--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "hyperbolicgeometry"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Get a synchronistic picture of your psychological state before and
after meditation. Pics change each minute and are sent in from around
the world:
http://www.humanclock.com
Click on to the square at top (view the clock); then scroll down to
where
it says "random" and click on to it.
Each minute will have a new pic.
On another topic, some of you may have seen Sri Ravi Shankar and Dr.
Herbert Benson on CNN (Shankar came to Atlanta while Benson was at
Harvard, consulted as an academic "expert".).
Benson displayed his usual level of ignorance but this is to be
expected...the average CNN viewer (expect for the Chrstian
fundamentalists), wouldn't discriminate between various forms of
meditation/concentration/prayer/breathing exercises. Benson lumps them
all together under the rubric of the "relaxation response"; and
declares them all to be of equal value depending upon which you prefer
coupled with your religious or non-religious background.
I found it interesting that Benson borrowed an important concept from
TM (since he was initiated into it long ago): that if you are
consciously aware of a thought, innocently recognize it without using
mental force to manipulate the mind; then allow the next thought to
enter the mind...something like that (can't remember the exact words
Benson used but it had a distinctive TM/MMY flavor).
Benson has carved out a distinctive academic niche for himself at
Harvard by declaring his "they're all of equal value" manifesto. I
suppose that just from a physiological viewpoing, using gross
parameters of relaxation such as breathing amd heart rate, brain waves,
skin response, etc; such forms of meditation/prayers/breathing
excercise might be somewhat equal with ballpark data; but the notion
of "transcendance" hasn't apparently dawned on Benson, intellectually
at least. Maybe he's experienced TC but has concealed the fact. After
all, he has an academci career to protect and it's risky to entertain
ideas far from the mainstream of academia.
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