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MaharSi Patañjalin (n. 200 eaa??) joogasuutrissa termillä 'siddhi' tarkoitetaan
erityisesti kolmannen osan (nimeltään vibhuuti-paada) sanyamaksi ( ~sañjama)
kutsutulla meditaatiotekniikalla (joka koostuu dhaaraNaa'sta, dhyaana'sta ja
samaadhi'sta) aikaansaatuja ns. "yliluonnollisia" kykyjä (esim. levitaatio eli
aakaasha-gamanam, menneisyyden ja tulevaisuuden tietäminen eli
atiitaanagatajñaanam, näkymättömyys eli antardhaanam ja toiseen roppaan
oman mielen siirtäminen eli cittasya para-shariiraaveshaH).
Jostain meitsille tuntemattomasta syystä Maharishi Mahesh Yogi halusi käyttää
"yksi-deellistä" muotoa 'sidhi', vaikka tuollaista sanaa ei sanskritissa lienekkään.
1. Study Compares Brain Waves of Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi
Programs
For the first time, a study has been conducted that compares the EEG
patterns during the Transcendental Meditation® technique with the patterns
during the TM-Sidhi® program.
"The results of this study suggest that practice of the TM-Sidhi program
stabilizes the experience of pure consciousness while it supports the
ability to think and act within the transcendent," said faculty researcher
Fred Travis.
He found higher alpha1 and beta1 EEG amplitude in frontal executive areas
during TM-Sidhi practice compared to TM practice. Also, eLORETA reported
sources of activation in right-hemisphere object-recognition areas involved
in specific/holistic representation of words,
which supports the description of the practice as putting one's attention on
specific sutras or verses.
"We've long understood that the practice of the TM-Sidhi program, which is
traditionally called sanyama, involves both awareness of specific sutras and
of one's unbounded Self," Dr. Travis said. "Now we're able to see that this
subjective experience is reflected in the activity of the brain as measured
by EEG."
The specific object-recognition areas that Dr. Travis looked at included the
right parahippocampus gyrus, right fusiform gyrus, lingual gyrus, and
inferior and medial temporal cortices -- areas involved in specific/holistic
representation of words.
He said that this supports the description of the TM-Sidhi program as
involving internally directed attention in contrast to the process of
effortless transcending during the Transcendental Meditation technique.
Although EEG patterns during Transcendental Meditation technique have been
extensively investigated, this was the first study to compare those patterns
with those during the practice of the TM-Sidhi program.
Dr. Travis's random-assignment study, published in the International Journal
of Psychophysiology, involved 26 subjects who had been practicing the
Transcendental Meditation technique an average of 25.6 years and the
TM-Sidhi program an average of 19.4 years.
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