Subject. Communal Meeting this Weds. Phoenix Rising Hall (Burlington and 3rd). 7:30 PM, Maharishi Effect: Fact or Fiction? David Orme-Johnson, PhD, a leading long-time scientific researcher in the Maharishi Effect, invites you.
With the Dome meditation attendance having fallen to be so low there is a serious questioning about the endurance of the Dome group meditation in Fairfield. This meeting becomes an important way post in the journey of the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa. FW email: I don't feel climate change is (necessarily) scary. It can be sufficiently controlled mainly (not only) by higher Super-Radiance (SR) attendance. My concern has to do with Movement Governors and Sidhas who are not taking SR as important as it is, not prioritizing it as much as they could. There is more power in SR than in the people doing the climate change, gmo, vaccinations, pharmaceuticals, and electromag, etc. Takes a lot of integration to see through. Archer Anangel wrote : Yes there is some good science in meditation research, but seemingly there is not much. Perhaps 1% of the studies meet the gold standard. So out of 700 studies you have seven that are really decent. As the quality of the journal published in goes down, so does the quality of peer review. There are top-level scientists, mid-level scientists, and incompetent scientists. So peer review is a check on quality only if you have good quality reviewers and statisticians to check the math. Really bad quality journals are pay for play, and you can get published even if the study is highly flawed, and the paper may not get any peer review. Meditation studies are a niche market within the field of consciousness studies, and are typically associated with various religious-based movements which are not the best mental platforms on which to implement impartial research. Because most of the meditation research is bad, the baby is getting thrown out with the bath water. Climate science is much more advanced and there is wide consensus that climate change is a serious problem if you ignore politicians and political views. Science on meditation is far behind in getting the kind of consensus we have with climate change. It is the result of a bad approach, using science for marketing rather than knowledge. Promoting bad science in the name of meditation is like offering rotten vegetables in the market. If we like meditation and it benefits us, that does not give us the ability to evaluate the science. Subjective experience and emotion and the results of scientific experiments are often at odds. The best we can say now is meditation looks promising but more research is needed. It is when non-meditating scientists in droves come into the consensual fold that meditation is good for something, then is the point when the case can be made. This is not cynicism, this is the state of affairs. Meditation is great. It is for self-realization. If you are doing meditation for some other reason, you are already halfway to failure. Blame it on Western culture which does not have a good social underpinning for this kind of practice. On Sunday, June 17, 2018, 10:06:32 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Actually there is some lot of good science in it, meditation. Peer review. What? Like the global climate science, what, 'all the science is no good because some of the science is no good'? That is what the cynicism offers. That one title said that way in that journal is certainly evil,’Throw it all out because some is bad, poorly done’. This and someone saying it sounds so rational and intellectual except, like tossing in a Trumpism, the underlying assertion is simply not entirely true, a fake news headline in itself. Archer Angel writes, 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 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/research-has-not-shown-that-meditation-beats-a-placebo/ Research on TM and Other Forms of Meditation Stinks John Horgan https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/research-has-not-shown-that-meditation-beats-a-placebo/ 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/ 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 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/ 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/ 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' and materialistic thinking. The meditating community has its work cut out for it with the reaction to the stark climate research. The argument is rational. https://guymcpherson.com/2018/05/nihilism-nonsense/ 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 h https://www.youtube.com/embed/cw0AAsGaDg0?start=6&end=1078&version=3ttps://www.youtube.com/embed/Gh30Kx1o5lI?start=219&end=1426&version=3 https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gh30Kx1o5lI?start=219&end=1426&version=3 .