Re: [tips] Tibetan Buddhist scholars

2012-08-26 Thread Jim Clark
Hi First, a brief comment on my introduction of Transcendental Meditation (TM) into an earlier reply, which led Allen to point to the work in psychology on meditation and related constructs, and led Michael S to point out that TM has a scientific basis. My sole purpose in introducing TM was to no

Re:[tips] Tibetan Buddhist scholars

2012-08-26 Thread Allen Esterson
On 25 August 2012 Jim Clark wrote: >I recall, however, that a few decades ago there was a >real push on about Transcendental Meditation that was >as well based on empirical studies. Not sure what happened >to that movement. More important than that cultish crowd is the work of people like Jon Kab

Re: [tips] Tibetan Buddhist scholars

2012-08-25 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I would be very cautious about inferring too much from such activities. I'm reminded of parts of Gross and Levitt's book in which they criticize postmodernists appealing to scientific concepts (e.g., quantum physics, relativity) in ways that completely distort the scientific meaning of thos

Re: [tips] Tibetan Buddhist scholars

2012-08-25 Thread mjchael sylvester
Ontogeny,phylogeny,spirituality,and Martians are all connected. And while on this subject,do you know that Astrology is accredited by a university in Pakistan? And it is really Indian science that came up with the God particle idea. michael - Original Message - From: Beth Benoit