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Originally posted by undo
don't let the op fool you. when he says "karma is a bitch" and "wheat from chaff" he's talking about killing every living white person. and justifying it because our leaders do whatever the hell they want.
Abstract—This paper replies to a critique (Fales & Markovsky, 1997) of a study reporting that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program had a measurable effect on objective measures of the quality of life in Israel and the war in Lebanon (Orme-Johnson et al., 1988). The critics proposed various cultural/political events as alternative explanations for the results. These events could not explain the results, as indicated by (1) simple inspection of the published data; (2) statistical analyses controlling for these events; (3) analyses of reduced data sets that completely eliminated the days of the events from the analyses; and (4) analyses of six random samples of 50% of the data. Although some of the cultural/political events suggested did have a significant effect on a composite index of crime, traffic accidents, fires, war intensity, stock market, and national mood, the effects of these events were independent of the effect of the meditators and could not explain it. We argue that Maharishi’s theory of collective consciousness provides a unifying framework that explains these results through a logical structure of clearly defined, operationalized terms grounded in physiological and behavioral research, which makes specific quantifiable and socially important predictions that have been extensively replicated.
Evidence has accumulated from a number of sources over the past three decades supporting a field-theoretic view of consciousness (e.g., Dillbeck, 1990; Hagelin et al., 1999; Jahn et al., 1997; Jonas & Crawford, 2003; Nelson et al., 2002; Orme-Johnson et al., 1988, 1990, 2003; Radin, 2006; Schlitz et al., 2004; Schlitz & Braud, 1997). Research has demonstrated that both individuals and groups focusing their attention on a common event may produce small but statistically signifi cant effects on inanimate detectors, such as random generators (Jahn et al., 1997; Nelson et al., 2002; Radin, 1997, 2002, 2006). Well-controlled electroencephalogram (EEG) studies have shown that evoked potentials in one person’s brain may produce changes in the brain of another person to whom they feel close personal connections, but who was isolated from them in an electromagnetically shielded room (Radin, 2004; Wackermann et al., 2003). Studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) also suggest that the brains of individuals separated from each other may become significantly correlated (Standish et al., 2003). Healers focusing positive energy on patients to whom they feel a special connection appear to produce fMRI changes in the brains of the patients, even though the patients were isolated and the periods of focusing were on a random schedule (Achterberg et al., 2005). Nineteen studies indicate that when a person sends anxiety-provoking thoughts to another person isolated from him, they may produce significant electrodermal stress reactions in that person (Schlitz & Braud, 1997). Reviews have found over 2200 reports of distant intentionality, including distant healing (Dossey, 1999; Jonas & Crawford, 2003; Schlitz, 1996; Schlitz et al., 2004).
Originally posted by brainwrek
Originally posted by rainfall
This illegal occupation and aggression by the United States and it's allies will have to be answered to...
!
Specifically what law has been violated?
Surely you can post it right?
Originally posted by undo
reply to post by Argyll
WE? Where the sam hill do you get "WE" from?
It drives me bonkers to hear people say "we" the people, when they will post in another thread that WE the people have no power whatsoever!!
Make up your f'in minds.