Originally posted by AST
By James Randi's definition what constituites a paranormal demonstration. I read an article where scientists hooked a Tibetan monk up to monitors and were able to record an almost 60% reduction in body metabolism. There has also been scientific recordings of Yogis controlling their respiration, heartbeat, body temperature etc.
Adrian Teixeira
Adrian,
I have on video from the Discovery Channel or PBS from the very early 90's a show about "power of the mind" and such. They have a whole segment on what you mention about the monks. In Tibet, they go into a below freezing room, dipped towels in buckets of ice water, wrapped themselves with the towels, within 5 mins of meditation, the towels began to steam off of them. Next, the scientists hooked up electrodes to one monk, and could see threw spectrum analysis his body temputure rise or drop when he wanted it to. I'll have to watch it again and take notes
Eric Weil
"Kuji first, Taijutsu last"