--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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
Which looked almost exclusively at the older TM studies, not the later, more sophisticated ones. Funny how Vaj keeps forgetting to mention that these researchers *left out* almost all the recent TM studies. 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. >
