[MD] What is SOM?

[David M]

Krim

I see, sounds a bit like switching into short-wave and long range perhaps?
It's all about those good good, good vibrations.

DM


> dmb,
> First I would like to thank you for the thoughtful reply.
>
> If anything I think you underestimate the importance of mystical 
> experiences
> and their frequency of occurrence. You say for example, "Insights and
> epiphanies powerful enough to shake things up and re-arrange the attitude, 
> a
> new gestalt. Feels like an avalanche, like weight shifting of its own
> accord." I would say that is exactly what drives most good scientists. It 
> is
> what I suspect drives almost anyone who is good at anything.
>
> Personally I achieve a feeling of Oneness, unity, identity, unification,
> wholeness, pure, undivided, immediate and undifferentiated, experience in
> movie theaters. I like to sit in the first third of the theater, dead
> center. In a stadium theater with Dolby I am totally absorbed in the film.
>
> I also frequently lose myself in driving, reading, playing guitar or
> diapering my grandkids. I am not saying this to be facetious. I think 
> these
> are genuine mystical experiences.
>
> You say:
> "If the professor in my department are right, those projects require
> interdisciplinary methodologies, team work across disciplines and
> interpretive rather than observational skills. You also need people who 
> can
> have a mystical experience, who have some actual experience and training.
> This is a tall order and its not a simple matter. But its simple in
> principle."
>
> Ok, your professor it right. It does take that kind of team and that kind 
> of
> experimental subject. Here it is. In practice complete with control group:
>
> http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/pubs/2004/meditators_synchrony.pdf
>
> Your wishes have been granted. What do you make of it?
>
> Krimel
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