Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 1585429929
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"Dr. Norman Rosenthal's Transcendence is the best-ever book on Transcendental Meditation: accessible and substantive, engaging and scientific, practical and profound. A very enjoyable read that can change your life, for good."
—David Lynch
"I have been meditating for over 10 years, and I found Transcendence to be a uniquely compelling introduction to the art and science of Transcendental Meditation. Dr. Norman Rosenthal's book will propel TM into the mainstream where it belongs."
—Russell Simmons
In this definitive book on the scientifically proven health and stress-relieving benefits of Transcendental Meditation, a renowned psychiatrist and researcher explores why TM works, what it can do for you, and how to use it for maximum effect.
This New York Times bestselling paperback edition includes a new afterword by the author on the latest research and breakthroughs.
Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., a twenty-year researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and the celebrated psychiatrist who pioneered the study and treatment of Season Affective Disorder (SAD), brings us the most important work on Transcendental Meditation since the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Science of Being and Art of Living-- and one of our generation's most significant books on achieving greater physical and mental health and wellness.
Transcendence demystifies the practice and benefits of Transcendental Meditation for a general audience who may have heard about the method but do not necessarily know what it is, how it is learned, or what they stand to gain, physically and emotionally, from achieving transcendence. Dr. Rosenthal clearly and practically explains the basic ideas behind Transcendental Meditation: It is a nonreligious practice that involves sitting comfortably for twenty minutes twice a day while using a silent mantra, or nonverbal sound, to attain a profound state of aware relaxation.
Alongside exclusive celebrity interviews-where figures like Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Martin Scorsese, Russell Brand, Laura Dern, Moby, and David Lynch openly discuss their meditation-Dr. Rosenthal draws upon experience from the lives of his patients and a wealth of clinical research amassed on TM over the past generation (340 peer-reviewed published articles). He provides the fullest and most accessible book ever on the broad range of benefits of this remarkably simple practice, from relief of anxiety, stress and depression to new hope for those experiencing addiction, attention-deficit disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
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dissipated, earth rolls from under me, and I float . . . in the midst of an unknown and infinite sea, or else heave and swell like a vast ocean of thought.12 We become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. All the world goes by us and is reflected in our deeps. Such clarity! 13 The Mind Within the Mind 41 Rising into the sky is yet another way that people commonly describe transcendence. One twelve-year-old at the Maharishi grade school
experiences with TM, which he has been practicing for the past forty years: There’s definitely a diving deep within, a settling down of mental activity and deep integration. Do I experience clear, pure unbounded awareness in some of the extraordinary ways I’ve discovered it described by some of the great peo ple through history? No, I’ve only had that experience a few times in my life. But there are people who sit around me in the Golden Dome [of the Maharishi University of Manage ment in Iowa]
pharmaceutical companies. There is nothing wrong with this process and I myself have participated in many such studies. At the same time, I have often wondered about the value of spending millions of dollars on, for example, a new anti depressant that is almost identical to an existing generic. In terms of the company’s return on investment, I am in no position to argue. Yet this process does tend to leave nonpharmacological treatments out in the cold. After all, nobody is likely to make a
principals were convinced that bringing TM into schools 182 T R A N S C EN D EN C E would pay off—George Rutherford in Washington, D.C., and Carmen N’Namdi in Detroit. Here are their stories: George Rutherford, known to everyone as “Doc,” visited the Maha rishi School in the early nineties and had a reaction not unlike Lynch’s. “I saw TM working in Fairfield,” he said. “And I thought—I could use this in my school!” His school at that time was the Fletcher-Johnson Educational Center, located
situation, it’s about finding the calm within you, not in your environment. You just feel completely relaxed. TM has no down side. It’s really great. It would be reasonable to wonder whether Quiet Time Programs will only benefit schools under extreme stress, such as inner-city schools. That seems unlikely. As a psychiatrist practicing in the suburbs, I en counter large numbers of students from upper-middle-class families who are also under severe stress, which is hardly a surprise, given their
