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Prayer A Spiritual Boost For The Sick, Say Believers

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First Posted: 08/29/2011 5:02 pm Updated: 10/29/2011 5:12 am

www.latimes.com:

Do prayers really work or are skeptics correct when they say today's miracles are tomorrow's science? "The medical community measures and quantifies," replied Hattan. "You can't measure spirituality. And there are too many people out there who will tell you that prayer works."

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11:38 PM on 09/05/2011
"You can't measure spirituality. And there are too many people out there who will tell you that prayer works."

People believe a lot of things. Tests have not borne out these beliefs.
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02:02 PM on 09/07/2011
"You can't measure spirituali­ty."
Measuring spirituality:
Research on the physiological correlates of pure consciousness found during TM practice:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7045911
Breath suspension during the transcendental meditation technique.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10512549
Pure consciousness: distinct phenomenological and physiological correlates of "consciousness itself".

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9009807
Autonomic patterns during respiratory suspensions: possible markers of Transcendental Consciousness.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10487785
Autonomic and EEG patterns during eyes-closed rest and transcendental meditation (TM) practice: the basis for a neural model of TM practice.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19862565
A self-referential default brain state: patterns of coherence, power, and eLORETA sources during eyes-closed rest and Transcendental Meditation practice.

Research on the physiological correlates of the stabilization of pure consciousness outside of meditation in long-term TM meditators:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12406612
Patterns of EEG coherence, power, and contingent negative variation characterize the integration of transcendental and waking states.

http://www.tm.org/american-psychological-association
Abstract for the 2007 Conference of the American Psychological Association
Brain Integration Scale: Corroborating Language-based 
Instruments of Post-conventional Development

Research on the physiological correlates of the stabilization of pure consciousness outside of meditation in non-meditators:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.01007.x/full
Higher psycho-physiological refinement in world-class Norwegian athletes: brain measures of performance capacity
02:35 PM on 09/07/2011
My post was about people believing that prayer works when tests have proven otherwise. But thanks for the interesting links.
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ddanimal
08:00 PM on 09/02/2011
"You cant measure spirituality"

Oh yes we can. And scientisits have done so. And they have found that prayer is bunk and does not work.