Rita, ex-I, and Pink, There are two health areas connected to life style of the BKs, which the BKs should be investigating. One is jet lag and the other is shift work. Both have been demonstrated to be linked to dis-regulation of the circadian clocks in humans and animals. The dis-regulation happens...
Last year a Brother told me that he attended his girl friend's graduation for her PhD in mind/body medicine at one of the universities on the West Coast of the USA. He indicated to me that one of his girl friend's class mates who was also receiving her PhD dissertation studies on the behavioral effe...
Pink, I will not disagree with your response. Yes, the BKs are great at spinning ideas, repackaging them. Then as you indicate, there are questions of the contents and constructs of their repackaged products. Even if there are ayurvedic effects when settling karmic accounts through illness, there ar...
It was the summer of 1978, Denise and Chandru had officially opened the San Antone center in the later winter or early spring of '78. Kumarka had visited North America and other parts of the West in the summer of '77. Janki was visiting the Americas for the first time in the late summer of 1978. She...
The BKs may claim that their practice is above the 8 limbs of Patangali, because they practice all aspects of the 8-limbs at the higest spiritual levels, including spiritual asanas, meant to be above the physical postures of hatha Yoga. They may also claim that their students have to master 8 types ...
Investigators such as Winkleman and a professor at Saybrook have a collection of studies on hypnotic states and shamanism. Some researchers have been brave enough to get into the delicate realms of shamanism. I do remember those 3 steps of BK Raja Yoga meditation. I also remember at least 5 years af...
In traditional cultures, hypnosis is used by shamans for healing. In the case of the BKs, they would frown on shamanistic practices, though they may be using such practices for objectives, which may not be as altruistic as they profess them to be. Here is a link to a paper by Holroyd (2003): The Sci...
The investigations of Spiegel 's laboratory at Stanford University is interesting and demonstrate that some areas of the brain associated with meditation, such as the default mode network are also associated with hypnosis. There has always been questions about whether the BK vocalizing in guided med...
I have unearthed some of these papers for readers interested in the current directions of research into meditation at the bench. EEG especially quantitative EEG and magneto EEG have their place in the investigations of mind body interventions, including all forms of meditation. Stetka (2014) provide...
The physiological response, which is elicited during meditation and other similar altered states of consciousness, and later called the relaxation response in humans was initially demonstrated in cats by W.R. Hess (Shampo, Kyle, & Steensma, 2011). The Swiss neurophysiologist classified the analo...
The psychophysiologists, biofeed back, neuro-feed back investigators talk about the soul and God. It may be of interest to conduct a literature search or even conduct a meta-analysis of peer-reviewed articles about the soul and God in the natural and abstract sciences. In the group of scientists who...
Kaufman's published article is an essay in a peer reviewed journal. Dawkins declaration on God will not make me all of a sudden take more a thousand years of my spiritual experiences from dozens of incarnations and cast them into the sea, because he is an international authority and highly published...
I am not a Christian, although I have great respect for Jesus Christ as one of the great Masters. We have made much progress in our quest to decipher consciousness. I, like Professor Dr. Michio Kaku, am a believer in a soul and my research use models of the soul to understand altered states of consc...
The scientists' beliefs in the soul differs from the systems of the BKs, that includes me. We use mathematics and other forms of abstract thinking to formulate hypotheses, which we test by experiments. The models we use to aid our hypothesis formulations are always changing, advancing because of the...
There is a new and emerging sub-discipline defined as lifestyle medicine and health in which spirituality and economic health are considered by academicians as parts of the spectrum of total health of an individual. There is now an effort by mainstream science to use quantum physics and medical imag...