This contribution outlines the broad historical implications of scientific research on the Transcendental Meditation program for developing enlightened individuals, an enlightened society, cultural integrity, and world peace. This address, presented in October 1974, includes Maharishi's projection that one percent of a population participating in the Transcendental Meditation program will cause...

The percentage of participants in the Transcendental Meditation programme was found to be a reliable predictor of increased social order, as reflected by a decrease in crime rate, in cities of the Kansas City metropolitan area between 1974 and 1976. It was further found that crime rate began to decrease when numbers practising Transcendental Meditation reached one percent of a city's population...

The study was designed to investigate the influence of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on hearing threshold, and to compare the relative influence of Transcendental Meditation and rest. A group of 29 volunteers aged between 16 and 6/ were tested, all of whom were practising TM regularly. The experiment was conducted in two phases: 15 subjects rested in the first phase and meditated...

Computerized spectral analysis and qualitative reports determined distinctions among the EEG records during Transcendental Meditation, the different sleep stages, and waking in meditators and controls. Speculations were formulated concerning the possibility that the changes in consciousness induced during the process of Transcendental Meditation may carry over into waking, dreaming, and sleep s...

A multivariate study was conducted on 23 subjects practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique and participating in a six-month Age of Enlightenment advanced training program. The electroencephalogram of each subject was recorded before and during the Transcendental Meditation technique, and compressed spectral arrays of coherence above a threshold of0.95 were subsequently generated by co...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the Transcendental Meditation technique on a psychological measure of anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory A-State scale). The anxiety scale was initially administered to eight experimental subjects and nine control subjects two days before the experimental subjects began the Transcendental Meditation technique. Six weeks later subject...

This case study evaluated the effects of implementing the Transcendental Meditation Programme among the police forces of three states of Brazil. After positive results among the police were reported by leaders in Goias state, police forces in other states began the programme. Results among police trainees in Piauf state who learned the Transcendental Meditation Programme included a high percent...

Significantly more restful wakefulness was seen during the TM technique as compared to napping (p < .001) and significantly more sleep during napping than during TM (p < .001 ). Furthermore, significantly more high amplitude alpha activity was recorded during TM (p < .05). The findings clearly distinguish Transcendental Meditation from ordinary napping or rest and indicate that the TM technique...

Forty unpaid normal volunteers (20 men and 20 women) were given the Autokinetic Test, the Embedded-Figures Test, and the Rod-and-Frame Test prior to instruction in the Transcendental Meditation technique. After three months of regular meditation subjects were retested and demonstrated increased ego-distance and field independence, as compared with controls, on all of the above tests. These rema...