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Mr. Dallen,

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
 - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds
are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her
tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even
the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve
of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
 - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

W.G.Johnson
Ubermensch Sports Consultancy
San Diego, CA.


--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Skip Dallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Universities and scientists were supported by the Church.  
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> I'd hope the moderators would screen bigoted attacks.
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> Skip Dallen
> Covina, CA
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Ken ONeill 
>   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>   Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:31 AM
>   Subject: [Supertraining] Re: CNS fatigue
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>   Jon Haddan writes asking:
>   <<CNS fatigue seems to be a bit of a black box. Is there
>   any real scientific understanding of it that addresses
>   it in the way it typically is discussed by coaches, or
>   is it just an explanation for declining performance
>   when no other cause can be found?>>>
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>   CNS fatigue is one of those je ne sais pas along with spontaneous
remission. That is to say the term is bantied around continually as if
there is some intrinsic, perhaps esoteric, meaning implied. You ask if
there is any "real scientific understanding". Methinks NOT. Here we're
dealing with what Aussie philosopher of neuroscience and consciousness
David Chalmers deems one of the hard problems: qualia, a term from
William James.
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>   And it is with William James we must start. Remember the
scientific heresy? From the Latin Renaissance until the triumph of the
anonymous Rosicrucian texts of 1614-1617, the Roman Church treated
science as heresy and scientists as heretics, some being condemned,
some burned at the stake. The Rosicrucain texts, chiefly the Fama Frat
ernitatus, held that one could come to know the mind of God by reading
the Book of Nature (Liber Mundi): that resolved the dilemma between
science and revelation in one book (Bible or Koran is today's quest
ion). The deal that resulted was that scientists could study External,
Measurable phenomena but had to leave the mind alone since it is the
seat of the Soul or Psyche, property of the Holy Roman Church and it's
little foreign dictator who hallucinates the Skygod talking to him. It
was in the wake of Darwin, Marx, and Wagner that in the early
Post-Christian era William James in 1878 established the first
psychology lab in the world: a new era was born, and Nietschze
published the obituary of Skygod. 
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>   CNS fatigue is much talked about, as if it's a given, a force of
nature that reigns supreme, perhaps the skygod of weight training who
imposes his wrathful limits just when you want to move forward. Were
our "universal science" not colonial imperialist Western Science, then
we'd be scouring the world over to comprehend just what the hell "cns
fatigue" might mean in terms of observable performance and aquisition
of replicable skills - both conditions. The sad state of Western
Science is that it's curious culturally bound limits, inherited from
medieval Catholic doctrinal superstition, creates a kind of
blindsightedness: a science may well observe a phenomen, but if it
falls outside the official doctrinal base of Western science, in order
to uphold conformity to mediocrity and pseudo-science, then s/he will
have a "negative hallucination": it never happened, I cannot see it.
Why risk academic heresy in an academy formed from the social
institutions of religion that gave us the Inquisition,
Anti-Semiticism, and Crusades? After all, deviation can result in
being identified as a heretic, thus being blackballed, not getting
tenure, etc.
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>   Thirty-five years ago a fellowship took me to Japan for further
education. On purpose. Having reached the limits of Westen philosophy
(a lot of talk about talk, a game without conclusions) and Western
psychology (then conveniently divided into two departments: those who
followed cocaine addict Freud and his reductionist system of plumbing,
pipes and pressures reducing all behavior and inspiration to illnesses
and sexual pathologies - what a sicko, and the pre-computer
behaviorists denying existence of mind, emotion, obsessed with rodents
and worms and mazes, messing up their grandchildren as BF Skinner
did), I went off to Asia to learn and practice a psychology going back
three thousand years, not less than one-hundred. Of course, we don't
recognize it as psychology: our colonialist scholars have made a
religion of it in order to conform to patterns of cultural
sluggishness. How is it martial artists, for example, can call up and
manifest exceptional skills, seemingly going well beyound our
standarized notions of mind, body, energy, and fatigue. How can our
science be so pathetically stupid and ingrown as to Ignore or Dismiss
what folks in other cultures can do?
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>   In my opinion, most people in their training never come close to
CNS fatigue. They simply lack the drive, the concentration, the
samadhi, the isshin ni, and a host of other words t hat don't well
translate to English or other European languages simply out of their
depth with regard to the fauna and flora of mind/spirit/soul.
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>   Them's my opinions. As a coach, I slip in a lot of covert training
of mind/spirit/soul, nominally as "breathing", attention, focus,
drive, all those words. Having earned licenses in Asia the
old-fashioned way t hirty-five years ago, I'm not bound to package it
in any specific manner, just teach it. Bodhibuilder Frank Zane does
much the same.
> 
>   cheers from Austin, Texas, Live Music Capitol of the World
> 
>   Ken ONeill
>   Austin, Tejas
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   EarthLink Revolves Around You.
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