--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > [...] > > > > But at a certain point, Occam's razor comes into play; > > the "different experience" premise may "multiply > > entities beyond necessity." The explanation that the > > TMers are experiencing the same thing as what is > > reported in the historical literature is simpler than > > one that posits two completely different types of > > experience that are described the same way. > > Ironically, I'm starting to suspect that there IS the > possibility that different meditation techniques, rather > than eventually inducing the same state, are actually > inducing different states that can be described the same way.
We finally agree on something. I would say that the number of possible 'states' to be measured is at least the same as the number of people being tested, and is probably higher, because each meditator is capable of producing multiple states. The desire to make it *seem* as if this is one state that can be measured with any accuracy is a factor of the belief system driving the "research." That's what Maharishi wants to prove, so that's what the researchers are looking for. And when they look for something hard enough, and know that their ability to get "strokes" from their teacher is completely depen- dent on what it appears that they found, they tend to "find" exactly what Maharishi wanted found. I would say that the same phenomenon would be present in research on any technique of meditation in which the meditators were devoted practitioners of the technique being "researched." They already know what they're hoping to find, and thus they "find" it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
