Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendence

['Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

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

[TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

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. 

[FairfieldLife] Transcendence Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Johnny Depp Sci-Fi Movie HD - YouTube

[Rick Archer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTen3-B8GU 

[FairfieldLife] "Transcendence"

[merlin]

ONLY   Rosenthal  IS  BETTER  :-)))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRcbihfC6Cs


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[FairfieldLife] Transcendence - New York Times Best Seller! Find Out Why

[merlin]

 

 




























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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 
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Dr. Rosenthal illustrates the value of the TM program in promoting cardiac 
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[FairfieldLife] Transcendence: Topping The Bestseller List Since 1975 by Philip Gold

[Buck]

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"  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  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 
> > 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
> > >  (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  , appeared on Merv
> > > Griffin's   syndicated TV
> > > talk show (the Oprah of its day) with TM founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
> > >  . 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
> > >   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
> > >  , with "Transcendence:
> > Healing
> > > and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation
> > >
> > 

[FairfieldLife] Transcendence

[Irmeli]

I have been reading a newly published book on TM: 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

[merlin]

  




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

[Xenophaneros Anartaxius]

 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 prese

[FairfieldLife] Transcendence

[steve.brennon]

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"  wrote:
>
> The ultimate test of transcendence?
>

>

[FairfieldLife] Transcendence and Bhrukshepa

[Vaj]

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

[Vaj]

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.