Comment The same charge... (Score 1) 726
Is leveled at the TM guys:
http://www.trancenet.org/research/index.shtml
If you look at a sportsman you'll find the same behavior once the learning part of the sport is done; or as Bruce Lee put it, "Before I started the martial arts, a punch was just a punch and a kick was just a kick. When I was learning the martial arts, a punch was not just a punch and a kick was not just a kick. Now that I have mastered the martial arts, a punch is just a punch, and a kick is just a kick."
So is the result that we have a bunch of gamers running around in Beta waves? Is this bad? The article says so, but every relaxation technique in the world whether it's yoga or TM or whatever is trying to get people OUT of alpha and into beta or slower brainwaves.
IMHO, if you're stuck in one pattern, that's bad; but otherwise, unless you go to your "power cave" and see a penguin say "Slide...." don't worry about it.
Fnord.
http://www.trancenet.org/research/index.shtml
If you look at a sportsman you'll find the same behavior once the learning part of the sport is done; or as Bruce Lee put it, "Before I started the martial arts, a punch was just a punch and a kick was just a kick. When I was learning the martial arts, a punch was not just a punch and a kick was not just a kick. Now that I have mastered the martial arts, a punch is just a punch, and a kick is just a kick."
So is the result that we have a bunch of gamers running around in Beta waves? Is this bad? The article says so, but every relaxation technique in the world whether it's yoga or TM or whatever is trying to get people OUT of alpha and into beta or slower brainwaves.
IMHO, if you're stuck in one pattern, that's bad; but otherwise, unless you go to your "power cave" and see a penguin say "Slide...." don't worry about it.
Fnord.
