Blind faith and evolution

[Angrboda]

We know that many drugs, if administered repeatedly, like meditation is repeatedly administered, can result in permanent changes to the brain which persist even in the absence of the drug. And the normal brain processes such as learning, memory, and development are themselves chemical processes, so to deny that chemical processes can result in durable changes to the brain is simply absurd and provably false.

First of all i wouldn't mix drugs effect with meditation.
It would be like mixing masturbation with making love.
Since you start with the wrong foot everything that follow is also incorrect.
While masturbation produce long term problem making love does not.
Drugs effect affect the brains ok and in a bad way but meditation goes well over the brain.
Meditation goes right into the consciousness but what would you know about it considering that you never practice the REAL yoga.

I'm beginning to wonder why so many of your replies to me make reference to masturbation. Do you have something on your mind, Enrico?

Do you know what 'ignoratio elenchi' is? It's a fallacy, and it occurs when you give an answer that doesn't address the point in question. Allow me to refresh your "superior" memory.

Stimbo asked you, "Rico, how do you know that these feelings that you are interpreting as 'higher consciousness' are not simply the effect of neurochemicals upon the brain brought about by deep relaxation techniques?"

And your response was that chemicals do not cause durable changes to a person's mind. This was false. And none of the blather above addresses Stimbo's original question. That's ignoratio elenchi.

Obviously, not content with following a false claim with a fallacious reply, you went for the hat trick by admitting that meditation does affect the brain just as drugs affect the brain. Are you trying to look stupid on purpose, or is this what 40 years of your 'tantric' yoga has done to your mind?

If you are this incompetent at the grosser aspects of consciousness — simple reasoning — why would anyone trust that you are competent with regard to other, subtler aspects of consciousness? And knowing that Ananda Marga have a history of unethical and predatory practices, and you apparently align yourself with them and their founder, I have every reason to suspect that you, too, are predatory and unethical. You've already been caught lying, and then lied about your lying. I don't know if you're simply a brainless idiot who is yet another victim of this cheap knock-off copy of Hinduism, a predator looking to make converts through dishonesty and pretense, or just a desperate person looking for attention. What I do know is that you have been repeatedly asked to give us some reason to believe you, and quite the contrary, you've given us countless reasons not to. At worst, you're malevolent. At best, you're an incompetent boob. Fortunately for you, even fools have a role to play, and you're bringing smiles to the faces of members here by giving them something to laugh at.