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Dec 30, 2015
Divide your paper into two columns.
In the left column, describe your deepest experiences
during TM practice.
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.”
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
Cosmic Consciousness in Cosmic Consciousness in Activity: Brain Integration ScaleActivity: Brain Integration ScaleCosmic Consciousness in Cosmic Consciousness in Activity: Brain Integration ScaleActivity: Brain Integration Scale
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Frontal Coherence, Alpha Relative Power, and Brain Preparatory Response
Correlation of the Brain Integration Report Card with:
* p < .05, ** p < .01* p < .05, ** p < .01 MeanMean StdStd R (28)R (28)
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)