Meditation as Transcending All Thought

Oct 22, 2016 | Article, NeuroQuantology

NeuroQuantology 2016

Robert W. Boyer, Park Hensley

Abstract

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras in ancient Vedic literature identifies the essential practice of Yoga as settling mental activity to inner silence, samadhi. Vedic proponent Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has re-clarified the systematic technology to experience samadhi effortlessly, the Transcendental Meditation® technique. Its efficacy is supported by extensive research on transcendental consciousness as a fourth state in addition to waking, dreaming, and sleep, that results in a wide range of mental, physical, and social health benefits. This effortless technique has been distinguished from concentrative, contemplative, and mindfulness practices that correlate with psychophysiological signatures associated with the ordinary waking state of consciousness. Direct experience of samadhi adds to the systematic means to gain knowledge in the ordinary waking state that has been fundamental to modern science.

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What are the Laws of Nature Anyway? Part II: The Holistic Vedic Model

Unless We Are Robots, Classical and Quantum Theories Are Fundamentally Inadequate

Mar 1, 2014 | Article, NeuroQuantology

NeuroQuantology | March 2014 | Volume 12 | Issue 1 | Page 102-125

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In classical physics, all change in nature is believed to take place in an unbroken chain of cause and effect. In quantum physics, change is believed to be irreducibly probabilistic, and perhaps even fundamentally random. Neither classical determinism nor orthodox quantum indeterminism is consistent with causally efficacious minds. If either is correct, we humans are robots with no free will. For a way out of this meaninglessness, recent progress toward a subtler nonlocal causal wave model of real mind is overviewed. The model is in the direction of Sankhya ontology and Yoga epistemology in the ancient holistic Vedic account, which we will see is rich enough for rational explanation and empirical validation of free will.

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A Critique of Scientific Realism Based in Vedic Principles

Sep 1, 2013 | Article, NeuroQuantology

NeuroQuantology | September 2013 | Volume 11 | Issue 3 |

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The shift from particle to field theories has been crumbling pillars of classical objective science, and is reverberating in philosophy of science. Fundamental issues implicit in objective science—process of observing, observer or subject, dividing line between objective and subjective—are now more explicit. These issues are examined in this critique of scientific realism, held to be the best argument for objective science. A developmental model of levels of reality in different states of consciousness is introduced as a more integrated framework for addressing the core challenges to scientific realism.

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