On May 22, 2007, at 11:57 AM, boo_lives wrote:
First of all scientific research doesn't prove anything about TM, with the possible exception that it's good for high blood pressure.
Well, let's keep in mind, if you use a control who's doing a relaxation style technique for comparison, you'll also see the same thing. In fact the difference between a tmers metabolic rate during tm is only 1% different (read: essentially the same) as someone napping. The latest research in the Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness furthermore shows how the coherence spiel was just that, it is alpha coherence that is insignificant from waking and sleeping types of patterns. It's common. They've made a whole marketing and consciousness spinoff of this based on at best exaggerations and at worst, outright lies.
