 69 individual runaway feedback loops. This is the
Clarion call for transcendence meditators to come together in groups and change
the catastrophic future of mankind into Heaven on Earth. Everyday matters.
https://guymcpherson.com/ climate-chaos/climate-change- summary-and-update/
P.S. The 69 Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops all with hot links to the peer
review research start about half-way down the essay."
FW: Paradigm Change..the last week in May atmospheric scientists at:
http://www.copernicus.eu/ reported a huge albeit temporary spike in Methane
gas release in the northern hemisphere. This indicated to us that we may not
even have 1-3 years before the 'preverbal SHIT hits the fan' as Dr. McPherson
so aptly referred to what is about to unfold.
FW email: "..Finally we must inspire and motivate those present that collective
consciousness can and must alter this apparent scientific inevitability of
climate change. Now is the final call for our consciousness based community to
rally together in large groups to routinely do their meditation practices."
An Irony is that climate change peer review science and meditation peer review
science are both met with the same strategies of character assassination,
assertions by false truth, posing doubt about the economy being able to afford
remediation and skepticisms sown about science in whether correlation means
causation. In the same way that the scientists of meditation have known the
hateful works of the deniers the same strategies carried out by the same kind
of anti-science people and ideologies the meditation scientists can have a lot
of empathy for climate change scientists by shared experience.
Public Policy should be driven by Science. Considering the science of climate
change and science of meditation it is worth making a stand in human life."Live
urgently: meditate now! The end is plainly very near!" We can contribute
spirituality in to the rational consideration of of the consequent of Arctic
Ice Melt.
Considering Human life brings up spirituality right away.Such overwhelming
fatalism like the climate science gives will bring the push back of
materialistic nihilism. Spirituality then as we know it in our meditational
experience is the antidote to all that of 'nothing of purpose' andmaterialistic
thinking.The meditating community has its work cut out for it with thereaction
to the stark climate research. The argument is rational.
https://guymcpherson.com/2018/05/nihilism-nonsense/
"Doom sayers"? Not entirely, some scientists are quite rational and spiritual.
We see the same kind of anti-science character discredit with the climate peer
review science that establishment ideologies try to pull on meditation peer
review science research.
Yes, Prof. Guy McPherson's peer review based earth science just may not be
rationally fluent with the spiritual side of the science like the broader
meditation peer review research offers.
He has responded positively to an invitation to come to a climate change a
conference symposium at Maharishi University of Management to consider related
matters. He seems an extremely compassionate rational guy who ought to be part
of a conversation about public policy.
These doom sayers are forgetting the Almighty Power of Being which is the
source of life, love and the bliss for sentient beings in the entire universe
or multiverse. They've limited their view based on frail human understanding
and intelligence.
Paradigm Change: Runaway Global Climate
Arctic Ice Melt and the Paradigms Shift..
Interview with Conservation Biologist Dr. McPherson – Mankind Will Be Extinct
in 8 Years or Less
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gh30Kx1o5lI?start=219&end=1426&version=3
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