How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Change Science

Re:How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Chan... by ChuckFrank on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:09PM (#7309570)

My family knows Har-Prakash Khalsa well, and while this work appears to rely heavily on anecdotal descriptions of this condition called 'cessation', his photographic work that he develops in tandem to his meditation practice is pretty impressive. I'm not sure if that ads anything to the discussion, but the pictures are nice to look at.

http://art.harprakashkhalsa.com/exhibitions/true-nature.php

If people are interested in his meditation practice, he has some youtube videos up.

Steps to meditation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUR0DNDnj8

Nature of the intellect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPrm7YaaU1Y

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Re:How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Chan... by ChuckFrank on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:16PM (#7309611)

I do want to add that one of the frustrations that I've had with this type meditation work, specifically the Kundalini meditation practice that is the basis for this study, and that is that there's always a heavily structured pseudo-scientific process instructing a participant in the right ways of meditation.

There will be the different stages of the mind, or the different parts of the brain, all of which is simply taxonomic and not in any way related to anything scientific. So the learning of the 'ancient' or 'revered' system becomes the method to which true meditation can be achieved. Naturally this process, this method is nothing but fiction. Compelling perhaps, but still fiction.

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Re:How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Chan... by ph4 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:28PM (#7309665)

So? Why does do you need science's permission to do anything?

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Re:How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Chan... by trekky1700 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:33PM (#7309689)

I would say you need the laws of science's permission to do anything.

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Re:How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Chan... by byjazz on Thursday February 27, 2014 @07:33AM (#7311762)

Actually, you need the Laws of Nature's permission. Science is a human attempt to get at them. Showing that you can do something in spite of the current laws of science is how you make them evolve and progress.

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