neurogenesis is already known to happen when you practice stuff such as meditation, this is nothing special as this is practicing a muscle like any other.
But not because of someone else is waving good thoughts at you.
In here, when you feel like jumping and saying "It is true!" on some half worked-science, you better show some data and not just scream wolf.
to me i've always seen the ability for thought to influence the body and brain as mind-matter interaction, so perhaps we're just not communicating properly. I realized a couple days after that the book was a bad selection for what i was trying to accomplish. You probably thought i was excusing another person's thinking for an individual's neurogenesis. Ya that's not what i was getting at.
What i did complain about was a bias in Neurofeedback, which does have evidence to support that it works. I suppose i just enjoy the idea the the brain is a dynamic organ whose ailments are not written in stone... perhaps that's idealistic... when i tried supporting myself on the other areas, i did it as a way to say it's possible. Either or, you agreed with me on the most important of the points (personal reality, neurogenesis)... so i don't get why we're debating, cause i agree with you lol.
Anyways, perhaps thughes is right and this thread doesn't belong here.
Edited by mysticpsi, 07 June 2008 - 02:03 PM.