Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

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• 1977· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 1
  Orme-Johnson, D. W.; and Granieri, B. The effects of the Age of Enlightenment Governor Training Courses on field independence, creativity, intelligence, and behavioral flexibility. Centre for the Study of Higher States of Consciousness, Maharishi European Research University, Switzerland, 1977.

  Controlled, longitudinal studies showed that field independence, creativity, intelligence, and behavioral flexibility are increased by Age of Enlightenment Governor Training Courses in which course participants learn and practice the "sidhis"—procedures in which natural and evolutionary desires are effortlessly projected from the deepest level of the mind to result in materialization at the level of experience and physiological performance.

  • Cognitive Performance: Increased Field Independence (Growth of a More Stable Internal Frame of Reference) through TM-Sidhi program
  • Cognitive Performance: Increased Creativity—Increased Figural Fluency and Originality through TM-Sidhi program
  • Cognitive Performance: Increased Intelligence through TM-Sidhi program
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