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Pink,
You have presented many invaluable points. The main idea being the 2 dimensional way of life, which becomes the BK theory and practice.
It's culturally dangerous and dangerous to the growth of any individual. We may cease growing biologically, with respect to our growth plates. Our personality and other parts of our souls never stops growing. However, the 2-dimension way of BK limits does stunt personality development.
The early Western BKs are part of the counter-culture revolution. Some of the energies absorbed by the teens of the late 60s and 70s were responsible for instigating some of us to look to the East, including BKism.
Benson risked his career when he commenced conducting psychophysiology tests on individual some of whom were hippies. John Lilly with his sensory deprivation tank and studies with dolphins, was a bit protected from being fully ostracized by the medical scientific community because his family was very connected. Elmer Green had the backing of the Minninger Foundation. Joan Borysenko was one of Benson's students. Candice Perth, who did the laboratory work for the discovery of opiod receptors, has forever been ostracized by the biomedical community because she reported her mentor and major professor at Hopkins, Sol Snyder, when he was granted the Lasker Award, the prelude to the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Snyder was not granted the Lasker Award, after he was reported by Perth for not acknowledging her work leading to the discoveries of endorphins.
The BKs in the early days of Western service, tried to suppress some Western members from pursuing careers in medicine and/or science. They would not allow such Sisters or Brothers to speak at conferences or other BK platforms, while allowing other Brothers and Sisters to address audiences. Many such BKs, who are now ex-BKs and have gone on to highly successful careers in the neuroscience of meditation, as the BKs scramble and stumble to catch up with other spiritual organizations who have been conducting highly productive research.
Examples include, Harvard University Medical School, the Noetics Institute, ARE, AT Still University, and Saybrook University.
Huf fPost. (2009). Joan Borysenko. Retrieved from https://www.huffpost.com/author/joan-borysenko
Goode, E.(2003, May 31). Famed psychiatric clinic abandons prairie home. New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/us/f ... -home.html
Hooper, J. (1983). John Lilly: Altered states.
Interview with John Lilly. Omni Magazine. Retrieved from https://erowid.org/culture/characters/l ... iew1.shtml
Lilly, J.C. (1988). The scientist: A metaphysical biography. Sausalito, California: InterLicense. Available at https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Metaph ... 0914171720
Ryan, C. (2009, July 3). Fascinating figures: John Lilly Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... john-lilly
You have presented many invaluable points. The main idea being the 2 dimensional way of life, which becomes the BK theory and practice.
It's culturally dangerous and dangerous to the growth of any individual. We may cease growing biologically, with respect to our growth plates. Our personality and other parts of our souls never stops growing. However, the 2-dimension way of BK limits does stunt personality development.
The early Western BKs are part of the counter-culture revolution. Some of the energies absorbed by the teens of the late 60s and 70s were responsible for instigating some of us to look to the East, including BKism.
Benson risked his career when he commenced conducting psychophysiology tests on individual some of whom were hippies. John Lilly with his sensory deprivation tank and studies with dolphins, was a bit protected from being fully ostracized by the medical scientific community because his family was very connected. Elmer Green had the backing of the Minninger Foundation. Joan Borysenko was one of Benson's students. Candice Perth, who did the laboratory work for the discovery of opiod receptors, has forever been ostracized by the biomedical community because she reported her mentor and major professor at Hopkins, Sol Snyder, when he was granted the Lasker Award, the prelude to the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Snyder was not granted the Lasker Award, after he was reported by Perth for not acknowledging her work leading to the discoveries of endorphins.
The BKs in the early days of Western service, tried to suppress some Western members from pursuing careers in medicine and/or science. They would not allow such Sisters or Brothers to speak at conferences or other BK platforms, while allowing other Brothers and Sisters to address audiences. Many such BKs, who are now ex-BKs and have gone on to highly successful careers in the neuroscience of meditation, as the BKs scramble and stumble to catch up with other spiritual organizations who have been conducting highly productive research.
Examples include, Harvard University Medical School, the Noetics Institute, ARE, AT Still University, and Saybrook University.
Huf fPost. (2009). Joan Borysenko. Retrieved from https://www.huffpost.com/author/joan-borysenko
Goode, E.(2003, May 31). Famed psychiatric clinic abandons prairie home. New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/us/f ... -home.html
Hooper, J. (1983). John Lilly: Altered states.
Interview with John Lilly. Omni Magazine. Retrieved from https://erowid.org/culture/characters/l ... iew1.shtml
Lilly, J.C. (1988). The scientist: A metaphysical biography. Sausalito, California: InterLicense. Available at https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Metaph ... 0914171720
Ryan, C. (2009, July 3). Fascinating figures: John Lilly Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... john-lilly