[FairfieldLife] Transcendence
No, not that thing they promised you at your TM introductory lecture, the movie. http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi586787609/ Interestingly, they are similar. Both promise more than they deliver, but they're entertaining...for a while.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendence
On 7/2/2014 11:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: No, not that thing they promised you at your TM introductory lecture, the movie. If you didn't transcend the first time you learned TM, why didn't you get checked? http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi586787609/ Interestingly, they are similar. Both promise more than they deliver, but they're entertaining...for a while. You have a second chance at transcending while you still have a body, Barry.
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Johnny Depp Sci-Fi Movie HD - YouTube
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[FairfieldLife] Transcendence
ONLY Rosenthal IS BETTER :-))) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRcbihfC6Cs T R A N S C E N D E N C E ** *
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence - New York Times Best Seller! Find Out Why
A profoundly important book... incredibly valuable.' — Mehmet Oz, M.D. Whether your troubles are deep or you simply know life could be better and healthier, read this book. — Candy Crowley, CNN anchor A very enjoyable read that can change your life, for good. — Filmmaker David Lynch This inspiring new book available on June 2, 2011. Get a 43% discount and receive 5 free gifts by ordering now! About the author Norman Rosenthal, M.D., is a distinguished clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Rosenthal served for 20 years as a senior researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health. His research into seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and pioneering work in the use of light therapy has helped millions of people around the world. Dr. Rosenthal's newest book, TRANSCENDENCE: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation (Tarcher/Penguin, 2011), explores the value of this ancient technique for healing and transformation. Dr. Rosenthal's broad-ranging book will appeal both to newcomers who want to know the basics of this ancient technique, as well as seasoned meditators wishing to broaden their knowledge and deepen their understanding about it. By presenting a mix of fascinating stories, published research, and his own clinical and personal experience with the Transcendental Meditation program, Dr. Rosenthal illustrates the value of the TM program in promoting cardiac health, reducing anxiety and depression, and helping people suffering from traumatic stress and addiction. Dr. Rosenthal emphasizes that the TM technique can especially help highly successful people to live fuller and richer lives. He illustrates this in interviews with prominent meditators like Paul McCartney, Martin Scorsese, Moby, Russell Brand, and Laura Dern. ORDER NOW - 43% OFF Maharishi Ayurveda Products International • 1680 Hwy 1 North Suite 2200 • Fairfield • Iowa • 52556 http://www.mapi.com http://normanrosenthal.com/bonus-offer.html *
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence: Topping The Bestseller List Since 1975 by Philip Gold
What is it that these institutional Transcendental Meditation people feel that they need to lie to make their PR sound important. That's really bad form and they don't even need to do it. It reads more like bad-marketing in the form that comes back to haunt. It seems a very sad thing that they can't even see what they are doing. TM improves moral reasoning, right. Who wrote that release? This is someone you'd trust in life? -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Whether it's on the best-seller list is not really the point. It's a formidable book by someone whose credentials are beyond dispute. How embarrassing for the anti-TM faction on this board, who insist ad nauseam that the TM movement is almost dead, the research is worthless, etc, etc, etc. Time to eat humble pie, gentlemen. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: A few facts to balance the hyperbole: * As far as I can tell, the book being touted is *not* on the New York Times Bestseller List, at least not in the Top 35 listed on its hardback non-fiction page, or in the Top 30 listed on its paperback Non-Fiction page. * It also fails to appear on Amazon's page listing the The New York Times Bestsellers, either for hardback or paperback non-fiction. * It appears to be ranked at #662 on Amazon, which is admirable, but hardly a best seller. (More interesting, the author of this blog's book, so conveniently touted at the bottom of this article to hype sales of it, is #11,876.) * Harold Bloomfield, one-time TMO poster boy and author of the first book Phil Goldberg waxes so nostalgic about, was later arrested for drugging his female patients and taking sexual liberties with them. He plead guilty to two felony counts in the matter and had his license to practice medicine suspended (at least for a while...I can find no information about whether it was ever reinstated). So much for the benefits of meditation. We now return you to your normally-scheduled reality. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: HUFFINGTON POST: Transcendental Meditation: Topping The Bestseller List Since 1975 by Philip Goldberg Posted: 06/21/11 08:10 AM ET When I saw that a book about Transcendental Meditation http://www.tm.org/ (TM), written by a scientist, had landed on the New York Times bestseller list, my reaction was to quote the great Yogi of Berra: It's déjà vu all over again. In 1975, TM: Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress was propelled onto the list when its lead author, psychiatrist Harold Bloomfield http://www.haroldbloomfield.com/ , appeared on Merv Griffin's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin syndicated TV talk show (the Oprah of its day) with TM founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://www.maharishi.org/ . The book remained a bestseller for six months, and then had a solid run on the paperback list. During that period, Merv devoted a second show to Maharishi, and TM centers could barely keep up with the demand. By the end of 1976, over a million Americans had learned to meditate. This was the culmination of a remarkable eight-year run that began when the Beatles famously learned TM and sojourned at Maharishi's ashram http://www.thebeatlesinindia.com/ in India. Between that watershed moment and the two Merv programs, meditation moved from the counterculture to the mainstream, from weird to respectable, from youthful mind expansion to middle-age stress remedy. Now, the celebrity meditators were not rock stars but Clint Eastwood and Mary Tyler Moore, and you could not get more mainstream than the nation's big screen hero and its TV sweetheart. The route from esoteric mystical discipline to respectable relaxation technique was paved by science. It started in the late '60s when a young meditator named Robert Keith Wallace was persuaded by his guru, Maharishi, to study the physiology of TM. The research became his Ph.D. dissertation, and then a Science magazine article in 1970. Wallace's follow-up study, conducted with Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson, was published in 1971 in The American Journal of Physiology and Scientific American. The data sparked an avalanche of research. By 1975, a substantial body of evidence had demonstrated the efficacy of meditation on various measures of physical and mental health. Now comes another psychiatrist, Norman E. Rosenthal http://www.webmd.com/norman-e-rosenthal , with Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation http://www.amazon.com/Transcendence-Healing-Transformation-Through-Medi\ \ tation/dp/1585428736%3FSubscriptionId%3D1E2MCMDX6VVV67W7T882%26tag%3Dabs\ \
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence
I have been reading a newly published book on TM: Transcendence http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripboo\ ksfield-keywords=transcendencesprefix=transcendence , by Norman E. Rosenthal, a twenty year researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health in USA, and the psychiatrist who pioneered the study of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). He demystifies the practice of TM. In The book the purpose of the practice is not enlightenment, but better health to people with a variety of problems. Rosenthal draws upon experience from the lives of his patients and a wealth of clinical research amassed on TM over the passed generation. People get through meditation relief from anxiety, stress, depression, and new hope for those suffering from addiction, attention deficit disorder, or post-traumatic disorder. TM has been not used in these studies as a replacement to other approaches as therapy, but to support them. The results are pretty encouraging.
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence Week, Spreading the News
National Director of the Transcendental Meditation Program Dear Friends, As many of you may already know, one of the most significant books ever written on the Transcendental Meditation program, Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, was just released on June 2, and is currently one of the most popular books among the hundreds of thousands of books for sale on Amazon.com. Never before has such a highly esteemed member of the scientific community written a popular book on Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation program. Equally impressive is the deep, profound content of the book, which covers topics ranging from reduction of stress to Enlightenment. Transcendence Week -- June 5-12 An Invitation to Join us in Making Transcendence a Best Seller 1. Please send out this link to the Dr. Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture Series Interview to friends, family, colleagues, and email distribution lists, and post it on your Facebook page: http://normanrosenthal.com/emailing/webinar.html Suggested subject line: Interview with Dr. Rosenthal, new book: Transcendence 2. Consider making a book purchase this week. Purchase one for yourself and buy copies for friends and family members. It is truly one of the most extraordinary introductions to the TM® program ever put into print. Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble are now offering this hardcover book for $14.96, a discount of 43%, so it is a good time to buy. Click here to purchase it at Amazon.com. Thank you for helping us bring this wonderful message of inner peace and enlightenment to the whole world. All the best, Dr. John Hagelin National Director of the Transcendental Meditation program © 2011 Maharishi Foundation USA. All rights reserved. Transcendental Meditation® and TM® are protected trademarks and are used in the U.S. under license or with permission. ~~~ Dear Friends, As many of you may already know, one of the most significant books ever written on the Transcendental Meditation program, Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, was just released on June 2, and is currently one of the most popular books among the hundreds of thousands of books for sale on Amazon.com. Never before has such a highly esteemed member of the scientific community written a popular book on Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation program. Equally impressive is the deep, profound content of the book, which covers topics ranging from reduction of stress to Enlightenment. Transcendence Week -- June 5-12 An Invitation to Join us in Making Transcendence a Best Seller 1. Please send out this link to the Dr. Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture Series Interview to friends, family, colleagues, and email distribution lists, and post it on your Facebook page: http://normanrosenthal.com/emailing/webinar.html Suggested subject line: Interview with Dr. Rosenthal, new book: Transcendence 2. Consider making a book purchase this week. Purchase one for yourself and buy copies for friends and family members. It is truly one of the most extraordinary introductions to the TM® program ever put into print. Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble are now offering this hardcover book for $14.96, a discount of 43%, so it is a good time to buy. Click here to purchase it at Amazon.com. Thank you for helping us bring this wonderful message of inner peace and enlightenment to the whole world. All the best, Dr. John Hagelin National Director of the Transcendental Meditation program © 2011 Maharishi Foundation USA. All rights reserved. Transcendental Meditation® and TM® are protected trademarks and are used in the U.S. under license or with permission.
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence and Descriptive Language
If enlightenment is the experience of what we essentially are, then it cannot be somewhere else than where we are, so the term 'transcendence,' meaning 'having gone beyond the current limits,' or something like that, cannot mean we have gone into some other realm, it just refers to having a more complete experience wherein we notice aspects of our experience that we had not noticed before. It does not refer to an actual journey. Whatever we think we are doing to have this experience, it is not bringing something new into our life, it is just making us more attentive to what is there already. It is conditioning. To learn to play the piano, you have to condition the mind/body a certain way. To recognise and name different birds, you have to be able to discriminate the different kinds, which at first you may not be able to do. You might have to develop your memory to recognise birds' different coloured plumage etc., and which colours fit with female or male, or the age of the birds. To 'transcend,' one has to condition the mind/body a certain way so that the discriminative ability is enhanced. However this is done, one is learning a new habit. A meditation system establishes a habit that can interfere with other habits we might have, that is, de-condition those other habits, break them up; allows us to unlearn those habits to a lesser or greater extent, while establishing the effect of its own habit. Those other habits, primarily perceptual and understanding based, in this context of spiritual development are called 'ignorance.' Even though it is not an actual journey from somewhere to somewhere else, this learning/unlearning process can be thought of as a journey, and we end up conceptualising what is going on in this process, or borrowing someone else's ideas about it. The huge variation in description of this imaginary journey found in the literature, in groups practising meditation, and other spiritually oriented techniques, is enough to make one wonder how much of all this could be real. There seems to be a kind of fantasy overkill that develops in spiritual movements over time where peoples' imaginations take over where experience ends. In a scientific discipline, imagination plays a big role, scientists come up with all sorts of crazy ideas to try to explain their experiences and data. Most of these ideas turn out to not work out because, well, scientists test them and argue among themselves and eventually filter out the crap based on the results of carefully constructed test situations. For some reason, there does not seem to be a very good filtering mechanism in most spiritual circles, so the crap continues to circulate unabated, and sometimes it seems to develop an astonishing reproductive capacity as well. It often ends up in pretty books with gold borders and illuminated letters, although buried in the dazzle may be useful implementable plans. Enlightenment is a simple experience, and while the so-called path to it can be made subject to a descriptive process, we might consider just how complex that description needs to be to describe how to get the job done. In the Maharishi system, there are these benchmark descriptions TC, CC, etc., but it might be well to reflect on just how discrete these experiences are for any particular person, considering there are differences in human nervous systems and the programming (conditioning) of those nervous systems. Perhaps these experiences blend together for some individuals, or perhaps some individuals, due to their nature and backlog of experience, might skip one of the criteria described. A teacher in the Zen tradition I heard once on the West Coast of the United States spoke of an 'under-the-water feeling' that results from having meditated for some years. When you are swimming and you are under water everything above the surface feels walled off, inaccessible. This might correspond to the CC described in TM movement literature, where the person (or non-person, however you want to describe the internal experience), feels separated from activity. This is a rather early stage, not really what enlightenment is. Partial enlightenment, if one dares to call it that, is like travelling somewhere and getting only a third, or halfway there. One has not arrived, if we are thinking of this as some sort of journey from A to Z. If one travels for the first time from Atlanta, Georgia to Portland, Oregon, but only ends up in Denver, Colorado, what does this one know about Portland? Once I heard some people talking of a system created by psychiatrists to unburden the psyche. This woman described it to me as the 'only way' to become free. It seemed that the people that went through this process ended up blaming everything they thought wrong in their lives on their parents. Techniques have a designated purpose; once that purpose is achieved, do they have any more value? Is that value, if still
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence
What do you know about Transcendence, have you ever been there where time does not encroach upon its encompass in the deepest bowled of the ALL where we come to know our primordial SELF ? If you have then tell me what it is like there, and we can compare notes. Or are you all talk and no substance? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: The ultimate test of transcendence?
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence and Bhrukshepa
The subtle center, bhrumadhya, textually between the eyebrows, presents a particularly difficult passageway for the vital energy. To pass beyond it, one must have mastery over samadhi and receive the help of a very good Guru. Verse 36 of the Vijnanabhairava deals with the practice named bhruksepa or bhruvedha, the breaking of bhru, which results in the full expansion of the energy. If at that moment the thought is free from duality, transcendence is achieved and one becomes all-pervading. One starts by filling the various centers up to the bhrumadhya with pranic energy, and then, when this center is saturated with concentrated energy and when samadhi prevents its dispersion into the outer world, one has only to slightly contract the eyebrows and project this energy immediately upon the narrow dam it has to cross in order to attain the brahmarandhra. If one is unable to channel the vital force and send it up toward the crown of the head, the breath dissipates through the nostrils. Setu is not only a dam holding in check the flow of the inhaled and exhaled breath, but also a bridge linking the center between the eyebrows with the brahmarandhra. These two centers, in the ignorant, are always unconnected, whereas in the yogin the vital force, once sublimated, crosses the bridge and reaches lalata, in the middle of the forehead. From this state—very rarely attained by a yogin—arises a diffused blissfulness and an intense heat. All functions stop as soon as bliss is enjoyed and the energy spreads inside the head, up to the thousand-spoked center; and since the ties with the samsara are broken, she changes into an energy of pure consciousness. If the term bindu is often used to designate the bhrumadhya it is because, when this center is pierced, the pent-up energy that has accumulated there is released, and a dot of dazzling light appears, a subtle fire flashing forth as a flame. This is the bindu, a dimensionless point—free therefore from duality—in which a maximum of power is concentrated. If the attention is focused upon it at the moment when, having reached the middle of the forehead, it dissolves, then one is absorbed in the splendor of Consciousness. The three points—the heart bindu, the bindu between the eyebrows, and the brahmarandhra bindu—have then merged into one, as they have been united by Kundalini on completion of her ascent. It is from bhru, and from there only, that the progressive attitude14 is established with its alternating phases: absorption with closed eyes and absorption with open eyes. At the beginning, when the energy rises to bhru, the breath goes out abruptly through the nose; the eyes open and one inhales; then the eyes close and Kundalini, fully erect, manifests as a tremendous flow of powerful energy. When one opens the eyes, the world fills with a new joy which produces intoxication (ghurni). When the universal Kundalini regains her spontaneous activity, one enjoys the tide of the ocean of life, with its perpetual ebb and flow of emanations and withdrawals. The yogin rests naturally in unmilanasamadhi— absorption-with-open-eyes—and enjoys the highest bliss, jagadananda. To him everything is steeped in bliss, and is nothing but bliss. 12. Through it adhahkundalini moves to the muladhara. 13. About the triangles cf. here pp. 31,33. Kundalini by Lillian Silburn
[FairfieldLife] Transcendence from Neuroscience
Transcendence from Neuroscience Clip from a brief essay by Garreau: Then there is the new vision of transcendence coming out of neuroscience. It’s long been observed that intelligent organisms require love to develop or even just to survive. Not coincidentally, we can readily identify brain functions that allow and require us to be deeply relational with others. There are also aspects of the brain that can be shown to equip us to experience elevated moments when we transcend boundaries of self. What happens as the implications of all this research starts suggesting that particular religions are just cultural artifacts built on top of universal human physical traits? Some of this is beginning to overlap with our economic myths—that everything fits together, that the manufacturing of a sneaker connects a jogger in Portland to a village in Malaysia. There is an interconnectedness of things. If we came to believe deeply that there is a value somehow in the way things are connected—the web of life, perhaps—is that the next Enlightenment? The importance of creating such a commonly held framework is that without it, we have no way to move forward together. How can we agree on what must be done if we do not have in common an agreement on what constitutes the profoundly important? This much seems certain. We’re in the midst of great upheaval. It is impossible to think that this does not have an impact on the kind of narratives that are central to what it means to be human. Such narratives could be nothing less than our new means of managing transcendence—of coming up with specific ways to shape the next humans we are creating. If so, this would change everything.
