Meditation as Transcending All Thought

Oct 22, 2016 | Article, NeuroQuantology

NeuroQuantology 2016

Robert W. Boyer, Park Hensley

Abstract

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras in ancient Vedic literature identifies the essential practice of Yoga as settling mental activity to inner silence, samadhi. Vedic proponent Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has re-clarified the systematic technology to experience samadhi effortlessly, the Transcendental Meditation® technique. Its efficacy is supported by extensive research on transcendental consciousness as a fourth state in addition to waking, dreaming, and sleep, that results in a wide range of mental, physical, and social health benefits. This effortless technique has been distinguished from concentrative, contemplative, and mindfulness practices that correlate with psychophysiological signatures associated with the ordinary waking state of consciousness. Direct experience of samadhi adds to the systematic means to gain knowledge in the ordinary waking state that has been fundamental to modern science.

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The Transcendental Meditation ™ Technique: What, How, and Why

Jun 11, 2015 | Article, Book

Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care, First Edition, June 11, 2015

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Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care includes important contributions from leading experts on Transcendental Meditation and health, and provides the reader with the most important, cutting edge health research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on serious mental health problems and medical disorders. It features practical, proven programs to improve health outcomes, decrease morbidity/mortality, and reduce health care costs with a wide range of patient populations. The authors explore advances in neuroscience and the brain changes associated with not only the impact of TM on health recovery, but also the effects of meditation in daily activity and permanent changes in neuropsychological functioning resulting from the purification of consciousness through meditation. Included is coverage of an ancient yet newly introduced approach to therapy, Vedic Psychotherapy, and methods for integrating Transcendental Meditation and other Vedic health approaches into primary medical care.

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What are the Laws of Nature Anyway? Part II: The Holistic Vedic Model

Unless We Are Robots, Classical and Quantum Theories Are Fundamentally Inadequate

Mar 1, 2014 | Article, NeuroQuantology

NeuroQuantology | March 2014 | Volume 12 | Issue 1 | Page 102-125

Abstract
In classical physics, all change in nature is believed to take place in an unbroken chain of cause and effect. In quantum physics, change is believed to be irreducibly probabilistic, and perhaps even fundamentally random. Neither classical determinism nor orthodox quantum indeterminism is consistent with causally efficacious minds. If either is correct, we humans are robots with no free will. For a way out of this meaninglessness, recent progress toward a subtler nonlocal causal wave model of real mind is overviewed. The model is in the direction of Sankhya ontology and Yoga epistemology in the ancient holistic Vedic account, which we will see is rich enough for rational explanation and empirical validation of free will.

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