This paper explains the empirical markers by which Kant thinks that one can identify moral responsibility. After explaining the problem of discerning such markers within a Kantian framework I briefly explain Kant's empirical psychology. I then argue that Kant's empirical markers for moral responsibility--linked to higher faculties of cognition--are not sufficient conditions for moral responsibi...

Some meditation techniques reduce pain, but there have been no studies on howmeditation a¡ects the brain’s response to pain. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the response to thermally induced pain applied outside the meditation period found that long-term practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique showed 40^50% fewer voxels responding to pain in the thalamus and total brai...

Hobson (2009) highlights the contribution of lucid dreaming research to the field of consciousness study. Hobson (2009) also sites a lack of paradigms and theoretical models of consciousness to advance lucid dreaming research. However in addition to Hobsons’ AIM model (Hobson, Pace-Schott & Stickgold, 2000), there exists discussions of developmental models of consciousness that include lucid dr...

This essay explores the practical significance of Michel Henry's "material phenomenology." Commencing with an exposition of his most basic philosophical intuition, i.e., his insight that transcendental affectivity is the primordial mode of revelation of our selfhood, the essay then brings to light how this intuition also establishes our relation to both the world and others. Animated by a radic...

In this contribution, the data of many of the preceding papers are organized into a theory of the Transcendental Meditation technique. Intended mainly for an audience of physicists, this paper should be of interest to psychologists, physiologists, and philosophers as well. The author interprets the pure consciousness state induced by the Transcendental Meditation technique in terms of quantum p...

This study tested the prediction that when the number of participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program exceeds a certain threshold an influence of coherence is created in the collective consciousness of society, resulting in a profound and measurable improvement in the quality of life. This prediction was tested by measuring the effects of an experimental intervention in th...

We conducted an uncontrolled pilot study to determine whether transcendental meditation (TM) might be helpful in treating veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Five veterans were trained in the technique and followed for 12 weeks. All subjects improved on the primary outcome measure, the Clinician Administer...

This paper provides an extensive discussion of electrophysiological and biochemical research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme, including some interesting findings on EEG coherence not previously reported in the literature. Research is reviewed from the theoretical perspective of the nature of consciousness and the principles of its development as systematically expounded ...

Transcendental Meditation is an easily learned mental technique that allows the individual to transcend the boundaries of ordinary thought processes (7, 8). It is fundamentally different from all methods of mind control or physical manipulation involving concentration, contemplation, discipline, or extensive training. The technique involves the progressive refinement of the nervous system throu...