Cosmic Consciousness

Cosmic Cosmic Consciousness Consciousness

Divide your paper into two columns.

In the left column, describe your deepest experiences

during TM practice.

Transcendental Consciousness: EEGCoherence, Apneustic Breathing and

Autonomic Measures

Now in the right column, write what you have noticed changing in your life since your started TM

practice.

Now compare the adjectives in both columns….

Do you notice that experiences during TM are being seen in

activity?

Gita IV 38, commentary. “Now, for Transcendental Consciousness to become

permanent and to co-exist with the waking state of consciousness, it is necessary that the two states of the nervous system corresponding to those two states of consciousness should co-exist. This is brought about by the mind gaining Transcendental Consciousness and the waking state of consciousness, passing from one to the other. This gradual and systematic culture of the physical nervous system creates a physiological situation in which the two states of consciousness exist together simultaneously.”

Four Months TM Practice (18 years old)

Eyes OpenTMTravis, 1991

Eight Years TM Practice (18 years old)

Eyes OpenTMTravis, 1991

Cosmic Consciousness: Inner Wakefulness during Sleep: Higher

Theta-alpha activity

Mason, et al, Sleep, 1997.Mason, et al, Sleep, 1997.

Broad Band Broad Band CoherenceCoherenceBroad Band Broad Band CoherenceCoherence

Cortical Cortical Preparatory Preparatory ResponseResponse

Cortical Cortical Preparatory Preparatory ResponseResponse

Alpha/ Alpha/ gamma ratiogamma ratioAlpha/ Alpha/ gamma ratiogamma ratio

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Correlation of the Brain Integration Report Card with:

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Moral ReasoningMoral Reasoning 3.463.46 0.410.41 0.66**0.66**

Emotional StabilityEmotional Stability 3.863.86 0.850.85 0.52**0.52**

Openness to expOpenness to exp 4.424.42 0.470.47 0.46*0.46*

State AnxietyState Anxiety 27.7527.75 11.9211.92 -0.46*-0.46*

Trait AnxietyTrait Anxiety 31.2931.29 12.2312.23 -0.47*-0.47*

Travis et al 2004, Consciousness and Cognition, 13/2, 401-420.

Travis et al, 2009

Brain Integration Scale (3 months TM)

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Brain Integration during tasks (3-mon TM)

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