The Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program are widely practiced mental techniques which have been reported to have therapeutic value in relieving mental and physical tension and to unfold each person's natural capacity for happiness. In the early 1970s, Wallace [1] reported physiological changes during meditation which indicated a state of deep relaxation along with mental alertnes...

Marked decline of red cell metabolism has been described during the acute state of decreased activation associated with the stylized mental technique of transcendental meditation (TM) in long-term meditators (5-10 years regular elicitation, TM instructors). It is not known whether unstylized rest is accompanied by a similar effect and it is not known what effector(s) may contribute to red cell ...

Interdisciplinary studies programs have been widely used to develop students’ problem-solving abilities and to promote more holistic and integrated understanding of knowledge. The Maharishi Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) course directly addresses the integrative goal of interdisciplinary study by describing universal principles of creative intelligence that can be found in all academic ...

Previous research into the sleep patterns of human newborns of different gestational age has revealed that in the course of ontogenesis the randomly occurring, isolated, low frequency REMs (rapid S<ye movements) of the undifferentiated sleep of the premature are gradually ordered in groups of REMs or high frequency REMs, characteristic of mature REM sleep (Petre-Quadens, 1967, 1969, 1978, 1980;...

Objective: Meditation is one type of mental training that has been shown to produce many cognitive benefits. Meditation practice is associated with improvement in concentration and reduction of stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, different forms of meditation training are now being used as interventions for a variety of psychological and somatic illnesses. These benefits are ...

Long-term meditating subjects report that transcendental experiences (TE), which first occurred during their Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice, now subjectively co-exist with waking and sleeping states. To investigate neurophysiological correlates of this integrated state, we recorded EEG in these subjects and in two comparison groups during simple and choice contingent negative variation...

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi approaches peace from collective consciousness, the holistic level of society where all its component parts are integrated. Collective consciousness arises from the consciousness of all individuals in society and reciprocally influences each individual’s consciousness and behavior. The basis of all levels of individual and collective consciousness is transcendental conscio...

Abstract In contentless experience (sometimes termed pure consciousness ) there is an absence of mental content such as thought, perception, and imagery. The path to in meditation can be taken comprise the technique, experiences (“interim-states”) on way “goal-state/s”. Shamatha, Transcendental, Stillness Meditation are each said access experience, but that practice not yet well understood from...