--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> The book Why God Won't Go Away includes discussion of some brain 
research while 
> people are doing various typees of meditation. The author is a 
professor at th Univ of Penn 
> in  Philadelphia (can't remember his name at the moment).  He is 
very engaged in this type 
> of research and is a legitimate sicentist.

ALl such books are written by people with agendas. All studies done 
on meditation are also done by people with agendas, but the 
scientific method is designed to reduce bias, which isn't usually the 
case with books, though the Noetic Instute's summary of meditation 
research through 1995 is a pretty neutral source, IMHO.

The pubmed search engine has veritually all the latest research on 
meditation, etc., listed (if it's in a "peer reviewed" journal). The 
other URLs I've listed are also of value, IMHO.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed

http://www.noetic.org/research/medbiblio/ch_intro1.htm


Books seldom are unless you happen to already agree with the author 
and want a nice bullet-list of Talking Points.

For TM, any of the Movement sanctioned books by TM researchers is a 
good start. The research coming out of the Dali Lama's institute is 
probably your best source for Buddhist-related meditation research. 
Likewise with any books that they publish.






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