Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

2 papers found

• 2002· Biological Psychology· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 7
  Travis, Fred; Tecce, Joe; Arenander, Alarik; and Wallace, R. Keith. Patterns of EEG coherence, power, and contingent negative variation characterize the integration of transcendental and waking states. Biological Psychology 61: 293–319, 2002.

  Participants in the Transcendental Meditation program who reported stabilized experience of Transcendental Consciousness during waking and sleeping displayed distinctive EEG patterns during task performance, indicating the integration of Transcendental Consciousness during activity, in comparison to two other groups of subjects who reported either occasional or rare experiences of Transcendental Consciousness in activity or sleep. These EEG patterns included higher 6-12 Hz EEG amplitude and higher broadband frontal EEG coherence during choice tasks, as well as contingent negative variation (CNV or preparatory response) differences associated with more efficient information processing.

  • Electroencephalographic: Improved Brain Functioning among Those Reporting Stabilized Transcendental Consciousness: Enhanced Attention Capability During Simple Reaction Time Task
  • Electroencephalographic: Improved Brain Functioning among Those Reporting Stabilized Transcendental Consciousness: More Efficient Attention Deployment During Choice Reaction Time Task
  • Electroencephalographic: Improved Brain Functioning among Those Reporting Stabilized Transcendental Consciousness: Higher Broadband Frontal EEG Coherence During Choice Reaction Time Task
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• 2004· Consciousness and Cognition· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 7
  Travis, Frederick; Arenander, Alarik; and DuBois, David. Psychological and physiological characteristics of a proposed object-referral/self-referral continuum of self-awareness. Consciousness and Cognition 13: 401–420, 2004.

  Participants in the Transcendental Meditation program, particularly those reporting stabilized experience of Transcendental Consciousness, displayed a more abstract definition of self, greater inner orientation, higher principled moral reasoning, lower state and trait anxiety, greater emotional stability, greater extraversion, greater agreeableness, and greater openness to experience, as well as higher scores on a consciousness factor derived from multiple personality tests.

  • Self Development: Stabilized Pure Consciousness Associated with Subjective Description of Self as Underlying Thought, Feeling and Action (Self-Referral Mode)
  • Self Development: Higher Scores on a Consciousness Factor of Personality Variables
  • Self Development: Greater Inner Orientation
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