Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

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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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