Thanks to Gene Poole for allowing this repost
from the GuruRating group. Enjoy!
------------------------------------------------------
Consciousness 101

First, an introduction to 'elementary practical
physics'. This involves 'energetic field' effects
and how such a field, once existing, can be
detected and 'used' in a utilitarian way.

Strong electromagnetic and electrostatic fields
are able to wirelessly 'power' a very simple sort
of light-bulb, one which does not 'connect' physically
to anything, but lights up readily in such a field:

NE-2 neon bulb:

Anatomy:

http://www.cascadesurplus.com/catalog/images/NE-2.jpg


Aglow:

http://www.made-in-china.com/image/2f1j00refadtAUbIqwM/Neon-Lamp-NE-2-.jpg

A glass capsule, about the size of a pencil-eraser,
which is filled with neon gas, and has two tiny wires
inside, glows when energized by an electrical field
of sufficient strength.

Pervasive Terrestrial electromagnetic (EM) field 'cause',
60-Hz power transmission lines, electrical field 'pollution:

http://newpowerworx.com/images/417160064_8d021d7833.jpg

As a boy, I would hike for miles along the 'right of way'
of such transmission lines, which cut through the
mountainous wilderness. For fun, I would carry an NE-2
bulb, which would be continually alight! Today I
would not expose myself in that way.

The 'radio' needs much less 'energy' to excite it,
allowing such as cell-phones, etc, but is essentially
the same as the NE-2 bulb; wireless 'connectivity'
to an electric field.

Is the 'brain' like a cell-phone, but one which
'connects' to a field of unknown properties?
This is what we will explore here. I hope to
hint at this for you: Imagine if you will, that the
moment that the 'cell tower' is energized, that
'everyone' has in hand, like magic and apparently
from 'nowhere', a nifty cell-phone! 'Pop' and there
it is, fully functional! Wow! A miracle, eh?

Pretty cool, right? A useful 'something' from
apparent 'nothing'!

- - -

(Aside: The dream of Tesla!)

http://www.teslatech.info/ttmagazine/v1n4/valone.htm

http://peswiki.com/images/c/c9/Prestige_sparks_full.jpg

Youtube Tesla:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5rnj2fQ3Bc&feature=player_embedded

Tesla was inspired by Vivekananda:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#Vivekananda_and_science

- - -

Behind the assumptions which underlie modern
'brain research' is the typical 'duality' of 'brain/mind'.

That is to say; humans have 'forever' assumed by
the map of duality, and brain research blindly follows
this map as well. Central to 'scientific thinking' is the
assumption of the 'reality' of the particle (any particle)
and the quest to find the smallest particle, even leading
to the 'Higgs Boson', a property which is assumed to
be the foundation of ALL particles. But what if there
are literally NO particles, only the appearance of such?

Is MATTER (including the brain itself) a manifestation
of ENERGY?

Imagine an 'infinite' source of energy, which continually
'transmits' itself, and which power, may be commandeered
by locally induced triggers which COLLAPSE QUANTUM
WAVES:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EZWNQhIJDqs/Sc1EUFDGA8I/AAAAAAAABaQ/p53Rf905p-U/s400/T\
\
wo+slit+experiment++diagram.jpg

http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/penrose-hameroff/orchOR.html


'Thingness' of brain, outmoded thinking, Standing Waves:

http://blazelabs.com/f-p-wave.asp


Yes. 'Reality creation', but NOT from 'nothing'. Such
'tunable nodes' as are 'brains' are 'made first' and then
work to 'create' reality by modifying an EXISTING FIELD;
but, we need to imagine a 'multitude of dimensions' which
invisibly and harmlessly interpenetrate each-other.

What we know as 'history', events over time, is merely
the record of the 'bootup sequence' which represents
not disparate coincidences, or 'random' phenomena,
but purposeful 'system bootstrapping', which results in
the 'reality' which we know; the 'big bang'!

The so-called 'big bang' was not a one-time event,
but instead, is continuously ongoing. Its 'signature'
may be HEARD as the 'Cosmic OM' sound, with all
attendant harmonics. This is the 'energy' which pervades
the 'universe', but please keep in mind, that this energy
'created' the universe in which it now abounds.

It is 'not our fault' that we must 'see' reality as a stack
of timed steps, which we call 'history'. Our species-view
of this, allows 'navigation' within the 'manifest' universe;
as in: "Time is God's [SIC] way of assuring that everything
does not happen at once". Trouble is... it IS happening
all at once. Our human 'talent' is properly understood as
'quantum tunneling effect', and is as 'native' as how bees
build their nests.

Summary Intermediate:

Existing nodes (brains), mounted (created/manifested),
detect and shape the very energy which manifests them,
but this is dependent upon an ENERGY which is pervasive
and FREE, which emanates from the 'Always-Bang'.

This energy makes possible, 'standing waves' which we
take as 'persisting physical objects', things which hang
around for a while, including 'brains'. From this 'evidence'
we deduce 'history' and time, itself.

Safeguards are in place which prevent 'discorporation'
of the brain, by any 'thoughts' which it processes.

The implication is for existence of multiple 'dimensions',
which we may name similar to (Internet) network 'layers',
each of which is necessary for the 'whole' as it is:

The 'top layer' is the 'information layer' and the 'bottom
layer' is the 'physical layer'. (There are several
intermediate layers as well.)

The error committed by 'modern (dualistic) thinkers'
is that the 'bottom (physical) layer 'creates' the top
(information) layer, when in fact, the reverse is true!

Thus; 'multiple dimensions' allow both manifestation
and 'control' BY the manifest OF the manifest, but only
within the range (say, of human species life-forms) which
performs in the self-sustaining (standing wave) and for
purposes which are 'self-determined', in which 'self' is
the 'purpose of it all', the coherence of information,
and the ability to be 'sentient', or 'self-aware'.

Thus it is only a small jump to see:

- 'consciousness' is our familiar connection to
the 'top layer', the informational layer, which in
a manner of speaking, is responsible for the
coherent and ongoing 'universe', and the form
and function of everything 'in it' (including us);

- 'consciousness' is the 'beginning and end'
of a process which sustains itself via a source
of energy (always-bang) exactly as does a plant
sustain itself via sunlight/photosynthesis;

- 'consciousness' as above, is a 'cycle' which
deliberately 'made' all of this, exactly as a bee
forms those nice waxy hexagons of its nest;

- thus, we may consider 'consciousness' as
'creatura', but one of information, which by means
of selective 'collapse of quantum waves', makes
its own 'home', this universe;

- and all 'because' there is a source of energy,
which like sunlight, enables (what seems to be)
a very complex, multi-dimensional 'command and
control' system, resulting in 'this awareness'.

As 'this awareness', I am able (as I live and learn)
to visit the realms of information, which were hinted
by Vivekananda (see above link) and which were
vouchsafed to Tesla, for better or worse.

As 'magic cellphone', are two dimensions (as example);
there is the 'energy' which 'creates me' and then there
is the information which I can receive or transmit.


Can you hear me now?


==GP==

The Russian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff once said that
when you are in the presence of "Real" art
everyone will have the same transcendent reaction.
Here's an example that I have now run across on
a knife forum, a non-dual forum, and a general
on-line chat discussion group, and everyone seems
to have been "blown-away" by what takes place.
Enjoy!
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741

GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES IN YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY.

THE LATEST VOLUME OF THE SPIRITUAL WEB SITE www.ahwan.org (or www.ahwan.com) :
VOLUME 98, April 2009 ISSUE,  has been published and uplinked with the article
"IN SEARCH OF GOD –The Illusive one- Part 2"

- If you visit the site, and have any observations to make, I shall be grateful.
There are also interesting questions from readers dealing with "Is God
ungraspable?", "Are our scriptures deliberately vague?" "Yogi and common man",
"Is living a goodlife enough?", "God does not abandon anyone" etc. You can also
browse the previous articles by clicking on the ikon `articles'. Please share it
with your friends and dear ones.  God bless you-  Sri Bimal Mohanty.
(bimal_mohanty@...)
PS – To continue spreading the benefit of AHWAN to all, we need your assistance
if you please. Click on `special information' on the homepage of www.ahwan.org.

If you do not wish to receive this information about future issues, please
e-mail accordingly - Thank you.
If you wish someone to receive this information as compliments from you please
indicate his/her e-mail address.
____________________

You can usher a qualitative change in your life, the spiritual way- the
effective way. Visit the website www.ahwan.org. or www.ahwan.com.
regularly. Share it with your friends and dear ones in any manner convenient-
through discussing, speaking, writing, inter-netting.

For your convenience,
embedded on the website

http://www.livingatwow.com

you will find the youtube video
of Stand By Me, and at the end
of the play, you will see small
window links to 7 other videos pop up,
including One Love and Don't Worry.

One Love,

Jeff

Probably due to the very high ranking of our web site
Meditation Station http://www.meditationsociety.com
on Google, Yahoo, and other search engines in the
category of Meditation Techniques and Meditation, we
get many emails daily that often comment about the
techniques and concepts that we offer. Here's one we
received today concerned with the Transcending Karma
technique that I have copied below. The email will be
found beneath the text of the technique. I found it
pretty interesting although presented language-usage-wise
in an unusual manner.
I hope you will enjoy and benefit from the technique and
the email.
------------------------------------------------------------
Transcending Karma

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were
2 holy men traveling together through the
countryside. They came upon a beautiful young
woman sitting and sobbing by the side of a
stream. She said she was afraid of drowning
and asked them if they would help her cross
to the other side of the water. Without saying
a word, one of the monks picked up the girl
and carried her to the other side of the stream
where he gently put her down. She thanked him
and went on her way. The two men then continued
their journey. After a while, the monk said to
the one who had carried the young woman, "How
could you do such a thing? We have taken vows
of chastity. It is forbidden to even talk to a
woman let alone touch one." The other monk
lovingly replied, "When I came to the other side
of the stream, I put her down. Why are you still
carrying her?"

What have you been carrying around that you
should have put down and left behind? Do you
still harbor feelings of regret, anger, hate,
disappointment, or any other negative adjectives
or adverbs that apply, for events, people, or
things that are not here, now? Why do you do
this masochistic activity?

Life can be equated with a boat ride taking you
from one shore to another. As the boat goes across
the water, it leaves a wake in its path. This wake
represents your past. And just like the wake a boat
leaves behind doesn't propel the boat forward at
all, your past doesn't drive you towards the other
shore. What's done is done if you will be done
with it. If you don't face the front of the boat
and place your attention in the present moment,
you will not be able to avoid running into the
icebergs and other potential hazards that could
jeopardize your trip through life. Your karma is
fulfilled and up to date at all times. Your
clinging to the past and fantasizing about the
future is what keeps you paying a karmic debt.
Simply attend to this moment and witness the
path your boat is traveling. This is action free
of reaction and further karma.

Relax. Melt into your most comfortable meditative
posture. Focus on your breath and feel and
witness its entry, retention, and leaving. Let
your body establish a comfortable rhythm. Visualize
your great grandparents in your mind's eye. See
them be born, have events take place in their
lives and eventually give birth to your grandparents.
Visualize your grandparents be born, see them have
events take place in their lives and eventually
give birth to your parents. Visualize your parents
being born and see them go through the events in
their lives that eventually included giving birth to you.

As clearly as possible, without reacting
physically, emotionally, or mentally, allow
the movie of the events of your life to unfold
on the inner screen of your mind's eye. Witness
the events as unattached as the monk was who
carried the woman over the stream. And just
like him, leave your attachments to all the events
that have resulted in your being here, now. Know
that you are now in the boat ride of your life
and that to look back is to reattach to your
ancestors and your own karma and all the suffering
that clings to it. Look ahead free of karma,
enjoy the ride, and live happily ever after.
-----------------------------------------------------
email from J....I.....
In the Time, this inquiry, reveals not exactly
what I hoped to find.  Transcending karma was
to my long time belief to be associated with
the environment of exposure.  For example if
one were submersed in wickedness transcending
karma would be the love the light that shines
from your deepest inner self.  Absorbing the
exposure of hate and projecting love.  Flipping
the chips on down the line.  Shining light in
dark places.  Having a positive effect in the
confrontation of negativity.  Staring at anger
with loving eyes.  Ultimately to take in what
was bad but projecting what was good.
      To transcend karma one would not have been
effected by atrocious exposure, but atrocity was
exposed in effect to the divine light.

sean tremblay <bethjams9@...> wrote:
>
> Great story, good message
> I don't often speak in a poaition of "Knowlege" or in absolutes, but there are
two things I know to be true things ive witnessed time and again in all places
> First, People are the most cruel to those in need of comassion the most
> second, a poor man is more likely to share his last can of tunafish with you,
than a poor man is to part with 50 bucks
> So what do I still carry a bubling rage come up from deep inside of me
wherever and when ever I see injustice
> SSG Tremblay, Sean k
> Team Viper
> Zabul province
> Afghanistan
>
Yo Sean,
Well, I guess you have me fooled. I think you always present
in the present with the present of your Knowledge. I see
you as a warrior who doesn't hesitate to stand up for
what is righteous and similarly are ready to take down
unrighteousness. And that is just how "IT" is. Jesus didn't
sit back and let the money changers dirty the synagoge, and
Krishna encouraged Arjuna to fight and not tolerate his
family being unethical. And sometimes it takes a "rage" to
get us moving. But with that label, we may feel guilty that
we aren't being turn-the-other cheek enough, or some similar
spiritual sin. That's why simply seeing the energy arise that
motivates you without commenting or judging it as good, bad,
worthy or inappropriate, or etc. is the only position that
we can be in to "flow with life in the moment"
(or some similar spiritual cliche). And if you don't always
act in a pure unselfish righteous way, see it and forgive
your Self and learn from it and don't repeat it. And if
you continue to just witness without engaging, there will
be less and less enraging. And you will live more and more
happily ever after.
Peace and blessings,
Bob
PS: Did you actually mean to say it is rare for a rich man
to part with $$$ than to find a poor man who is generous.
> --- On Sun, 4/19/09, medit8ionsociety <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: medit8ionsociety <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Meditation Society of America] "Transcending Karma" Technique and
Commentary About It
> To: meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 10:13 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Probably due to the very high ranking of our web site
> Meditation Station http://www.meditati onsociety. com
> on Google, Yahoo, and other search engines in the
> category of Meditation Techniques and Meditation, we
> get many emails daily that often comment about the
> techniques and concepts that we offer. Here's one we
> received today concerned with the Transcending Karma
> technique that I have copied below. The email will be
> found beneath the text of the technique. I found it
> pretty interesting although presented language-usage- wise
> in an unusual manner.
> I hope you will enjoy and benefit from the technique and
> the email.
> ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
> Transcending Karma
>
> Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were
> 2 holy men traveling together through the
> countryside. They came upon a beautiful young
> woman sitting and sobbing by the side of a
> stream. She said she was afraid of drowning
> and asked them if they would help her cross
> to the other side of the water. Without saying
> a word, one of the monks picked up the girl
> and carried her to the other side of the stream
> where he gently put her down. She thanked him
> and went on her way. The two men then continued
> their journey. After a while, the monk said to
> the one who had carried the young woman, "How
> could you do such a thing? We have taken vows
> of chastity. It is forbidden to even talk to a
> woman let alone touch one." The other monk
> lovingly replied, "When I came to the other side
> of the stream, I put her down. Why are you still
> carrying her?"
>
> What have you been carrying around that you
> should have put down and left behind? Do you
> still harbor feelings of regret, anger, hate,
> disappointment, or any other negative adjectives
> or adverbs that apply, for events, people, or
> things that are not here, now? Why do you do
> this masochistic activity?
>
> Life can be equated with a boat ride taking you
> from one shore to another. As the boat goes across
> the water, it leaves a wake in its path. This wake
> represents your past. And just like the wake a boat
> leaves behind doesn't propel the boat forward at
> all, your past doesn't drive you towards the other
> shore. What's done is done if you will be done
> with it. If you don't face the front of the boat
> and place your attention in the present moment,
> you will not be able to avoid running into the
> icebergs and other potential hazards that could
> jeopardize your trip through life. Your karma is
> fulfilled and up to date at all times. Your
> clinging to the past and fantasizing about the
> future is what keeps you paying a karmic debt.
> Simply attend to this moment and witness the
> path your boat is traveling. This is action free
> of reaction and further karma.
>
> Relax. Melt into your most comfortable meditative
> posture. Focus on your breath and feel and
> witness its entry, retention, and leaving. Let
> your body establish a comfortable rhythm. Visualize
> your great grandparents in your mind's eye. See
> them be born, have events take place in their
> lives and eventually give birth to your grandparents.
> Visualize your grandparents be born, see them have
> events take place in their lives and eventually
> give birth to your parents. Visualize your parents
> being born and see them go through the events in
> their lives that eventually included giving birth to you.
>
> As clearly as possible, without reacting
> physically, emotionally, or mentally, allow
> the movie of the events of your life to unfold
> on the inner screen of your mind's eye. Witness
> the events as unattached as the monk was who
> carried the woman over the stream. And just
> like him, leave your attachments to all the events
> that have resulted in your being here, now. Know
> that you are now in the boat ride of your life
> and that to look back is to reattach to your
> ancestors and your own karma and all the suffering
> that clings to it. Look ahead free of karma,
> enjoy the ride, and live happily ever after.
> ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -----
> email from J....I.....
> In the Time, this inquiry, reveals not exactly
> what I hoped to find. Transcending karma was
> to my long time belief to be associated with
> the environment of exposure. For example if
> one were submersed in wickedness transcending
> karma would be the love the light that shines
> from your deepest inner self. Absorbing the
> exposure of hate and projecting love. Flipping
> the chips on down the line. Shining light in
> dark places. Having a positive effect in the
> confrontation of negativity. Staring at anger
> with loving eyes. Ultimately to take in what
> was bad but projecting what was good.
> To transcend karma one would not have been
> effected by atrocious exposure, but atrocity was
> exposed in effect to the divine light.
>

I was turned on to a heavy metal video that
had amazing psychedelic art in it. The group is
Monster Magnet and here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf49V2yB3Z4
This led me to check out art that was seen on the
video that was created by Luke Brown, who is
one of the many mystic artists who generously
permit us to use their artwork in our newsletter,
The Inner Traveler. His spectacular art as well as
several other gifted in-sight artists can be found at:
http://elfintome.com/arts-collective.html
Enjoy!

Why neurobiology of wisdom? Scanty changes are fragile. I ask a very simple
question on change-Is natural beauty of your face increasing day by day?
regards


--- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
>
> Researchers at the University of California,
> San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the
> first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom -
> once the sole province of religion and philosophy.
> The study by Dilip V. Jeste, MD, and Thomas W.
> Meeks, MD, of UC San Diego's Department of Psychiatry
> and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was
> published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
>
> "Defining wisdom is rather subjective, though
> there are many similarities in definition across
> time and cultures," said Jeste, who is the Estelle
> and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, professor of psychiatry
> and neuroscience and chief of geriatric psychiatry
> at UC San Diego. "However, our research suggests
> that there may be a basis in neurobiology for wisdom's
> most universal traits."
>
> Wisdom has been defined over centuries and
> civilizations to encompass numerous psychological
> traits. Components of wisdom are commonly agreed
> to include such attributes as empathy, compassion
> or altruism, emotional stability, self-understanding,
> and pro-social attitudes, including a tolerance for
> others' values.
>
> "But questions remain: is wisdom universal, or
> culturally based?" said Jeste. "Is it uniquely human,
> related to age? Is it dependent on experience or
> can wisdom be taught?"
>
> Empirical research on wisdom is a relatively new
> phenomenon. Meeks and Jeste noted that in the 1970s,
> there were only 20 peer-reviewed articles on wisdom,
> but since 2000, there have been more than 250 such
> publications. However, the researchers found no
> previous studies using the keyword "wisdom" in combination
> with the terms neurobiology, neuroimaging or
> neurotransmitters.
>
> In order to determine if specific brain circuits and
> pathways might be responsible for wisdom, the
> researchers examined existing articles, publications
> and other documents for six attributes most commonly
> included in the definition of wisdom, and for the
> brain circuitry associated with those attributes.
>
> Meeks and Jeste focused primarily on functional
> neuroimaging studies, studies which measure changes
> in blood flow or metabolic alterations in the brain,
> as well as on neurotransmitter functions and genetics.
> They found, for example, that pondering a situation
> calling for altruism activates the medial pre-frontal
> cortex, while moral decision-making is a combination
> of rational (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which
> plays a role in sustaining attention and working memory), emotional/social
(medial pre-frontal cortex), and
> conflict detection (the anterior cingulate cortex,
> sometimes also associated with a so-called "sixth
> sense") functions.
>
> Interestingly, several common brain regions appear to
> be involved in different components of wisdom. The UC
> San Diego researchers suggest that the neurobiology
> of wisdom may involve an optimal balance between more
> primitive brain regions (the limbic system) and the
> newest ones (pre-frontal cortex.) Knowledge of the
> underlying mechanisms in the brain could potentially
> lead to developing interventions for enhancing wisdom.
>
> "Understanding the neurobiology of wisdom may
> have considerable clinical significance, for example,
> in studying how certain disorders or traumatic brain
> injuries can affect traits related to wisdom," said
> Jeste, stressing that this study is only a first
> step in a long process.
>
> Notes:
>
> The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on
Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Health Resources and
Services Administration, the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
at UC San Diego and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
>
> Source:
> Debra Kain
> University of California - San Diego
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145396.php
>

--- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, "jogeshwarmahanta"
<jogeshwarmahanta@...> wrote:
>
> Why neurobiology of wisdom? Scanty changes are fragile. I ask a very simple
question on change-Is natural beauty of your face increasing day by day?
> regards
>
Dear Sri Jogeshwarmahanta,
The designation "beauty" is different for all of us,
and we often change as to what we consider beauty to be.
Every atom in every molecule in every cell on our face
has changed since you started reading this. The essence
of our beauty stays constant and consistant eternally and
those who know this first hand know beauty everywhere and
always and live happily ever after.
Peace and blessings,
Bob
  --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety <no_reply@>
wrote:
> >
> >
> > Researchers at the University of California,
> > San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the
> > first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom -
> > once the sole province of religion and philosophy.
> > The study by Dilip V. Jeste, MD, and Thomas W.
> > Meeks, MD, of UC San Diego's Department of Psychiatry
> > and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was
> > published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
> >
> > "Defining wisdom is rather subjective, though
> > there are many similarities in definition across
> > time and cultures," said Jeste, who is the Estelle
> > and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, professor of psychiatry
> > and neuroscience and chief of geriatric psychiatry
> > at UC San Diego. "However, our research suggests
> > that there may be a basis in neurobiology for wisdom's
> > most universal traits."
> >
> > Wisdom has been defined over centuries and
> > civilizations to encompass numerous psychological
> > traits. Components of wisdom are commonly agreed
> > to include such attributes as empathy, compassion
> > or altruism, emotional stability, self-understanding,
> > and pro-social attitudes, including a tolerance for
> > others' values.
> >
> > "But questions remain: is wisdom universal, or
> > culturally based?" said Jeste. "Is it uniquely human,
> > related to age? Is it dependent on experience or
> > can wisdom be taught?"
> >
> > Empirical research on wisdom is a relatively new
> > phenomenon. Meeks and Jeste noted that in the 1970s,
> > there were only 20 peer-reviewed articles on wisdom,
> > but since 2000, there have been more than 250 such
> > publications. However, the researchers found no
> > previous studies using the keyword "wisdom" in combination
> > with the terms neurobiology, neuroimaging or
> > neurotransmitters.
> >
> > In order to determine if specific brain circuits and
> > pathways might be responsible for wisdom, the
> > researchers examined existing articles, publications
> > and other documents for six attributes most commonly
> > included in the definition of wisdom, and for the
> > brain circuitry associated with those attributes.
> >
> > Meeks and Jeste focused primarily on functional
> > neuroimaging studies, studies which measure changes
> > in blood flow or metabolic alterations in the brain,
> > as well as on neurotransmitter functions and genetics.
> > They found, for example, that pondering a situation
> > calling for altruism activates the medial pre-frontal
> > cortex, while moral decision-making is a combination
> > of rational (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which
> > plays a role in sustaining attention and working memory), emotional/social
(medial pre-frontal cortex), and
> > conflict detection (the anterior cingulate cortex,
> > sometimes also associated with a so-called "sixth
> > sense") functions.
> >
> > Interestingly, several common brain regions appear to
> > be involved in different components of wisdom. The UC
> > San Diego researchers suggest that the neurobiology
> > of wisdom may involve an optimal balance between more
> > primitive brain regions (the limbic system) and the
> > newest ones (pre-frontal cortex.) Knowledge of the
> > underlying mechanisms in the brain could potentially
> > lead to developing interventions for enhancing wisdom.
> >
> > "Understanding the neurobiology of wisdom may
> > have considerable clinical significance, for example,
> > in studying how certain disorders or traumatic brain
> > injuries can affect traits related to wisdom," said
> > Jeste, stressing that this study is only a first
> > step in a long process.
> >
> > Notes:
> >
> > The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on
Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Health Resources and
Services Administration, the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
at UC San Diego and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
> >
> > Source:
> > Debra Kain
> > University of California - San Diego
> >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145396.php
> >
>

There is a meditation tradition that advises that we have
a mind "like a mirror". The idea is to simply be aware
and let incoming sensations, be they physical, mental
or emotional, reflect off of you like it would off of a mirror.
No ingesting, masticating, digesting, or regurgitating. Sit
comfortably (even if standing or walking) and let the universe
present what it will. This non-reactive "mirror" attitude
produces  a tension-less clarity whose undistracted focus
allows for a pure attention undiminished by judgments,
comparisons or inner chattering. This is when you segue
from concentration to meditation to contemplation and
transcend the attachment and identification to body and
mind and the suffering that this delusion always inflicts.
This may be worth reflecting on, but possibly not
beneficial to think about.

Right or wrong,belief has always justification with its owner.
regards

--- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, "jogeshwarmahanta"
<jogeshwarmahanta@> wrote:
> >
> > Why neurobiology of wisdom? Scanty changes are fragile. I ask a very simple
question on change-Is natural beauty of your face increasing day by day?
> > regards
> >
> Dear Sri Jogeshwarmahanta,
> The designation "beauty" is different for all of us,
> and we often change as to what we consider beauty to be.
> Every atom in every molecule in every cell on our face
> has changed since you started reading this. The essence
> of our beauty stays constant and consistant eternally and
> those who know this first hand know beauty everywhere and
> always and live happily ever after.
> Peace and blessings,
> Bob
>  --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Researchers at the University of California,
> > > San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the
> > > first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom -
> > > once the sole province of religion and philosophy.
> > > The study by Dilip V. Jeste, MD, and Thomas W.
> > > Meeks, MD, of UC San Diego's Department of Psychiatry
> > > and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was
> > > published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
> > >
> > > "Defining wisdom is rather subjective, though
> > > there are many similarities in definition across
> > > time and cultures," said Jeste, who is the Estelle
> > > and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, professor of psychiatry
> > > and neuroscience and chief of geriatric psychiatry
> > > at UC San Diego. "However, our research suggests
> > > that there may be a basis in neurobiology for wisdom's
> > > most universal traits."
> > >
> > > Wisdom has been defined over centuries and
> > > civilizations to encompass numerous psychological
> > > traits. Components of wisdom are commonly agreed
> > > to include such attributes as empathy, compassion
> > > or altruism, emotional stability, self-understanding,
> > > and pro-social attitudes, including a tolerance for
> > > others' values.
> > >
> > > "But questions remain: is wisdom universal, or
> > > culturally based?" said Jeste. "Is it uniquely human,
> > > related to age? Is it dependent on experience or
> > > can wisdom be taught?"
> > >
> > > Empirical research on wisdom is a relatively new
> > > phenomenon. Meeks and Jeste noted that in the 1970s,
> > > there were only 20 peer-reviewed articles on wisdom,
> > > but since 2000, there have been more than 250 such
> > > publications. However, the researchers found no
> > > previous studies using the keyword "wisdom" in combination
> > > with the terms neurobiology, neuroimaging or
> > > neurotransmitters.
> > >
> > > In order to determine if specific brain circuits and
> > > pathways might be responsible for wisdom, the
> > > researchers examined existing articles, publications
> > > and other documents for six attributes most commonly
> > > included in the definition of wisdom, and for the
> > > brain circuitry associated with those attributes.
> > >
> > > Meeks and Jeste focused primarily on functional
> > > neuroimaging studies, studies which measure changes
> > > in blood flow or metabolic alterations in the brain,
> > > as well as on neurotransmitter functions and genetics.
> > > They found, for example, that pondering a situation
> > > calling for altruism activates the medial pre-frontal
> > > cortex, while moral decision-making is a combination
> > > of rational (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which
> > > plays a role in sustaining attention and working memory), emotional/social
(medial pre-frontal cortex), and
> > > conflict detection (the anterior cingulate cortex,
> > > sometimes also associated with a so-called "sixth
> > > sense") functions.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, several common brain regions appear to
> > > be involved in different components of wisdom. The UC
> > > San Diego researchers suggest that the neurobiology
> > > of wisdom may involve an optimal balance between more
> > > primitive brain regions (the limbic system) and the
> > > newest ones (pre-frontal cortex.) Knowledge of the
> > > underlying mechanisms in the brain could potentially
> > > lead to developing interventions for enhancing wisdom.
> > >
> > > "Understanding the neurobiology of wisdom may
> > > have considerable clinical significance, for example,
> > > in studying how certain disorders or traumatic brain
> > > injuries can affect traits related to wisdom," said
> > > Jeste, stressing that this study is only a first
> > > step in a long process.
> > >
> > > Notes:
> > >
> > > The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on
Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Health Resources and
Services Administration, the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
at UC San Diego and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
> > >
> > > Source:
> > > Debra Kain
> > > University of California - San Diego
> > >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145396.php
> > >
> >
>

Be Nothing

"When you really understand the limitations
of your physical level and your mental level,
then you become really thirsty to get into
the spiritual level. Then, you know that
what you have known, what you have learned
and what you have understood all these years
is just nothing. You become, actually,
nothing; in the words of the Zen philosophy:
you have to become nothing. Until this stage,
you feel that you are something. Don't we
hear people saying, `Oh, he or she is really
something'? But that something should become
nothing. When we really become nothing, then
we get into a sphere where we become everything.
And that nothingness is expressed as devotion,
faith, respect and humility. It really takes
a lot of courage to let go and to be nothing.

"God bless you. OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti."

For more by and about Swami Satchidananda:
www.YogaAndPeace.org.

"jogeshwarmahanta" <jogeshwarmahanta@...> wrote:
>
>  Right or wrong,belief has always justification with its owner.
> regards
>
Yes, and that belief could be right or wrong.

> --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, "jogeshwarmahanta"
<jogeshwarmahanta@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Why neurobiology of wisdom? Scanty changes are fragile. I ask a very
simple question on change-Is natural beauty of your face increasing day by day?
> > > regards
> > >
> > Dear Sri Jogeshwarmahanta,
> > The designation "beauty" is different for all of us,
> > and we often change as to what we consider beauty to be.
> > Every atom in every molecule in every cell on our face
> > has changed since you started reading this. The essence
> > of our beauty stays constant and consistant eternally and
> > those who know this first hand know beauty everywhere and
> > always and live happily ever after.
> > Peace and blessings,
> > Bob
> >  --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Researchers at the University of California,
> > > > San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the
> > > > first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom -
> > > > once the sole province of religion and philosophy.
> > > > The study by Dilip V. Jeste, MD, and Thomas W.
> > > > Meeks, MD, of UC San Diego's Department of Psychiatry
> > > > and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was
> > > > published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
> > > >
> > > > "Defining wisdom is rather subjective, though
> > > > there are many similarities in definition across
> > > > time and cultures," said Jeste, who is the Estelle
> > > > and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, professor of psychiatry
> > > > and neuroscience and chief of geriatric psychiatry
> > > > at UC San Diego. "However, our research suggests
> > > > that there may be a basis in neurobiology for wisdom's
> > > > most universal traits."
> > > >
> > > > Wisdom has been defined over centuries and
> > > > civilizations to encompass numerous psychological
> > > > traits. Components of wisdom are commonly agreed
> > > > to include such attributes as empathy, compassion
> > > > or altruism, emotional stability, self-understanding,
> > > > and pro-social attitudes, including a tolerance for
> > > > others' values.
> > > >
> > > > "But questions remain: is wisdom universal, or
> > > > culturally based?" said Jeste. "Is it uniquely human,
> > > > related to age? Is it dependent on experience or
> > > > can wisdom be taught?"
> > > >
> > > > Empirical research on wisdom is a relatively new
> > > > phenomenon. Meeks and Jeste noted that in the 1970s,
> > > > there were only 20 peer-reviewed articles on wisdom,
> > > > but since 2000, there have been more than 250 such
> > > > publications. However, the researchers found no
> > > > previous studies using the keyword "wisdom" in combination
> > > > with the terms neurobiology, neuroimaging or
> > > > neurotransmitters.
> > > >
> > > > In order to determine if specific brain circuits and
> > > > pathways might be responsible for wisdom, the
> > > > researchers examined existing articles, publications
> > > > and other documents for six attributes most commonly
> > > > included in the definition of wisdom, and for the
> > > > brain circuitry associated with those attributes.
> > > >
> > > > Meeks and Jeste focused primarily on functional
> > > > neuroimaging studies, studies which measure changes
> > > > in blood flow or metabolic alterations in the brain,
> > > > as well as on neurotransmitter functions and genetics.
> > > > They found, for example, that pondering a situation
> > > > calling for altruism activates the medial pre-frontal
> > > > cortex, while moral decision-making is a combination
> > > > of rational (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which
> > > > plays a role in sustaining attention and working memory),
emotional/social (medial pre-frontal cortex), and
> > > > conflict detection (the anterior cingulate cortex,
> > > > sometimes also associated with a so-called "sixth
> > > > sense") functions.
> > > >
> > > > Interestingly, several common brain regions appear to
> > > > be involved in different components of wisdom. The UC
> > > > San Diego researchers suggest that the neurobiology
> > > > of wisdom may involve an optimal balance between more
> > > > primitive brain regions (the limbic system) and the
> > > > newest ones (pre-frontal cortex.) Knowledge of the
> > > > underlying mechanisms in the brain could potentially
> > > > lead to developing interventions for enhancing wisdom.
> > > >
> > > > "Understanding the neurobiology of wisdom may
> > > > have considerable clinical significance, for example,
> > > > in studying how certain disorders or traumatic brain
> > > > injuries can affect traits related to wisdom," said
> > > > Jeste, stressing that this study is only a first
> > > > step in a long process.
> > > >
> > > > Notes:
> > > >
> > > > The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on
Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Health Resources and
Services Administration, the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
at UC San Diego and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
> > > >
> > > > Source:
> > > > Debra Kain
> > > > University of California - San Diego
> > > >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145396.php
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

Thanks.And so howsoever cogent may appear, a belief needs to be revisited time
and again and particularly when it is confounded.
regards

--- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> "jogeshwarmahanta" <jogeshwarmahanta@> wrote:
> >
> >  Right or wrong,belief has always justification with its owner.
> > regards
> >
> Yes, and that belief could be right or wrong.
>
> > --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, "jogeshwarmahanta"
<jogeshwarmahanta@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Why neurobiology of wisdom? Scanty changes are fragile. I ask a very
simple question on change-Is natural beauty of your face increasing day by day?
> > > > regards
> > > >
> > > Dear Sri Jogeshwarmahanta,
> > > The designation "beauty" is different for all of us,
> > > and we often change as to what we consider beauty to be.
> > > Every atom in every molecule in every cell on our face
> > > has changed since you started reading this. The essence
> > > of our beauty stays constant and consistant eternally and
> > > those who know this first hand know beauty everywhere and
> > > always and live happily ever after.
> > > Peace and blessings,
> > > Bob
> > >  --- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Researchers at the University of California,
> > > > > San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the
> > > > > first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom -
> > > > > once the sole province of religion and philosophy.
> > > > > The study by Dilip V. Jeste, MD, and Thomas W.
> > > > > Meeks, MD, of UC San Diego's Department of Psychiatry
> > > > > and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, was
> > > > > published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
> > > > >
> > > > > "Defining wisdom is rather subjective, though
> > > > > there are many similarities in definition across
> > > > > time and cultures," said Jeste, who is the Estelle
> > > > > and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, professor of psychiatry
> > > > > and neuroscience and chief of geriatric psychiatry
> > > > > at UC San Diego. "However, our research suggests
> > > > > that there may be a basis in neurobiology for wisdom's
> > > > > most universal traits."
> > > > >
> > > > > Wisdom has been defined over centuries and
> > > > > civilizations to encompass numerous psychological
> > > > > traits. Components of wisdom are commonly agreed
> > > > > to include such attributes as empathy, compassion
> > > > > or altruism, emotional stability, self-understanding,
> > > > > and pro-social attitudes, including a tolerance for
> > > > > others' values.
> > > > >
> > > > > "But questions remain: is wisdom universal, or
> > > > > culturally based?" said Jeste. "Is it uniquely human,
> > > > > related to age? Is it dependent on experience or
> > > > > can wisdom be taught?"
> > > > >
> > > > > Empirical research on wisdom is a relatively new
> > > > > phenomenon. Meeks and Jeste noted that in the 1970s,
> > > > > there were only 20 peer-reviewed articles on wisdom,
> > > > > but since 2000, there have been more than 250 such
> > > > > publications. However, the researchers found no
> > > > > previous studies using the keyword "wisdom" in combination
> > > > > with the terms neurobiology, neuroimaging or
> > > > > neurotransmitters.
> > > > >
> > > > > In order to determine if specific brain circuits and
> > > > > pathways might be responsible for wisdom, the
> > > > > researchers examined existing articles, publications
> > > > > and other documents for six attributes most commonly
> > > > > included in the definition of wisdom, and for the
> > > > > brain circuitry associated with those attributes.
> > > > >
> > > > > Meeks and Jeste focused primarily on functional
> > > > > neuroimaging studies, studies which measure changes
> > > > > in blood flow or metabolic alterations in the brain,
> > > > > as well as on neurotransmitter functions and genetics.
> > > > > They found, for example, that pondering a situation
> > > > > calling for altruism activates the medial pre-frontal
> > > > > cortex, while moral decision-making is a combination
> > > > > of rational (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which
> > > > > plays a role in sustaining attention and working memory),
emotional/social (medial pre-frontal cortex), and
> > > > > conflict detection (the anterior cingulate cortex,
> > > > > sometimes also associated with a so-called "sixth
> > > > > sense") functions.
> > > > >
> > > > > Interestingly, several common brain regions appear to
> > > > > be involved in different components of wisdom. The UC
> > > > > San Diego researchers suggest that the neurobiology
> > > > > of wisdom may involve an optimal balance between more
> > > > > primitive brain regions (the limbic system) and the
> > > > > newest ones (pre-frontal cortex.) Knowledge of the
> > > > > underlying mechanisms in the brain could potentially
> > > > > lead to developing interventions for enhancing wisdom.
> > > > >
> > > > > "Understanding the neurobiology of wisdom may
> > > > > have considerable clinical significance, for example,
> > > > > in studying how certain disorders or traumatic brain
> > > > > injuries can affect traits related to wisdom," said
> > > > > Jeste, stressing that this study is only a first
> > > > > step in a long process.
> > > > >
> > > > > Notes:
> > > > >
> > > > > The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institute
on Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Health Resources and
Services Administration, the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
at UC San Diego and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Source:
> > > > > Debra Kain
> > > > > University of California - San Diego
> > > > >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > >
> > > > > Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145396.php
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

This may be a scam to sell CD's or some similar
thing, but I found it interesting if true.....
--------------------------------------------------------
Newswise — Every brain has a soundtrack. Its
tempo and tone will vary, depending on mood,
frame of mind, and other features of the brain
itself. When that soundtrack is recorded and
played back -- to an emergency responder, or
a firefighter -- it may sharpen their reflexes
during a crisis, and calm their nerves afterward.

Over the past decade, the influence of music
on cognitive development, learning, and emotional
well-being has emerged as a hot field of
scientific study. To explore music's potential
relevance to emergency response, the Dept of
Homeland Security's Science & Technology
Directorate (S&T) has begun a study into a
form of neurotraining called "Brain Music" that
uses music created in advance from listeners'
own brain waves to help them deal with common
ailments like insomnia, fatigue, and headaches
stemming from stressful environments. The concept
of Brain Music is to use the frequency, amplitude,
and duration of musical sounds to move the brain
from an anxious state to a more relaxed state.

"Strain comes with an emergency response job, so
we are interested in finding ways to help these
workers remain at the top of their game when working
and get quality rest when they go off a shift,"
said S&T Program Manager Robert Burns. "Our goal
is to find new ways to help first responders perform
at the highest level possible, without increasing
tasks, training, or stress levels."

If the brain "composes" the music, the first job
of scientists is to take down the notes, and that
is exactly what Human Bionics LLC of Purcellville,
VA does. Each recording is converted into two unique
musical compositions designed to trigger the body's
natural responses, for example, by improving
productivity while at work, or helping adjust to
constantly changing work hours.

The compositions are clinically shown to promote
one of two mental states in each individual: relaxation –
for reduced stress and improved sleep; and alertness –
for improved concentration and decision-making.
Each 2-6 minute track is a composition performed on
a single instrument, usually a piano. The relaxation
track may sound like a "melodic, subdued Chopin
sonata," while the alertness track may have "more
of a Mozart sound," says Burns. (It seems there's
a classical genius—or maybe two genii—in all of us.
Listen to an instrumental alert track at
www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/multimedia/snapshots/st_brain_music_active.mp3.

After their brain waves are set to music, each
person is given a specific listening schedule,
personalized to their work environment and needs.
If used properly, the music can boost productivity
and energy levels, or trigger a body's natural
responses to stress.

The music created by Human Bionics LLC is being
tested as part of the S&T Readiness Optimization
Program (ROP), a wellness program that combines
nutrition education and neurotraining to evaluate
a cross population of first responders, including
federal agents, police, and firefighters. A selected
group of local area firefighters will be the first
emergency responders taking part in the project.

The Brain Music component of the ROP is derived
from patented technology developed at Moscow
University to use brain waves as a feedback
mechanism to correct physiological conditions.

In British philosopher John Locke's terms, Brain
Music brings new meaning to his famous phrase: "A
sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full
description of a happy state in this World."

And then there's always Cervantes, who coined,
"He who sings scares away his woes."

Wayne Goddard is one of the most skilled
knife makers in the world. Here he shares
his view of the world. You see that he does
cite "God", and we rarely ever do that, but
the attitude he points to is well in line
with the concept of "Thy will be done", which
I have found to be very liberating. Enjoy!
----------------------------------------------
How faith has affected my work, updated April 30, 2009.

By Wayne Goddard

Stress caused by the profession of knifemaking
was nothing new. I had always felt it; it had
been that way since I got ready for the first
knife show we attended in 1972. It was twenty-three
years later and I was getting knives ready for
a show in New York City. I had a large folder
in the works and was getting all worked up inside
because it seemed it was taking me too long to get
it done. It was early evening when it dawned on
me that this wasn't the way it should be. There I
was trying to live in a dependent relationship on
God and all the time fretting over whether I would
get my work done…..it was all being done in my own
strength. I gathered the parts of the knife in my
hands and prayed a prayer that went something like
this. "Lord, calm my worried spirit, give me the
strength to just do the work and trust You with the
results. I trust You with my eternal life, teach me
to trust You with the results of my labor." A calm
feeling came over me, tense muscles relaxed; I finished
the knife and the rest of my inventory for the show
with little stress. When the show was over we had the
highest sales of any show ever. All I could do was say,
"Thank you Lord."

That experience was eighteen years ago and from
that time on I gained a new freedom in my work. No longer
did I worry about whether something would sell or not.
I'd make the knives that came from my heart, going
forward in faith, just doing the work and trusting God
with the results. I am able to do my best work with little
strain and God receives the praise and thanks for the
results. What a liberating thing it is!
----------------------------------------------------------
The book "Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop" is available
everywhere you usually buy books and is considered one
of the best "how-to" books on knife making for anyone
just starting out in this craft.
-----------------------------------------------------------
FAIR USE NOTICE
This site contains copyrighted material the
use of which has not always been specifically
authorized by the copyright owner. We are
making such material available in our efforts
to advance understanding of environmental,
political, human rights, economic, democracy,
scientific, spiritual, and social justice issues,
etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use'
of any such copyrighted material as provided
for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107,
the material on this site is distributed
without profit to those who have expressed a
prior interest in receiving the included information
for research and educational purposes. For more
information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this
site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use',
you must obtain permission from the copyright owner

Quantum Mechanics Could Be Used To Describe
The Way Memory Works And Revolutionise The
Way We Think About The Human Mind

Science and technology researcher Professor
Peter Bruza is leading a study to explore the
similarities between associations in human and
the quantum correlations, also known as quantum
entanglement.

Professor Bruza said entanglement was a bizarre
phenomenon in which seemingly separate quantum
systems behaved as one.

"In quantum mechanics, systems are physically
non-separable, and this characteristic trait is
called entanglement," he said.

"The key to our research is to consider non-separability
as something applicable to the cognitive realm of memory."

Professor Bruza said like the systems found in
quantum mechanics, words were inseparable from
their associated words.

"Whenever a person recalls a word, associated words
always come to mind, and, in fact, it is impossible
to not recall those associated words," he said.

"For example, if I say the word 'bat' and ask
you to tell me the next word you think of, it
might be 'vampire'. Then if I ask you to do the
same with the word 'boxer', you might reply 'dog'.

"In this case, we could speculate that the words
'bat' and 'boxer' are entangled in your memory
because after associating bat with an animal, you
also associated boxer with an animal instead of with sport.

"This would be significant because experiments
show people are predisposed to associate the
word 'boxer' with sport and are more likely to
choose a word like 'gloves'.

"The way people associate words is very
intriguing. It could revolutionise how we
understand the workings of human memory.

"Ultimately we are hoping this theory will
lead to a new genre of information processing
technology that is genuinely aligned with human cognition."

Professor Bruza's team has joined with empirical
psychologists at the University of South Florida,
US, to undertake the Quantum mechanics of semantic
space study, which has received an Australian
Research Council Discovery grant.

"Fundamentally the study is about gaining an
understanding of the intriguing connections between
cognitive science and quantum theory," he said.

"We are investigating whether mathematical similarities
between word associations and quantum theory could
lead to totally new models of how humans process
words and meaning."

Professor Bruza said quantum theory was probably
the most stunningly successful theory ever devised.

"At present, there are no known experimental
deviations from its predictions," he said.

"While often thought of as only applying to the
sub-atomic realm, quantum theory is also crucial
for explaining why stars shine, how the universe
formed and the stability of matter."

Source:
Rachael Wilson
Queensland University of Technology
________________________________________
Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148491.php

This is part of an article that appeared in
the first Sample Issue of The Inner Traveler,
the newsletter of the Meditation Society of America.
The article has several meditation techniques that
are aimed at bringing about an end to obsessing. I hope
this will be of help to you. It is a little technique,
but has a very big upside potential. Like all meditation
concepts and techniques, it can only help you
if you actually put this method into practice. Enjoy!
-------------------------------------------------------
Neti-Neti

If none of your usual Meditation methods work
(to stop your obsessing), you may find comfort in
the Jnana Yoga technique called Neti-Neti, which
translates (from Sanskrit) as negate it, negate
it. The idea is that you ask yourself
several questions that will put your problem
in its true perspective and this understanding
will stop the obsessive thinking in
its tracks. The first question you ask yourself
is: Will this still matter tomorrow? Often,
you will realize that by tomorrow, the
problem will have been resolved and you
need not worry about it any longer. The
second question you will ask (if you aren't
satisfied with the first answer) is: Will this
matter a week from now? Then ask: Will
this matter one month from now? Less than
1% of 1% of problems aren't resolvable by
then, but if you must, continue by asking if
it will matter one year from now? Then ask
yourself if it will matter ten years from now?
And finally, the very esoteric question: Will
this still matter one hundred years from
now? Please try this ancient method. Don't
allow yourself to be drained by needless
negativity. Jnana Yoga is known as the Yoga
of Wisdom and is the perfect compliment,
and next step to Raja Yoga - the Yoga of
Meditation. Neti-Neti has been practiced by
people of all religions for thousands of years
and is still used today by hundreds of millions.
Now you have this valuable tool. Use
it and live happily ever after.

In the Sunday New York Times, there was an
article dealing with Faith and in it, they
cited this article from the New Scientist Magazine
that deals with "The God Question" that in a way
a previous recent post brought up. In any event,
it is very interesting in its own right/write. Enjoy!
---------------------------------------------------
http://www.phys.uoa.gr/~nektar/orthodoxy/explanatory/in_search_of_god.htm
In search of God
By Bob Holmes, New Scientist Magazine, 21 April 2001
(http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22871)

Are our religious feelings just a product of
how the brain works? Bob Holmes meets the researchers
who are trying to explain our most sacred thoughts.

EINSTEIN FELT IT. It's what draws people to church,
prayer, meditation, sacred dance and other rituals.
Chances are you've felt something like
it too--in the mountains, by the sea, or perhaps
while listening to a piece of music that's especially
close to your heart. In fact, more than
half of people report having had some sort of
mystical or religious experience. For some, the
experience is so intense it changes their life forever.

But what is «it"? The presence of God? A glimpse
of a higher plane of being? Or just the mystical
equivalent of déjà vu, a trick the brain
sometimes plays on your conscious self? At some
level, of course, all our thoughts and sensations
--however unusual--must involve the brain.
Indeed, experiments on the brain have led
neuroscientists to suggest that the capacity for
religion may somehow be hardwired into us. If so,
why do people's religious experiences differ so
profoundly, moving some so deeply while leaving
others cold?

Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist at the University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, has been fascinated
by the neurobiology of religion for more than a decade.
He admits it's an awkward role for a scientist. "I
always get concerned that people will say I'm a
religious person who's trying to prove that God
exists, or I'm a cynic who's trying to prove
that God doesn't exist," he says. "But we try to
approach it without bias." Earlier this month he
published a book, which lays out the most
complete theory to date of how mystical or
religious experiences can be generated in the brain.

Together with the now deceased Eugene d'Aquili, a
colleague from Penn, Newberg was keen to study the
sensations that are unique to religious
experiences but shared by people of all faiths.
One of these is the sense of «oneness with the
Universe» that enthralled Einstein. The other
is the feeling of awe that accompanies such
revelations and makes them stand out as more
important, more highly charged, and in a way more real
than our everyday lives.

But Newberg realised that rare, fleeting revelations
would be almost impossible to study in the lab.
It meant he had to ignore the one-off
experiences that strike out of the blue and
focus instead on meditation
and prayer--sedate, but at least reproducible.

Through a colleague who practised Tibetan Buddhism,
Newberg and d'Aquili managed to find eight skilled
meditators who were willing to undergo brain imaging.
The volunteers came to the lab one at a time, and
a technician inserted an intravenous tube into one
arm. Then the volunteer began to meditate as
normal, focusing intently on a single
image, usually a religious symbol. The goal was
to feel their everyday sense of self begin to
dissolve, so that they became one with the image.
«It feels like a loss of boundary,» says Michael
Baime, one of the meditators and also a researcher
in the study. "It's as if the film of
your life broke and you were seeing the light
that allowed the film to
be projected."

Hidden in the next room, Newberg and d'Aquili
waited. When the meditator felt the sense of
oneness developing--usually after about an
hour--they would tug on a string. This signalled
the researchers to inject a radioactive tracer
through the intravenous line. Within minutes
the tracer bound fast to the brain in greater
amounts where the blood flow, and hence brain
activity, had been higher. Later a scanner would
measure the distribution of the tracer to yield
a snapshot of brain activity at the time of binding.
The technique, called Single Photon
Emission Computed Tomography, or SPECT, allowed
the subjects to meditate in the relative peace
of the lab rather than the claustrophobic whirr of
a scanner. Once the tests were completed, Newberg
and d'Aquili compared the activity of the subjects'
brains during meditation with scans taken
when they were simply at rest.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the researchers found
intense activity in the parts of the brain that
regulate attention--a sign of the meditators'
deep concentration. But they saw something else,
too. During meditation, part of the parietal
lobe, towards the top and rear of the brain, was
much less active than when the volunteers were
merely sitting still. With a thrill, Newberg and
d'Aquili realised that this was the exact
region of the brain where the distinction between
self and other originates.

Broadly speaking, the left-hemisphere side of
this region deals with the individual's sense
of their own body image, while its
right-hemisphere equivalent handles its context
--the space and time inhabited by the self. Maybe,
the researchers thought, as the meditators
developed the feeling of oneness, they gradually
cut these areas off from the usual touch and
position signals that help create the body image.

"When you look at people in meditation, they
really do turn off their sensations to the outside
world. Sights and sounds don't disturb them
any more. That may be why the parietal lobe gets
no input,» says Newberg. Deprived of their usual
grist, these regions no longer function
normally, and the person feels the boundary
between self and other begin to dissolve. And
as the spatial and temporal context also disappears,
the person feels a sense of infinite space and eternity.

More recently, Newberg has repeated the experiment
with Franciscan nuns in prayer. The nuns--whose
prayer centres on words, rather than images--showed
activation of the language areas of the brain. But they,
too, shut down the same self regions of the brain
that the meditators did as their sense of oneness
reached its peak.

This sense of unity with the Universe isn't the
only characteristic of intense religious experiences.
They also carry a hefty emotional charge,
a feeling of awe and deep significance. Neuroscientists
generally agree that this sensation originates in
a region of the brain distinct from
the parietal lobe: the «emotional brain», or limbic
system, lying deep within the temporal lobes on
the sides of the brain.

The limbic system is a part of the brain that
dates from way back in our evolution. Its function
nowadays is to monitor our experiences and
label especially significant events, such as
the sight of your child's face, with emotional
tags to say «this is important». During an intense
religious experience, researchers believe that
the limbic system becomes unusually active,
tagging everything with special significance.

This could explain why people who have had
such experiences find them so difficult to
describe to others. "The contents of the experience
--the visual components, the sensory components--
are just the same as everyone experiences all
the time," says Jeffrey Saver, a neurologist at the
University of California, Los Angeles. "Instead,
the temporolimbic system is stamping these moments
as being intensely important to the individual, as being characterised by great
joy and harmony. When the
experience is reported to someone else, only the
contents and the sense that it's different can
be communicated. The visceral sensation can't."

Plenty of evidence supports the idea that the
limbic system is important in religious experiences.
Most famously, people who suffer
epileptic seizures restricted to the limbic system,
or the temporal lobes in general, sometimes report
having profound experiences during
their seizures. "This is similar to people undergoing
religious conversion, who have a sense of seeing
through their hollow selves or superficial reality
to a deeper reality," says Saver. As a result, he
says, epileptics have historically tended to be
the people with the great mystical experiences.

The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, for
example, wrote of «touching God» during epileptic
seizures. Other religious figures from the past
who may have been epileptic include St Paul, Joan
of Arc, St Theresa of Avila and Emanuel Swedenborg,
the 18th-century founder of the New Jerusalem Church.

Similarly, neurosurgeons who stimulate the limbic
system during open-brain surgery say their patients
occasionally report experiencing religious sensations. And Alzheimer's disease,
which is often marked by
a loss of religious interest, tends to cripple the
limbic system early on, says Saver.

The richness that limbic stimulation brings to
experience may explain why religions rely so heavily
on ritual, claims Newberg. The deliberate,
stylised motions of ceremony differentiate them
from everyday actions, he says, and help the brain
flag them as significant. Music, too, can
affect the limbic system, Japanese researchers
reported in 1997, driving it towards either arousal
or serene bliss. Chanting or ritual movements
may do the same. Meditation has also been shown to
induce both arousal and relaxation, often at the same time. "Sometimes people
refer to it as an active bliss,"
says Newberg. That marriage of opposites, he thinks,
adds to the intensity of the experience.

Even if these feelings of oneness and awe fall
short of the personal experiences of God that
many people report, anyone who still doubts the
brain's ability to generate religious experiences
need only visit neuroscientist Michael Persinger
at Laurentian University in the bleak
nickel-mining town of Sudbury, Ontario. He claims
almost anyone can meet God, just by wearing his special helmet.

For several years, Persinger has been using a
technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation
to induce all sorts of surreal experiences in ordinary
people (New Scientist, 19 November 1994, p 29).
Through trial and error and a bit of educated
guesswork, he's found that a weak magnetic field--1
microtesla, which is roughly that generated by
a computer monitor--rotating anticlockwise in a
complex pattern about the temporal lobes will cause
four out of five people to feel a spectral
presence in the room with them.

What people make of that presence depends on their
own biases and beliefs. If a loved one has recently
died, they may feel that person has
returned to see them. Religious types often identify
the presence as God. "This is all in the laboratory,
so you can imagine what would happen if the person
is alone in their bed at night or in a church,
where the context is so important," he says. Persinger
has donned the helmet himself and felt the presence,
though he says the richness of the
experience is diminished because he knows what's
going on.

Not everyone accepts that Persinger's apparitions
could equal what religious devotees experience.
"That is quite detached from anything
that's a genuine religious experience, in the
same way that psychoactive drugs can affect mood,
but not in a legitimate way," says Julian
Shindler, a spokesman for the Chief Rabbi's office
in London. "It's not the genuine article, somehow."

Whatever their validity, Persinger's experiments
show that mystical experiences consist of not only
what we perceive, but also how we interpret it.
"We fit it into a niche, a pigeonhole," says Persinger.
"The label that is then used to categorise the
experience will influence how the person remembers
it. And that will happen within a few
seconds." There's a third aspect, too: the
reinforcement that humans, as social animals,
get from sharing religious rituals with others.

"Religion is all three of those, and all three are
hardwired into the brain," says Persinger. "We are
hardwired to have experiences from time
to time that give us a sense of a presence, and
as primates we're hardwired to categorise our
experiences. And we crave social interaction
and spatial proximity with others that are the
same. What's not hardwired is the content. If you
have a God experience and the belief is
that you have to kill someone who doesn't believe
as you do, you can see why the content from the
culture is the really dangerous part."

So where does all this leave us? For whatever
reason--natural or supernatural--our big, powerful
brains clearly allow a novel sort of
experience that we call religion. But it's difficult
to say much more than that. "In a sense, biology evolving has discovered
something new about the Universe,"
says Charles Harper, executive director of the
Templeton Foundation, a private institution that
explores the interaction between religion and science.
"Almost all cultures have this religious sense,"» he says.
"Does that offer any insight for understanding the
grain of the Universe? That's a haunting question."

Sceptics of religion are quick to claim that the
brain's hardwiring proves that God has no real
existence, that it's all in the brain. "The
real common denominator here is brain activity,
not anything else," says Ron Barrier, a spokesman for American Atheists based in
Cranford, New Jersey. "There is
nothing to indicate that this is externally imposed or
that you are somehow tapping into a divine entity."

But Newberg isn't so sure. "We can't say they're wrong,"
he says. "On the other hand, if you're a religious
person, it makes sense that the
brain can do this, because if there is a God, it
makes sense to design the brain so that we can
have some sort of interaction. And we can't say
that's wrong, either. The problem is that all of
our experiences are equal, in that they are all
in the brain. Our experience of reality, our
experience of science, our mystical experiences
are all in the brain."

In fact, he goes on, practically the only way
we can judge the reality of an experience is by
how real it feels: "You can have a dream and it
feels real at the time, but you wake up and it
no longer feels as real. The problem is, when
people have a mystical experience, they think that
is more real than baseline reality--even when
they come back to baseline reality. That turns
everything around." To Newberg, it means that
reductionist science, powerful as it is, has
its limitations.

Religious experts agree. "You could say Shakespeare's
sonnets are nothing but a combination of pencil
lead and cellulose," says Harper.
"But you could also say this is the outflow of
a great soul, and that would also be true."
He says there are different levels of explanation
which are each true at their own level, but
which don't offer a comprehensive explanation.

Just as physicists cannot fully understand the
electron as either a particle or a wave, but
only as both at once, says Newberg, so we need
both science and a more subjective, spiritual
understanding in order to grasp the full nature of reality.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Further reading:

Why God Won't Go Away by Andrew Newberg, Eugene d'Aquili and Vince
Rause (Ballantine Books, 2001)

«The neural substrates of religious experience» by Jeffrey Saver and
John Rabin, The Journal of Neuropsychiatry, vol 9, p 498 (1997)

«Experimental induction of the 'sensed presence' in normal subjects and
an exceptional subject» by C. M. Cook and Michael Persinger, Perceptual
and Motor Skills, vol 85, p 683 (1997)


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>From New Scientist magazine, 21 April 2001.
http://www.newscientist.com/newsletter/features.jsp?id=ns22871
---------------------------------------------------------------
FAIR USE NOTICE
This site contains copyrighted material the
use of which has not always been specifically
authorized by the copyright owner. We are
making such material available in our efforts
to advance understanding of environmental,
political, human rights, economic, democracy,
scientific, spiritual, and social justice issues,
etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use'
of any such copyrighted material as provided
for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107,
the material on this site is distributed
without profit to those who have expressed a
prior interest in receiving the included information
for research and educational purposes. For more
information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this
site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use',
you must obtain permission from the copyright owner

Just Watch the Mind
"In meditation you fix the mind on one point.
You have to try, continuously, to keep the
vision in your mind; or, if you are utilizing
a mantra, then you repeat it continuously.
Still, the mind will try to run here and there.
When the mind runs away and you are conscious
of it, try to bring it back again. Sometimes,
without your knowledge, the mind goes off, and
you follow it. After ten or fifteen minutes,
you suddenly realize, `Oh, where am I?' That
itself is a very good meditation. You just
watch your own mind and allow the mind to go
about while you watch. Then, slowly, you will
see the running about calming down, and the
mind will gradually become pure.

"God bless you. OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti."

For more by and about Swami Satchidananda:
www.YogaAndPeace.org.

The  practice of Vipassana or Insight Meditation
is  the  effort made  by the meditator to understand
correctly the nature  of  the psycho-physical
phenomena taking place in his own body.  Physical
phenomena  are the things or objects which one
clearly  perceives around  one.  The whole of one's
body that one  clearly  perceives constitutes  a
group of material qualities (rupa).  Psychical  or
mental  phenomena are acts of consciousness or
awareness  (nama). These (nama-rupas) are clearly
perceived to be happening  whenever they are seen,
heard,  smelt, tasted,  touched or thought of.  We
must make ourselves aware of them by observing them
and  noting thus: 'Seeing, seeing', 'hearing, hearing',
'smelling,  smelling', 'tasting, tasting', 'touching,
touching', or 'thinking, thinking.'

Every time one sees. hears. smells. tastes,
touches, or thinks, one should make a note of the fact.
But in the beginning of one's practice, one cannot
make a note of every one of these happenings.
One should,  therefore,  begin with noting those
happenings  which are conspicuous and easily perceivable.

With every act of breathing, the abdomen rises
and falls,  which movement is always evident.
This is the material quality known as
vayodhatu (the element of motion). One should begin
by noting this movement,  which  may be done by
the mind intently  observing  the abdomen.
You will find the abdomen rising when you  breathe
in, and  falling  when you breathe out.  The rising
should  be  noted mentally  as  'rising',  and
the falling  as  'falling'. If  the movement is not
evident by just noting it mentally,  keep touching
the abdomen with the palm of your hand. Do not
alter the manner of your breathing.  Neither slow
it down, nor make it faster.  Do not breathe
too vigorously,  either. You will tire if you
change the manner of your breathing.  Breathe
steadily as usual and note  the rising and falling
of the abdomen as they occur. Note it mentally,
not verbally.

In  vipassana meditation,  what you name or say
doesn't  matter. What  really  matters is to know
or perceive.   While  noting  the rising of the
abdomen,  do so from the beginning to the end of the
movement just as if you are seeing it with your eyes.
Do the same with the falling movement.  Note
the rising movement in such a way that your
awareness of it is concurrent with the movement itself.
The movement and the mental awareness of it
should coincide in the same way as a stone thrown
hits the target.  Similarly with the falling movement.

Your  mind  may  wander  elsewhere while  you
are  noting  the abdominal  movement.  This must
also be noted by  mentally  saying 'wandering,
wandering.'  When this has been noted once or  twice,
the mind stops wandering,  in which case you go
back to noting the rising and falling of the abdomen.
If the mind reaches somewhere, note  as  'reaching,
reaching.'  Then go back to the  rising  and
falling of the abdomen.  If you imagine meeting
somebody,  note as 'meeting,  meeting.'  Then back
to the rising and falling.  If you imagine  meeting
and  talking  to  somebody,  note  as  'talking, talking.'

In  short,  whatever  thought or reflection
occurs  should  be noted.  If  you  imagine,
note  as  'imagining'.  If  you  think, 'thinking'.
If   you   plan,  'planning'.   If   you   perceive,
'perceiving'.  If you reflect,  'reflecting'.
If you feel  happy,'happy'. If you feel bored,
'bored'. If you feel glad, 'glad'.  If you feel
disheartened,  'disheartened'.  Noting all these
acts  of consciousness is called cittanupassana.

Because we fail to note these acts of consciousness,
we  tend to  identify them with a person or individual.
We tend  to  think that it is 'I' who is imagining,
thinking,  planning,  knowing (or perceiving).
We think that there is a person who  from  childhood
onwards  has been living and thinking.  Actually,
no such  person exists.  There  are instead only
these continuing  and  successive acts of consciousness.
That is why we have to note these acts  of
consciousness and know them for what they are.
That is why we have to note each and every act
of consciousness as it arises.  When so noted, it
tends to disappear. We then go back to noting the rising
and falling of the abdomen.
---------------------------------------------------------
This is an excerpt from:
PRACTICAL VIPASSANA MEDITATIONAL EXERCISES
by Ven Mahasi Sayadaw Agga Mahapandita U Sobhana

Buddhasasananuggaha Association, Rangoon, Myanmar.
First Printed December, 1978
---------------------------------------------------------
FAIR USE NOTICE
This site contains copyrighted material the
use of which has not always been specifically
authorized by the copyright owner. We are
making such material available in our efforts
to advance understanding of environmental,
political, human rights, economic, democracy,
scientific, spiritual, and social justice issues,
etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use'
of any such copyrighted material as provided
for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107,
the material on this site is distributed
without profit to those who have expressed a
prior interest in receiving the included information
for research and educational purposes. For more
information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this
site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use',
you must obtain permission from the copyright owner

All the books of Nisargadatta Maharaj is available here for free download at :
http://nisargadatta.we.bs

Check if you have missed to read any. If anybody knows about a book which is not
listed here, please send me a copy, I shall include it.

Manu

http://www.messagefrommasters.com/
Buddha Teachings of Buddha Beings

Gautam Buddha Dhammapada Teachings - Dhammapada
has been regarded as most succinct expression
of the Buddha teaching

Osho Teachings - Enlightened Teachings of Osho
from His Discourses, meditation techniques,
Quotes and Stories

Jiddu Krishnamurti Teachings - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Discourses, Quotes and Osho vision on Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teachings

Ramana Maharshi Teachings - Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
teachings on Self Inquiry Meditation,
Who Am I meditation technique, Discourses

Sri Ramakrishna Teachings - Sri Ramakrishna Discourses
from Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna and Osho Vision
on Sri Ramakrishna teachings

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching Teachings - Tao Te Ching
Discourses carries the essence of Profound Tao
Teachings of Tao Master Lao Tzu

Gurdjieff Teachings - Osho Vision on Gurdjieff
Teachings, Work, Sacred dances, disciples and
Gurdjieff Photos, Videos

Adi Shankaracharya Teachings - Writings and Poetic
works of Adi Shankaracharya

--- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, medit8ionsociety
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.messagefrommasters.com/
> Buddha Teachings of Buddha Beings
>
> Gautam Buddha Dhammapada Teachings - Dhammapada
> has been regarded as most succinct expression
> of the Buddha teaching
>
> Osho Teachings - Enlightened Teachings of Osho
> from His Discourses, meditation techniques,
> Quotes and Stories
>
> Jiddu Krishnamurti Teachings - Jiddu Krishnamurti
> Discourses, Quotes and Osho vision on Jiddu Krishnamurti
> Teachings
>
> Ramana Maharshi Teachings - Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
> teachings on Self Inquiry Meditation,
> Who Am I meditation technique, Discourses
>
> Sri Ramakrishna Teachings - Sri Ramakrishna Discourses
> from Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna and Osho Vision
> on Sri Ramakrishna teachings
>
> Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching Teachings - Tao Te Ching
> Discourses carries the essence of Profound Tao
> Teachings of Tao Master Lao Tzu
>
> Gurdjieff Teachings - Osho Vision on Gurdjieff
> Teachings, Work, Sacred dances, disciples and
> Gurdjieff Photos, Videos
>
> Adi Shankaracharya Teachings - Writings and Poetic
> works of Adi Shankaracharya
>

Thanks, Bob. Great stuff.

Jeff

Hi friends, iam new to this group. I have a problem in doing meditation. When i
started meditation, after some time iam falling backwards suddenly and i cant
concentrate in meditation. Can any one solve my problem, my name is karthik.


       Explore and discover exciting holidays and getaways with Yahoo! India
Travel http://in.travel.yahoo.com/

GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES IN YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY.

THE LATEST VOLUME OF THE SPIRITUAL WEB SITE www.ahwan.org (or www.ahwan.com) :
VOLUME 99, May 2009 ISSUE,  has been published and uplinked with the article "IN
SEARCH OF GOD –The Illusive one- Part 3"

- If you visit the site, and have any observations to make, I shall be grateful.
There are also interesting questions from readers dealing with "God worship-
does it improve our lot?", "Understanding man and God?", "Movement through many
dimensions", "Emptyness in life", "Serving human beings" etc. You can also
browse the previous articles by clicking on the ikon `articles'. Please share it
with your friends and dear ones.  God bless you-  Sri Bimal Mohanty.
(bimal_mohanty@...)
PS – To continue spreading the benefit of AHWAN to all, we need your assistance
if you please. Click on `special information' on the homepage of www.ahwan.org.

If you do not wish to receive this information about future issues, please
e-mail accordingly - Thank you.
If you wish someone to receive this information as compliments from you please
indicate his/her e-mail address.
____________________

You can usher a qualitative change in your life, the spiritual way- the
effective way. Visit the website www.ahwan.org. or www.ahwan.com.
regularly. Share it with your friends and dear ones in any manner convenient-
through discussing, speaking, writing, inter-netting.

--- In meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com, Cosmic Phoenix
<ravendancer55@...> wrote:
>
> Try a chair maybe. Everyone has difficulty with concentration. Keep 
refocusing on your breath, persist and you'll be more comfortable later with
practice.
>
I think this is good advise, and I'm sure that a
position for meditation can be found that doesn't
cause falling backward or any other distraction
that is caused by your body. Most meditative
traditions place great importance on the
posture used for meditation, and similarly on not
having your emotions or mental chatter take your
your attention away from the focus of your
meditation. I think you may benefit from the
article on our web site (Meditation Station) that
is titled "What Is Meditation". It will give you
a basic understanding of meditation and the things
that can cause you to "fall" off of your aim.
http://www.meditationsociety.com/what.html
Peace and blessings,
Bob

> --- On Thu, 5/14/09, karthik p <karthik1eee@...> wrote:
>
> From: karthik p <karthik1eee@...>

> Hi friends, iam new to this group. I have a problem in doing meditation. When
i started meditation, after some time iam falling backwards suddenly and i cant
concentrate in meditation. Can any one solve my problem, my name is karthik.
>
>
>
> Explore and discover exciting holidays and getaways with Yahoo! India Travel
http://in.travel. yahoo.com/
>