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Here is a link to a You Tube video of Dr. Herbert Benson discussing some of his team's most recent discoveries of the relaxation response. The lecture was held at the Harvard University Book Store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7JfC3_Zgc The title of vide is: Herbert Benson - The Relaxation Revo...

Hello Pink. Thank you very much for your reply. You should read Jean Shinoda-Bolen's two classic books. One is the 'Gods in Every Man' and the other is 'The Goddess In Every Woman'. Dr. Shinoda-Bolen is a Jungian psychologist. The studies on near-death experiences (NDE) and outer-body experiences (O...

Hello Pink. You have presented many important questions, which have greater value than the answers the BKs may present to the public to maintain their name brand, East and West. One question I add to your questions is: How authentic is Denise? How authentic is her absolute and relative standards of ...

Hello Warrior, the photographs have got to be close to 40 years old, taken around 1978. I remember Errol discussing the medical and physiological aspects of the studies in the early 1980s. Of course, his little ripple in the pond of scientific contemplation arising from his meditations became a BK s...

I do recall 30 plus years ago when Mother Theresa won the Nobel Peace Prize, a reactionary maneuver by the BK publicity apparatus, especially in the West to posture Janki Dadi and BKSU for attention by the Nobel Prize selection committee. Mr. Shannon may well be part of the machinery for the BK to r...

Quite a great deal of the BK communication of knowledge is show business. A name brand is being sold to souls of the earth and God is the center piece of the name brand. Color plays a significant role in two aspects. There is the color of skin of those representing the name brand and there is the co...

Ex-I, with respect to the blond and blue-eye business, I find it amusing and a bit amazing. The BK trying to be connected to the Nazis! Errol, in the Summer of 1983, along with the late BK Barbara Moore and another Sister, was interviewed by Kim Davis on Channel 12 (the NBC affiliate in Montgomery, ...

Pink, Thank you very much for your historical review. Another contemporary of Einstein was professor Walter Hess who did EEG and brain stimulation studies on cats and demonstrated a response similar to the relaxation response (RR). The RR is the psycho-physiologic opposite or antagonist to the emerg...

Ex-I and Pink, thank you for your deep insights. The BKs have to remember that it was the counter culture revolution in the West, that brought the first set of Western souls to the Mount Abu in the 1970s. In the 1960s, Benson and Wallace commenced conducting psychophysiology studies on yogis by rand...

I respect many of the spiritual principles of the BK system. However, some of the principles, which are lacking in spiritual truths, like some of the leaders, need to be shelved and replaced with that which is authentic. The four major religions have lasted this long because of efforts to ensure opt...

I remember Charles from decades ago in Madhuban. He is Janki's favorite. In those days he seemed to think, and still may be thinking, that the Peaceable Kingdom, aka the Golden Age, will only be inherited by one ethnic group.

Stability of the mind can be mistaken for high emotional intelligence quotient or EQ. Stability of mind can be erroneously regarded as balance or harmony with the self, others, and the multi-verse. Many yogis, including BKs think that stability and detachment without EQ are signs of a powerful stage...

The BKs have always placed a high premium on the power of Raj Yoga to neutralize or eliminate negative sanskars or the sins of many births. The powers of Raj Yoga can be investigated by mixed methods of scientific investigation. However, the subjects of the studies will have to be honest when partic...

Ex-I and Pink you have many valid and interesting points. I'll comment on a few. There are some questions on the sample population used for the study at the Langley Porter Institute. The sample seemed skewed. Pink with respect to one individual demonstrating a predominance of delta waves during medi...

Was Janki Dadi in the seed form stage when the delta waves were recorded on her EEG? A descriptive investigation would have been able to provide answers to the question as part of the qualitative data generated from such an investigation. Errol did indicate to me that several BKs were the subjects o...