List of Scientific Papers: Volume One

LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME ONE

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Volume 1 Basal Skin Resistance; Cessation of Spontaneous Channels; Periods of Uniformity of Frequency and Skin Resistance Responses ...... 108 Amplitude from All Leads ...... 151

8 PERIODIC SUSPENSION OF RESPIRATION 15 SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF THE EEG DURING THE TRANSCENDENTAL IN MEDITATION MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Paper Page Jean-Paul Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl. Part 1: Physiology Number J. Russell Hebert, M.A. Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Maximum State of Deep Rest: Episodes of Functioning: High Amplitude EEG Alpha Activity The Studies in the First Two Sections Document Changes Central Regions; Episodes of Rhythmical EEG Spontaneous Breath Suspension (Not Followed by Extending to Anterior Channels; Bursts of High during the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Theta Activity in Frontal Region. Reduction in Hyperventilation) ...... 134 Amplitude Theta Activity in All Channels; Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. Biochemical Index of Stress: Decreased Arterial Rhythmic High Amplitude Beta Activity in Lactate ...... 79 9 REDUCTION IN METABOLIC RATE DURING All Channels; Synchronization of Anterior and THE PRACTICE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL A: Metabolic Changes Posterior Channels. Electromyographic Evidence 4 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MEDITATION MEDITATION TECHNIQUE of Deep Muscular Relaxation ...... 152 Paper Page Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. V. Hubert Dhanaraj, Ph.D., and Mohan Singh Number HEMISPHERIC SYMMETRY OF THE EEG A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with A Unique State of Deep Rest: Decreased 16 1 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Consumption DURING THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen and Unchanged Respiratory Quotient); Decreased MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); Tidal Volume ...... 137 Mark Westcott, B.A. A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide 10 DECREASED RESPIRATORY RATE DURING Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Partial Pressures; Decreased Respiration Rate; Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Functioning: Higher Levels of Interhemispheric Decreased Minute Ventilation; Decreased Heart EEG Alpha Correlation; Greater Power Balance Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen TECHNIQUE: A REPLICATION Consumption and Unchanged Respiratory Rate; Increased Basal Skin Resistance; Increased between Right and Left Hemispheres ...... 160 Robert Bakker, B.A. Quotient); Decreased Minute Ventilation; Intensity of EEG Alpha Activity in Frontal and Decreased Heart Rate; Increased Basal Skin Central Regions; Episodes of Rhythmical EEG Indication of Deep Rest: Decreased Respiration 17 EEG ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS AND Resistance; Increased Regularity and Intensity of Theta Activity in Frontal Region. Reduction in Rate ...... 140 INDUCED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS EEG Alpha Activity �� 38 Biochemical Index of Stress: Decreased Arterial Jean-Paul Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl., 11 INCREASED FOREARM BLOOD FLOW Lactate ...... 86 and Maurice Sailhan, M.D. 2 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF DURING A WAKEFUL HYPOMETABOLIC TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: 5 RESPIRATORY CHANGES DURING STATE EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Less Activation (Decreased Proportion of Beta A PROPOSED FOURTH MAJOR STATE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. to Alpha); Greater Wakefulness (Increased OF CONSCIOUSNESS John Allison, M.D. Small Increase in Forearm Blood Flow...... 142 Proportion of Alpha to Delta). Increased Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. Indication of Deep Rest: Decreased Respiration 12 PLASMA PROLACTIN AND CORTISOL Orderliness and Integration of Brain Functioning; A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with Rate ...... 92 Greater Interhemispheric and Intrahemispheric DURING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: Synchronization ...... 165 Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen 6 AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE AND R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); OXYGEN CONSUMPTION CHANGES E. VanderLaan, M.A.; and S. Levine, Ph.D. 18 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide ASSOCIATED WITH PRACTICE OF Reduction in Biochemical Index of Stress: TECHNIQUE AND EEG ALPHA ACTIVITY Partial Pressures; Decreased Respiration Rate; THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Plasma Cortisol. Small Increase Diana J. Kras, B.A. Decreased Heart Rate; Increased Basal Skin TECHNIQUE in Plasma Prolactin Immediately following EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Increased Resistance; Increased Intensity of EEG Alpha Transcendental Meditation ...... 143 Paul W. Corey, M.A., M.D. Alpha Activity in All Areas of the Brain. Activity in Frontal and Central Regions; Episodes A Unique State of Deep Rest: Increased Airway Maintenance of a Relaxed Style of Physiological of Rhythmical EEG Theta Activity in Frontal 13 PLASMA AMINO ACIDS DURING THE Conductance (Increased Ease of Breathing); Functioning following Transcendental Meditation: Region. Reduction in Biochemical Index of TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Persistence of Greater Alpha Activity ...... 173 Stress: Decreased Arterial Lactate. Self-Reported TECHNIQUE: COMPARISON TO SLEEP Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); Improvements in Physical and Mental Health, and R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Decreased Heart Rate ...... 94 19 QUANTIFIED EEG SPECTRAL ANALYSIS Resistance to Disease ...... 43 and W.R. Smith, M.D. OF SLEEP AND TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Plasma Phenylalanine ...... 145 3 A WAKEFUL HYPOMETABOLIC 7 PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES MEDlTATION PHYSIOLOGIC STATE ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSCENDENTAL Jean-Paul Banquet, M.D., and Maurice Sailhan, CONSCIOUSNESS, THE STATE OF LEAST Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. B: Electrophysiological and M.D. EXCITATlON OF CONSCIOUSNESS A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with Electroencephalographic Changes EEG Correlates of Inner Wakefulness during Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: John T. Farrow, Ph.D. Different Phases of Sleep ...... 182 Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Experience of Transcendental Consciousness 14 EEG AND MEDITATION Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); Associated with: High EEG Coherence in the Jean-Paul Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl. 20 EEG COHERENCE DURING THE Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Theta, Alpha, and Beta Bands; Episodes of EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Coexistence TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Partial Pressures; Decreased Respiration Rate; Spontaneous Breath Suspension (Not Followed of Theta and Delta with Alpha and Beta Activity. TECHNIQUE Decreased Minute Ventilation; Decreased Heart by Hyperventilation); Marked Reductions in Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Paul H. Levine, Ph.D.; J. Russell Hebert, M.A.; Rate; Increased Basal Skin Resistance; Increased Metabolic Rate (Oxygen Consumption and Carbon Functioning: Hypersynchrony and Rhythmicity; Christopher T. Haynes, B.A.; and Urs Strobel, Intensity of EEG Alpha Activity in Frontal and Dioxide Elimination) and Heart Rate; Increased Synchronization of Anterior and Posterior Dipl. Lab. xxiv xxv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME ONE

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Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Responses; Fewer Spontaneous Skin Resistance D: Health 38 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Functioning: Increased EEG Coherence Especially Responses ...... 233 AND ASTHMA 32 DECREASED BLOOD PRESSURE IN in Alpha and Theta Bands ...... 187 Archie F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Ronald W. HYPERTENSIVE SUBJECTS WHO 26 AUTONOMIC FUNCTIONING IN SUBJECTS Honsberger; John T. Chiu, M.D.; and Harold S. 21 THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ADVANCED PRACTICING THE TRANSCENDENTAL PRACTICED MEDITATION Novey, M.D. PARTICIPANTS IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. Improvements in Bronchial Asthma: Decreased MEDITATION PROGRAM: CORRELATIONS Gregory G. Wilcox, B.S. Improved Cardiovascular Health: Decreased Blood Severity of Symptoms Reported by Patients and OF EEG COHERENCE, CREATIVITY, Pressure in Hypertensive Subjects ...... 266 Physicians; Reduced Airway Resistance ...... 283 H-REFLEX RECOVERY, AND EXPERIENCE Improved Resistance to Stress: Greater Autonomic OF TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS Stability—Faster Habituation of Skin Resistance 33 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL 39 CHANGES IN INFLAMMATION IN Response to Stressful Stimuli; Fewer Spontaneous Christopher T. Haynes, B.A.; J. Russell Hebert, MEDITATION ON BLOOD PRESSURE: PERSONS PRACTICING THE Skin Resistance Responses ...... M.A.; William Reber, M.S.; and David W. Orme- 239 A CONTROLLED PILOT EXPERIMENT TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Johnson, Ph.D. 27 STABILITY OF SKIN RESISTANCE Barry Blackwell, M.D.; Irwin B. Hanenson, M.D.; Saul S. Bloomfield, M.D.; Herbert G. Magenheim, Ira M. Klemons, D.D.S. Correlations between High EEG Coherence, RESPONSES ONE WEEK AFTER M.D.; Sanford I. Nidich, M.A.; and Peter Gartside, High Levels of Creativity, Greater Neurological INSTRUCTION IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL Improved Periodontal Health: Decreased Gingival Ph.D. Efficiency (Faster H-Reflex Recovery), and Clarity MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Inflammation ...... 287 of Experiences of Transcendental Consciousness . . 208 Improved Cardiovascular Health: Decreased Blood THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Ennis Berker, B.A. Pressure and State Anxiety in Hypertensive 40 MEDITATION PROGRAM ON 22 IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF THE Improved Resistance to Stress: Greater Autonomic Subjects ...... 267 COMPENSATORY PARADOXICAL SLEEP TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Stability—Faster Habituation of Skin Resistance TECHNIQUE: INCREASED SKIN Response to Stressful Stimuli; Fewer Spontaneous 34 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Donald E. Miskiman, B.Sc. (hons.) RESISTANCE DURING FIRST Skin Resistance Responses ...... 243 PROGRAM AND ESSENTIAL Faster Recovery from Sleep Deprivation . . . . . 292 MEDITATION AFTER INSTRUCTION HYPERTENSION 41 THE TREATMENT OF INSOMNIA BY Jørn Janby 28 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION David B. Simon. B.A.; Suzanne Oparil, M.D.; TECHNIQUE AND SKIN RESISTANCE and Chase P. Kimball, M.D. THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Indication of Deep Rest: Marked Increase in Basal PROGRAM RESPONSE TO LOUD TONES Improved Cardiovascular Health: Decreased Blood Skin Resistance ...... 213 Donald E. Miskiman, B.Sc. (hons.) Terrance R. Smith, B.S. Pressure in Hypertensive Subjects ...... 268 Relief from Insomnia: Decreased Time to Fall 23 AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHANGES Improved Resistance to Stress: Greater Autonomic 35 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Asleep ...... 296 IN SKIN RESISTANCE DURING THE Stability—Faster Habituation of Skin Resistance MEDITATION PROGRAM ON THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Response to Stressful Stimuli ...... 248 EXERCISE PERFORMANCE OF PATIENTS 42 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE WITH ANGINA PECTORIS Gina Laurie, B.A. 29 EEG RESPONSES TO PHOTIC PROGRAM IN THE TREATMENT OF STIMULATION IN PERSONS John W. Zamarra, M.D.; Italo Besseghini, M.D.; INSOMNIA Indication of Deep Rest: Marked Increase in Basal and Stephen Wittenberg, M.D. EXPERIENCED AT MEDITATION Donald E. Miskiman, B.Sc. (hons.) Skin Resistance ...... 216 Improvements in Angina Pectoris: Improved Paul Williams, Ph.D., and Michael West, B.Sc. Relief from Insomnia: Decreased Time to Fall Exercise Tolerance; Increased Maximum 24 CHANGES IN SKIN RESISTANCE IN Asleep (Benefits Sustained over Time) ...... 299 EEG Indications of Great Alertness (Responses to Workload; Delayed Appearance of SUBJECTS RESTING, READING, Photic Stimulation) ...... 251 Electrocardiographic Abnormalities during 43 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND LISTENING TO MUSIC, OR PRACTICING Exercise (Delayed Onset of ST Segment STUTTERING: A PRELIMINARY REPORT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 30 LOW NORMAL HEART AND RESPIRATION Depression). Clinical Observations of Decreased Mary E. McIntyre, M.S.; Franklin H. Silverman, TECHNIQUE RATES IN INDIVIDUALS PRACTICING THE Anxiety, Decreased Need for Medication. Ph.D.; and William D. Trotter, Ph.D. Michael A. West, B.Sc. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Improved Sleeping Patterns, and Improved Decreased Stuttering ...... 300 Indication of Deep Rest: Marked Increase in Basal TECHNIQUE Personal Relationships ...... 270 Skin Resistance ...... 224 44 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Thomas J. Routt, B.S. 36 THE EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL PROGRAM AND NORMALIZATION Maintenance of a Relaxed Style of Physiological MEDITATION UPON BRONCHIAL ASTHMA OF WEIGHT Functioning outside the Practice of Transcendental The Studies in the Following Sections Document Changes Ronald W. Honsberger, and Archie F. Wilson, James T. Weldon, B.A., and Arthur Aron, Ph.D. Meditation: Lower Heart Rate; Lower Respiration M.D., Ph.D. outside the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Rate. Increased Basal Skin Resistance during Normalization of Weight ...... 301 Improvements in Bronchial Asthma: Decreased Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. Transcendental Meditation ...... 256 Severity of Symptoms Reported by Patients and 31 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Physicians; Reduced Airway Resistance ...... 279 E. Motor and Perceptual Ability, C: Physiological Efficiency and Stability and Athletic Peformance TECHNIQUE AND TEMPERATURE 37 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 25 AUTOMATIC STABILITY AND HOMEOSTASIS IN TREATING ASTHMA 45 REACTION TIME FOLLOWING THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION John M. McDonagh, Ph.D., and Thomas Egenes, Ronald W. Honsberger, and Archie F. Wilson, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. B.A. M.D., Ph.D. TECHNIQUE Improved Resistance to Stress: Greater Autonomic Improved Temperature Homeostasis: Faster Re Improvements in Bronchial Asthma: Decreased Robert Shaw, B.A., and David Kolb, B.A. Stability—Faster Habituation of Skin Resistance covery of Normal Skin Temperature following Severity of Symptoms; Reduced Airway Improved Mind-Body Coordination: Faster Response to Stressful Stimuli; Fewer Multiple Exertion ...... 261 Resistance ...... 280 Reactions ...... 309 xxvi xxvii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME ONE

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46 SIMPLE REACTION TIME AS A FUNCTION Lakshmi Bai, M.A., D.M.S.P.; and V. Raghavender Improved Problem-Solving Ability in University Less Nervousness (Less Psychosomatic OF ALERTNESS AND PRIOR MENTAL Rao, M.D. Students ...... 385 Disturbance); Less Aggressiveness (Greater Self- Benefits for Athletes: Improved Physiological Control and Emotional Maturity); Less Depression ACTIVITY 59 THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Functioning—Increased Cardiovascular Efficiency, (Greater Contentment and Self-Confidence); Less Stuart Appelle, Ph.D., and Lawrence E. Oswald, MEDITATION PROGRAM UPON Increased Respiratory Efficiency (Increased Irritability (Greater Calm and Tolerance); Greater B.A. UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ATTAINMENT Vital Capacity), Reduction of Blood Pressure Sociability (Greater Friendliness and Liveliness); Improved Mind-Body Coordination: Faster to More Ideal Levels, Increased Hemoglobin Roy W. Collier, Ph.D. Greater Placidity (Greater Self-Assuredness, More Reactions ...... 312 Concentration; Improved Athletic Performance Improved Academic Performance in University Good Humour, Less Tendency to Procrastinate); 47 AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE and Neuromuscular Integration—Increased Students ...... 393 Less Tendency to Dominate (Greater Flexibility, Running Speed, Improved Standing Broad Jump, Respectfulness, and Tolerance); Less Inhibition EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 60 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Increased Agility, Improved Reaction Time and (Greater Naturalness, Spontaneity, and Self- MEDITATION TECHNIQUE ON REACTION PROGRAM AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT TIME Coordination; Increased Intelligence ...... 346 Sufficiency, Less Tension); Less Neuroticism Dennis P. Heaton, M.A., and David W. (Greater Emotional Stability); Greater Self- David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; David Kolb, B.A.; Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Reliance (Greater Effectiveness and Vigour, More and J. Russell Hebert, M.A. Improved Academic Performance in University Balanced Mood) ...... 420 Improved Mind-Body Coordination: Faster Part II: Psychology Students ...... 396 Reactions ...... 316 66 PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT AND 61 THE EFFECT OF THE SCIENCE OF PERCEIVED LOCUS OF CONTROL AMONG THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL A: Intelligence, Learning, 48 CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE COURSE STUDENTS INTERESTED IN MEDITATION MEDITATION TECHNIQUE UPON A and Academic Performance ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: Robert J. Stek, M.S., and Barry A. Bass COMPLEX PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR TASK 54 SOME EVIDENCE THAT THE A PRELIMINARY REPORT Interest in Learning Transcendental Meditation Karen S. Blasdell, M.S. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Robert Kory, B.A., and Pat Hufnagel, B.S. Found to Be Uncorrelated with Personality Factors . 425 Improved Mind-Body Coordination: Superior PROGRAM INCREASES INTELLIGENCE Improved Academic Performance and Decreased Complex Perceptual-Motor Performance . . . . . 322 AND REDUCES NEUROTICISM AS State and Trait Anxiety in High School Students . . 400 67 PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE MEASURED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 49 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 62 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION André Tjoa, Ph.D. MEDITATION TECHNIQUE ON A NUMBER TECHNIQUE AND ITS EFFECTS ON PROGRAM IN THE CLASSROOM: OF PERSONALITY VARIABLES SENSORY-MOTOR PERFORMANCE Increased Intelligence Growth Rate and Decreased A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION Neuroticism in High School Students ...... 363 drs. Willem P. van den Berg, and Bert Mulder, Andrew G.P. Rimol, A.B. Howard Shecter, M.A. kand. psych. Improved Mind-Body Coordination; Short- and 55 INCREASED INTELLIGENCE AND Holistic Benefits for High School Students: Decreased Sense of Physical Inadequacy; Long-Term Improvements in Complex Sensory- REDUCED NEUROTICISM THROUGH Increased Creativity; Improved Intellectual Decreased Neuroticism; Greater Self-Esteem; Motor Performance ...... 326 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Performance; Increased Comfort in Working with Better Self-Image; Greater Ego-Strength; PROGRAM More Abstract and Complex Situations; Decreased 50 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Greater Trust; Greater Satisfaction; Greater Self- Tendency to Act According to Positions Perceived MEDITATION TECHNIQUE UPON André Tjoa, Ph.D. Actualization; Less Sensitivity to Criticism; Less to Be Held by Others; Increased Energy Level; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION Increased Intelligence; Decreased Neuroticism; Depression ...... Increased Innovation; Enhanced Self-Esteem; 428 Michael Pirot, M.A. Decreased Somatic Neurotic Instability ...... 368 Increased Tolerance; Decreased Anxiety . . . . . 403 68 INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Perceptual Acuity: Improved Auditory 56 PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING AND 63 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION MEDITATION PROGRAM ON STATE Temporal Discrimination ...... 331 RECALL: A PILOT STUDY OF THE PROGRAM AND CREATIVITY ANXIETY TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 51 INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL Michael J. MacCallum, M.A. Sanford Nidich, M.A.; William Seeman, Ph.D.; MEDITATION UPON AUTOKINETIC PROGRAM Greater Creativity; Greater Verbal Fluency, and Mary Seibert, B.A. PERCEPTION Allan I. Abrams, B.A. Flexibility, and Originality ...... 410 Decreased State Anxiety ...... 434 Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D. Superior Learning Ability (Faster Acquisition of Increased Field Independence (Growth of a Stable Information) and Better Short- and Long-Term B: Development of Personality 69 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Internal Frame of Reference, Increased Perceptual Recall in University Students ...... 377 AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH Acuity) ...... 335 64 INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL Larry A. Hjelle, Ph.D. 57 PERFORMANCE ON A LEARNING TASK MEDlTATION ON A MEASURE OF 52 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL BY SUBJECTS WHO PRACTICE THE Greater Self-Actualization; Greater Time SELF-ACTUAL IZATION Competence (Ability to Live in the Present, MEDITATION PROGRAM ON TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION William Seeman, Ph.D.; Sanford Nidich, M.A.; Ability to Connect Past, Present, and Future PERCEPTUAL STYLE: INCREASED TECHNIQUE and Thomas Banta, Ph.D. Meaningfully); Greater Inner-Directedness FIELD INDEPENDENCE Donald E. Miskiman, B.Sc. (hons.) Increased Self-Actualization; Increased Inner- (Independence, Self-Supportiveness); Greater Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D. Superior Learning Ability in University Students . . 382 Directedness (Independence, Self-Supportiveness); Self-Actualizing Value (Holding Values of Self- Increased Field Independence (Growth of a Stable 58 THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Spontaneity; Enhanced Self-Regard . . . 417 Actualizing People); Greater Feeling Reactivity Internal Frame of Reference, Increased Perceptual MEDITATION PROGRAM ON THE 65 STUDY OF PERSONALITY CHANGES (Sensitivity to One’s Own Needs and Feelings); Acuity) ...... 337 Greater Spontaneity; Greater Self-Regard; Greater ORGANIZATION OF THINKING AND RESULTING FROM THE TRANSCENDENTAL Capacity for Intimate Contact; Greater Internality 53 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL RECALL (SECONDARY ORGANIZATION) MEDITATION PROGRAM: FREIBURGER of Locus of Control; Less Anxiety ...... 437 MEDITATION PROGRAM ON ATHLETIC Donald E. Miskiman, B.Sc. (hons.) PERSONALITY INVENTORY PERFORMANCE Improved Spontaneous Organization of Memory, Theo Fehr, Dipl. Psych.; Uwe Nerstheimer; 70 INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL M. Kesav Reddy, B.A., Dip. Ath.; A. Jhansi Improved Stabilization of Organized Memory, and and Sibille Törber, Dipl. Kauffrau MEDITATION: A REPLlCATION xxviii xxix SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME ONE

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Sanford Nidich, M.A.; William Seeman, Ph.D.; AND NEGATIVE PERSONALITY art ociology 86 A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE and Thomas Dreskin, B.A. CHARACTERISTICS P III: S INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Self-Actualization; Increased Inner- Jonathan Shapiro, Ph.D. MEDITATION PROGRAM ON DRUG ABUSE Directedness (Independence, Self-Supportiveness); Increased Self-Actualization; Decreased A: Rehabilitation Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Hartmut Schenkluhn, Increased Time Competence (Ability to Live in Aggression; Decreased Depression; Decreased and Matthias Geisler, Cand. Psych. 79 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION the Present, Ability to Connect Past, Present, and Neuroticism; Decreased Trait Anxiety ...... 462 Decreased Drug Abuse ...... 544 Future Meaningfully); Increased Self-Actualizing PROGRAM AND DRUG ABUSE: Value (Holding Values of Self-Actualizing 75 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY 87 PERSONALITY AND AUTONOMIC People); Increased Spontaneity; Increased Feeling MEDITATION PROGRAM ON TRAIT W. Thomas Winquist, B.A. CHANGES IN PRISONERS PRACTICING ANXIETY Reactivity (Sensitivity to One’s Own Needs and Decreased Drug Abuse ...... 494 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Feelings); Increased Self-Acceptance; Increased Maureen Stern, M.Ed. TECHNIQUE Capacity for Intimate Contact ...... 442 Decreased Trait Anxiety ...... 468 80 DECREASED DRUG ABUSE WITH David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; John Kiehlbauch, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: Ph.D.; Richard Moore; and John Bristol, Ph.D. 71 DOES AN IN-DEPTH TRANSCENDENTAL 76 PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING OF MIU A STUDY OF 1,862 SUBJECTS Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Increased Autonomic MEDITATION COURSE EFFECT CHANGE STUDENTS: FIRST REPORT IN THE PERSONALITIES OF THE Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. Stability—Fewer Spontaneous Skin Resistance David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and Brigitte Duck PARTICIPANTS? Decreased Drug Abuse; Decreased Use of Alcohol; Responses; Decreased Psychasthenia (Decreased Benefits for Students at Maharishi International Wes J. Penner, Ph.D.; Harvey W. Zingle, Ph.D.; Decreased Use of Cigarettes; Decreased Drug Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviour, Increased University: Greater Self-Actualization—Greater Ron Dyck, B.A.; and Steve Truch Selling; Increased Tendency to Discourage the Use Behavioural Flexibility); Decreased Social Time Competence (Ability to Live in the Present, of Drugs by Others ...... 498 Introversion ...... 556 Increased Interest in Academic Activities; Ability to Connect Past, Present, and Future Increased Personal Integration (Decreased Social Meaningfully); Greater Inner-Directedness 81 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 88 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Alienation and Emotional Disturbance); Less (Independence, Self-Supportiveness); Greater MEDITATION PROGRAM ON DRUG PROGRAM AND REHABILITATION: Anxiety; Greater Aesthetic Orientation; Greater Self-Actualizing Value (Holding Values of Self- ABUSERS: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY A PILOT PROJECT AT THE FEDERAL Flexibility of Mental Orientation; Greater Actualizing People); Greater Spontaneity; Greater Eva Bräutigam, Fil. Mag. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AT Autonomy; Greater Altruism (Greater Concern for Self-Regard; Higher Scores on Nature of Man LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA the Welfare of Others) ...... 444 Decreased Drug Abuse; Increased Psychological Constructive Scale (Seeing Man as Essentially Stability; Increased Adjustment (Increased Self- Monte Cunningham, B.A., and Walter Koch, M.S. 72 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Good); Greater Synergy (Seeing the Opposites Acceptance, Satisfaction, and Ability to Handle Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased State and PROGRAM AND PROGRESSIVE of Life as Meaningfully Connected); Greater One’s Situation); Decreased Anxiety; Decreased Trait Anxiety; Development of Personality . . . . .562 RELAXATION: COMPARATIVE EFFECTS Capacity for Intimate Contact ...... 470 Tension-Restlessness; Decreased Psychomotor 89 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON TRAIT ANXIETY AND SELF- 77 A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT Retardation; Decreased Flaccidity ...... 506 ACTUALIZATION PROGRAM AT STILLWATER PRISON OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 82 MEDITATION AND MARIJUANA David Ballou, M.A. John Davies, Litt.B. PROGRAM ON CHANGES IN PERSONALITY Mohammad Shafii, M.D.; Richard A. Lavely, B.S.; Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased State and Increased Self-Actualization: Increased Inner- Theo Fehr, Dipl. Psych. Directedness/Time Competence (Independence, and Robert D. Jaffe, B.A. Trait Anxiety; Decreased Prison Rule Infractions; Decreased Nervousness (Decreased Psychosomatic Self-Supportiveness/Ability to Live in the Present, Decreased Drug Abuse ...... 515 Increased Participation in Recreational and Disturbance); Decreased Aggressiveness Ability to Connect Past, Present, and Future Educational Activities; Decreased Drug Abuse; (Increased Self-Control and Emotional Maturity); MEDITATION AND THE PREVENTION Meaningfully); Increased Feeling Reactivity 83 Fewer Parole Violations ...... 569 Decreased Depression (Increased Contentment and OF ALCOHOL ABUSE (Sensitivity to One’s Own Needs and Feelings). 90 THE USE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Self-Confidence); Decreased Irritability (Increased Mohammad Shafii, M.D.; Richard A. Lavely, B.S.; Decreased Trait Anxiety ...... 449 MEDITATION PROGRAM AS A THERAPY Calm and Tolerance); Increased Sociability and Robert D. Jaffe, B.A. 73 THE EFFECT OF THE REGULAR PRACTICE (Increased Friendliness and Liveliness); Increased WITH JUVENILE OFFENDERS Decreased Use of Alcohol ...... 520 OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Placidity (Increased Self-Assuredness and Good John P. Childs, Ed.D. TECHNIQUE ON BEHAVIOR AND Humour, Decreased Tendency to Procrastinate); 84 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders: Decreased PERSONALITY Decreased Tendency to Dominate (Increased MEDITATION PROGRAM ON ANXIETY, Anxiety; Positive Change as Reported by Both Peter B. Schilling, M.S. Flexibility, Respectfulness, and Tolerance); DRUG ABUSE, CIGARETTE SMOKING, AND Subjects and Parents; Enhanced Self-Regard; Decreased Inhibition (Increased Naturalness, Increased Neighbourliness, Warmth, Good- ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION Decreased Court Problems; Deceased Drug Abuse; Spontaneity, and Self-Sufficiency, Decreased Naturedness, Cooperativeness, Friendliness, Improved Interpersonal Relationships; Increased Tension); Increased Extraversion (Increased Zoe Lazar, Ed.D.; Lawrence Farwell, B.A.; and and Loyalty; Growth of a More Sympathetic, Happiness ...... 577 Openness to Interpersonal Relationships); John T. Farrow, Ph.D. Helpful, Supportive, and Caring Nature; Decreased Neuroticism (Increased Emotional Decreased Anxiety; Decreased Drug Abuse; 91 A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP Improved Leadership Ability; Growth of a More Stability); Increased Self-Reliance (Increased Decreased Use of Cigarettes; Decreased Use of OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Brave, Adventurous, Action-Oriented Nature; Effectiveness and Vigour, More Balanced Mood) . .476 Alcohol...... 524 PROGRAM TO KOHLBERG’S STAGES Increased Easygoingness, Friendliness, Calmness, OF MORAL REASONING Tactfulness, Forgiveness, and Consideration; 85 DECREASED DRUG USE AND PREVENTION 78 PSYCHOLOGICAL FINDINGS ON Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D. Decreased Argumentativeness, Irritability, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION OF DRUG USE THROUGH THE Greater Moral Maturity ...... 585 and Vengefulness; Decreased Use of Alcohol; Phillip C. Ferguson, M.A., and John C. Gowan, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Drug Abuse ...... 453 Ed.D. PROGRAM 92 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 74 THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE Increased Self-Actualization; Decreased Anxiety; David Katz, B.A. MEDITATION PROGRAM ON ANXIETY, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Aggression; Decreased Depression; Decreased Drug Abuse; Decreased Use of Alcohol; NEUROTICISM, AND PSYCHOTICISM PROGRAM TO SELF-ACTUALIZATION Decreased Neuroticism ...... 484 Prevention of Drug Abuse ...... 536 Jean Ross, M.A. xxx xxxi SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME ONE

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Decreased Neuroticism; Decreased Psychoticism; 98 IMPROVED QUALITY OF CITY LIFE art David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and Barbara Decreased Anxiety ...... 594 THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL P V: Granieri, M.A. MEDITATION PROGRAM: DECREASED 93 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION The TM-Sidhi Programme Increased Field Independence (Growth of a More CRIME RATE TECHNIQUE AND DRUG ABUSE Stable Internal Frame of Reference, Increased 102 HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: COUNSELORS Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith Perceptual Acuity); Increased Creativity— III, M.A. EEG COHERENCE, CREATIVITY, Increased Figural Fluency and Originality; David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Gary K. AND EXPERIENCES OF THE SIDHIS Increased Intelligence; Increased Behavioural Arthur, M.D.; Lavelle Franklin, B.A.; and James Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Crime Flexibility—Increased Psychomotor Speed and O’Connell, B.A. Rate (Cities, USA, 1973) ...... 639 David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil.; Christopher T. Haynes, B.S.; Motor-Cognitive Flexibility (Findings Indicate a Improved Mental Health; Decreased Anxiety; and Kheireddine Badaoui, Dr en phys. Reversal of the Ageing Process)...... 713 Decreased Hypochondria; Decreased Maximum EEG Coherence Associated with Schizophrenia (Decreased Internal Conflicts and 104 AUDITORY THRESHOLDS IN ADVANCED Part IV: Experiences of the TM-Sidhis; Correlations Confusion) ...... 597 PARTICIPANTS IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL between High EEG Coherence, Experiences of heoretical apers MEDITATION PROGRAM 94 A STUDY OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL T P Higher States of Consciousness, Experiences of MEDITATION PROGRAM IN THE SERVICE 99 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION the TM-Sidhis, and High Levels of Creativity. . . .705 Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil., and Stephen L. OF COUNSELING TECHNIQUE AND QUANTUM PHYSICS: IS Milstein, Ph.D. 103 THE EFFECTS OF THE AGE OF Leah Dell Dick, Ph.D., and Robert E. Ragland, PURE CONSCIOUSNESS A MACROSCOPIC ENLIGHTENMENT GOVERNOR TRAINING Greatly Improved Auditory Thresholds ...... 719 Ph.D. QUANTUM STATE IN THE BRAIN? COURSES ON FIELD INDEPENDENCE, Optimizing Brain Functioning through the Increased Self-Actualization; Increased Time Lawrence H. Domash, Ph.D. CREATIVITY, INTELLIGENCE, AND Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Competence (Ability to Live in the Present, In this paper the author interprets the pure BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY Programme ...... 724 Ability to Connect Past, Present, and Future consciousness state induced by the Transcendental Meaningfully); Increased Inner-Directedness Meditation technique in terms of quantum physics (Independence, Self-Supportiveness); Increased as a state of zero entropy, and puts forward the Existentiality (Flexibility in Application of hypothesis that a form of superconductivity in Values); Enhanced Self-Regard; Increased Self- the brain may underlie its physiology. Other Acceptance ...... 600 connections with biophysics and physical theory generally are explained...... 652 95 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE USES OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 100 THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF PROGRAM IN PSYCHIATRY ENLIGHTENMENT: EXPERIMENTAL Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D. EVIDENCE THAT THE TRANSCENDENTAL Case Histories Illustrating Benefits in the MEDITATION TECHNIQUE PRODUCES Treatment of Psychiatric Patients with a Variety of A FOURTH AND FIFTH STATE OF Disorders, Including Anxiety Neurosis, Obsessive- CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE INDIVIDUAL Compulsive Neurosis, Depression, Drug and AND A PROFOUND INFLUENCE OF Alcohol Abuse, Psychosomatic Disorders, and ORDERLINESS IN SOCIETY Chronic Insomnia ...... 605 David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. A review of scientific data shows that a fourth B: Productivity and Quality of Life state of consciousness is reached through the Transcendental Meditation technique. It is seen 96 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION that the repeated experience of this state develops a AND PRODUCTIVITY fifth state of consciousness, cosmic consciousness David R. Frew, Ph.D. or enlightenment, in which behaviour is Increased Productivity; Increased Job Satisfaction; spontaneously in accordance with all the laws Improved Job Performance; Decreased Turnover of nature. The powerful influence of coherence Propensity; Improved Relations with Supervisors; generated in world consciousness by individuals Improved Relations with Peers; Decreased growing towards enlightenment is seen as the basis Self-Report Climb Orientation/Increased Climb of the dawning of the Age of Enlightenment. . . . .671 Orientation as Reported by Co-Workers and 101 NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF ENLIGHTENMENT Supervisor ...... 625 Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. 97 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL This contribution outlines the broad historical MEDITATION PROGRAM ON WORK implications of scientific research on the ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR Transcendental Meditation programme for Kenneth E. Friend, Ph.D. developing enlightened individuals, an enlightened society, cultural integrity, and world peace. . . . .692 Increased Job Satisfaction; Improved Job Performance; Improved Relationship with One’s Superior; Improved Relationship with Co-Workers . 630 xxxii xxxiii LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME TWO

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Volume 2 116 SHORTENING OF LATENCIES OF HUMAN ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN LEVELS OF AUDITORY EVOKED BRAIN POTENTIALS PHYSIOLOGICAL RELAXATION DURING THE TRANSCENDENTAL Steven E. Sultan, Ph.D. MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Electromyographic Evidence of Deep Relaxation Dr. med. A. Wandhöfer; Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. G. during Transcendental Meditation; Greater Ability Paper Page to Maintain Relaxation during Activity �� Part 1: Physiology Number Kobal; and Prof. Dr. med. K.-H. Plattig 855 Improved Efficiency of Information Transfer in 123 COMPARISON OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL The Studies in the First Two Sections Document Changes the Brain: Shorter Latencies of Auditory Evoked 110 SEROTONIN, NORADRENALINE, MEDITATION TECHNIQUE TO VARIOUS during the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Potentials (Both during and outside the Practice of DOPAMINE METABOLITES IN RELAXATION PROCEDURES Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. Transcendental Meditation) �� 824 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Denver Daniels, Ph.D. A: Metabolic, Biochemical, TECHNIQUE 117 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL Improved Resistance to Stress: Greater Autonomic and Cardiovascular Changes Dr. med. M. Bujatti, and Univ.-Prof. Dr. techn. P. CHARACTERISTICS DURING THE Stability—Greater Stability of Skin Resistance in Riederer, Dipl. Ing. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Response to Stressful Stimuli. Greater Ability to Paper Page Changes in Neurotransmitter Balance: Increased PROGRAM AND NAPPING: A PILOT STUDY Process Information at Speed: Superior Dichotic Number Levels of Serotonin Metabolite (5-HIAA) during Paul Dash, B.A., and Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D. Listening �� 864 105 ALTERATIONS IN BLOOD FLOW DURING Transcendental Meditation; Lower Levels of EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Increased TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Adrenaline and Noradrenaline Metabolite (VMA) High Amplitude Alpha Activity; Differentiation and Higher Levels of 5-HIAA Outside the Practice D: Health R. Jevning, Ph.D.; R. Smith, M.D.; A.F. Wilson, between Transcendental Meditation and Napping �� 829 of Transcendental Meditation �� 804 124 BLOOD PRESSURE AND PLASMA M.D., Ph.D.; and M.E. Morton, M.D., Ph.D. 118 ANALYSIS OF SLEEP IN ALTERED STATES CHOLESTEROL LEVELS BEFORE AND Changes in Regional Blood Flow and Cardiac 111 ACUTE DECLINE IN ADRENOCORTICAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS BY CLASSICAL EEG AFTER LEARNING TRANSCENDENTAL Output Indicative of Increased Blood Flow to the ACTIVITY DURING TRANSCENDENTAL AND COHERENCE SPECTRA Brain ...... MEDITATION MEDITATION 786 J.P. Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl.; C. H. David Lovell-Smith, B.A., M.B., Ch.B.; A. 106 REDISTRIBUTION OF BLOOD FLOW Ron Jevning, Ph.D., and Archie F. Wilson, M.D., Haynes, Ph.D.; J.R. Hebert, M.A.; and B. Reber, M.S. Ph.D. Dickie, M.B., Ch.B.; and J. Robinson, M.B., Ch.B. IN TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION EEG Correlates of Reduced Sleep Requirement �� 835 Improved Cardiovascular Health: Reduction of R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; W.R. Reduction in Biochemical Index of Stress: 119 SLEEP AND DREAM IN ALTERED STATES Blood Pressure to More Ideal Levels in Both Smith, M.D.; and M. Morton, M.D., Ph.D. Decreased Plasma Cortisol �� 811 OF CONSCIOUSNESS Hypertensive and Normotensive Subjects �� 872 Changes in Regional Blood Flow and Cardiac 112 ALTERED RED CELL METABOLISM IN TM J.P. Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl.; C. Output Indicative of Increased Blood Flow to the 125 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION R. Jevning, Ph.D; H.C. Pirkle, M.D.; and A.F. Haynes, Ph.D.; J.R. Hebert, M.A.; and W. Reber, Brain ...... 787 TECHNIQUE—A “SELF-CARE” PROGRAM Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. M.S. FOR THE DIALYSIS/TRANSPLANT PATIENT 107 SALIVARY ELECTROLYTES, PROTEIN, Fundamental Change in Cellular Metabolism: Re- EEG Correlates of Reduced Sleep Requirement �� 836 AND pH DURING TRANSCENDENTAL duced Glucose Metabolism in Red Blood Cells �� 814 David W. Doner, Jr., M.D. 120 HEMISPHERIC LATERALITY AND Case Histories Demonstrating Improved Mental MEDITATION 113 BEHAVIORAL ALTERATION OF PLASMA COGNITIVE STYLE ASSOCIATED WITH and Physical Health in Patients on a Kidney Larry W. McCuaig, Ph.D. PHENYLALANINE CONCENTRATION TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Transplant/Dialysis Programme: Decreased Increased Concentration of Salivary Electrolytes R. Jevning, Ph.D.; H.C. Pirkle, M.D.; and A.F. James E. Bennett, B.A., and John Trinder, Ph.D. Anxiety; Increased Independence; More Positive and Protein ...... 792 Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. Greater Adaptability of Brain Functioning outside Self-Image; Improved Sense of Well-Being; Increased Plasma Phenylalanine �� 108 VENTILATION, HEART RATE AND 815 the Practice of Transcendental Meditation: Greater Improved Cardiovascular Function; Decreased RESPIRATORY PARTIAL PRESSURES Lateral Asymmetry of EEG Alpha Activity during Blood Pressure �� 874 OF ATHLETES PRACTICING THE TRAN- B: Electrophysiological and Both Right and Left HemisphereTasks �� 840 126 THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL SCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Electroencephalographic Changes MEDITATION PROGRAM ON SLEEPING Regine Stehle, Dipl. Sportlehrerin 121 THETA BURSTS: AN EEG PATTERN IN 114 EEG POWER SPECTRA AND NORMAL SUBJECTS PRACTICING THE AND DREAMING PATTERNS A Unique State of Deep Rest: Decreased AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTlALS IN Jeffrey W. Fuson, M.D. Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Consumption TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); Decreased TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (TM) TECHNIQUE Improvements in Sleeping and Dreaming Patterns: Minute Ventilation; Decreased Respiration Rate; Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. G. Kobal; Dr. med. A. R. Hebert, M.A., and Prof. Dr. med. D. Lehmann Improved Quality of Sleep; Decreased Time to Decreased Heart Rate ...... 794 Wandhöfer; and Prof. Dr. med. K.-H. Plattig Increased Orderliness of Brain Functioning; High Fall Asleep; Increased Restedness on Awakening; Improved Efficiency of Information Transfer in Amplitude Synchronous Theta Bursts �� 845 Decreased Awakenings for Night; Decreased Time 109 ENDOCRINE CHANGES IN the Brain: Shorter Latencies of Auditory Evoked to Awaken Fully; Decreased Daytime Sleepiness; RELAXATION PROCEDURES Decreased Daytime Tiredness without Sleepiness; Potentials (Both during and outside the Practice of The Studies in the following Sections Document Changes A.J.W. Bevan, M.Sc.; P.M. Young, M.A.; M.L. Decreased Daytime Napping; Decreased Number Transcendental Meditation). Increased EEG Alpha outside the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Wellby, M.D., F.A.A.C.B., F.R.A.C.P.; P. Power �� 823 of Dreams Remembered; Decrease in Complexity Nenadovic, B.Sc. (Hons.); and J.A. Dickins, M.B., Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. of Dreams; Decrease in Unpleasant Emotional 115 EEG AND TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION B.S., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P. C: Physiological Efficiency and Stability Content of Dreams; Decrease in Recurring Reduction in Biochemical Index of Stress: Dr. med. W. Krahne, and Dr. med. B. Taneli Dreams; Decreased Need for Sleep Medications. Decreased Plasma Cortisol. Biochemical Increased Orderliness of Brain Functioning: High 122 A STUDY OF THE ABILITY OF Decreased Need for Prescription Drugs; Decreased Indication of Reduced Stress during Daily Amplitude EEG Alpha and Theta Activity in All INDIVIDUALS TRAINED IN Use of Alcohol; Improved Mental Health; Reduced Activity: Lower Urinary Free Cortisol Levels �� 803 Cortical Regions �� 823 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TO Need for Medical Attention �� 880 xxxiv xxxv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME TWO

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127 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS Impulsiveness; Less Anxiety; Better Psychological 146 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND ITS TECHNIQUE AND THE PREVENTION OF A RURAL INDIAN HIGH SCHOOL Health �� 985 INFLUENCE ON THE SELF-CONCEPT OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS P. Nataraj, M.A., and M.G. Radhamani 139 LEARNING DISORDERS AND THE Clara Willis, Ph.D. Jaan Suurküla, Leg. läk Improved Concentration, Reading Comprehension, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Psychological Disturbance �� 1040 Epidemiological Evidence for Prevention of and Memory in High School Students �� 955 PROGRAM: RETROSPECTS AND PROSPECTS 147 THE IMMEDIATE EFFECT OF THE Psychiatric Illness �� 896 Yvonne Jackson, Ed.D. 133 EINIGE EFFEKTE DER TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Benefits for Economically Deprived Adolescents TRANSZENDENTALEN MEDITATION BEI TECHNIQUE AND THEORETICAL E: Motor and Perceptual Ability, with Learning Problems: Increased Self- LERNBEHINDERTEN SONDER-SCHÜLERN REFLECTIONS UPON THE PSYCHOLOGY Actualization—Increased Inner-Directedness and Athletic Performance Dr. med. Klaus-Dieter Overbeck, Dipl.-Psych., and AND PHYSIOLOGY OF SUBJECTIVE Dr. phil. Sven E. Tönnies (Independence, Self-Supportiveness), Increased 128 THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Self-Regard; Decreased School Drop-out Rate �� 1000 WELL-BEING MEDITATION ON AUDITORY THRESHOLDS Benefits for Children with Learning Problems: Dr. phil. Claudio Weiss, Dipl. Psych. Decreased Anxiety (Examination, Manifested, and John Graham, B.Sc. 140 THE EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Elevation of Mood; Increased Mental General); Decreased School Dislike �� 963 MEDITATION ON RIGHT HEMISPHERIC Increased Perceptual Acuity: Improved Auditory Clarity and Wakefulness; Increased Readiness Frequency and Amplitude Discrimination �� 901 134 THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONING for Activity; Decreased Depression; Decreased MEDITATION ON FREE RECALL Robert R. Pagano, Ph.D., and Lynn R. Frumkin, Nervousness; Decreased Fatigue; Decreased 129 THE EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL Dean Scher, M.A., C.S.W. B.S. Lethargy; Decreased Introversion; Decreased MEDITATION ON REACTION TIME Drowsiness; Decreased Aggressive Irritation; Superior Short-Term Recall; Greater Spontaneous More Efficient Functioning of the Right Cerebral Mark J. Hardesty, B.A. Decreased Vulnerability �� 1044 Organization of Memory �� 968 Hemisphere: Better Tonal Memory �� 1012 Improved Mind-Body Coordination: Faster Reactions (Simple and Choice Visual Reaction 135 MEDITATION AND RIGHT HEMISPHERIC 148 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDI Time) �� 904 FUNCTIONING—SPATIAL LOCALIZATION B: Development of Personality TATION ON ANXIETY AND SELF-CONCEPT Naim C. Gupta, Ph.D. 130 THE ROLE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Scott D. Harrison, B.S.; Robert Pagano, Ph.D.; 141 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN Decreased Anxiety; Improved Self-Concept �� 1046 MEDITATION PROGRAM IN THE and Steven Warrenburg, Ph.D. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION More Efficient Functioning of the Right Cerebral AND ADAPTIVE REGRESSION PROMOTION OF ATHLETIC EXCELLENCE: 149 A PRELIMINARY STUDY INTO THE Hemisphere: Better Spatial Localization �� 973 Thomas Gerard Curtin, Ed.D. LONG- AND SHORT-TERM EFFECTS AND EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL Improved Mental Health: Increased Capacity for THEIR RELATION TO ACTIVATION THEORY 136 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON EMPATHY ‘Adaptive Regression’ (Conscious Experience of M. Kesav Reddy, M.S. MEDITATION PROGRAM ON SHORT-TERM the Inner Self and Ability to Bring It to Healthy Steven T. Griggs, M.A. Benefits for Athletes: A Unique State of Deep RECALL PERFORMANCE Expression) �� 1022 Greater Empathy �� 1051 Rest during Transcendental Meditation— Robert B. Berrettini, M.S. Ed. Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Improved Short-Term Recall, Increased Ability 142 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF 150 THE EFFECT OF A THREE-MONTH Consumption), Increased Basal Skin Resistance, to Focus Attention, and Improved Spontaneous TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION RESIDENCE COURSE UPON THE Fewer Spontaneous Skin Resistance Responses; Organization of Memory in College Students �� 975 E. Boese, M.D., and K. Berger, M.D. PERSONALITIES OF EXPERIENCED Improved Physiological Functioning outside the Decreased Number of Situations in Life Felt to MEDITATORS Practice of Transcendental Meditation—Increased 137 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Be a Problem; Decreased Number of Serious D.A. Throll, Ph.D., and L.A. Throll, B.A., Dip. Cardiovascular Efficiency, Increased Respiratory PROGRAMME IN BRITISH SECONDARY Problems Experienced; Improved Self-Image; Teach. Efficiency (Increased Vital Capacity); Improved SCHOOLS Decreased Hostility �� 1029 Increased Ego Strength and Emotional Stability Athletic Performance and Neuromuscular Stephen D. Harding, D. Phil., P.G.C.E. Integration—Increased Running Speed, Improved and Maturity, Decreased Overreactionary Decreased Neuroticism in Secondary School 143 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Standing Broad Jump, Increased Agility, Improved Behaviour; Increased Outgoing and Participating Students �� 982 MEDITATION PROGRAM ON LEVELS OF Reaction Time and Coordination �� 907 Attitude; Increased Functional Intelligence; HOSTILITY, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION Increased Self-Sufficiency and Resourcefulness; 138 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR HIGHER 131 INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL Holger R. Hahn, M.S., and Thomas E. Whalen, Increased Relaxed and Unfrustrated Behaviour, CONSCIOUSNESS: A STUDY OF STUDENTS MEDITATION ON PERCEPTUAL ILLUSION: Ph.D. Less Guilt-Ridden Behaviour; Decreased AT MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL A PILOT STUDY Decreased Hostility; Decreased Anxiety; Depression, Showing a Calmer, More Confident UNIVERSITY Raymond F. Martinetti, Ph.D. Decreased Depression �� 1030 Attitude; Increased Emotional Harmony with Melanie Brown, M.S.W., Ph.D. an Absence of Regressive Behaviour; Increased Increased Perceptual Acuity: Lower Incidence of 144 THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Perceptual Illusions �� 949 Holistic Development in Students at Maharishi Emotional Strength with a Lessening of International University: Greater Commitment to MEDITATION PROGRAM ON SELF- Unwelcome Thoughts or Compulsive Habits; Higher Education; Greater Interest in Academic ACTUALIZATION, SELF-CONCEPT, Increased Contentment; Increased Enthusiasm for Activities; Greater Commitment to Personal AND HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY Work; Increased Trusting Behaviour; Decreased Part II: Psychology Development; Greater Commitment to Helping Joseph M. Rosenthal, M.A. State and Trait Anxiety; Increased Creativity; Others and Improving Society; Greater Optimism Increased Self-Actualization; Improved Self- Decreased Use of Alcohol and Cigarettes; A: Intelligence, Learning, about the Future of Society; Greater Intellectual Concept �� 1036 Decreased Need for Tranquillizers and Other and Academic Performance and Scientific Orientation; Greater Aesthetic Prescribed Drugs �� 1057 Orientation; Greater Tolerance of Authority; 145 THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL 132 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Greater Respect for Traditional Religious Values; MEDITATION ON ANXIETY 151 THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL PROGRAM AND ITS EFFECTS ON Greater Sense of Social Responsibility; Greater William T. Floyd III, M.S., and Jack Haynes, Ph.D. MEDITATION ON POSITIVE MENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN Sociability, Trust, and Openness to Others; Less Decreased Anxiety �� 1037 HEALTH AND SELF-ACTUALlZATION; xxxvi xxxvii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME TWO

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AND THE ROLE OF EXPECTATION, 154 THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Irritability, Resentment, Suspicion, and Verbal TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION RIGIDITY, AND SELF-CONTROL IN THE MEDITATION TECHNIQUE ON ANXIETY Hostility �� 1118 PROGRAM AND CERTAIN EFFICIENCY ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE BENEFITS CRITERIA LEVEL 159 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Roger E. Russie, Ph.D. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. PROGRAM, SPIRITUAL CRISIS AND Curt Jonsson, Civilekonom Increased Self-Actualization: Increased Time Decreased Trait Anxiety �� 1096 ENLIGHTENMENT Fulfilment of the Goals of Organizational Development: Greater Alertness—Greater Competence (Ability to Live in the Present, 155 ROLE OF EXPECTANCY AND Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., and Robert Kory, Ability to Connect Past, Present, and Future Attentiveness and Initiative, Less Dullness; Ability PRETREATMENT PERSONALITY IN B.A. Meaningfully); Increased Inner-Directedness to Achieve More with Less Effort, Less Tiredness; SUBJECTS’ SELF-ACTUALIZING CHANGES Resolution of Spiritual Crisis through (Independence, Self-Supportiveness); Increased Greater Self-Confidence—Greater Tendency WHILE PRACTICING TRANSCENDENTAL Development of Higher States of Consciousness �� 1135 Self-Actualizing Value (Holding Values of Self- to Stand up for One’s Opinions, Less Tendency Actualizing People); Increased Feeling Reactivity MEDITATION 160 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION to Worry About Other People’s Opinions of (Sensitivity to One’s Own Needs and Feelings); Linda Scott Bosmajian, Ph.D. PROGRAM AT MASSACHUSETTS Oneself, Greater Ease in Making Decisions, Less Increased Spontaneity; Enhanced Self-Regard; Increased Self-Actualization: Increased Time CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION WALPOLE: Introversion, Greater Ease in Making Contacts Increased Self-Acceptance; Increased Capacity for Competence (Ability to Live in the Present, AN EVALUATION REPORT with Other People; Greater Tolerance—Less Easily Irritated, Less Often Angry; Greater Ability Intimate Contact �� 1065 Ability to Connect Past, Present, and Future Robert E. Ferguson, B.S.C.I. Meaningfully); Increased Inner-Directedness to Assign Correct Priorities; Greater Ability to Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased 152 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND (Independence, Self-Supportiveness) �� 1099 Cooperate with Others, Greater Respect for the Anxiety; Decreased Hostility; Decreased Prison THE FLEXIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTIONS Opinions of Others �� 1178 Disciplinary Rule Infractions; Improved Sleeping OF REALITY 156 COMPARISON OF SELF-CONCEPTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATORS Patterns—Decreased Time to Fall Asleep, 165 THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE PRACTICE OF William Charles Madsen, B.A. AND NON-MEDITATORS Decreased Awakenings per Night, Improved TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TO Greater Open-Mindedness: Greater Flexibility of Michael S. Nystul, Ph.D., and Margaret Garde, B. Quality of Sleep �� 1146 SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS OF MARITAL Constructions of Reality �� 1073 SATISFACTION AND ADJUSTMENT Occ. Ther., Dip. Psych. 161 A SELF-REPORT EVALUATION OF THE Verna W. Suarez, M.S. Ed. 153 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL More Positive Self-Concept: Better Opinion of EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Oneself; Better Feelings About Basic Identity; Greater Marital Satisfaction and Adjustment: MEDITATION TECHNIQUE UPON MEDITATION PROGRAM AT Greater Sense of Personal Worth and Adequacy; Greater Happiness; Greater Agreement on ADOLESCENT PERSONALITY MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL Lower Personality Disorder (Less Basic INSTITUTION WALPOLE—A FOLLOW-UP Recreation and Conduct; Greater Satisfaction with D.A. Throll, Ph.D. Personality Defects and Weaknesses); Greater Marriage; Greater Acceptance of One’s Spouse; Robert E. Ferguson, B.S.C.I. Increased Ego Strength and Emotional Stability Satisfaction with One’s Moral Worth and with Greater Admiration of One’s Spouse; Greater Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Increased Work and Maturity, Decreased Overreactionary One’s Relationship to God and Religion �� 1107 Harmony; Greater Intimacy �� 1184 Efficiency; Increased Ability to Handle Stress Behaviour; Increased Bold and Self-Sufficient and Tension; Increased Ability to Deal with 166 INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Behaviour, Less Inhibitive Behaviour; Increased Others; Decreased Use of Alcohol and Prescribed MEDITATION PROGRAM ON CRIME RATE Self-Reliant, Practical, Logical, and Realistic and Non-Prescribed Drugs; Decreased Use of Behaviour; Increased Easy-going, Tolerant, and Part III: Sociology IN SUBURBAN CLEVELAND Cigarettes; Decreased Drug Abuse �� 1156 Conciliatory Attitudes; Decreased Instability Guy Hatchard, B.Sc. and Insomnia, Decreased Hypochondriacal and A: Rehabilitation 162 THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Neurasthenic Symptoms (Especially Anxieties Crime Rate in Suburban Communities (USA, TEACHING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON CESSATION OF DRUG and Phobias); Increased Self-Control, Persistence, 157 1974–1976) ...... 1199 MEDITATION IN A PSYCHIATRIC SETTING USE: SOME PRELIMINARY FINDINGS Foresight, Consideration for Others, and Regard Hubert Dhanaraj, Ph.D. for Etiquette; Increased Relaxed and Unfrustrated Thomas Candelent, A.A., and Gillian Candelent Decreased Drug Abuse; Decreased Use of Behaviour, Less Guilt-Ridden Behaviour; Benefits for Psychiatric Patients with Cigarettes; Decreased Use of Alcohol �� 1159 art eview apers Increased Outgoing and Participating Attitude; Schizophrenia, Neuroses, Personality Disorders, P IV: R P Decreased Unconventional, Autistic, and Anxious and Alcohol and Drug Problems: Decreased 163 SECONDARY PREVENTION OF DRUG Behaviour; Increased Self-Sufficiency and Anxiety and Tension; Decreased Overactive or DEPENDENCE THROUGH THE A: Health Resourcefulness. Increased Self-Actualization: Impulsive Behaviour; Improved Sleeping Patterns � 1114 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TRANSZENDENTALE MEDITATION— Increased Time Competence (Ability to Live in 167 158 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM IN METROPOLITAN the Present, Ability to Connect Past, Present, EIN WEG IN DER PSYCHOPHYSISCHEN PROGRAM AS A POSSIBLE TREATMENT PHILADELPHIA and Future Meaningfully); Increased Inner- THERAPIE MODALITY FOR DRUG OFFENDERS: Raymond J. Monahan, M.A. Directedness (Independence, Self-Supportiveness); Dr. rer. nat. H.-D. Gräf, Dipl. Chem. Increased Self-Actualizing Value (Holding EVALUATION OF A PILOT PROJECT AT Decreased Drug Abuse; Decreased Use The physiological, psychological, and sociological Values of Self-Actualizing People); Increased MILAN FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL of Cigarettes; Decreased Use of Alcohol; benefits of the Transcendental Meditation Spontaneity; Enhanced Self-Regard; Increased INSTITUTION Decreased Use of Caffeine; Decreased Need for technique are reviewed, and its value both in Scores on Nature of Man Constructive Scale John Ramirez, Ph.D. Tranquillizers and Other Prescribed Drugs �� 1161 clinical practice and for society as a whole is (Seeing Man as Essentially Good); Increased Rehabilitation of Imprisoned Drug Offenders: emphasized. �� 1209 Capacity for Intimate Contact; Increased Feeling Increased Emotional Stability and Maturity— B: Productivity and Quality of Life Reactivity (Sensitivity to One’s Own Needs and Decreased Neuroticism, Guilt, Depression, 168 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Feelings). Decreased State and Trait Anxiety; Hypomania, and Psychasthenia; Enhanced Self- 164 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Decreased Need for Sleep Medication and Esteem; Decreased Over-Concern with Physical THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL E.B. Toane, M.D. Pain Relievers; Decreased Use of Alcohol and Symptoms; Decreased Aggression—Decreased MEDITATION PROGRAM: A STUDY The author discusses research on the Cigarettes; Decreased Drug Abuse �� 1087 Psychopathic Deviation, Assault, Indirect Hostility, OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE Transcendental Meditation technique and gives xxxviii xxxix SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME TWO

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examples from his own experience of the benefits The benefits of Transcendental Meditation in D: Rehabilitation THE RESTORATION OF CREATIVE of the technique for the patient and the doctor. �� 1213 medical practice are described with particular INTELLIGENCE 181 TRANSZENDENTALE MEDITATION—TM— reference to the alleviation of stress-related illness Demetri P. Kanellakos, Ph.D.; Byron P. Rigby, 169 TRANSZENDENTALE MEDITATION U.A. EINE NICHTCHEMISCHE METHODE and psychosomatic complaints. �� 1277 M.B., B.S., M.R.C. Psych.; Harold H. Bloomfield, IN DER MEDIZIN GEGEN DROGENMISSBRAUCH M.D.; Barry M. Charles, M.D.; Geoffrey Clements, Prof em. Dr. med. E. Stutz B: Education Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. K.-D. Kniffki, Dipl. Phys. D. Phil.; Bruce V. Davis, M.D.; and Geoffrey The benefits of Transcendental Meditation for Transcendental Meditation is discussed as a highly Mead, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. physiological functioning are reviewed, and their 176 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND THE effective method to combat drug abuse. �� 1310 The authors propose that the development of value in clinical medicine is emphasized. �� 1215 SCIENCE OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE enlightenment through the Transcendental Paul H. Levine, Ph.D. 182 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 170 EEG COHERENCE DURING AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Meditation programme is the ideal means TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS The Science of Creative Intelligence and its of rehabilitation. Scientific research on practical aspect, the Transcendental Meditation Stephen B. Cox, J.D. D. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Transcendental Meditation is examined in the light programme, are discussed in the light of their The Transcendental Meditation technique is This paper reviews research on EEG coherence of its application for the restoration of the full implications for resolving the problems of presented as an effective means for criminal and creative intelligence of the individual. �� 1360 indicating the growth of orderliness and integration education. �� 1282 drug rehabilitation. �� 1317 in brain functioning as a result of Transcendental 187 TRANSZENDENTALE MEDITATION IN DER 183 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION—AS Meditation. �� 1220 177 TM AS A SECONDARY SCHOOL SUBJECT BEHANDLUNG DROGENABHÄNGIGER Francis Driscoll, Ph.D. APPLIED TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, 171 HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Prof. em. Dr. med. E. Stutz A U.S. public school superintendent outlines DRUG REHABILITATION AND SOCIETY THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL The Transcendental Meditation programme is seen his successful experience of introducing IN GENERAL MEDITATION PROGRAMME as an effective means of drug rehabilitation. �� 1381 Transcendental Meditation into the adult education David E. Sykes, B.A., J.D. Byron Rigby, M.B., B.S., M.R.C. Psych. programme of his area and at a senior high school. The benefits of Transcendental Meditation for 188 ENLIGHTENMENT IN WORLD This paper presents a concise review of research on Improved grades, improved relationships with mind, body, social behaviour, and world harmony PSYCHIATRY: THE TRANSCENDENTAL higher states of consciousness developed through family, teachers and peers, and disappearance of are discussed. On this basis its application in MEDITATION TECHNIQUE—NEW LIGHT the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi drug abuse are reported. �� 1288 prison and drug rehabilitation is proposed. �� 1321 programme and discusses the profound benefits ON CONSCIOUSNESS of this programme for the development of perfect 178 EDUCATION AND THE SCIENCE 184 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: A NEW Byron Rigby, M.B., B.S., M.R.C. Psych. health for both the individual and society. �� 1221 OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE METHOD OF REDUCING DRUG ABUSE A review of research reveals that enlightenment— John F. Price, Ph.D. Jay B. Marcus, B.A., LL.B., Attorney-at-Law the state of fully developed human consciousness DIE TECHNIK DER TRANSZENDENTALEN 172 resulting from the regular practice of the MEDITATION UND IHRE WIRKUNGEN AUF The author presents the Science of Creative The author discusses research showing that the Transcendental Meditation programme is effective Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi DIE GESUNDHEIT Intelligence as a fundamental interdisciplinary approach to education and outlines its great in the treatment and prevention of drug abuse. �� 1335 programme—fulfils the highest goals of psychiatry Dr. rer. nat. D. Gräf, Dipl. Chem. practical value in improving the quality of and medicine by bringing perfect health to the THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION The benefits of Transcendental Meditation for life in the light of scientific research on the 185 individual and society. �� 1389 physiological functioning and their importance for Transcendental Meditation programme. �� 1290 PROGRAM: NEW HOPE FOR CRIMINAL health are revieved. �� 1238 REHABILITATION 179 FULFILLMENT IN EDUCATION: SELF- F. Joseph Fullerman, M.A., C.S.W. E: Quality of Life 173 TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS: REALIZATION FOUND IN THE SIMPLEST EXPANDED AWARENESS AS A MEANS The unique effectiveness of the Transcendental 189 NEUROPHYSIOLOGISCHE INTEGRATION FORM OF AWARENESS—THE FIELD OF Meditation programme in the rehabilitation of OF PREVENTING AND ELIMINATING ALS GRUNDLAGE FÜR LERNEN UND ALL POSSIBILITIES prisoners is discussed on the basis of results of THE EFFECTS OF STRESS ARBEITEN IN DER ÖKOLOGIE Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil., and Byron P. Rigby, research projects conducted in U.S. prisons. The Dr. rer. nat. Eberhard Baumann, Dipl. Biol., Arzt Demetri P. Kanellakos, Ph.D. M.D., B.S., M.R.C. Psych. author proposes the introduction of Transcendental This paper reviews the beneficial effects of This paper discusses the educational programmes Meditation in the probation and parole systems. �� 1351 The integrated functioning of the nervous system, the Transcendental Meditation programme in of Maharishi European Research University for developed through Transcendental Meditation, 186 ENLIGHTENMENT FOR IDEAL the light of their importance for the prevention unfolding the full potential of consciousness is discussed as the basis of a holistic and all- REHABILITATION: EXPANSION OF and elimination of stress and the expansion of in every student and developing a unified encompassing view of the environment and of life individual consciousness. �� 1242 understanding of all fields of knowledge through CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE BASIS OF in accord with natural law. �� 1421 174 DIE TRANSZENDENTALE MEDITATION the Science of Creative Intelligence and its (TM) UND IHRE THERAPEUTISCHEN practical aspect, the Transcendental Meditation MÖGLICHKEITEN and TM-Sidhi programme. The authors propose the implementation of this scientifically validated Dr. rer. nat. Diether Gräf, Dipl. Chem. programme to bring fulfilment to the goals of The scientifically validated benefits of the every system of education. �� 1295 Transcendental Meditation programme are discussed in the context of their relevance to the fields of health and social welfare. �� 1269 C: Personality 175 TRANSZENDENTALE MEDITATION UND 180 MEDITATION AND THE GREAT EVOLUTION IHRE INDIKATIONEN FÜR DEN Maynard Shelly, Ph.D. NIEDERGELASSENEN ARZT Transcendental Meditation is seen as an important Dr. med. D. Kroener method of increasing satisfaction and happiness. �� 1308 xl xli LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME THREE

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Volume 3 201 CHANGE IN CARDIAC OUTPUT Elimination), Respiration Rate, and Minute DURING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Ventilation; Reduced Heart Rate; Increased Basal AS MEASURED BY NONINVASIVE Skin Resistance; Stable Phasic Skin Resistance; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY Increased EEG Coherence in Theta, Alpha, and Debra W. Robertson, Ph.D., and Joe W. Beta Bands �� 1611 Paper Page Peterson, M.S. Part 1: Physiology Number 206 ENDOCRINE BALANCE AND Changes in Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume �� 1596 THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME The Studies in the First Two Sections Document Changes 196 ENDOCRINOLOGICAL CHANGES Dr. med. Oliver Werner, D.S.C.I.; Robert Keith during the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation 202 NEUROHUMORAL CORRELATES OF FOLLOWING INSTRUCTION IN Wallace, Ph.D.; Barry Charles, M.D.; Gregorius Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME Janssen, Arts, M.S.C.I.; and Roger Chalmers, Sarada Subrahmanyam, M.B., B.S., Ph.D., M.S., (Cantab.), M.B., B.Chir., M.R.C.P. E. Arnhold, Arzt, D.S.C.I.; B.M. Charles, M.D.; F.A.M.S., F.I.M.S.A., and K. Porkodi, M.Sc., Ph.D. Changes in Hormonal Balance as a Result of the A: Metabolic, Biochemical, J.S. Gandhi, M.B., B.S.; M.C. Bragg, M.Sc.; Changes in Biochemical and Hormonal Balance TM-Sidhi Programme: Short- and Long-Term and Cardiovascular Changes and B.P. Rigby, M.B., B.S., M.R.C. Psych. outside the Practice of Transcendental Meditation: Changes in Pituitary Hormone Levels Indicative Paper Page Changes in Hormonal Balance as a Result of the Decreased Levels of Catecholamine and Steroid of Increased Stability and Sensitivity in Endocrine Number TM-Sidhi Programme: Short-and Long-Term Metabolites; Decreased Plasma Cortisol. Improved Control Systems �� 1626 Changes in Pituitary Hormone Levels �� 1555 Cardiovascular Health: Decreased Serum 190 ADRENOCORTICAL ACTIVITY Cholesterol. Benefits for Patients with Aggressive 207 MUSCLE AND SKIN BLOOD FLOW DURING MEDITATION 197 PHYSIOLOGICAL AND Behaviour, Mental Retardation, and Epilepsy; AND METABOLISM DURING STATES Ron Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF Normalization of Neurotransmitter Metabolite OF DECREASED ACTIVATION and J. M. Davidson, Ph.D. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Levels, Plasma Cortisol Levels, and EEG R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Reduction in Biochemical Index of Stress: Carl Jacob Severeide, Stud. Mag. Art. Features; Decreased Aggression in Aggressive and J.P. O’Halloran, Ph.D. Decreased Plasma Cortisol �� 1507 Patients; Improved IQ and Cognitive Functioning Experience of Pure Consciousness Associated A Unique State of Deep Rest: Decreased in Mentally Retarded Subjects; Reduction of 191 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION with: Marked Reductions in Respiration and Oxygen Consumption in Muscle Tissue; Normal Frequency and Severity of Epileptic Seizures in TECHNIQUE, ADRENOCORTICAL ACTIVITY, Heart Rates; Episodes of Spontaneous Breath Arterial Oxygen Partial Pressure. Reduction in Epileptic Patients �� 1598 AND IMPLICATIONS FOR STRESS Suspension (Not Followed by Hyperventilation); Biochemical Index of Stress: Decreased Arterial and Venous Lactate �� 1633 R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Absence of Spontaneous Skin Resistance 203 BEHAVIORAL CONTROL OF Responses. Maintenance of a Relaxed Style of and W.R. Smith, M.D. RED BLOOD CELL METABOLISM 208 BEHAVIORALLY INDUCED SECRETION Physiological Functioning outside the Practice of Reduction in Biochemical Index of Stress: OF ARGININE VASOPRESSIN Transcendental Meditation: Fewer Spontaneous R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Decreased Plasma Cortisol �� 1512 Skin Resistance Responses �� 1556 and H.C. Pirkle, M.D. J.P. O’Halloran, Ph.D.; R.A. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. 192 PLASMA PROLACTIN AND GROWTH Fundamental Change in Cellular Metabolism: Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; R. Skowsky, M.D.; and C.N. Alexander, Ph.D. HORMONE DURING MEDITATION 198 SYMPATHETIC ACTIVITY AND Reduced Glucose Metabolism in Red Blood Cells, Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Changes in Hormonal Balance: Increased Plasma Ron Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Partial Pressures. Reduction in Biochemical Index Vasopressin (and Normal Plasma Osmolality) and Eileen F. VanderLaan, A.B. Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. R. Lang; Dr. med. K. Dehof; of Stress: Decreased Arterial Lactate, Indication Prof. Dr. med. K.A. Meurer; and Prof. Dr. med. W. at Times of Regular Twice Daily Practice of Change in Hormonal Balance: Small Increase of Deep Rest; Decreased Spontaneous Skin Kaufmann Transcendental Meditation. Indication of Deep in Plasma Prolactin following Transcendental Resistance Responses �� 1605 Rest: Increased Basal Skin Resistance. Lower Meditation �� 1514 A Unique State of Integration of Contrasting State and Trait Anxiety �� 1640 Styles of Physiological Functioning Involving 193 DIE KREISLAUFPHYSIOLOGISCHEN 204 PRACTICE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Changes in the Activity of Both Sympathetic MEDITATION (TM) AND TM-SIDHI AUSWIRKUNGEN BEI DER and Parasympathetic Branches of the Autonomic B: Electrophysiological and TRANSZENDENTALEN MEDITATION PROGRAM MAY AFFECT THE CIRCADIAN Nervous System �� 1584 RHYTHM OF URINARY Electroencephalographic Changes Dr. med. Ulrich Bauhofer, D.S.C.I. 5-HYDROXYINDOLE EXCRETION Changes in Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume �� 1518 199 SHORT-TERM ENDOCRINE CHANGES 209 WIRKUNG DER TRANSZENDENTALEN K.G. Walton, Ph.D.; M. Lerom, M.S.; J. Salerno, IN TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION MEDITATION AUF DEN MUSKELTONUS 194 REDISTRIBUTION OF BLOOD FLOW IN B.S.; and R.K. Wallace, Ph.D. A.J.W. Bevan, M.Sc.; R.G. Symons, B.Sc. (Hons.); Toni Kemmerling, Dipl. Sportlehrer ACUTE HYPOMETABOLIC BEHAVIOR Changes in Serotonergic Activity: Increased C.G. Beng, M.B., B.S., M.A.A.C.B., M.R.C. Path.; Electromyographic Evidence of Deep Muscular R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; W.R. Urinary 5-Hydroxyindole Levels �� 1610 and M.L. Wellby, M.D., F.A.A.C.B., F.R.A.C.P. Relaxation �� 1652 Smith, M.D.; and M.E. Morton, M.D., Ph.D. Change in Hormonal Balance: Decreased Serum Changes in Regional Blood Flow and Cardiac 205 BREATH SUSPENSION DURING THE 210 EEG COHERENCE AND Growth Hormone �� 1593 Output Indicative of Increased Blood Flow to the TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Brain; Reduction in Biochemical Index of Stress— TECHNIQUE 200 ENDOCRINE CHANGES IN David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Decreased Arterial Lactate; Indication of Deep John T. Farrow, Ph.D., and J. Russell Hebert, M.A. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Increased Orderliness and Integration of Rest—Decreased Respiratory Minute Volume �� 1548 Maximum State of Deep Rest: Episodes Brain Functioning as a Result of the TM- A.J.W. Bevan, M.Sc. of Spontaneous Breath Suspension (Not 195 BEHAVIORAL INCREASE OF Sidhi Programme: Longitudinal Increases in Biochemical Indications of Reduced Stress; Followed by Hyperventilation). Experience of Interhemispheric EEG Coherence �� 1654 CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW Decreased Serum Cortisol; Decreased Pure Consciousness Associated with: Breath Ron Jevning, Ph.D., and A. F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. Serum Growth Hormone; Decreased Serum Suspension; Marked Reductions in Metabolic 211 HIGH AMPLITUDE FRONTO-CENTRAL Large Increase in Blood Flow to the Brain �� 1554 Triiodothyronine �� 1595 Rate (Oxygen Consumption and Carbon Dioxide ALPHA AND THETA ACTIVITY DURING xlii xliii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME THREE

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THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 217 SHORT-TERM LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS 223 KOHLBERGIAN COSMIC PERSPECTIVE Walter W. Mills, M.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D. TECHNIQUE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION RESPONSES, COHERENCE, AND THE Reduced Distress during Acute Experimental Pain 1759 Anne-Marie Rouzeré, Dr en chim.; Kheireddine TECHNIQUE ON EEG POWER AND TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND 229 MODIFICATION OF THE PAIRED H REFLEX Badawi, Dr en phys.; and Dr. med. Renate COHERENCE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Hartmann THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and Edward C. Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D.; Robert A. Ryncarz, M.A.; MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Bronson, M.S. Allan I. Abrams, Ph.D.; David W. Orme-Johnson, R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D.; Paul J. Mills, B.S.; David Functioning: Bursts of High Amplitude EEG Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Ph.D.; and Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. Alpha and Theta Activity in Frontal and Central W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Michael C. Dillbeck, Functioning: Longitudinal Increase in Frontal High Frontal EEG Alpha Coherence Correlated Ph.D.; and Eliha Jacobe, M.A., M.S.C.I. Regions �� 1655 EEG Alpha Coherence �� with a Unified Cosmic Perspective on Life; 1694 Enhanced Neurological Efficiency as a Result High Homolateral Right EEG Alpha Coherence 212 A CONTROLLED STUDY OF THE of the TM-Sidhi Programme: Facilitation of the 218 DOES THE NERVOUS SYSTEM HAVE A Correlated with Principled Moral Reasoning �� 1731 INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL GROUND STATE? A DESCRIPTION OF Paired H Reflex �� 1765 MEDITATION ON A SPECIFIC VALUE HIGH EEG COHERENCE EVENTS IN A 224 REAL TIME EEG COHERENCE ANALYSIS 230 THE PAIRED H REFLEX AND ITS OF THE H-REFLEX (HOFFMAN REFLEX) SINGLE SUBJECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION RECRUITMENT CURVE AND THE CORRELATION WITH EEG COHERENCE David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME SURFACE EMG AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN Experience of Pure Consciousness Associated Michael Beresford, B.Sc., and Geoffrey Clements, NORMAL SUBJECTS PRACTICING Jean-René Chenard, Ph.D. with Overall High EEG Coherence �� 1699 D.Phil. MEDITATION Electromyographic Evidence of Deep Muscular Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain R.K. Wallace, Ph.D.; P.J. Mills, B.S.; D.W. Orme- Relaxation; Reduction in Amplitude of H Reflex . 1660 219 FRONTAL EEG COHERENCE, H-REFLEX Functioning: Increased EEG Coherence in Alpha, Johnson, Ph.D.; M.C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; and E. RECOVERY, CONCEPT LEARNING, 213 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS Theta, and Beta Bands: Further Increases during Jacobe, M.A., M.S.C.I. AND THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM OF RESPIRATORY SUSPENSION PERIODS the TM-Sidhi Programme �� 1738 Correlations between High EEG Coherence, OCCURRING DURING THE PRACTICE OF Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; David W. Orme- Greater Neurological Efficiency (Faster H-Reflex 225 EEG COHERENCE, AGE-RELATED THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Johnson, Ph.D.; and R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D. Recovery), and Superior Academic Performance �� 1771 PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES, AND THE PROGRAM Improved Efficiency of Concept Learning as a Result of the TM-Sidhi Programme; Correlations TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND 231 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE Kheireddine Badawi, Dr en phys.; Robert Keith TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME PAIRED HOFFMAN REFLEX AND Wallace, Ph.D.; David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; between High Frontal EEG Alpha and Theta Michael Beresford, B.Sc.; Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc.; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN and Anne-Marie Rouzeré, Dr en chim. Coherence, Greater Neurological Efficiency (Faster H-Reflex Recovery), and Greater Michael Toomey, B.Sc.; and Geoffrey Clements, PARTICIPANTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Experience of Pure Consciousness Associated Flexibility of Concept Learning �� 1705 D. Phil. MEDITATION (TM) PROGRAM with: Episodes of Spontaneous Breath Suspension High EEG Coherence Predictive of Superior Robert K. Wallace, Ph.D.; David W. Orme- (Not Followed by Hyperventilation); High EEG 220 DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN Performance on Age-Related Psychological Johnson, Ph.D.; Paul J. Mills, B.S.; Michael C. Coherence �� 1666 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Variables: Fluency, Motor Speed, Reaction Time, Dillbeck, Ph.D.; and Eliha Jacobe, M.A., M.S.C.I. AND SLEEP ACCORDING TO 214 EFFECTS OF MEDITATION ON BRAINSTEM Shape Memory, and Flexibility �� 1743 Greater Neurological Efficiency (Faster H-Reflex ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CRITERIA AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS Recovery) Correlated with Superior Academic Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D., and Wallace E. T.M. McEvoy, B.Sc.; L.R. Frumkin, B.S.; and S.W. The Studies in the Following Sections Document Performance �� 1772 Larimore, Ph.D. Harkins, Ph.D. Changes outside the Practice of the Transcendental EEG Differentiation between Transcendental Changes in Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme. D: Health Following the Transcendental Meditation and TM- Meditation and Napping �� 1712 232 DER NUTZEN DER TECHNIK DER Sidhi Programme Suggesting Improved Processing 221 NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL ENTRY C: Physiological Efficiency and Stability TRANSZENDENTALEN MEDITATION FÜR of Auditory Information �� 1672 CHARACTERISTICS: CORRELATION DIE ÄRZTLICHE PRAXIS 215 LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF THE BETWEEN EEG COHERENCE AND MATH 226 THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL ACHIEVEMENT WITH SUBJECTS MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Dr. rer. nat. D. Gräf, Dipl. Chem., and G. Pfisterer, TM-SIDHI PROGRAM ON EEG PHASE Internist COHERENCE PRACTICING THE TM PROGRAM ON THE PAIRED HOFFMAN REFLEX Benefits in General Medical Practice �� 1784 D.W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; R.K. Wallace, Ph.D.; S.I. Nidich, Ed.D.; A. Abrams, Ph.D.; C. Jones, Paul J. Mills, B.S., and R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D. and M.C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. Ed.D.; D.W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; and R.K. Enhanced Neurological Efficiency as a Result 233 EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Orderliness and Integration of Wallace, Ph.D. of the TM-Sidhi Programme: Facilitation of the MEDITATION ON SERUM CHOLESTEROL Brain Functioning as a Result of the TM-Sidhi High Frontal EEG Alpha Coherence Correlated Paired H Reflex �� 1752 AND BLOOD PRESSURE Programme: Longitudinal Increases in EEG Alpha with Superior Performance in Mathematics �� 1720 Michael J. Cooper, M.D., and Maurice M. Aygen, and Theta Coherence �� 1678 227 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL M.D. 222 INTERSUBJECT EEG COHERENCE: MEDITATION TECHNIQUE ON NORMAL 216 EEG PHASE COHERENCE, PURE IS CONSCIOUSNESS A FIELD? Improved Cardiovascular Health: Long-Term AND JENDRASSIK REFLEX TIME Reductions in Serum Cholesterol and Blood CONSCIOUSNESS, CREATIVITY, David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Michael C. Dillbeck, Debra Warshal, Ph.D. Pressure to More Ideal Levels in Subjects with AND TM-SIDHI EXPERIENCES Ph.D.; R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D.; and Garland S. Enhanced Neuromuscular Efficiency: Decreased Normal or Mildly Elevated Values �� 1787 David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and Christopher Landrith III, M.A. Reflex Latency and Reflex Motor Time �� 1756 T. Haynes, Ph.D. Physiological Correlate of Increased Coherence in 234 TRANSZENDENTALE MEDITATION Clear Experiences of Pure Consciousness and TM- Collective Consciousness: Increased Intersubject 228 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN DER GEBURTSHILFLICHEN Sidhis Correlated with Higher Frontal EEG Alpha EEG Coherence Due to Long-Range Influence of TECHNIQUE AND ACUTE EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOPROPHYLAXE Coherence and Greater Creativity �� 1687 Group Practice of the TM-Sidhi Programme �� 1724 PAIN Dr. med. Rainer Heidelberg xliv xlv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME THREE

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Better Health for Mother and Child during Depression; Greater Self-Actualization; Greater 245 THE PRACTICE OF THE 249 MORE ON THE RELIABILITY OF THE Pregnancy and Childbirth: Fewer Medical Self-Esteem; Better Social Relationships; Less TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND KINESTHETIC AFTER-EFFECTS MEASURE Complaints during Pregnancy; Less Pain and Nervousness; Less Insomnia; Lower Use of TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME REVERSES THE AND NEED FOR STIMULATION Anxiety during Pregnancy and Childbirth; Tranquilizers, Sleep Medication, and Analgesics; PHYSIOLOGICAL AGEING PROCESS Kenneth E. Friend, Ph.D., and Michael Shorter Duration of Labor; Lower Frequency of Fewer Accidents. Decreased Use of Cigarettes, Michael Toomey, B.Sc.; Brian Pennington, Ph.D.; Maliszewski, Ph.D. Vacuum or Forceps Delivery and Other Operative Alcohol, Non-Prescribed Drugs, and Coffee �� 1830 Roger Chalmers, M.A. (Cantab.). M.B., B. Chir., Reduced Need for External Stimulation �� Interventions during Labor; Greater Frequency and 1906 240 GLUCOSE TOLERANCE AND THE M.R.C.P.; and Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil. Longer Duration of Breast-Feeding �� 1792 250 THE EFFECTS OF THE TM-SIDHI TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Reversal of Biological Ageing: Younger Biological PROGRAMME ON RIGIDITY-FLEXIBILITY 235 EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL PROGRAMME (A PILOT STUDY) Age Compared with Norms; Length of Time Michael Antes, Dipl. Psych. MEDITATION ON MILD AND MODERATE A.C. Yee, M.B., B.S., and A.S. Dissanayake, M.B., Practising the Transcendental Meditation and HYPERTENSION B.S., D. Phil. (Oxon.), A.M. TM-Sidhi Programme Correlated with Younger Increased Behavioural Flexibility as a Result of Biological Age and Younger Functional Age, and the TM-Sidhi Programme: Increased Perceptual B.L. Agarwal, M.D., F.R.C.P., and A. Kharbanda, Improved Blood Glucose Homeostasis �� 1846 M.B., B.S. Predictive of Lower Systolic Blood Pressure and Flexibility; Increased Psychomotor Speed; Improved Cardiovascular Health: Decreased Blood 241 AUSWIRKUNGEN DER TECHNIK DER Auditory Threshold �� 1871 Increased Functional Efficiency of Psychomotor Pressure in Patients with Mild and Moderate TRANSZENDENTALEN MEDITATION (TM) Co-ordination �� 1913 246 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Hypertension �� 1815 AUF DIE PSYCHISCHE UND 251 EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS IN PSYCHOSOMATISCHE BEFINDLICHKEIT AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME AND 236 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Dr. med. K.-D. Overbeck, Dipl. Psych. REVERSAL OF THE AGEING PROCESS: IN THE MANAGEMENT OF A LONGITUDINAL STUDY J.P. Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl., and HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA Decreased Psychosomatic Complaints; Decreased N. Lesèvre, Dr en psychophysiol. Musculo-Skeletal Complaints; Decreased Michael Toomey, B.Sc.; Roger Chalmers, M.A. Michael J. Cooper, M.D., and Maurice M. Aygen, Greater Vigilance and Capacity for Selective Limitations Caused by Physical and General (Cantab.), M.B., B. Chir., M.R.C.P.; and Geoffrey M.D. Clements, D. Phil. Attention: Faster Reactions with Fewer Mistakes Ailments; Increased Efficiency; Increased (Visual Choice Reaction Time); Shorter Latency Improved Cardiovascular Health: Long-Term Reversal of Biological Ageing: Longitudinal Emotional Stability; Decreased Use of Medicines and Larger Amplitude of Visual Evoked Reductions in Serum Cholesterol in Hyper Reduction in Biological Age; Younger Biological and Non-Prescribed Drugs; Decreased Over- Potentials �� 1921 cholesterolaemic Patients �� 1819 Sensitivity �� 1850 Age Compared with Norms; Length of Time 237 THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Practising the Transcendental Meditation and 252 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 242 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON PERIODONTAL TISSUE TM-Sidhi Programme Correlated with Younger MEDITATION PROGRAM ON STRENGTH MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Biological Age and Younger Functional Age; Gary Seiler, Ed. D., and Victoria Seiler, M.S. OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, PERCEPTUAL ON THE AGING PROCESS Decreased Systolic Blood Pressure; Improved Better Periodontal Health �� 1823 REACTANCE, REACTION TIME, AND Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D.; Michael C. Dillbeck, Auditory Threshold �� 1878 AUDITORY THRESHOLD 238 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: Ph.D.; Eliha Jacobe, M.A., M.S.C.I.; and Beth Eric Schwartz, M.S. A MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL IN Harrington, M.A. 247 IMPROVED MENTAL AND PHYSICAL Increased Flexibility of the Nervous System: CLINICAL PRACTICE Reversal of Biological Ageing: Younger Biological HEALTH AND DECREASED USE OF PRESCRIBED AND NON-PRESCRIBED Increased Strength and Sensitivity of the Nervous Leela Kirtane, M.B., B.S., D.G.O. Age Compared with Control Subjects and System—Faster Reactions at High and Low Levels DRUGS THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL Benefits in General Medical Practice: Population Norms; Length of Time Practising of Stimulation; Improved Auditory Thresholds; MEDITATION PROGRAMME Improvements in General Health and in a Wide Transcendental Meditation Correlated with Decreased Perceptual Reactance �� 1926 Variety of Physical and Mental Disorders, Reduction in Biological Age �� 1856 Graeme E. Browne, M.B., Ch.B.; David Fougère, B.A. (Hons.); Alastair Roxburgh, B.Sc., Dip. Sci.; 253 MEDITATION AND FLEXIBILITY OF Including Hypertension, Bronchial Asthma, 243 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION— Angina Pectoris, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic John Bird, B.Sc.; and H. David Lovell-Smith, B.A., VISUAL PERCEPTION AND VERBAL TREATING THE PATIENT AS WELL M.B., Ch.B. PROBLEM SOLVING Headaches, Chronic Bronchitis, Recovery AS THE DISEASE from Major Illness, Chronic Musculo-Skeletal Improvements in Physical and Mental Health Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. H. David Lovell-Smith, B.A., M.B., Ch.B. Complaints, Recurrent Upper Respiratory Correlated with Duration and Regularity of Increased Efficiency of Visual Perception: Infections, Dyspepsia, Obesity, Allergic Rhinitis, Case History Illustrating Holistic Improvements in Practice of Transcendental Meditation; Decreased Increased Freedom from Habitual Patterns of Menorrhagia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Physical and Mental Health Including Relief from Use of Alcohol; Decreased Use of Cigarettes; Perception with Increased Ability to Use Such Colitis, Insomnia, Anxiety, and Depression; Insomnia, Decreased Anxiety, Decreased Need Decreased Drug Abuse; Decreased Need for Patterns Effectively where Appropriate �� 1928 Decreased Need for Tranquilizers, Sleep for Tranquilizers, Fewer Headaches, Increased Analgesics, Sleep Medications, Tranquilizers, Medications, and Drugs for Hypertension, Asthma, Enjoyment of Life, and Increased Efficiency �� 1861 Anti-Depressants, Anti-Histamines, and Drugs for 254 EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Hypertension, Asthma, and Heart Disease �� 1884 MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM and Heart Disease; Increased Cooperation with 244 SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE AND Medical Advice �� 1826 ON REACTION TIME LONG-TERM PRACTICE OF THE Kenneth C. Rowe, M.A; Joseph S. Neuschatz, B.A.; 239 POSSIBILITA DI APPLICAZIONI DELLA TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND E: Motor and Perceptual Ability and Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D. TECNOLOGIA DELLA COSCIENZA IN TM-SIDHI PROGRAM: EFFECTS OF TM Improved Mind-Body Co-ordination: Faster ASPETTI DI MEDICINA PREVENTIVA: ON SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE 248 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION VS Reactions (Visual Choice Reaction Time) �� 1938 UNA RICERCA PILOTA R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D.; Joel Silver, M.D.; Paul J. PSEUDO-MEDITATION ON VISUAL Linda Farinelli, Medico Chirurgo Mills, B.S.; Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; and Dale CHOICE REACTION TIME 255 THE INFLUENCE OF THE Multiple Improvements in Physical and Mental E. Wagoner, Ph.D. William R. Holt, Ph.D.; John L. Caruso, Ph.D.; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Health; Fewer Infectious Diseases: Better Health Improved Cardiovascular Health: Lower Systolic and James B. Riley, Ph.D. AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM ON FIELD of the Respiratory and Digestive Systems; Less Blood Pressure Compared to Population Norms Improved Mind-Body Co-ordination: Faster INDEPENDENCE: THE GROWTH OF A Eczema and Fewer Allergic Reactions; Less for Age �� 1867 Reactions (Visual Choice Reaction Time) �� 1905 STABLE INTERNAL FRAME OF REFERENCE xlvi xlvii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME THREE

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David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Dennis Raimondi, 261 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Neuroticism; Decreased Insomnia; 275 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL M.A.; Bill Vesely, Ph.D.; Michael C. Dillbeck, PROGRAM IN THE COLLEGE Decreased Use of Tranquilizers �� 2015 MEDITATION PROGRAM ON STATE-TRAIT Ph.D.; and R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D. CURRICULUM: A 4-YEAR LONGITUDINAL 268 LENGTH OF TIME SPENT IN THE ANXIETY Increased Field Independence (Growth of a More STUDY OF EFFECTS ON COGNITIVE AND PRACTICE OF TRANSCENDENTAL Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D. Stable Internal Frame of Reference, Increased AFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING MEDITATION AND SEX DIFFERENCES Decreased State and Trait Anxiety �� 2063 Perceptual Acuity) �� 1942 Arthur Aron, Ph.D.; David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; RELATED TO INTRAPERSONAL AND and Paul Brubaker, Ed.M. 256 THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL INTERPERSONAL ORIENTATION Increased Intelligence; Increased Self-Confidence; MEDITATION ON AN AUDITORY Barbara Harrod Handmacher, Ph.D. Increased Sociability; Improved Psychological Part III: Sociology TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION TASK Less State and Trait Anxiety; Less Depression; Health; Increased Social Maturity �� 1977 Greater Affection; Greater Tolerance and Less Stephen D. Harding, D. Phil., P.G.C.E. A: Rehabilitation Increased Perceptual Acuity: Improved Auditory 262 THE EFFECTIVENESS OF Tendency to Dominate; Less Interest in Superficial Temporal Discrimination �� 1949 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AS A Social Contacts; Greater Selectivity in Personal 276 DECREASE IN CIGARETTE SMOKING MEANS OF IMPROVING THE ECHOLALIC Relationships; Less Need to Belong and Be FOLLOWING TRANSCENDENTAL 257 THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME AND AGE- BEHAVIOR OF AN AUTISTIC STUDENT Accepted �� 2020 MEDITATION RELATED PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES Marilyn F. Wood, M.A. 269 THE EFFECT OF THE PRACTICE OF TM Mohammad Shafii, M.D.; Richard Lavely, M.S., Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc. Decreased Echolalic Behaviour in an Autistic ON THE DEGREE OF NEUROTICISM AS M.D.; and Robert Jaffe, B.A. Reversal of Ageing: Length of Time Practising Subject �� 1983 MEASURED BY THE DEFENSE Decreased Use of Cigarettes �� 2075 the TM-Sidhi Programme Predictive of Superior MECHANISM TEST 263 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 277 THERAPEUTISCHE WIRKUNGEN DER Performance on Age-Related Psychological Wing Commander Folke P. Sandahl Variables—Visual Memory, Creativity, Field AND MENTAL RETARDATION TRANSZENDENTALEN MEDITATION AUF Decreased Hidden Mental Turbulence: Decreased Independence, Perceptual Speed, Motor Speed, James Eyerman, M.D. DROGENKONSUMENTEN Neuroticism �� 2028 Reaction Time, and Non-Verbal Intelligence; Improved Speech, Social Behaviour, and Matthias Geisler, Dipl. Psych. Length of Time Practising the TM-Sidhi Physiological Functioning in a Mentally Retarded 270 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Benefits in the Treatment of Drug Abuse: Programme Predictive of Younger Functional Subject �� 1989 AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM AND MORAL Sustained Reductions in Drug Abuse, Improved Age �� 1954 Psychological Health—Decreased Nervousness 264 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION DEVELOPMENT Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D., and Randi Nidich, M.A. (Decreased Psychosomatic Disturbance); 258 PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF TECHNIQUE, WORKING MEMORY, AND Enhanced Cognitive-Moral Development; Benefits Decreased Depression (Increased Contentment and EXPERIENCES OF HIGHER STATES OF FIELD INDEPENDENCE IN SCHOOL-AGED of Transcendental Meditation Further Enhanced Self-Confidence); Increased Sociability (Increased CONSCIOUSNESS IN SUBJECTS CHILDREN by the TM-Sidhi Programme �� 2034 Friendliness and Liveliness); Increased Placidity PRACTISING THE TRANSCENDENTAL Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and Timothy J. Szal, B.S. (Increased Self-Assuredness and Good-Humour, MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME Improved Working Memory in School Children �� 1993 271 EFFECTS OF SENSITIVITY TRAINING Decreased Tendency to Procrastinate); Decreased AND TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Tendency to Dominate (Increased Flexibility, Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc. 265 IMPROVEMENT OF INTELLIGENCE, ON PERCEPTION OF OTHERS Respectfulness, and Tolerance); Decreased Experiences of Higher States of Consciousness LEARNING ABILITY AND MORAL Correlated with Greater Perceptual Speed, Richard Holeman, M. Ed., and Gary Seiler, Ed.D. Inhibition (Increased Naturalness, Spontaneity, and JUDGMENT THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF Self-Sufficiency, Decreased Tension); Increased Flexibility, Creativity, Intelligence, Field THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Improved Perception of Others �� 2038 Independence, and Psychomotor Speed �� 1960 Extraversion (Increased Openness to Interpersonal TECHNIQUE 272 AN INTEGRATIVE META-ANALYSIS Relationships); Decreased Neuroticism (Increased 259 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Nittaya J. Kotchabhakdi, M.D., Dip. Ped., M.Sc.; OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES Emotional Stability); Increased Self-Reliance AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME AND FIELD S. Pipatveravat, M.Sc.; N. Kotchabhakdi, Ph.D.; P. INVESTIGATING THE TREATMENT (Increased Effectiveness and Vigour, More INDEPENDENCE Tapanya, M.Sc.; and S. Pornpathkul, Ed.D. OUTCOMES OF MEDITATION TECHNIQUES Balanced Mood). Improved Self-Evaluation— Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc. Increased Intelligence, Improved Learning Ability, Philip Cutler Ferguson, Ed.D. Increased General Well-Being, Ability to Cope and Improved Moral Judgment in High School with Stress, Creativity, Capacity for Achievement, Greater Field Independence (More Stable Internal Greater Benefit from Transcendental Meditation Students �� 1998 and Outgoingness; Increased Meaningfulness and Frame of Reference, Greater Perceptual Acuity) �� 1965 than from Other Meditation Techniques and Relaxation Procedures as Demonstrated by Meta- Value of One’s Life; Increased Interest in Work, B: Development of Personality Analysis �� 2039 Education, Hobbies, Communication, and Social Activities; Decreased Interest in Use of Drugs and 266 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND 273 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Purposeless Behaviour �� 2080 art sychology SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTITUDES AUTOGENIC TRAINING: A COMPARISON P II: P 278 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Charles Patrick Hanley, B.A., and James L. Spates, Christa Kniffki, Dipl. Psych. PROGRAM AND REHABILITATION AT Ph.D. Decreased Nervousness; Decreased Depression; A: Intelligence, Learning, FOLSOM STATE PRISON: A CROSS- More Positive Conception of Human Nature; More Decreased Emotional Instability; Decreased VA LI DAT ION ST U DY and Academic Performance Positive Self-Image; Higher Levels of Tolerance; Anxiety �� 2049 Greater Sociability; Less Pronounced Feelings of Allan I. Abrams, Ph.D., and Larry M. Siegel, 260 CREATIVE THINKING AND THE 274 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Social Inadequacy �� 2011 M.S.W.-M.P.H. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION MEDITATION ON SELF-IDENTITY INDICES Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased State and TECHNIQUE 267 INFLYTANDET AV TRANSCENDENTAL AND PERSONALITY Trait Anxiety; Decreased Neuroticism; Decreased Frederick Travis, B.S. MEDITATION PA NEUROTICISM, Michael J. Turnbull, B.Sc., B. Phil., C.Q.S.W., and Hostility; Improved Sleeping Patterns—Decreased Increased Creativity: Increased Figural Flexibility MEDICINBRUK OCH SÖMNPROBLEM Hugh Norris, Ph.D., A.B.P.S.S. Time to Fall Asleep, Decreased Awakenings per and Originality; Increased Verbal Fluency �� 1972 Gunilla Ljunggren, Leg. Psyk. Improved Self-Concept �� 2053 Night, Improved Quality of Sleep �� 2093 xlviii xlix SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME THREE

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279 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Symptoms (Lower Psychopathic Deviation, usually found with ageing and such as to produce a (Increased Self-Control and Emotional Maturity); REHABILITATION AT FOLSOM PRISON: Anxiety, Aggression, Tension, and Introversion); distinct increase in life expectancy. �� 2169 Decreased Depression (Increased Contentment and RESPONSE TO A CRITIQUE Greater Capacity for Warm Interpersonal Self-Confidence); Increased Sociability (Increased Allan I. Abrams, Ph.D., and Larry M. Siegel, Relationships; Decreased Aggression; Decreased 290 DAS PROGRAMM DER Friendliness and Liveliness); Increased Placidity M.S.W.-M.P.H. Schizophrenic Symptoms �� 2127 TRANSZENDENTALEN MEDITATION IN (Increased Self-Assuredness and Good-Humour, Decreased Tendency to Procrastinate); Decreased Validation of Results of Paper 278 �� DER BEHANDLUNG VON ADIPOSITAS 2104 285 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Tendency to Dominate (Increased Flexibility, Dr. med. Ulrich Bauhofer, D.S.C.I. 280 A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF THE EFFECTS MEDITATION TECHNIQUE ON RECIDIVISM: Respectfulness, and Tolerance); Decreased OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION A RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVAL ANALYSIS Benefits in the Treatment of Obesity: More Inhibition (Increased Naturalness, Spontaneity, and PROGRAM ON INMATES AT FOLSOM Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; James Grant, M.Ed.; Successful Weight Reduction. Improved Self-Sufficiency, Decreased Tension); Increased PRISON and Christopher von Stade, M.Ed. Psychological Health: Decreased Anxiety; Extraversion (Increased Openness to Interpersonal Decreased Nervousness (Decreased Psychosomatic Relationships); Decreased Neuroticism (Increased Allan I. Abrams, Ph.D. Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Lower Recidivism; Disturbance); Decreased Aggressiveness Emotional Stability) �� 2196 Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased State and Fewer New Convictions; Higher Incidence of Trait Anxiety; Decreased Hostility; Decreased Clean Records �� 2135 Neuroticism; Decreased Use of Cigarettes; 286 INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Improved Sleeping Patterns—Decreased Time to MEDITATION PROGRAM ON CRIMINAL Fall Asleep, Decreased Awakenings per Night �� 2108 RECIDIVISM 281 THE USE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Catherine R. Bleick, Ph.D. MEDITATION (TM) TECHNIQUE WITH Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Lower Recidivism; SEVERELY DISTURBED PSYCHIATRIC Fewer New Convictions; Higher Incidence of IN-PATIENTS Clean Records �� 2151 Randolph Carter, B.A., and Jo Ellen Meyer, B.A. Benefits for Psychiatric In-Patients: Marked 287 THE PATTERNS OF REDUCTION OF DRUG Improvements in Schizophrenia, Manic- AND ALCOHOL USE AMONG Depressive Psychosis, and Severe Personality TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Disorders; Decreased Anxiety and Tension �� 2112 PARTICIPANTS Elaine N. Aron, M.A., and Arthur Aron, Ph.D. 282 THE SCIENCE OF CREATIVE Decreased Use of Tobacco; Decreased Use of INTELLIGENCE AND THE Alcohol; Decreased Drug Abuse �� 2158 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM: REDUCTION OF DRUG 288 REHABILITATION OF JUVENILE AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION OFFENDERS THROUGH THE Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Use of Alcohol; Decreased Drug PROGRAM: A CONTROLLED STUDY Abuse �� 2115 Arthur Aron, Ph.D., and Elaine N. Aron, M.A. 283 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: A Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders: Decreased STRESS REDUCING SELF-HELP SUPPORT Trait Anxiety �� 2163 SYSTEM Martin Bielefeld, Ph.D. Benefits for Patients with Psychiatric and Part IV: Review Papers Addictive Disorders in a Vocational Rehabilitation Unit: Greater Ability to Maintain Employment on Discharge; More Frequently Maintained on Out- A: Health Patient Care Alone �� 2123 289 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 284 EGO DEVELOPMENT, PERSONALITY AND AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME AND THE BEHAVIORAL CHANGE IN INMATES REVERSAL OF AGEING PRACTICING THE TRANSCENDENTAL Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil., and Daphne M. MEDITATION TECHNIQUE OR Clements, M.S.C.I. PARTICIPATING IN OTHER PROGRAMS: A Research findings on the Transcendental SUMMARY OF CROSS-SECTIONAL AND Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme are reviewed LONGITUDINAL RESULTS in the context of current knowledge of the ageing Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D., and Emilie J. Marks, process and the usual physiological and M.B.A. psychological changes associated with ageing. The Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Growth of pattern which emerges is that the Transcendental Consciousness; Enhanced Cognitive Development; Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme produces a Lower State and Trait Anxiety; Fewer Pathological comprehensive set of changes opposite to those l li LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FOUR

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Volume 4 The Studies in the Following Sections Document Changes Russell France, B.Sc. outside the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Increased Perceptual Acuity: Improved Auditory Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. Thresholds. Decreased Heart Rate during Transcendental Meditation �� 2342 C: Health Paper Page Part 1: Physiology Number 298 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC Part II: Psychology The Studies in the First Two Sections Document Changes B: Electroencephalographic Changes (EMG) BIOFEED BACK RELAXATION, during the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation AND CONVENTIONAL RELAXATION ON 294 IMPROVED FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. VASOCONSTRICTION, MUSCLE TENSION, A: Intelligence, Learning, OF THE BRAIN THROUGH THE MAHARISHI AND STUTTERING: A QUANTITATIVE and Academic Performance TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD AS COMPARISON INDICATED BY CHANGES IN EEG A: Metabolic, Biochemical, Christine Patmore Allen, Ph.D. 303 COGNITIVE STAGE DEVELOPMENT COHERENCE AND ITS COGNITIVE Decreased Stuttering �� 2287 IN CHILDREN PRACTICING THE and Cardiovascular Changes CORRELATES: A PROPOSED MODEL OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Paper Page HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS 299 EFFETTI INDOTTI DAL PROGRAMMA DI Number PROGRAM: ACQUISITION AND D.W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; R.K. Wallace, Ph.D.; MEDITAZIONE TRASCENDENTALE SULLA CONSOLIDATION OF CONSERVATION M.C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; C.N. Alexander, Ph.D.; and TOLLERANZA GLICIDICA 291 FOREARM BLOOD FLOW AND Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Sidney C. Kurth, O.E. Ball, Ph.D. Sara Tabogi, Medico Chirurgo METABOLISM DURING STYLIZED AND J.D.; Frederick T. Travis, B.S.; Tifrah Warner, Improved Functional Organization of the Brain: Improved Blood Glucose Homeostasis �� 2289 UNSTYLIZED STATES OF DECREASED Higher EEG Coherence Correlated with Superior M.A.; and Victoria K. Alexander, J.D., LL.M. ACTIVATION Cognitive Performance (Verbal Intelligence, 300 THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Enhanced Cognitive Development in Children �� 2352 R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; J.P. Principled Moral Reasoning, and Grade Point MEDITATION ON COGNITIVE AND O’Halloran, Ph.D.; and R.N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. Average) and Greater Emotional Stability BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY, HEALTH, 304 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MAHARISHI (Lower Neuroticism); Increased EEG Coherence AND LONGEVITY IN THE ELDERLY: INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY AND A Unique State of Deep Rest: Decreased Both during Transcendental Meditation and AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF TWO SMALL PRIVATE COLLEGES Oxygen Consumption in Muscle Tissue. Normal Longitudinally as a Result of the TM-Sidhi THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON PERCEIVED PERSONAL GROWTH, Arterial Oxygen Partial Pressure. Reduction in Programme; Increased Frontal EEG Alpha PROGRAM, MINDFULNESS TRAINING, PERCEIVED ACADEMIC ATMOSPHERE, Biochemical Index of Stress: Decreased Arterial Coherence Correlated with Increased Creativity �� 2245 and Venous Lactate �� 2224 AND RELAXATION AND GENERAL QUALITY OF LIFE 295 HYBRID ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; John L. Davies, Naomi Baer, M.A.; Sanford Nidich, Ed.D.; and 292 METABOLIC CONTROL IN A STATE OF BRAIN ACTIVITY IN DIFFERENT STATES M.A.Ps.S.; Ronnie I. Newman, M.Ed.; and Howard Allan Abrams, Ph.D. M. Chandler, B.A. DECREASED ACTIVATION: MODULATION OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE Benefits for Students at Maharishi International OF RED CELL METABOLISM Doc. habal. J. Miszczak, and mgr. J. Achimowicz Benefits for the Elderly Demonstrating Reversal of University: Enhanced Personal Development— Ageing: Increased Longevity; Increased Cognitive R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; H. Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Greater Growth in Creativity, Motivation to Learn, Functioning: Increased EEG Alpha Activity with Flexibility (Including Increased Learning Ability Clarity of Values, Sense of Inner Security and Pirkle, M.D.; J.P. O’Halloran, Ph.D.; and R. N. and Greater Perceptual Flexibility); Increased Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. Increased Interhemispheric Symmetry; High Mental Stability, Sense of Control over One’s Amplitude Synchronized Frontal EEG Theta Word Fluency; Improvements in Self-Reported Direction in Life, Mental and Physical Relaxation, Fundamental Change in Cellular Metabolism: Activity; High EEG Alpha Coherence �� 2267 Measures of Behavioural Flexibility and Ageing; Physical Health, Sensitivity to the Needs and Reduced Glucose Metabolism in Red Blood Cells. Greater Sense of Well-Being; Improved Mental Feelings of Others, Enjoyment of School, and 296 EEG COHERENCE AND THE LENGTH OF Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Health; Reduction of Blood Pressure to More Ideal Desire for Higher Academic Degrees; Enhanced Partial Pressures. Reduction in Biochemical Index PRACTICE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Levels �� 2295 Academic Atmosphere �� 2371 of Stress: Decreased Arterial Lactate. Indication MEDITATION PROGRAM of Deep Rest: Decreased Spontaneous Skin Randi Nidich, M.A.; Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D.; D: Motor and Perceptual Ability 305 SOME EFFECTS OF THE Resistance Responses �� 2230 David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; and R. Keith TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Wallace, Ph.D. 301 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME ON ARTISTIC 293 EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM ON STRENGTH Correlation between Length of Time Practising CREATIVITY AND APPRECIATION MEDITATION ON BREATHING AND Transcendental Meditation and Higher EEG Alpha OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, PERCEPTUAL RESPIRATORY CONTROL Coherence �� 2273 REACTANCE, REACTION TIME, AND Peter J. Wrycza, Ph.D. AUDITORY THRESHOLD Enhanced Artistic Creativity and Appreciation �� 2378 Norman Wolkove, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C); Harvey 297 FRONTAL LOBE FUNCTIONING: EEG Eric Schwartz, M.S. Kreisman, M.D.; Diana Darragh, R.T.; Carol COHERENCE AS A PREDICTOR OF HIGHLY Increased Flexibility of the Nervous System: 306 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Cohen, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C); and Harold Frank, PRO-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR WITH SUBJECTS Increased Strength and Sensitivity of the Nervous TECHNIQUE AND ACADEMIC M.D., F.R.C.P.(C) PRACTICING THE TRANSCENDENTAL System—Faster Reactions at High and Low Levels PERFORMANCE: A SHORT REPORT MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM A Unique State of Deep Rest: Decreased Minute of Stimulation; Improved Auditory Thresholds; ON A CONTROLLED LONGITUDINAL Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D.; Randi Nidich, M.A.; Ventilation; Episodes of Spontaneous Breath Decreased Perceptual Reactance �� 2317 PILOT STUDY Suspension (Not Followed by Hyperventilation); Allan Abrams, Ph.D.; David Orme-Johnson, Findings Suggesting Changes in Chemical and Ph.D.; and Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. 302 AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS Paul Kember, M.Sc. Neural Control of Breathing; Increased Basal Skin Correlations between High Frontal EEG Alpha OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Improved Academic Performance in Postgraduate Resistance �� 2235 Coherence and Highly Pro-Social Behaviour �� 2277 UPON HEARING THRESHOLD Students �� 2384 lii liii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FOUR

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307 THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF THE Decreased Trait Anxiety: Greater Benefit from THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PROBABILITY MODEL AS PREDICTORS MIU CURRICULUM ON INTELLIGENCE Transcendental Meditation than from Other CORRECTIONS OF CRIME RATE CHANGE AND FIELD INDEPENDENCE Meditation Techniques and Relaxation Procedures Susan Gore, M.A.; Allan Abrams, Ph.D.; and Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Dennis Raimondi, as Demonstrated by Meta-Analysis �� 2418 George Ellis, Ph.D. Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Crime M.A.; Panayotis D. Assimakis, B.A.; Robin Rowe, Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased Sleep Rate (Cities, USA, 1974–1976) �� 2496 312 THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF Ph.D.; and David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Disturbance; Decreased Paranoid Anxiety; HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND 320 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Increased Field Independence (Growth of a More Increased Internality of Locus of Control; THE MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF THE PROGRAM AND CRIME RATE CHANGE: Stable Internal Frame of Reference, Increased Improved Anger Control; Decreased Hostility. UNIFIED FIELD: PERSONALITY, A CAUSAL ANALYSIS Perceptual Acuity) and Increased Intelligence in Benefits for Correctional Professionals: Decreased COGNITIVE, PERCEPTUAL, AND University Students �� 2385 Sleep Disturbance; Decreased Hostility; Decreased Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Garland S. Landrith PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF Paranoid Anxiety �� 2453 III, M.A.; Craig Polanzi, M.S.; and Sheldon R. GROWTH TO ENLIGHTENMENT Baker, Ed.D. B: Development of Personality Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Victoria K. Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Crime B: Quality of Life Rate (Cities and Metropolitan Areas, USA, 1973– 308 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Alexander, J.D., L.L.M.; Robert W. Boyer, Ph.D.; and Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc., M.S.C.I. 1978) �� 2515 MEDITATION ON MOOD AND 315 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION BODILY SENSATIONS Growth of Higher States of Consciousness. PROGRAM AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT 321 MAHARISHI’S GLOBAL IDEAL SOCIETY Experiences of Higher States of Consciousness Sibille Törber, Dipl. Kauffrau; Dr. rer. pol. Frank Elaine N. Aron, M.A., and Arthur Aron, Ph.D. CAMPAIGN: IMPROVED QUALITY OF Correlated with: Better Self-Concept (Greater Mertesdorf; and Dr. rer. pol. Erich Hiesel Greater Marital Satisfaction �� 2474 LIFE IN RHODE ISLAND THROUGH THE Self-Actualization, Greater Internality of Greater Physical and Mental Well-Being: Less TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Locus of Control); Greater Creativity (Greater 316 THE INFLUENCE OF THE Depression, Anxiety, Nervousness, Anger, Fatigue, TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality); Profound TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION and Dreaminess; Greater Relaxation, Activation, Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Andrew Foss, M.A. Physiological Rest (Episodes of Spontaneous PROGRAM ON THE MARITAL DYAD and Elation; Less Physical Fatigue, Tension, and (Oxon.), M.S.C.I.; and Walter J. Zimmermann, Breath Suspension during Transcendental Steven Val Marcus, Ph.D. Weakness; Increased Physical Well-Being. Better Meditation); Greater Neurological Integration M.S.C.I. Psychological Health: Less Nervousness (Less (High EEG Alpha and Theta Coherence); Greater Benefits for Married Couples: Decreased Nervous Improved Quality of Provincial Life as Measured Psychosomatic Disturbance); Less Aggressiveness Neurophysiological Efficiency (Faster H-Reflex ness (Increased Composure and Relaxation); by an Index Including: Total Crime Rate, Mortality (Greater Self-Control and Emotional Maturity); Recovery); Superior Cognitive, Perceptual, and Increased Enthusiasm for Social Involvement; Rate, Motor Vehicle Fatality Rate, Auto Accident Less Depression (Greater Contentment and Self- Motor Skills (Superior Perceptual Speed, Motor Increased Capacity for Spontaneous Expression Rate, Unemployment Rate, Pollution, Beer Confidence); Less Irritability (Greater Calm Speed, Psycho-motor Speed and Flexibility, of Warmth and Affection; Increased Ability to Be Consumption Rate, and Cigarette Consumption and Tolerance); Greater Placidity (Greater Self- Nonverbal Intelligence, Visual Memory); Less Sympathetic, Compassionate, and Understanding; Rate (Rhode Island, USA, 1978) �� 2521 Assuredness, More Good Humour, Less Tendency Increased Ability to Be Objective, Fair-Minded, Symptoms of Stress (Lower Anxiety, Aggression, 322 AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE to Procrastinate); Less Inhibition (Greater Depression, Introversion, and Neuroticism); and Reasonable; Increased Tolerance and Naturalness, Spontaneity, and Self-Sufficiency, Acceptance of Others; Increased Self-Discipline; APPLICATION OF THE MAHARISHI Greater Capacity for Absorbing Experiences. TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD Less Tension); Less Neuroticism (Greater (The correlates of higher states of consciousness Reduced Anxiety �� 2477 IN MAJOR WORLD TROUBLE-SPOTS: Emotional Stability) �� 2391 summarized in this paper are drawn from both INCREASED HARMONY IN new experimental findings and the results of other The Following Papers in This Section Document the 309 AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS MORAL ATMOSPHERE AT MAHARISHI studies reported in the volumes of this series.) �� 2423 Growth of Coherence in the Collective Consciousness of Cities, Provinces, Nations, and the World. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Michael C. INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY/ Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Jean G. Bousquet, Statisticien UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL I.S.U.P., M.A.; and Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D. Randi Nidich, M.A., and Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D. Part III: Sociology 317 THE GROWTH OF COHERENCE IN Increased Harmony in International Affairs Very High Level of Moral Atmosphere at SOCIETY THROUGH THE MAHARISHI (Worldwide, 1978); Improvements in Domestic Maharishi International University High School �� 2407 EFFECT: REDUCED RATES OF SUICIDES Affairs and International Relations for Major A: Rehabilitation AND AUTO ACCIDENTS Trouble-Spot Countries (1978); Decreased War 310 PILOT TESTING OF SUBJECTS PRACTISING Deaths (Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe), 1978) �� 2532 313 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Garland S. Landrith III, M.A., and Michael C. THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Dillbeck, Ph.D. TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME: NEUROTICISM, IN THE TREATMENT OF POST-VIETNAM 323 THE MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF THE Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased ANXIETY, WELL-BEING, AND THE ADJUSTMENT UNIFIED FIELD AND IMPROVED QUALITY Automobile Accident Rate; Decreased Suicide CAPACITY FOR ABSORBING EXPERIENCES James S. Brooks, M.D., and Thomas Scarano, OF LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES: A STUDY Rate (Cities, USA, 1973–1977) �� 2479 Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc., M.S.C.I.; David Cox, Ph.D. OF THE FIRST WORLD PEACE ASSEMBLY, Ph.D.; and Charles Cunningham, B.Sc. Improvements in Post-Vietnam Adjustment 318 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, 1979 Lower Anxiety; Lower Neuroticism; Greater Problems: Decreased Post-Vietnam Stress PROGRAM AND CRIME RATE CHANGE J.L. Davies, M.A.Ps.S., and C.N. Alexander, Ph.D. Well-Being; Greater Responsiveness and Ability Disorder; Decreased Anxiety; Decreased IN A SAMPLE OF FORTY-EIGHT CITIES Improved Quality of National Life: Decreased to Focus Intently �� 2414 Depression; Decreased Use of Alcohol; Decreased Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Garland Landrith III, Violent Crime; Decreased Motor Vehicle Insomnia; Improved Employment Status; M.A.; and David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Fatalities; Decreased Number of Fatalities from 311 THE EFFECTS OF MEDITATION AND Decreased Family Problems �� 2446 Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Crime Accidents, Suicide, and Homicide; Decreased Air RELAXATION TECHNIQUES ON TRAIT Rate (Cities, USA, 1973–1978) �� 2487 Transport Fatal Accidents; Increased Confidence, ANXIETY: A META-ANALYSIS 314 THE EFFECT OF STATEWIDE Optimism, and Economic Prosperity—Rise in K. Eppley, Ph.D.; A. Abrams, Ph.D.; and J. Shear, IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MAHARISHI 319 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Stock Market Indices (USA, 1979). Improved Ph.D. TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD IN PROGRAM AND A COMPOUND Quality of Provincial Life: Decreased Motor liv lv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FOUR

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Vehicle Fatalities; Decreased Violent Crime Improved Quality of City Life: Increased PRACTICE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Air Traffic Fatalities (Worldwide, 1983–1984); (Massachusetts, USA, 1979); Decreased Air Confidence, Optimism, and Economic MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Decreased Traffic Fatalities (USA; South Africa; Transport Fatal Accidents (New England, USA, Prosperity—Rise in Value of Corporate Stocks AND CRIME RATE CHANGE IN and States of Western Australia, New South Wales, 1979) �� 2549 (Washington, D.C., USA, 1981–1983) �� 2609 PUERTO RICO and Victoria, Australia, 1983–1984); Decreased Crime (State of Victoria, Australia; Washington, 324 EFFECT OF COHERENT COLLECTIVE 330 THE GROUP DYNAMICS OF Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Vicki Mittlefehldt, B.A.; Alcine Potts Lukenbach, Ph.D.; Dinah D.C., USA; and Karachi, Pakistan, 1983–1984); CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE WEATHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE U.K. Decreased Incidence of Infectious Diseases (USA STOCK MARKET Childress, Ph.D.; Ann Royer, B.Sc., M.S.C.I.; Lyn Robert A. Rabinoff, Ph.D.; Michael C. Dillbeck, Westsmith, B.A.; and David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. and Australia, 1983–1984); Increased Creativity as Ph.D.; and Robert Deissler, M.S. M.S. Beresford, B.Sc., and G. Clements, D. Phil. Measured by Increased Patent Applications (USA; Improved Quality of Provincial Life: Decreased Improved Quality of National Life: Increased Australia; South Africa; and United Kingdom, More Moderate Winter Temperatures (Iowa, USA, Crime (Puerto Rico, USA, 1984) �� 2679 1979–1980) �� 2564 Confidence, Optimism, and Economic 1983–1984) �� 2730 Prosperity—Rise in Stock Market Index (United 335 EFFECTS OF THE MAHARISHI 325 SOCIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE GROUP Kingdom, 1982–1983) �� 2616 TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD DYNAMICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF THE ON THE WAR IN LEBANON: A TIME DECREASE OF CRIME AND TRAFFIC 331 Part IV: Review Papers UNIFIED FIELD AND REDUCTION OF SERIES ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE ACCIDENTS IN HOLLAND OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT: A COMPARATIVE, A: Health drs. W.H.P.M. Burgmans, M.S.C.I.; drs. A.T. van der LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF LEBANESE COHERENCE-CREATING ASSEMBLIES Burgt; F.P.Th. Langenkamp, kand cult. antropol.; VILLAGES C.N. Alexander, Ph.D.; T.M. Abou Nader, M.D.; 338 DAS PROGRAMM TRANSZENDENTALEN and J.H. Verstegen, kand. biol. kand. psych. K.L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; J.L. Davies, M.A.Ps.S.; T.M. Abou Nader, M.D.; C.N. Alexander, Ph.D.; MEDITATION IN DER MEDIZIN M.C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; R.J. Kfoury, M.S.; and D.W. Improved Quality of National Life: Decreased and J.L. Davies, M.A.Ps.S. Dr. med. Oliver Werner, D.S.C.I. Crime; Decreased Traffic Accidents with Injury Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Improved Quality of Community Life: Cessation The author discusses the benefits of the (Holland, 1979 and 1981) �� 2566 Improved Quality of National Life: Increased of Attack on a Community and Protection from Transcendental Meditation programme in general Progress towards Peaceful Resolution of Conflict Ongoing Armed Conflict in the Surrounding Area medical practice and shows that it represents a 326 THE EFFECT OF THE GROUP DYNAMICS and Decreased War Intensity; Decreased War (Baskinta, Lebanon, 1982–1984) �� 2623 major breakthrough in the field of health. �� 2769 OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON SOCIETY: Deaths and War Injuries (Lebanon, 1983–1984); REDUCED CRIME IN THE UNION 332 THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE Increased Confidence, Optimism, and Economic 339 PERFECT HEALTH THROUGH TERRITORY OF DELHI, INDIA MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF THE Prosperity—Improved Foreign Exchange Rate ENLIGHTENMENT Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Kenneth L. UNIFIED FIELD ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE (Lebanon, 1984) �� 2687 Dr. med. Oliver Werner, D.S.C.I. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; and drs. Willem P. van den IN THE UNITED STATES (1960 TO 1983) The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Berg 336 THE EFFECT OF THE TASTE OF UTOPIA David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and drs. Paul ASSEMBLY ON THE WORLD INDEX OF programme is presented as the direct means to Improved Quality of Provincial Life: Decreased develop perfect health for both the individual and Gelderloos INTERNATIONAL STOCK PRICES Crime (Union Territory of Delhi, India, (1980– Improved Quality of National Life as Measured society. �� 2774 1981) �� 2583 Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; David W. Orme- by an Index Including: Crime Rate, Percentage Johnson, Ph.D.; and drs. Paul Gelderloos 340 RECENT BIOCHEMICAL AND of Civil Cases Reaching Trial, Rate of Infectious 327 A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT Increased Global Confidence, Optimism, and PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE Diseases, Infant Mortality Rate, Suicide Rate, OF THE MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF Economic Prosperity as Measured by Rise of the TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Cigarette Consumption, Alcohol Consumption, World Index of Stock Prices and Simultaneous TM-SIDHI PROGRAM: CLINlCAL AND THE UNIFIED FIELD: REDUCTION OF Gross National Product, Patent Application Rate, Increases in the World’s Major Stock Market EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS TRAFFIC FATALITIES IN THE UNITED Number of Degrees Conferred, Divorce Rate, and Indices (Worldwide, 1983–1984) �� STATES Traffic Fatalities (USA, 1976–1983) �� 2634 2715 D.W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; R.K. Wallace, Ph.D.; M.C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; and N. Kay (Rosenberg), Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Wallace E. Larimore, 337 THE INFLUENCE OF THE MAHARISHI 333 INTERNATIONAL PEACE PROJECT IN M.A. Ph.D.; and R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D. TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD ON THE MIDDLE EAST: THE EFFECTS OF Improved Quality of National Life: Decreased WORLD EVENTS AND GLOBAL SOCIAL This paper provides an extensive discussion of THE MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF electrophysiological and biochemical research Motor Vehicle Fatalities (USA, 1982) �� 2589 INDICATORS: THE EFFECTS OF THE THE UNIFIED FIELD on the Transcendental Meditation and TM- TASTE OF UTOPIA ASSEMBLY 328 REDUCTION IN HOMICIDE IN David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Charles N. Sidhi programme, including some interesting WASHINGTON, D.C. THROUGH THE Alexander, Ph.D.; John L. Davies, M.A.Ps.S.; David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Kenneth L. findings on EEG coherence not previously Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF THE Howard M. Chandler, B.A.; and Wallace E. reported in the literature. Research is reviewed drs. Paul Gelderloos; Michael Dillbeck, Ph.D.; UNIFIED FIELD, 1980–83: A TIME Larimore, Ph.D. from the theoretical perspective of the nature Audri G. Lanford, Ph.D.; and Tanios M. Abou SERIES ANALYSIS Improved Quality of National Life: Increased of consciousness and the principles of its Nader, M.D. Audri Gordon Lanford, Ph.D. Positivity in National Mood; Decreased Crime; development as systematically expounded by Increased Confidence, Optimism, and Economic A Global Taste of Utopia: Increased Harmony in Maharishi in the Science of Creative Intelligence. Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Prosperity—Rise in Stock Market Index (Israel, International Affairs—Increased Progress towards The authors emphasize the value of Maharishi’s Homicide (Washington, D.C., USA, 1981–1983) �� 2600 1983). Decreased Intensity of Fighting; Decreased Peaceful Resolution of Conflict; More Positive, insights in relation to some major constructs within Evolutionary Statements and Actions of Heads THE EFFECT OF THE MAHARISHI War Deaths (Lebanon, 1983). Improved Quality of psychiatry and discuss important clinical and 329 of State and Greater National and International TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD City Life: Decreased Automobile Accident Rate; epidemiological applications of the Transcendental Support for Their Policies and Leadership; Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. �� ON STOCK PRICES OF WASHINGTON, D.C. Decreased Number of Fires; Decreased Crime 2775 (Jerusalem, Israel, 1983) �� 2653 Increased Confidence, Optimism, and Economic AREA BASED CORPORATIONS, 1980–83: Prosperity as Measured by Rise of the World Index 341 MEDITATION TRANSCENDANTALE: REVUE A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS 334 A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF THE of Stock Prices and Simultaneous Increases in the DE LA LITTERATURE SCIENTIFIQUE Audri Gordon Lanford, Ph.D. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GROUP World’s Major Stock Market Indices; Decreased Brian Blicher, M.D.; Fernand Blondeau, M.D.; lvi lvii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FOUR

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Claude Choquette, M.D.; Ashley Deans, Ph.D.; academic goals but also promotes a holistic Devakar, Ph.D. Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme is shown to Paul Drouin, M.D.; Jay Glaser, M.D.; and Pierre development of the student’s life. �� 2857 The author discusses insights from the Science of produce a coherent influence throughout collective Thibaudeau, M.D. Creative Intelligence into the problem of criminal consciousness, thereby preventing crime and 346 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi behaviour, and proposes the application of its promoting positive trends in society. �� 2904 AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM: AN programme is found to result in a coherent state practical aspect, the Transcendental Meditation EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE 353 THE APPLICATION OF THE of neurophysiological functioning which is programme, as a solution to the current crisis in TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION maintained during activity. This forms the basis for DEVELOPMENT OF THE KNOWER criminal correction. �� 2889 PROGRAM TO CORRECTIONS AND CRIME optimal human performance and the development Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and Susan L. Dillbeck, PREVENTION of higher states of consciousness as described in Ph.D. 351 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION the Vedic literature. �� 2790 This paper presents the Transcendental Meditation PROGRAM’S EFFECT ON ADDICTIVE Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and Allan I. Abrams, and TM-Sidhi programme as a scientifically BEH AV IOR Ph.D. 342 MEDITAZIONE TRASCENDENTALE: validated technology for the full development Arthur Aron, Ph.D., and Elaine N. Aron, M.A. This paper reviews research demonstrating that RICERCHE SUI CAMBIAMENTI of the knower, which has been successfully This paper reviews research showing that the the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi FISIOLOGICI E CLINICI implemented at all levels of education. �� 2860 Transcendental Meditation programme is effective programme produces consistent beneficial Ior Guglielmi, Medico Chirurgo in counteracting a wide variety of addictive effects for both criminal rehabilitation and crime 347 MAHARISHI’S INTEGRATED SYSTEM The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi behaviours. The authors locate the basis of prevention. �� 2925 OF EDUCATION OFFERING EXCELLENCE programme is found to have profound benefits this effect in the comprehensive physiological, IN AMERICAN EDUCATION for the prevention and cure of illness and the psychological, and social benefits which have been E: Quality of Life promotion of perfect health for both the individual Susan L. Dillbeck, Ph.D. found to result from Transcendental Meditation. �� 2894 and society. �� 2806 The Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field is 354 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION found to fulfil the highest goals of education by 352 PRISON REHABILITATION AND CRIME PROGRAM FOR BUILDING FAMILY 343 ELIMINATION DU STRESS PAR bringing life in alliance with the total potential PREVENTION THROUGH THE STRENGTHS: BLUE-PRINT FOR LA TECHNIQUE DE MEDITATION of natural law. Research on the Maharishi TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION INVINCIBILITY TRANSCENDANTALE Technology of the Unified Field and experience AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Arthur Aron, Ph.D., and Elaine N. Aron, M.A. Ngoc-Nhung Huynh, Dr en chir. dent. of its application at all levels of education have David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. This paper presents the Transcendental Meditation A review of research demonstrates that the shown that Unified Field Based Education not only The first part of this paper summarizes research and TM-Sidhi programme as a means to Transcendental Meditation technique is an fosters academic excellence, but also unfolds the on the Transcendental Meditation programme strengthen family life by developing higher states effective means of eliminating stress. This effect full potential of individual and collective life. �� 2871 conducted in prisons and presents an overview of of consciousness for the individual and creating an is shown to be of great importance in the field the physiological, psychological, and sociological influence of coherence and harmony in the social of dental and oral health. It is concluded that the C: Psychological Development findings in terms of the growth of stability environment. �� 2936 practice of Transcendental Meditation promotes and adaptability. The second part presents the perfect health and brings fulfilment to both patient 348 KOHLBERG STAGE 7, NATURAL LAW, perspective of the Science of Creative Intelligence 355 A PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A and practitioner. �� 2841 AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL on law, justice, and rehabilitation. This analysis U.S. ACADEMY OF PEACE MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM reveals that the Transcendental Meditation and David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and Michael C. 344 PRAESENTATION AF EN SUNHEDSMODEL Dillbeck, Ph.D. Sanford I. Nidich. Ed.D., and David W. Orme- TM-Sidhi programme brings life in accordance Sten G. Rasmussen, dr. med.; Michael Riis Jensen, Johnson, Ph.D. with all the laws of nature, ensuring that the This proposal presents the group practice of dr. med.; and Jennifer Rodenberg, dr. med. individual’s thought and action are spontaneously the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi This paper discusses how the Transcendental This paper presents the Transcendental Meditation evolutionary both for himself and his environment. programme as the practical technology for creating Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme brings programme as the means for developing a state of The final part of this paper discusses the coherence in national and world consciousness, fulfilment to the ideal of a ‘cosmic perspective’, perfect health, thereby bringing fulfilment to the implications of this perspective for crime thereby establishing a permanent state of social as expressed in Kohlberg’s Stage 7, and shows medical sciences. �� prevention. The practice of the Transcendental harmony and world peace. �� 2948 2854 that the psychophysiological basis of this state can now be clearly understood in terms of scientific B: Education research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme. �� 2877 345 MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY’S EDUCATIONAL INDEX: 349 TESTING THE VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA OF HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. Dennis Raimondi, M.A., and Susan Levin Dillbeck, Research on the Transcendental Meditation Ph.D. and TM-Sidhi Programme is found to provide This paper discusses a unique method of student experimental evidence for the Vedic description assessment being pioneered at Maharishi of human psychology and the growth of higher International University, which includes an states of consciousness as contained in the evaluation of psychophysiological correlates of Bhagavad-Gita. �� 2883 the growth of higher states of consciousness. The findings of the student assessment program D: Rehabilitation indicate that the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme not only makes an important 350 CORRECTIONAL TECHNIQUE— contribution to the realization of traditional A FRESH APPROACH THROUGH SCI lviii lix LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FIVE

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Volume 5 365 BEHAVIORALLY-INDUCED ALTERATIONS EEG Differentiation between Transcendental IN HUMAN URINARY 5-HYDROXYINDOLES Meditation and Napping �� 3015 Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D.; David Francis, M.S.; 370 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Michael Lerom, M.S.; and Christian Tourenne, MEDITATION TECHNIQUE AND Ph.D. PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION ON Paper Page Neurotransmitter Modulation: Change in Daily art hysiology EEG COHERENCE, STRESS REACTIVITY, P I: P Number Cycle of Urinary 5-Hydroxyindoles, Metabolites AND MENTAL HEALTH IN BLACK ADULTS The Studies in the First Section Document Changes Related to Serotonin �� 3003 360 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Carolyn Gaylord, Ph.D.; David Orme-Johnson, during the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM 366 HORMONAL CONTROL IN A STATE OF Ph.D.; and Frederick Travis, Ph.D. Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. DECREASED ACTIVATION: POTENTIATION ON DNA REPAIR Increased Functional Organization of the Brain: OF ARGININE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION Hari M. Sharma, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), and Ralph E. Increased EEG Coherence during TM Practice. A: Metabolic, Biochemical, Stephens, Ph.D. James P. O’Halloran, Ph.D.; Ron Jevning, Ph.D.; Improved Mental Health; Decreased Anxiety; Archie F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.;Ronald Skowsky, and Cardiovascular Changes Unique pattern of DNA Repair �� 2979 Decreased Neuroticism; Faster Recovery from M.D.; R.N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.; and Charles Stress �� 3017 Paper Page Alexander, Ph.D. Number 361 MARKED REDUCTION OF FOREARM CARBON DIOXIDE PRODUCTION DURING Hormonal Growth: Increased Plasma Level of 371 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 356 PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STATES OF DECREASED METABOLISM Arginine Vasopressin, Associated with Body Fluid MEDITATION PROGRAM ON SELF- Balance and with Learning and Memory �� 3004 CONCEPT AND EEG COHERENCE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Archie F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Ron Jevning, IN BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS REST Ph.D.; and Steven Guich, B.S. 367 LYMPHOCYTE BETA-ADRENERGIC Carolyn Gaylord, Ph.D.; David Orme-Johnson, Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and David W. Unique State of Deep Rest: Reduced Difference RECEPTORS AND CARDIOVASCULAR Ph.D.; Michael Willbanks, B.A.; Frederick Travis, Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. between Arterial and Venous CO Content in RESPONSIVITY IN TM PARTICIPANTS 2 Ph.D.; Maxwell Rainforth, M.A., M.S.; and A Unique State of Deep Rest: Meta-Analysis of Forearm Metabolism �� 2981 AND TYPE A BEHAVIOR 31 Studies; Higher Basal Skin Resistance; Lower Paul J. Mills, Ph.D.; Robert Schneider, M.D.; Beverly Reynolds, M.A. Respiration Rate; Lower Plasma Lactate. Lower 362 MODULATION OF RED CELL METABOLISM David Hill, Ph.D.; Kenneth Walton, Ph.D.; and R. Increased Functional Organization of the Baseline Levels of Spontaneous Skin Resistance BY STATES OF DECREASED ACTIVATION: Keith Wallace, Ph.D. Brain: Increased EEG Coherence during TM Responses, Respiration Rate, Heart Rate, and COMPARISON BETWEEN STATES Improved Stress Reactivity: Lower Beta- Practice. Improved Self-Concept: Increased Plasma Lactate �� 2964 Ron Jevning, Ph.D.; Archie F. Wilson, M.D., Adrenergic Receptor Sensitivity; Lower Blood Self-Satisfaction; Increased Moral-Ethical Ph.D.; Hubert Pirkle, M.D.; Steven Guich, B.S.; Reactivity to Stress; Lower Resting Blood Self; Increased Social Self; Decreased General 357 THE REDUCTION IN METABOLIC RATE Maladjustment; Decreased Personality Disorder �� 3025 AND HEART RATE OF MAN DURING and Roger N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. Pressure; Lower Resting Epinephrine Level �� 3010 MEDITATION A Unique State of Deep Rest: Marked Decline of 368 LUTEINIZING HORMONE: 372 PARTICIPATION IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL David J. Farrell, D.Rur.Sci., Ph.D. Red Cell Metabolism �� 2988 A MARKER FOR TYPE A BEHAVIOR MEDITATION PROGRAM AND FRONTAL EEG COHERENCE DURING CONCEPT A Unique State of Deep Rest: Reduction in 363 LONG-TERM ENDOCRINOLOGIC CHANGES AND ITS MODIFICATION BY THE LEARNING Metabolic Rate; Reduction in Heart Rate �� 2968 IN SUBJECTS PRACTICING THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM? Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and Suzanne Araas- MODIFICATIONS NEUROPHYSIOLOGIQUES TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 358 Robert H. Schneider, M.D.; Paul J. Mills, Ph.D.; Vesely, M.A. ET RESPIRATOIRES LORS DE LA AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Wilfried Schramm, Ph.D.; and R. Keith Wallace, Increased Frontal EEG Coherence during PRATIQUE DES TECHNIQUES DE Dr. med. Oliver R. Werner, D.S.C.I.; Robert K. Ph.D. Wallace, Ph.D.; Barry Charles, M.D.; Gregorius Acquisition of New Information; More Settled RELAXATION Lower Chronic Stress: Normal Neuroendocrine Janssen, Arts; Tim Stryker, M.D.; and Roger A. Physiological Response during Cognitively Philippe Gallois, M.D. Reactivity; Meditating Type A Subjects Showed Chalmers, M.A. (Cantab.), M.B., B.Chir., M.R.C.P. Demanding Tasks �� 3026 A Unique State of Deep Rest: Lower Heart Rate; Healthy Neuroendocrine Pattern �� 3011 Decreased Breath Rate; Episodes of Spontaneous Increased Endocrinological Efficiency: Long-Term 373 NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL ORDER IN THE Reduction in Basal Levels of Pituitary Hormones Respiratory Suspension (Without Compensatory The Studies in the Following Sections REM SLEEP OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE Hyperventilation). Increased Alertness: Faster (TSH, Growth Hormone, and Prolactin), with Document Changes outside the Practice of the TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Reaction Time after the Practice. Lower Heart Maintenance of Adrenal and Thyroid Hormone Transcendental Meditation Technique or the TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME Rate outside the Practice �� 2970 Levels �� 2993 TM-Sidhi Programme Unless Otherwise Stated. Jan Meirsman, Lic. 359 AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY: 364 PLASMA THYROID HORMONES, THYROID Increased Order-Producing Activity of the Brain STIMULATING HORMONE, AND INSULIN PULMONARY VENTILATION DURING B: Electrophysiological and during Sleep as Indicated by the Ratio of High THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION DURING ACUTE HYPOMETABOLIC Frequency to Low Frequency REM �� 3033 TECHNIQUE—APPLICATIONS IN STATES IN MAN Electroencephalographic Changes REDUCED AGE-RELATED DECLINES OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE Ron Jevning, Ph.D.; Ian Wells, M.S.; Archie F. 369 DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN 374 P300 LATENCY IN ELDERLY PRACTICING Denis Garnier, M.D.; Annie Cazabat, M.D.; Pierre Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; and Steven Guich, B.S. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, SLEEP TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Thébault, Ing. Prof.; and Philippe Gauge, M.D., More Efficient Neuroendocrine Regulation: AND OTHER FORMS OF REST ACCORDING Prof. Reduction of Pituitary Hormone TSH with TO ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CRITERIA Phil H. Goddard, M.S. A Unique State of Deep Rest: Lower Oxygen Maintenance of Thyroid Hormones and Insulin Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Wallace E. Larimore, Faster Processing of Cognitively Complex Consumption per Kilo Body Weight during and Levels. Lower Baseline TSH Levels in Long-Term Ph.D.;Paul Dash, B.A.; Birney Titus, Ph.D.; and Information in the Elderly as Measured by outside TM Practice. �� 2977 TM Participants �� 2999 Lynne Israelson, M.S. Event-Related Potentials �� 3035 lx lxi SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FIVE

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375 EEG COHERENCE AND POWER Word Fluency; Improvements in Self-Reported 386 INCREASED ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT 392 THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM, PURE DURING YOGIC FLYING Measures of Behavioural Flexibility and Ageing; AT MAHARISHI SCHOOL OF THE AGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, CREATIVITY Frederick Travis, Ph.D., and David W. Orme- Greater Sense of Well-Being; Improved Mental ENLIGHTENMENT: A REPLICATION STUDY AND INTELLIGENCE Health; Reduction of Blood Pressure to More Ideal Johnson, Ph.D. Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D., and Randi Jeanne Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc.; Michael Beresford, B.Sc.; Levels �� 3053 Increased EEG Coherence at the Moment of Nidich, Ed.D. and Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil. Performance of TM-Sidhi Yogic Flying �� 3036 Improved Scores on Social Studies, Literary Enhanced Creativity and Intelligence �� 3081 Materials, Reading, Quantitative Thinking, and Part II: Psychology 393 THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, AGE, AND C: Health General Academic Achievement for Students at Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment �� 3069 BRIEF TESTS OF PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR SPEED AND NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE 376 ELEVATED SERUM DEHYDRO A: Intelligence, Learning, 387 RELATIONSHIP OF THE PRACTICE OF EPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE LEVELS Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc.; Michael Toomey, B.Sc.; and Academic Performance THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN OLDER PRACTITIONERS OF THE and Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil. TECHNIQUE TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND 381 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Reduction of Ageing Effects as Assessed TM-SIDHI PROGRAMS PROGRAM AS A PRENATAL FACTOR IN John M. Muehlman, M.A.; Sanford I. Nidich, by Perceptual/Motor Speed and Non-Verbal Ed.D.; Beatrice Reilly, M.A.; and Catharine Cole, Intelligence �� 3085 Jay L. Glaser, M.D.; Joel L. Brind, Ph.D.; Michael THE QUIET ALERT STATE IN NORMAL M.A. J. Eisner, M.D.; Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; NEWBORNS Increased Academic Achievement and IQ as Joseph H. Vogelman; and R. Keith Wallace, Mary J. Doan, M.A. B: Development of Personality Ph.D. a Function of Number of Months Practising Increased Quiet Alertness in Newborns of Mothers the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Hormone Levels Indicating Younger Biological 394 COGNITIVE ORIENTATION TOWARD Practising the Transcendental Meditation and TM- Programme in Secondary School Students �� 3071 POSITIVE VALUES IN ADVANCED Age �� 3039 Sidhi Programme �� 3060 PARTICIPANTS OF THE TM AND 388 IMPROVING THE SOCIAL CLIMATE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM 377 ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE 382 CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITIVE OF A PHILIPPINE SECONDARY SCHOOL (ESR) AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEVELOPMENT: A SIX-MONTH THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF THE Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D.; Phil H. Goddard III, MEDITATION (TM) PROGRAM LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF FOUR-YEAR- TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION M.S.; Henry H.B. Ahlström, M.S.; and Rita Jacoby, B.A. D. Edwards Smith, M.D., F.A.C.P.; Jay L. Glaser, OLDS PRACTICING THE CHILDREN’S PROGRAM Orientation toward Positive Values: Better M.D.; Robert H. Schneider, M.D.; and Michael C. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Randi Jeanne Nidich, Ed.D., and Sanford I. Recall for Positive than Negative Words; Lower Dillbeck, Ph.D. TECHNIQUE Nidich, Ed.D. Lower Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Levels Recognition Thresholds for Positive Words Carol A. Dixon, Ph.D. Increased Morale, Facilitative Leadership, and Indicating Less Serious Illness and Slower than Negative Words; Differential Recognition Accelerated Cognitive Development in Influence in Decision Making Concerning Ageing �� 3041 Threshold for Positive and Negative Affect Terms Four-Year-Old Children Practising the Classroom Instruction in Teachers Practising the Correlated with the Intensity of the Experienced Transcendental Meditation Programme �� 3072 378 MEDICAL CARE UTILIZATION AND Word of Wisdom Technique �� 3061 Positive and Negative Affects; More Positive THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Appraisal of Others �� 3091 383 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND 389 LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF THE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTAL ADVANCEMENT: TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND 395 PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. MEDIATING ABILITIES AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS AT Lower Health Insurance Utilization Rates: CONSERVATION PERFORMANCE ABILITY AND COGNITIVE STYLE MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: Significantly Fewer Hospital Inpatient Days, Tifrah Queenie Warner, Ph.D. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Panayotis D. A CONTROLLED LONGITUDINAL STUDY Outpatient Visits; Fewer Inpatient Admissions for Assimakis, Ph.D.; Dennis Raimondi, M.A.; David Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D. All Major Categories of Disease �� 3042 Advanced Cognitive Development in Children �� 3062 W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; and Robin Rowe, Ph.D. Student Psychological Development: Increased 384 FIELD INDEPENDENCE OF STUDENTS Increased Fluid Intelligence and Field Psychological Health as Indicated by Unifying 379 MEDICAL CARE UTILIZATION AT Independence (Growth of a More Stable Internal MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY AT MAHARISHI SCHOOL OF THE AGE OF Ability, Autonomy, Intrinsic Spirituality, Frame of Reference, Increased Perceptual Acuity) Creativity, Directedness, Well-Being, and David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and Susan Vegors, ENLIGHTENMENT AND A MONTESSORI in College Students �� 3073 Integration of the Personality; Higher Growth Rate M.S. SCHOOL on Several of These Indicators �� 3097 Lower Health Insurance Utilization Rates among Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D.; Randolph J. Lockie, 390 INCREASED GENERAL INTELLIGENCE MIU Faculty and Staff �� 3052 M.A.; and Sooneeta Chuttoorgoon, B.S. THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL 396 TRANSCENDENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL Increased Field Independence (Growth of a More MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM HEALTH: STUDIES WITH LONG-TERM 380 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, Stable Internal Frame of Reference, Increased Robert Cranson, Ph.D. PARTICIPANTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MINDFULNESS, AND LONGEVITY: Perceptual Acuity) in Children �� 3063 Improvements in General Intelligence and MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY WITH Reaction-Time Measures (Which are Correlated Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D.; Hubert J.M. Hermans, THE ELDERLY 385 SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS: ACHIEVEMENT with Intelligence) �� 3078 S.Sc.D.; Henry H. Ahlström, M.S.; and Rita Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Ellen Langer, Ph.D.; GAINS AT THE MAHARISHI SCHOOL OF Jacoby, B.A. THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT 391 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Ronnie I. Newman, M.Ed.; Howard M. Chandler, Psychological Development: Higher Scores TECHNIQUE AND POSTGRADUATE M.S.; and John L. Davies, Ph.D. Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D.; Randi Jeanne Nidich, on General Factor of Psychological Health; Benefits for the Elderly Demonstrating Reversal of Ed.D; and Maxwell Rainforth, M.S. ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE Higher Growth Rate Longitudinally; Scores Ageing: Increased Longevity; Increased Cognitive Increased Academic Achievement for Both Paul Kember, M.Sc. on Psychological Health Associated with Flexibility (Including Increased Learning Ability Incoming and Continuing Students at Maharishi Enhanced Academic Performance in Postgraduate Physiological Indicators of Transcendental and Greater Perceptual Flexibility); Increased School of the Age of Enlightenment �� 3065 Students �� 3079 Consciousness �� 3107 lxii lxiii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FIVE

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397 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION L.Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; Thomas Glenn, M.B.A.; (United States, 1979–1988), Controlling for the COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: IMPACT AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM AND David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; and Vicki Rate of Change of Industrial Production, Crude ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS OF THE REPORTED EXPERIENCES OF Mittlefehldt, M.A. Materials Prices, and a Measure of the Money LEBANON WAR TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS Improved Quality of Life in Cities and Territories: Supply �� 3224 John L. Davies, Ph.D.; and Charles N. Alexander, Decreased Crime (Union Territory of Delhi, Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D., and Zaid H.A.D. Beto, 406 CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE QUALITY OF Ph.D. 1980–1981; Metro Manila, 1984–1985; Puerto B.A. ECONOMIC LIFE: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH Improved Quality of National Life: Reduction Rico, 1984). Improvements on Monthly Quality Experiences of Higher States of Consciousness: ON THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF of Conflict in Lebanon (Increased Cooperation, of Life Indices in Territories and States: Metro More Frequent Experiences of Transcendental THE COLLECTIVE PRACTICE OF Reduced Level of Conflict, Reduced War Manila Region, 1979–1981, Including Crime, Fatalities, and Reduced War Injuries); Consciousness �� 3119 MAHARISHI’S TRANSCENDENTAL Foetal Deaths, and Other Deaths; State of Rhode Improvement on a Daily Index Composed of All MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Island, U.S., 1978, Including Crime Rate, Motor Four of these Variables (1983–1985) �� 3260 Vehicle Fatality Rate, Mortality Rate for Other Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; Kurleigh D. King, Part III: Sociology Causes, Auto Accident Rate, Unemployment Rate, Ph.D.; and Birney D. Titus, Ph.D. 411 TIME SERIES IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF Pollution, Beer Consumption Rate, and Cigarette Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by REDUCED INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND TERRORISM: EFFECTS OF LARGE A: Rehabilitation Consumption Rate �� 3151 a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment (United States, 1979–1988), Controlling for ASSEMBLIES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE 402 TEST OF A FIELD MODEL OF 398 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Changes in Major Economic Variables �� 3240 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: PROGRAM AND CRIMINAL RECIDIVISM TM-SIDHI PROGRAM THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN CALIFORNIA 407 TEST OF A FIELD THEORY OF David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Michael C. AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM AND CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: Catherine R. Bleick, Ph.D., and Allan I. Abrams, Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; DECREASED URBAN CRIME TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPATION Ph.D. Howard M. Chandler, M.S.; and Robert W. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Carole Bandy Banus, IN THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM AND Rehabilitation of Prison Inmates: Reduced Cranson, Ph.D. Ph.D.; Craig Polanzi, J.D.; and Garland S. REDUCTION OF VIOLENT DEATH Recidivism after Release �� 3123 Improved International Relations: Reduced Landrith III, M.A. IN THE U.S. Conflict Globally, Reduced Terrorism, and Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Crime Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. Increase in World Index of Stock Prices, during B: Productivity and Quality of Life Rate (Cities and Metropolitan Areas, U.S., 1973– Improved Quality of National Life as Measured Three Large Assemblies of Participants in 1979); Decreased Violent Crime (Washington, the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi 399 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION by a Weekly Index of Motor Vehicle Fatalities, D.C., 1981–1983) �� 3172 Homicide, and Suicide (United States, Programme (Worldwide, 1983–1985) �� 3263 PROGRAM AND BUSINESS: 1979–1985) �� 3247 A PROSPECTIVE STUDY 403 TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF U.S. Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Gerald C. Swanson, AND CANADIAN INFLATION AND 408 CHANGE IN THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN Ph.D.; Maxwell V. Rainforth, M.S.; Thomas W. UNEMPLOYMENT: A TEST OF A CANADA: INTERVENTION STUDIES OF Part IV: Theoretical Carlisle, M.S.; and Christopher C. Todd, M.B.A. FIELD-THEORETIC HYPOTHESIS THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL and Review Papers Increased Productivity and Performance in Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D. MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Business: Increased Efficiency and Productivity; Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by Panayotis Demetriou Assimakis, Ph.D. A: Health Improved Work and Personal Relationships; a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment Improved Quality of National Life: Improvements Reduced Anxiety; Reduced Job Worry and (United States and Canada, 1979–1988) �� 3188 on a Weekly Index Including Motor Vehicle 412 VEDIC PHYSIOLOGY Tension; Improved Job Satisfaction; Improved 404 SIMULTANEOUS TRANSFER FUNCTION Fatalities, Homicide, and Suicide (Canada, Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D.; John B. Fagan, General Health; Enhanced Sleep and Reduced Ph.D.; and David S. Pasco, Ph.D. ANALYSIS OF OKUN’S MISERY INDEX: 1983–1985); Reductions of Weekly Fatalities Fatigue; Reduced Cigarette and Liquor Due to Accidents Other than Motor Vehicle The fundamental principle of Vedic Physiology is Consumption; Increased Physiological Stability IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ECONOMIC QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH Fatalities (Canada, 1983–1985); Improvements that consciousness is the basis of physiology. This during Task Performance �� 3141 paper outlines and reviews the expression of MAHARISHI’S VEDIC SCIENCE AND on a Monthly Index Including Violent Fatalities (Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Homicide, and Suicide), consciousness at each level of the physiology and 400 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIMENSIONS TECHNOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS reviews research on physiological correlates of OF HEALTHY FUNCTIONING BETWEEN Cigarette Consumption, and Worker-Days Lost in Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D., and Kurleigh D. Strikes (Canada, 1972–1986) �� higher states of consciousness developed through FAMILIES PRACTICING THE TM PROGRAM 3248 King, Ph.D. the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi FOR FIVE YEARS OR LESS THAN A YEAR Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by 409 CREATING WORLD PEACE THROUGH programme. �� 3271 Martha Esther Chen, R.N., Ph.D. a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment THE COLLECTIVE PRACTICE OF THE Improved Family Life: Family Health �� 3150 (United States, 1979–1988), Controlling for MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF THE 413 MAHARISHI AYUR-VED: AN Monetary Growth and the Rate of Change of UNIFIED FIELD: IMPROVED U.S.-SOVIET INTRODUCTION TO RECENT RESEARCH Crude Materials Prices �� 3207 RELATIONS Jay L. Glaser, M.D. The Following Papers in This Section Document the Recent research on Maharishi Ayur-Ved indicates Growth of Coherence in the Collective Consciousness 405 A MULTIPLE-INPUT TRANSFER FUNCTION Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D.; Martin J. Frid, B.A.; Phil H. Goddard, M.S.; Xiaoping Xue, M.S.; and that Maharishi Ayur-Ved rasayanas (herbal of Cities, States, Nations, and the World. MODEL OF OKUN’S MISERY INDEX: Sarah A. Löliger, M.S. mineral preparations) bring about physiological AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE balance and biological integration. Improvements 401 CONSCIOUSNESS AS A FIELD: THE MAHARISHI EFFECT Improved International Relations: Increased Friendliness in Statements of U.S. Head of State in mental and physical health are discussed TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; Kurleigh D. King, (1985–1987) �� 3249 through Maharishi Ayur-Ved Bhasma Rasayana TM-SIDHI PROGRAM AND CHANGES Ph.D.; and Cevat Ertuna, M.B.A. and Maharishi Amrit Kalash, as well as through IN SOCIAL INDICATORS Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by 410 ALLEVIATING POLITICAL VIOLENCE the Maharishi Panchakarma programme of Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Kenneth a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment THROUGH ENHANCING COHERENCE IN physiological purification procedures. �� 3312 lxiv lxv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME FIVE

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414 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 419 GROWTH OF HIGHER STAGES OF F: Maharishi’s Vedic Psychology through the Transcendental Meditation and TM- AND HEALTH: AN OVERVIEW OF CONSCIOUSNESS: MAHARISHI’S VEDIC Sidhi programme. �� 3547 423 THE COSMIC PSYCHE: AN INTRODUCTION EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT TO MAHARISHI’S VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY— 427 MAHARISHI’S TM-SIDHI PROGRAM: CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; John L. Davies, THE FULFILLMENT OF MODERN PARTICIPATING IN THE INFINITE Andrew Jedrczak, B.Sc.; Diane Miller, Ph.D.; and Ph.D.; Carol A. Dixon, Ph.D.; Michael C. PSYCHOLOGY CREATIVITY OF NATURE TO ENLIVEN Michael Antoniou, Ph.D. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Roberta M. Oetzel, Ph.D.; THE TOTALITY OF THE COSMIC PSYCHE Steven M. Druker, J.D.; John M. Muehlman, M.A.; David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. The authors review the large body of research IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE indicating improved individual and collective and David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. This paper introduces basic concepts of Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D., and Willem P. van den health through the Transcendental Meditation The authors outline how the experience and Maharishi’s Vedic Psychology and compares its Berg, drs. programme and propose that it be applied on a understanding of higher states of consciousness major principles to those of twentieth-century large scale to improve public health and reduce found in Maharishi’s Vedic Psychology fulfil psychology. The author concludes that Maharishi’s This paper introduces Maharishi’s TM-Sidhi health care costs. �� 3322 the aspiration of developmental psychology to Vedic Psychology fulfils the theoretical and programme as the technique to enliven the self- comprehend the full development of human life. �� 3411 applied goals of psychology. �� 3464 interacting dynamics of consciousness in the awareness of the individual, thereby accelerating THE COSMIC PSYCHE AS THE UNIFIED B: Education 424 growth of higher states of consciousness; it also D: Rehabilitation SOURCE OF CREATION: VERIFICATION reviews the scientific research on the TM-Sidhi 415 THE MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY THROUGH SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, programme. �� 3574 OF THE UNIFIED FIELD IN EDUCATION: 420 THE APPLICATION OF THE DIRECT EXPERIENCE, AND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION RESEARCH Susan L. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and Michael C. Dillbeck, PROGRAM TO CORRECTIONS David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. G: Maharishi’s Vedic Science Ph.D. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D., and Allan I. Abrams, This paper presents the field of pure and the Foundations of Mathematics The authors outline the principles and practical Ph.D. consciousness, or cosmic psyche, as the source and Physics techniques of the Maharishi Unified Field Based This paper reviews the research on the application of all mental and physical phenomena. The Integrated System of Education and review of the Transcendental Meditation programme in qualities of this field are verified through several 428 THE SAMHITA OF SETS: MAHARISHI’S research indicating the ability of this system to corrections, including improved mental health approaches, including direct experience and VEDIC SCIENCE AND THE FOUNDATIONS develop the cognitive, affective, and physiological and reduced hostility among inmates, and reduced scientific research. �� 3494 OF MATHEMATICS characteristics of the student that contribute to recidivism upon release. The authors propose the Michael Weinless, Ph.D. successful learning. �� 3330 implementation of the Transcendental Meditation 425 THE SELF-INTERACTING DYNAMICS OF programme in correctional settings on a large CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE SOURCE OF THE This paper reviews basic concepts of set 416 HOLISTIC STUDENT DEVELOPMENT scale, in order to promote effective rehabilitation CREATIVE PROCESS IN NATURE AND IN theory and other foundational perspectives in AT MAHARISHI SCHOOL OF THE AGE and thereby reduce the substantial financial and HUMAN LIFE: THE MECHANICS OF mathematics in relation to the central principles of OF ENLIGHTENMENT: THEORY AND human costs to society of incarceration. �� 3415 INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE ARISING Maharishi’s Vedic Science. �� 3597 RESEARCH FROM THE FIELD OF COSMIC 421 THE USE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL IS CONSCIOUSNESS THE UNIFIED FIELD? Sanford I. Nidich, Ed.D., and Randi Jeanne INTELLIGENCE—THE COSMIC PSYCHE 429 MEDITATION PROGRAMME IN THE A FIELD THEORIST’S PERSPECTIVE Nidich, Ed.D. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE AND IN John S. Hagelin, Ph.D. The authors review research on the success of This paper outlines how, from the perspective Maharishi Schools of the Age of Enlightenment THE TREATMENT OF DRUG-ADDICTED This paper presents an introduction to unified PERSONS of Maharishi’s Vedic Psychology, the field of in fostering positive educational outcomes and pure consciousness sequentially gives rise to the quantum field theories followed by a discussion Geoffrey Clements, D. Phil.; L. Krenner, M.D.; and promoting student development. �� 3364 diversity of subjective and objective existence. of theory, research, and subjective experiences W. Mölk, M.D. Research is reviewed indicating that all levels from Maharishi’s Vedic Science, in which pure 417 A UNIFIED APPROACH TO DEVELOPING This paper reviews the results of studies indicating consciousness is described as the unified field of INTUITION IN MATHEMATICS of subjective life are enriched from their basis, that the practice of the Transcendental Meditation pure consciousness, through the Transcendental all the laws of nature. �� 3640 M. Anne Dow, Ph.D. programme reduces substance abuse. �� 3427 Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. �� 3527 This paper describes how the development 430 RESTRUCTURING PHYSICS FROM ITS of consciousness through the Transcendental 426 SEVEN STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: FOUNDATION IN LIGHT OF MAHARISHI’S Meditation programme fulfils current needs in E: Productivity and Quality of Life UNFOLDING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF VEDIC SCIENCE mathematics education by culturing mathematical 422 MAHARISHI’S PROGRAM TO CREATE THE COSMIC PSYCHE IN INDIVIDUAL John S. Hagelin, Ph.D. intuition. �� 3386 WORLD PEACE: THEORY AND RESEARCH LIFE THROUGH MAHARISHI’S VEDIC The author proposes the renaming of the basic David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and Michael C. PSYCHOLOGY forces and particles of nature in light of their basis C: Personality and Development Dillbeck, Ph.D. Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D., and Robert W. Boyer, in the unified field; he outlines how Maharishi’s This paper reviews Maharishi’s theoretical Ph.D. Vedic Science brings fulfilment to this aspiration, 418 TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS: principles of collective consciousness and the This paper outlines the sequential unfoldment of and reviews research indicating that the unified A FOURTH STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS empirical research demonstrating improved quality higher states of consciousness brought to light field can be directly experienced and utilized by BEYOND SLEEP, DREAMING, AND WAKING of life at the city, state, national, and international by Maharishi and reviews the scientific research human awareness through the Transcendental Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Robert W. Cranson, levels. The research indicates that an influence indicating the development of higher states Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. �� 3683 Ph.D.; Robert W. Boyer, Ph.D.; and David of peace is created worldwide through the group Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM- The authors review physiological research Sidhi programme by at least 7000 individuals— indicating that transcendental consciousness is a the square root of one per cent of the world’s unique fourth major state of consciousness. �� 3399 population. �� 3431 lxvi lxvii LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SIX

Paper Page Paper Page List of Scientific papers Number Number olume Response to Stress; Increased GH Response to Mobilization of Hidden Reserves of the Brain: V 6 Stress; Increased Testosterone Response to Stress. Wider Distribution of Cortical Response to Decreased Plasma Serotonin Relative to Controls Somatosensory Stimuli �� 3783 for Baseline, Average, and Response to Stress. (In contrast to whole body serotonin metabolism, 443 CEREBRAL CONTROL OF AFFERENT Paper Page low plasma serotonin indicates decreased stress SOMATOSENSORY PROJECTIONS Part I: Physiology Number and decreased risk of high blood pressure. Low Tatiana V. Orlova, Dr. Biol. Sci.; Elena V. baseline cortisol and enhanced cortisol response to Petrenko, Cand. Med. Sci.; and Nicolai N. The Studies in the First Section Document Changes Decreased Sensitivity to Stress Hormones: stress is a more stable and adaptive physiological Lyubimov, Dr. Med. Sci. during the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Reduced Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Sensitivity; profile.) �� 3759 Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. Increased Amplitude of Early Cortical and Brain More Stable Balance of the Physiology: Reduced Stem Responses to Somatosensory Stimuli �� 3784 Peripheral Serotonergic Activity Following 439 STRESS REDUCTION AND PREVENTING A: Metabolic, Biochemical, Practice of the TM-Sidhi Programme; Length HYPERTENSION: PRELIMINARY SUPPORT 444 P300 UNDER CONDITIONS OF TEMPORAL FOR A PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINE and Cardiovascular Changes of Practice of the Transcendental Meditation UNCERTAINTY AND FILTER Programme Correlated with Change in, and Lower MECHANISM Paper Page ATTENUATION: REDUCED LATENCY IN Level of, Peripheral Serotonergic Activity �� 3755 Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D.; Nirmal D. C. Pugh, Number LONG-TERM PRACTITIONERS OF TM B.S.; Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D.; and Phil Macrae, 435 ACUTE IMMUNOREACTIVITY MODIFIED Robert Cranson, Ph.D.; Phil Goddard, M.S.; 431 EFFECTS ON REGIONAL CEREBRAL B.S. BY PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS: TYPE A/B David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; and Donald BLOOD FLOW OF TRANSCENDENTAL Endocrine Pattern Associated with Lower Stress: BEHAVIOR, TRANSCENDENTAL Schuster, Ph.D. MEDITATION Lower Excretion of Cortisol and Aldosterone; MEDITATION AND LYMPHOCYTE Higher Excretion of Dehydroepiandrosterone Faster Neurocognitive Processing: Reduced Ron Jevning, Ph.D.; Rajen Anand, Ph.D.; Mark TRANSFORMATION Latency of Auditory Brain Response (P300) �� 3787 Biedebach, Ph.D.; and Gene Fernando, M.B.A. Sulfate and Serotonin Metabolite 5-HIAA; Lower Karen S. Blasdell, Ph.D. Excretion of Sodium, Calcium, Zinc, and Sodium/ Increased Relative Blood Flow to the Brain TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Improved Immune Response to Stress: Faster Potassium Ratio; Lower Anxiety; Less Mood 445 in Frontal and Occipital Regions; Decreased Recovery of Baseline Immune Functioning Among Disturbance �� 3760 AS AN INTERVENTION IN THE AGING OF Cerebrovascular Resistance Correlated with Type A Subjects �� 3756 NEUROCOGNITIVE FUNCTION: REDUCED Increased Relative Cerebral Blood Flow; Increased 440 CIRCADIAN RHYTHM ALTERATION BY AGE-RELATED DECLINES OF P300 Galvanic Skin Resistance; Increased Galvanic Skin 436 INDOLE-MEDIATED ADAPTATION: DOES A MENTAL TECHNIQUE FOR STRESS LATENCIES IN ELDERLY PRACTITIONERS Resistance Correlated with Increased Relative MELATONIN MEDIATE RESISTANCE TO REDUCTION. Phil H. Goddard, Ph. D. Cerebral Blood Flow �� 3737 STRESS IN HUMANS? Jose Rafael Infante, M.D., Ph.D.; Francisco Preservation of Neurocognitive Processing Speed 432 ELEVATED SERUM DEHYDRO Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D.; Gregory M. Brown, Samaniego, Ph.D.; Margarita Martinez, M.D.; with Age: Faster Latency of Visual Evoked EPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE M.D., Ph.D.; Nirmal Pugh, B.S.; Christopher Ana Roldan, M.D.; Marisa Hortas, M.D.; Eduardo Potentials (P300) �� 3788 MacLean, M.S.; and Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D. LEVELS IN PRACTITIONERS OF THE Lopez, M.D.; Jose Castejon, M.D.; Rafael Poyatos, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (TM) Lower Melatonin Turnover; Lower Levels M.D.; and Fernando Peran, Ph.D. 446 ENDOGENOUS EVOKED POTENTIALS AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM of Melatonin Turnover Associated with Biochemical Indications of Decreased Stress: IN SUBJECTS PRACTICING Lower Stress �� 3757 Lower Morning Levels of ACTH and Beta- Jay L. Glaser, M.D.; Joel L. Brind, Ph.D.; Joseph TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION endorphins �� 3777 H. Vogelman, Ph.D.; Michael J. Eisner, M.D.; 437 STRESS AND SEROTONIN TURNOVER Snjezana Miskov, M.D., Ph.D. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; R. Keith Wallace, IN NORMAL SUBJECTS: RELATION TO 441 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE Increased Efficiency and Decreased Age-Related Ph.D.; and Norman Orentreich, M.D. SEROTONIN DEFICIENCIES IN MENTAL BLISS, 5-HYDROXY-3-INDOLEACETIC ACID Deterioration of Cognitive Information Processing Indications of Younger Biological Age: Increased DISORDERS AND THE COLLECTIVE PRACTICE OF as Measured by Auditory Event-Related Potentials: DHEA-S Levels in Female and Older Male Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D.; Paul Gelderloos, MAHARISHI’S TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Amplitude and Decreased Latency of Brain Potentials (P300) Correlated with Length of Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation and S.Sc.D.; Nirmal Pugh; Phil Macrae, B.S.; Phil MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Time Practising Transcendental Meditation; TM-Sidhi Programme �� 3742 Goddard, M.S.; Christopher MacLean, M.S.; and Sarah-Annelies Löliger, Ph.D. Debra Levitsky, M.S. Greater Amplitude of Response Prior to 433 BETA-ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR Increased Serotonin Turnover, Increased Transcendental Meditation in Comparison to Higher Whole Body Serotonin Turnover; Less Subjective Experience of Bliss, and Improved SENSITIVITY IN SUBJECTS PRACTICING Mood Disturbance �� 3758 Controls; Shorter Latency of Response Following TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Quality of Night Sleep Correlated with the Size of Transcendental Meditation in Comparison to a Group of TM-Sidhi Programme Participants; Paul J. Mills, Ph.D.; Robert H. Schneider, M.D.; 438 MECHANISMS RELATING STRESS Before; Shorter Latency of Response Following Quality of Experiences During the Transcendental David Hill, Ph.D.; Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D.; and REDUCTION AND HEALTH: CHANGES Transcendental Meditation in Comparison to Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme Correlated R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D. IN NEUROENDOCRINE RESPONSES TO Controls �� 3789 with the Size of a Group of TM-Sidhi Programme Decreased Sensitivity to Stress Hormones: LABORATORY STRESS AFTER FOUR Participants �� 3778 447 P300 LATENCY AND AMPLITUDE Reduced Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Sensitivity �� 3751 MONTHS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION DURING EYES-CLOSED REST AND 434 BETA-ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR Christopher Robin K. MacLean, Ph.D. B: Electrophysiological and TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PRACTICE SENSITIVITY, AUTONOMIC BALANCE More Adaptive Biochemical Response to Stress: Electroencephalographic Changes AND SEROTONERGIC ACTIVITY IN Decreased Baseline Cortisol and Decreased Frederick Travis, Ph.D.; and Snjezana Miskov, PRACTITIONERS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Overall Cortisol During Stress Session; Enhanced 442 MOBILIZATION OF THE HIDDEN M.D., Ph.D. MEDITATION Cortisol Response During Stressful Challenge RESERVES OF THE BRAIN Improved Efficiency of Information Transfer in David Alan Hill, Ph.D. with Rapid Return to Baseline; Decreased TSH Nicolai N. Lyubimov, Dr. Med. Sci. the Brain: Shorter Latencies of Auditory Evoked lxviii lxix SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SIX

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Potentials (P300) Following Transcendental 453 EEG COHERENCE AND POWER (Verbal Task); Increased Learning Ability (Paired 461 THE EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL Meditation �� 3791 DURING YOGIC FLYING Associate Learning Task); Improvements in MEDITATION ON AMBULATORY BLOOD Frederick T. Travis, Ph.D.; and David W. Orme- Self-Reported Measures of Behavioural Flexibility PRESSURE AND CARDIOVASCULAR EEG ANALYSIS DURING MEDITATION: 448 Johnson, Ph.D. and Ageing (Greater Ability to Cope with REACTIVITY A LITERATURE REVIEW AND Inconvenience, Reduced Feelings of Being Old); Increased EEG Coherence and Power Immediately Stig R. Wenneberg, M.S.; Robert H. Schneider, EXPERIMENTAL STUDY Greater Sense of Well-Being (Feeling Better and before the Body Lifted up during TM-Sidhi Yogic M.D.; Christopher R. K. MacLean, M.S.; Debra K. More Relaxed After Transcendental Meditation; Dr. med. Wulf Splittstoesser Flying �� 3807 Levitsky, M.S.; Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D.; Joseph Feeling Better During Transcendental Meditation; EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Low or Mandarino, Ph.D.; and Rafiq Waziri, M.D. 454 AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF MAHARISHI’S High Interest in Transcendental Meditation; and High Amplitude Theta Activity Alternating with More Ideal Levels of Blood Pressure in JUNCTION POINT MODEL OF STATES High Ratings of the Value of Transcendental Basic Alpha Activity; Isolated Delta Waves Normotensive Subjects: Decreased Mean Diastolic OF CONSCIOUSNESS Meditation) �� 3840 with Occasional Overlap by Fast Frequencies; Ambulatory Blood Pressure; Maintenance of High Amplitude Theta Bursts; Increased Frederick T. Travis, Ph.D. 458 A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL Blood Pressure Reactivity �� 3883 Intrahemispheric Coherence in the Alpha and Indication of Pure Consciousness at the Transition OF STRESS REDUCTION ON Theta Frequency Bands �� 3792 between Waking and Sleeping: EEG Alpha CARDIOVASCULAR AND ALL-CAUSE 462 COST-EFFECTIVE HYPERTENSION Activity in the Frontal Cortex; Increased Duration MANAGEMENT: COMPARISON OF 449 EYES OPEN AND TM EEG PATTERNS MORTALITY IN THE ELDERLY: RESULTS of Frontal Alpha Activity During Transcendental OF 8 YEAR AND 15 YEAR FOLLOW-UPS DRUG THERAPIES WITH AN AFTER ONE AND EIGHT YEARS OF Meditation �� ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM 3815 Charles Alexander, Ph.D.; Vernon Barnes, Ph.D.; TM PRACTICE Robert E. Herron, Ph.D.; Robert H. Schneider, 455 THE JUNCTION POINT MODEL: A FIELD Robert Schneider, M.D.; Ellen Langer, Ph.D.; Frederick Travis, Ph.D. M.D.; Joseph V. Mandarino, Ph.D.; Charles N. MODEL OF WAKING, SLEEPING, AND Ronnie Newman, M.Ed.; Howard Chandler, Ph.D.; Higher Eyes-Open Frontal-Central EEG Alexander, Ph.D.; and Kenneth Walton, Ph.D. DREAMING, RELATING DREAM John Davies, Ph.D.; and Maxwell Rainforth, Coherence in Long-Term Participants in the Greater Cost-Effectiveness for Hypertension WITNESSING, THE WAKING/SLEEPING M.S., M.A. Transcendental Meditation Programme; Increased Management through Transcendental Meditation TRANSITION, AND TRANSCENDENTAL Benefits for the Elderly: Increased Longevity Frontal Apha EEG Activity and Periodic Theta- Programme in Comparison to Drug Therapies �� 3884 Alpha Bursts During the Practice of MEDITATION IN TERMS OF A COMMON (Higher Survival Rate); Higher Survival Rate Transcendental Meditation for both Short-Term PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC STATE Among Those with Cardiovascular Mortality �� 3858 463 USEFULNESS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL and Long-Term Participants �� 3793 Frederick Travis, Ph.D. 459 A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF MEDITATION PROGRAM IN THE Indication of Pure Consciousness at the Transition STRESS REDUCTION FOR HYPERTENSION TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH 450 THE DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF Between Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming: IN OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE MODIFIED CONSCIOUSNESS DURING AND Increased EEG Theta/Alpha Power �� 3823 John W. Zamarra, M.D.; Robert H. Schneider, AFTER TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Robert H. Schneider, M.D; Frank Staggers, M.D.; Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; William M.D.; Italo Besseghini, M.D.; Donald K. Evgeni N. Istratov, Cand. Biol. Sci.; Nicolai N. 456 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES Sheppard, Ph.D.; Maxwell Rainforth, M.S., M.A.; Robinson, M.S.; and John W. Salerno, Ph.D. Lyubimov, Dr. Med. Sci.; and Tatiana V. Orlova, OF HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Kofi Kondwani, M.S.; Sandra Smith, Ph.D.; and Improved Cardiovascular Functioning in Patients Dr. Biol. Sci. DURING SLEEP Carolyn Gaylord King, Ph.D. with Coronary Artery Disease: Improved Exercise EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Increased Lynne Mason, Ph.D.; Charles N. Alexander, More Ideal Levels of Blood Pressure in Tolerance (Increased Exercise Duration; Increased Stability of Alpha Activity, Increased Beta Power, Ph.D.; Fredrick T. Travis, Ph.D.; David W. Hypertensive Subjects: Reduction of High Systolic Maximal Workload; Greater Delay of Onset of ST and Reduced Slow-Wave Delta and Theta Power Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.; and Diastolic Blood Pressure �� 3859 Depression; Greater Reduction of Rate-Pressure During Transcendental Meditation; Persistence Gail Marsh, Ph.D.; Kenneth Walton, Ph.D.; Product During Exercise) �� 3894 of EEG Changes Following Transcendental and Maxwell Rainforth, M.S., M.A. 460 TRIAL OF STRESS REDUCTION FOR Meditation �� 3795 Experience of Pure Consciousness During Sleep: HYPERTENSION IN OLDER AFRICAN 464 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Increased EEG Theta/Alpha Power During Deep AMERICANS: II. SEX AND RISK AND THREE CASES OF MIGRAINE 451 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ALPHA Sleep; Decreased EMG Activity During Deep SUBGROUP ANALYSIS H. David Lovell-Smith, B.A, M.B., Ch.B. RHYTHM CONTENT IN SPONTANEOUS Sleep; Increased REM Density During REM Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Robert H. Schneider, Reduced Frequency and Severity of Migraine EEG ACTIVITY AMONG SUBJECTS Sleep; More Frequent Reports of Higher States M.D.; Frank Staggers, M.D.; William Sheppard, Headache �� 3898 PRACTISING THE TRANSCENDENTAL of Consciousness �� 3832 Ph.D.; B. Mawiyah Clayborne, Ph.D.; Maxwell 465 MONITORING BEHAVIOURAL STRESS MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Rainforth, M.S., M.A.; John Salerno, Ph.D.; Kofi CONTROL USING A CRANIOMANDIBULAR Evgeni N. Istratov, Cand. Biol. Sci.; and Sergei N. C: Health Kondwani, M.S.; Sandra Smith, Ph.D; Kenneth G. Lyubimov, Cand. Med. Sci. Walton, Ph.D.; and Brent Egan, M.D. INDEX 457 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: High More Ideal Levels of Blood Pressure in R. M. Shaw, B.D.Sc., M.Sc.; and D. M. Dettmar, MINDFULNESS, AND LONGEVITY: Frontal EEG Alpha Power During Transcendental Hypertensive Subjects who Learned the B.D.Sc. Meditation; Stabilization of Frontal EEG Alpha AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY WITH Transcendental Meditation Programme: Reduction Reduction of craniomandibular stress �� 3902 Power Outside the Practice of Transcendental THE ELDERLY of High Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure 466 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Meditation �� 3798 Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Ellen J. Langer, Found for both Men and Women, and both High MEDITATION (TM) ON THE MENTAL Ph.D.; Ronnie I. Newman, M.Ed.; Howard M. and Low Psychosocial Stress Subjects; Reduction HEALTH OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS 452 EEG RELATIVE ALPHA POWER Chandler, M.S.; and John L. Davies, Ph.D. of High Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure DURING YOGIC FLYING Benefits for the Elderly: Increased Longevity Irrespective of Score on Five Other Measures Takashi Haratani, Ph.D.; and Takemitsu Hemmi, David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; and Paul (Higher Survival Rate); Reduction of Systolic of Risk for High Blood Pressure—Obesity, M.D., Ph.D. Gelderloos, S.Sc.D. Blood Pressure to More Ideal Levels; Improved Alcohol Use, Physical Inactivity, Dietary Sodium- Improvements in General Physical and Mental Stabilized Restful Alertness: EEG Alpha Power Mental Health (Improvements on Nurses’ Mental Potassium Intake, and Index of All Risk Factors Well-Being in Industrial Workers: Decreased During TM-Sidhi Yogic Flying �� 3801 Health Ratings); Increased Cognitive Flexibility Combined �� 3870 Physical Complaints; Decreased Impulsive lxx lxxi SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SIX

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Tendency; Reduced Emotional Instability; 472 VEDIC SCIENCE BASED EDUCATION Improvement in the Measured Components of Results of Integrative Meta-Analysis: Significantly Decreased Neurotic Tendency; Decreased Anxiety 3906 AND NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE: Self-Actualization: Increased Time Competence Greater Reduction in Use of Illegal Drugs, A PRELIMINARY LONGITUDINAL STUDY (Ability to Live in the Present; Ability to Alcohol, and Cigarettes than Programmes of 467 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL IN CAMBODIA Connect Past, Present, and Future Meaningfully); Relaxation, Prevention, or Treatment; Abstinence MEDITATION (TM) ON THE HEALTH Increased Inner-Directedness (Independence; from Illegal Drugs, Alcohol, and Cigarettes Lee C. Fergusson, Ph.D.; Anna J. Bonshek, M.A.; BEHAVIOUR OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Self-Supportiveness); Increased Self-Actualizing Maintained or Increased over Long Term (Relapse and Gildas Le Masson, M.A. Takashi Haratani, Ph.D.; and Takemitsu Hemmi, Value (Holding Values of Self-Actualizing Prevention); Improved Psychological Health M.D., Ph.D. Increased Nonverbal Intelligence �� 3946 People); Increased Existentiality (Flexibility in (Reduced Negative Qualities, Reduced Anxiety, Improved Sleep and Decreased Smoking in 473 TESTING AND DEVELOPING HOLISTIC Application of Values); Increased Spontaneity; Improved Positive Qualities) Among Those with Industrial Workers: Decreased Time to Fall Asleep; INTELLIGENCE IN CHINESE CULTURE Increased Self-Regard; Increased Self-Acceptance; Substance Abuse Problems in Comparison to Reduced Waking During the Night; Decreased WITH MAHARISHI’S VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY: Increased Nature of Man Constructive (Sees Man Controls �� 4013 Percentage of People Smoking; Fewer Cigarettes as Essentially Good); Increased Synergy (Sees THREE EXPERIMENTAL REPLICATIONS 482 CASE STUDY OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Smoked per Day �� 3909 USING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Opposites of Life as Meaningfully Related); Increased Acceptance of Feelings; Increased MEDITATION PROGRAMME IN THE 468 THE ROLE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL So Kam-Tim, Ph.D. Capacity for Intimate Contact (Warm Interpersonal NATIONAL PRISON SYSTEM OF SENEGAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE IN PROMOTING Increased Creativity; Increased Fluid Intelligence; Relationships); Increased Emotional Maturity; Jean-Michel Boudigues, M.A. SMOKING CESSATION: A LONGITUDINAL Decreased Inspection Time (Increased Speed Increased Integrative Perspective on Self and Case Study Benefits for Inmates: Sharp Reduction STUDY of Information Processing); Increased Field World; Increased Resilient Sense of Self �� 3966 in Negativity, Irritability and Aggressiveness; Independence; Increased Constructive Thinking; Ann Royer, Ph.D. Improved Relations Between Inmates; Decreased Anxiety . �� 3952 478 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Improvement in Health; Marked Decrease in Drug Decreased Cigarette Consumption; Increased AWAKENING WISDOM: A 10-YEAR COGNITIVE AND SELF DEVELOPMENT Consumption; Improvement in Sleep; Greater Smoking Quit Rate Over a Two-Year Period �� 3911 474 LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF SELF AMONG URBAN CHILDREN Confidence and Joyfulness. Case Study Benefits DEVELOPMENT 469 THE IMPACT OF TRANSCENDENTAL PARTICIPATING IN AN AFTER-SCHOOL for Staff: Greater Self-Confidence; Greater MEDITATION PRACTICE ON MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM Howard M. Chandler, Ph.D. Concern for Inmates; Greater Self-Control; Greater EXPENDITURES Growth of Wisdom: Increased Ego Development; Conscientiousness; Improved health; Decreased Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Horus I. Msemaje, Absenteeism and Lateness. Case Study Benefits Robert E. Herron, Ph.D. M.S.; B. Mawiyah Clayborne, Ph.D.; and Susan L. Increased Principled Moral Reasoning; Increased Motivation for Warm Interpersonal Relationships 3996 for Prison: Almost Complete Cessation of Fights Decreased Payments for Physicians’ Services; Dillbeck, Ph.D. Between Inmates; Sharp Decrease in the Number Greatest Savings for Elderly and High Medical Increased Analytical Ability; Increased General 479 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, of Medical Consultations; Marked Decrease in Cost People �� 3919 Intellectual Performance; Improved Self Concept 3953 ADAPTATION MECHANISMS AND Rule Violations by Inmates and Staff; Fewer 470 THE IMPACT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 475 FIELD INDEPENDENCE AND ART VA LUAT IONS Escapes. Case Study Benefits for the Nation: MEDITATION PROGRAM ON GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENT IN MEDITATING AND Henry H. B. Ahlström, Ph.D. Reduced National Recidivism; Increased and More Balanced Rainfall and Increased Harvests �� 4048 PAYMENTS TO PHYSICIANS IN QUEBEC NONMEDITATING COLLEGE STUDENTS Increased Orientation Towards Positive Values; Robert E. Herron, Ph.D.; Stephen L. Hillis, Ph.D.; Lee C. Fergusson, Ph.D. Increased Psychological Health �� 3998 Joseph V. Mandarino, Ph.D.; David W. Orme- Higher Level of Field Independence; Field B: Productivity and Quality of Life 480 PERSONALITY AND HEALTH Johnson, Ph.D.; and Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D. Independence Correlated with Artistic Ability and CHARACTERISTICS OF CAMBODIAN 483 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Decreased Payments for Physicians’ Services �� 3920 College Academic Performance �� 3958 UNDERGRADUATES: A CASE FOR MEDITATION PROGRAM ON STRESS 476 FIELD INDEPENDENCE, TRANSCENDENTAL STUDENT DEVELOPMENT REDUCTION, HEALTH, AND EMPLOYEE MEDITATION AND ACHIEVEMENT IN Lee C. Fergusson, Ph.D.; Anna J. Bonshek, M.A.; DEVELOPMENT: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY Part II: Psychology COLLEGE ART: A REEXAMINATION and Jean-Michel Boudigues, M.A. IN TWO OCCUPATIONAL SETTINGS Lee C. Fergusson, Ph.D. Improved Mental and Physical Health: Decreased Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Gerald C. Swanson, Higher Level of Field Independence; Correlation State Anxiety; Decreased Trait Anxiety; Decreased Ph.D.; Maxwell V. Rainforth, M.S., M.A.; Thomas A: Intelligence, Learning, W. Carlisle, M.S.; Christopher C. Todd, M.B.A.; and Academic Performance of Field Independence with Artistic Ability, Self- Depression; Increased Self-Esteem; Improved Perceived Artistic Competence, and College General Health �� 3999 and Robert M. Oates, Jr., M.A. 471 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Academic Performance �� 3962 Increased Employee Effectiveness; Increased AND IMPROVED PERFORMANCE ON Job Satisfaction; Improved Personal and Work Relationships; Reduced Job Worry and Tension; INTELLIGENCE-RELATED MEASURES: B: Development of Personality A LONGITUDINAL STUDY Part III: Sociology Reduced Trait Anxiety; Decreased Insomnia and Decreased Fatigue; Reduced Cigarette and Robert W. Cranson, Ph.D.; David W. Orme- 477 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, SELF- Hard Liquor Use; Improved Health; Greater Johnson, Ph.D.; Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.; ACTUALIZATION, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL A: Rehabilitation Calm (Lower Skin Conductance) During Task Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; Christopher H. Jones, HEALTH: A CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW Performance; Improvement on Common Factors Ed.D.; and Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D. AND STATISTICAL META-ANALYSIS 481 TREATING AND PREVENTING ALCOHOL, Underlying each of these Measures (Occupational Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Maxwell V. NICOTINE, AND DRUG ABUSE THROUGH Increased General Intelligence: Improved Coherence, Physiological Settledness, Satisfaction Rainforth, M.S., M.A.; and Paul Gelderloos, TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: A Intelligence Test Performance; Improvement in with Professional and Personal Life) �� 4056 Reaction Time Measures Correlated with General S.Sc.D. REVIEW AND STATISTICAL META- Intelligence (Faster Choice Reaction Time, Lower Increased Self-Actualization through ANALYSIS 484 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Standard Deviation of Choice Reaction Time); Transcendental Meditation in Contrast to Other Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Pat Robinson, Ph.D., MEDITATION PROGRAM ON Faster Simple Reaction Time �� 3935 Procedures as Demonstrated by Meta-Analysis; O.T.R.; and Maxwell Rainforth, M.S., M.A. PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL, lxxii lxxiii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SIX

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BEHAVIORAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL TO REDUCED CRIME IN MERSEYSIDE CHANGE, COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, Improved USSR Statements and Actions Towards CONSEQUENCES OF STRESS IN METROPOLITAN AREA. AND THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM the USA (USA and USSR, 1979–1986) �� 4130 MANAGERS AND EXECUTIVES Guy D. Hatchard, M.A.; Ashley J. Deans, Ph.D.; Panayotis D. Assimakis, Ph.D.; and Michael C. U.S.–SOVIET RELATIONS AND THE David L. De Armond, Ph.D. Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; and David W. Dillbeck, Ph.D. 498 MAHARISHI EFFECT: A TIME SERIES Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Improved Quality of National Life: Improvements Benefits for Managers: Increased Contribution ANALYSIS to the Organization; Improved Mental Health; Improved Quality of City Life: Decreased Crime on a Weekly Index Including Motor Vehicle Increased Vitality; More Healthy Behaviours; Rate (Merseyside, England, 1988–1991) �� 4079 Fatalities, Homicide, and Suicide (Canada, Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; and Paul Decreased Perceived Stress; Decreased Physical 1983–1985); Improvements on a Monthly Index Gelderloos, S.Sc.D. Complaints; Decreased Serum Cholesterol �� 4067 489 EFFECTS OF GROUP PRACTICE OF Including Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Homicide, Improved USSR–USA Relations: Improved THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Suicide, Cigarette Consumption, and Worker-Days USSR Statements and Actions Towards the USA, 485 INTRODUCING IN A MILITARY ACADEMY PROGRAM ON PREVENTING VIOLENT Lost in Strikes (Canada, 1972–1986) �� 4101 Controlling for Behaviour of USA, Seasonality, THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION CRIME IN WASHINGTON, DC: RESULTS and Gorbachov Administration (USSR, 1979– PROGRAM FOR PREVENTION OF STRESS OF THE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION 494 IMPACT ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS OF 1986) �� 4148 Dra. Maria de Fatima Campos Belham PROJECT, JUNE–JULY 1993 BEHAVIORAL QUALITY OF LIFE INDICES: Benefits for Military Cadets: Increased Capacity of John S. Hagelin, Ph.D.; Maxwell V. Rainforth, EFFECTS OF GROUP PRACTICE OF THE Attention; Improved Memory of Details; Increased M.S., M.A.; David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Part IV: Theoretical Effectiveness in Executing Orders; Improved Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; Charles N. TM-SIDHI PROGRAM Emotional Performance; Increased Physical Alexander, Ph.D.; Susan F. Shatkin, M.A.; John Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; and Maxwell V. and Review Papers Strength (Push-ups); Reduced Resting Heart Rate. L. Davies, Ph.D.; Anne O. Hughes, Ph.D.; and Rainforth, M.S., M.A. Benefits for Officers: Increased Concentration of Emanuel Ross Improved Quality of National Life: Improvements A: Physiology and Health Attention; Improved Memory of Details; Improved Improved Quality of City and National Life as Controlling for Economic Changes on a Monthly Emotional Performance �� 4068 Measured by Decreased Violent Crime Rate in the Index Including Motor Vehicle Fatalities, 499 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MEDITATION: A Homicide, Suicide, Deaths Due to Accidents (other 486 IMPLEMENTING THE TRANSCENDENTAL National Capital (Washington, DC, USA, June and REVIEW. A WAKEFUL HYPOMETABOLIC than Motor Vehicle), Notifiable Diseases, Alcohol MEDITATION PROGRAMME IN THE July, 1993) �� 4086 INTEGRATED RESPONSE Consumption, Cigarette Consumption (United BRAZILIAN MILITARY POLICE FORCES: Ron Jevning, Ph.D.; R. Keith Wallace, Ph.D.; and 490 IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE IN IOWA States, 1970–1986); Improvements Controlling for Mark Biedebach, Ph.D. A CASE STUDY THROUGH THE MAHARISHI EFFECT Economic Changes on a Monthly Index Including The authors propose that practice of the Jose Luis Alvarez Roset and Markus Schuler Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Homicide, Suicide, Dori Lou Reeks, Ph.D. Transcendental Meditation technique creates an Benefits for Police Officers: Decreased Cigarette Consumption (Canada, 1972–1986) �� 4114 Improved Quality of State Life: Reduced integrated physiological response with peripheral Disciplinary Problems; Decreased Doctor Visits; Unemployment; Decreased Traffic Fatalities; circulatory and metabolic changes subserving Improved Community Relations. Benefits for 495 MAHARISHI’S FORMULA FOR A Decreased Crime Rate; Increase of a Quality of increased central nervous activity, and review data Police Officer Trainees: Better Physical Well- PREVENTION WING IN THE MILITARY— Life Index Including All Three Variables (Iowa, from previous research on physiological changes Being; Greater Relaxation; Less Worry and APPLIED AND FOUND SUCCESSFUL IN USA, 1979–1986) �� 4088 associated with the Transcendental Meditation Tension; Greater Capacity for Study; Improved MOZAMBIQUE: CASE STUDY, 1993–1994. programme. �� 4173 Relationships; Greater Respect for Country 491 WHAT DOES THE MAHARISHI Lt. Gen. Tobias Dai and Organizations; Enhancement of Military TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD Case Study of Improved Quality of National Life 500 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HIGHER STATES Education; Decreased Disciplinary Problems; MEAN FOR SOCIAL WORK? A STUDY as Measured by Decreased Crime, Decreased OF CONSCIOUSNESS Decreased Doctor Visits �� 4073 IN AUSTRALIA Auto Fatalities, Greater Economic Growth, and Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. 487 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTICIPATION Sandy Gowing Price, B.S.W.(Hons.) Increased Rainfall (Mozambique, 1993) �� 4121 The author reviews current research on the IN TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND Transcendental Meditation programme delineating Improved Quality of National Life: Reduced 496 THE EFFECTS OF THE MAHARISHI physiological correlates of the development of THE FUNCTIONALITY OF MARRIAGE Fatal Traffic Accidents; Reduced Unemployment; TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD: higher states of consciousness. �� 4186 Increased Value of Stock Market Index (Australia, Vicki Jean Broome, M.Ed.(Psych), M.S.C.I. REPLY TO A METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE January 1983) �� 4089 501 SERUM HORMONAL CONCENTRATIONS Improved Marital Functionality: Overall Greater David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Charles N. Positive Couple Agreement, and Greater FOLLOWING TRANSCENDENTAL TEST OF A FIELD THEORY OF Alexander, Ph.D.; and John L. Davies, Ph.D. Agreement on Marital Satisfaction, Personality 492 MEDITATION—POTENTIAL ROLE Issues, Communication, Conflict Resolution, CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: Strong Replication of Original Research OF GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID Financial Management, Children, Family and TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPATION Methodology: Decreased International Conflict Alan N. Elias, M.D.; and Archie F. Wilson, Friends, Religious Orientation, Marital Cohesion, IN THE TM-SIDHI PROGRAM AND (Israel and Lebanon, August–September 1983) �� 4123 M.D., Ph.D. REDUCTION OF VIOLENT DEATH and Marital Adaptability �� 4077 The authors review research on the hormonal IN THE U.S. 497 THE DYNAMICS OF US-SOVIET RELATIONS, 1979–1986: EFFECTS OF changes associated with the Transcendental Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. Meditation technique and attempt to understand The Following Papers in This Section Document REDUCING SOCIAL STRESS THROUGH Improved Quality of National Life: Improvement these changes in light of the known effects of the Growth of Coherence in the Collective Consciousness THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION on a Weekly Index Including Motor Vehicle the neurotransmitter gamma aminobutyric acid of Cities, States, Nations, and the World. AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM. Fatalities, Homicide, and Suicide (United States, (GABA) on hormonal secretion and release, 1982–1985) �� 4091 Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D.; Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, proposing that one of the mechanisms by which 488 THE MAHARISHI EFFECT: A MODEL Ph.D.; and John L. Davies, Ph.D. the Transcendental Meditation technique produces FOR SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT. TIME SERIES 493 TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF IMPROVED Improved USA–USSR Relations: Improved USA relaxation is by enhancing the effects of an ANALYSIS OF A PHASE TRANSITION QUALITY OF LIFE IN CANADA: SOCIAL Statements and Actions Towards the USSR and endogenous neurotransmitter. �� 4214 lxxiv lxxv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SIX

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502 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AS A B: Education 510 MAHARISHI’S VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY: 515 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE TO INCREASE NEURAL, ALLEVIATE SUFFERING BY ENLIVENING PROGRAM FOR PREVENTION OF COGNITIVE, AND BEHAVIORAL 506 THE IMPACT OF MAHARISHI’S BLISS—RECONNECT THE PARTIAL VALUES ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE AMONG PLASTICITY VEDIC SCIENCE BASED EDUCATION IN OF LIFE WITH THE WHOLENESS OF LIFE JUVENILES AT RISK David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. HIGHER EDUCATION: THE EXAMPLE OF Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D. Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY The author reviews research indicating that This paper examines how Maharishi’s Vedic The author reviews research indicating that the regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation Christopher H. Jones, Ed.D. Psychology fulfils the practical goals of Transcendental Meditation programme reduces technique increases the flexibility of the nervous The author reviews research findings psychology and reviews scientific research risk factors for substance abuse and increases system and improves general adaptive ability. �� 4219 demonstrating holistic development among the indicating that the Transcendental Meditation and factors that protect against abuse; the paper also students of Maharishi International University TM-Sidhi programme improves the physical and reviews research demonstrating effective reduction 503 A NEUROENDOCRINE MECHANISM FOR in the United States (now Maharishi University mental health of the individual and creates an of alcohol and drug use through this programme. �� 4404 THE REDUCTION OF DRUG USE AND of Management), and examines the source of influence of harmony in society. �� 4342 ADDICTIONS BY TRANSCENDENTAL these effects in the unique system of Maharishi’s 516 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION MEDITATION Vedic Science Based Education offered by the 511 THE BHAGAVAD-GITA: A CASE STUDY AS AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACH IN MAHARISHI’S VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY TO DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE: Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D.; and Debra Levitsky, M.S. University. �� 4272 Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. THEORY, RESEARCH, AND FINANCIAL This paper outlines a model of the neurochemical PREPARING THE STUDENT 507 The paper considers the Bhagavad-Gita as a model IMPACT EVALUATION and endocrine processes associated with chronic TO SUCCEED AT CALCULUS stress and their contribution to the development case study from the Vedic Literature, providing David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. M. Anne Dow, Ph.D. of drug addiction; it also reviews research on the knowledge of the full range of human development This paper focuses on the contributions of physiological effects of Transcendental Meditation The author describes how current reforms to higher states of consciousness; this knowledge the Transcendental Meditation programme to in light of this model, indicating mechanisms of in teaching of calculus address the object of of development of consciousness is systematically resolving the broad social problems associated how this technique creates physiological balance knowledge and the process of knowing, but brought to light in Maharishi’s Vedic Psychology with addictions. The author proposes that drug and thereby promotes freedom from addictive leave the development of the student’s full and supported by research on the Transcendental and alcohol abuse are symptoms of a general behaviours. �� 4225 mental capacity, the knower, largely to chance. Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. �� 4357 stress-addiction-crime epidemic in society. The The practice of the Transcendental Meditation paper then reviews sociological research findings 512 THE CONCEPT OF SELF IN THE 504 IN SEARCH OF AN OPTIMAL BEHAVIORAL programme develops the knower and thereby gives showing how societal disorder—experienced BHAGAVAD-GITA AND IN THE VEDIC TREATMENT FOR HYPERTENSION: A at least two distinct advantages: a relaxed, alert as crime, drug abuse, political conflict, and PSYCHOLOGY OF MAHARISHI MAHESH REVIEW AND FOCUS ON mind and an intuitive experiential framework for economic instability—can be substantially and YOGI: A FURTHER NOTE ON TESTABILITY TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION feeling at home with the limit process. �� 4302 cost-effectively reduced through the group practice Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D. Robert H. Schneider, M.D.; Charles N. Alexander, of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. �� 4413 Ph.D.; and Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. C: Psychology This paper points out that the subjective experience of Transcendental Consciousness This paper reviews the body of research papers 517 THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: (‘Self’) described in the Bhagavad-Gita has on the benefits of the Transcendental Meditation 508 PRACTICAL VALIDATION OF MAHARISHI’S MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI’S VEDIC effects that have been measured through extensive programme for reduction of hypertension, INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT scientific research on the Transcendental focussing in detail on two controlled clinical REHABILITATION trials showing decreased hypertension among the Meditation programme. �� 4380 Michael C. Dillbeck, Ph.D.; and Charles N. Michael S. King, B.Juris., LL.B.(Hons.) elderly. The authors examine the Transcendental Alexander, Ph.D. 513 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION This paper outlines the theoretical foundations of Meditation technique in light of requirements for The authors outline the development of higher Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D. an optimal behavioural treatment of hypertension. 4239 Maharishi’s Integrated System of Rehabilitation. It states of consciousness from Maharishi’s Vedic The author presents an introduction to the shows how this system of rehabilitation is Psychology in light of relevant research, and Transcendental Meditation programme and major validated by extensive scientific research and by 505 THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL propose that human development to these higher MEDITATION COMPARED TO OTHER scientific research findings on its effects for the personal experience of offenders instructed in the states beyond the experience of waking, dreaming individual and society. �� 4385 Transcendental Meditation programme. The author METHODS OF RELAXATION AND and sleeping results from experience of pure MEDITATION IN REDUCING RISK concludes that this system of rehabilitation offers a consciousness, the Self. �� 4309 solution to key problems within the field of FACTORS, MORBIDITY, AND MORTALITY D: Rehabilitation 509 ADVANCED HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN rehabilitation, including recidivism, the method of Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Pat Robinson, Ph.D., rehabilitation, and measurement of rehabilitation. . 4436 O.T.R.; David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; Robert H. THE VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY OF MAHARISHI 514 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE Schneider, M.D.; and Kenneth G. Walton, Ph.D. MAHESH YOGI: THEORY AND RESEARCH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION This paper reviews four meta-analyses that show Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D.; Dennis P. Heaton, PROGRAM IN PREVENTING AND TREATING E. Productivity the superiority of the Transcendental Meditation Ed.D.; and Howard M. Chandler, Ph.D. SUBSTANCE MISUSE: A REVIEW 518 THE INTELLIGENCE MODEL OF programme compared to other techniques in The authors describe the development of higher Paul Gelderloos, S.Sc.D.; Kenneth G. Walton, ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: producing deep rest, decreasing anxiety, increasing states of consciousness as brought to light by Ph.D.; David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.; and self-actualization, and decreasing substance Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his Vedic Psychology, Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D. ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ENHANCED abuse (cigarettes, drugs, alcohol). It also reviews and contrast this to contemporary themes of The authors review research studies demonstrating PRODUCTIVITY individual well-controlled studies on the beneficial cognitive or self-development. The authors then decreased substance abuse among the general Robert E. Herron, M.B.A.; and William W. Graff, effects of this technique on hypertension, review research demonstrating uniquely high population, among participants in treatment M.A., M.B.A. mortality, medical care, and medical expenses, scores on self-development among advanced programmes, and among prison inmates through The authors review research on the importance of and discusses physiological mechanisms for these participants in the Transcendental Meditation practice of the Transcendental Meditation intelligence in job performance, and on the effect effects. �� 4255 and TM-Sidhi programme. �� 4325 programme. �� 4387 of the Transcendental Meditation programme lxxvi lxxvii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8

Paper Page Paper Page Number Number List of Scientific papers in increasing intelligence, in improving job Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.; Kurleigh D. King, olume performance and related variables in the business Ph.D.; and Birney D. Titus, Ph.D. V 7 setting, and in improving the quality of the This paper reviews a series of studies that collective consciousness of the whole society. �� 4467 document improvements in the national economies of the U.S. and Canada, as indicated 519 TRANSFORMING HUMAN RESOURCES by an index of decreased inflation and decreased Paper Page FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY unemployment, when the number of participants Part I: Physiology Number Jane Schmidt-Wilk, M.B.A.; and Dennis P. Heaton, in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Ed.D. programme exceeded the square root of one per A: Metabolic, Biochemical, and Cortisol, Increased Cortisol Responsiveness to The authors review research indicating that cent of their national populations. �� 4485 Cardiovascular Changes Stressors; Response to Stressors Different than the Transcendental Meditation programme Controls for Other Hormones (Growth Hormone 522 PEACEFUL BODY, PEACEFUL MIND, simultaneously promotes creativity, health, and Paper Page and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) �� 4583 PEACEFUL WORLD Number teamwork—three human resource qualities 529 ACTH AND ∞-ENDORPHIN IN that are vital for success in the future business Charles N. Alexander, Ph.D. 525 AUTONOMIC PATTERNS DURING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION environment. �� 4472 This paper reviews scientific research studies RESPIRATORY SUSPENSIONS: POSSIBLE Jose Rafael Infante, PhD; Fernando Peran, PhD; demonstrating the development of peace within MARKERS OF TRANSCENDENTAL 520 DEVELOPING CONSCIOUSNESS IN the individual through Maharishi’s Transcendental Margarita Martinez, MD; Ana Roldan, MD; CONSCIOUSNESS ORGANIZATIONS: THE TRANSCENDENTAL Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme, and Rafael Poyatos, MD; Concha Ruiz, MD; Francisco MEDITATION PROGRAM IN BUSINESS. explains how this development forms the basis of Frederick Travis, PhD; and R. Keith Wallace, PhD Samaniego, PhD; and Frederico Garrido, PhD Jane Schmidt-Wilk, M.B.A.; Charles N. Alexander, creating peace in the world. �� 4510 Experiences of Transcendental Consciousness Biochemical Indications of Decreased Stress Ph.D.; and Gerarld C. Swanson, Ph.D. Associated with (1) Respiratory Suspension or (Lower Morning Levels of ACTH and Beta- 523 THEORY AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICT Marked Reduction in Breath Volume, (2) Skin A review of research and case studies on the endorphin) �� 4598 RESOLUTION THROUGH THE Conductance Responses, and (3) Heart Rate application of Maharishi’s Transcendental MAHARISHI EFFECT Deceleration; This Pattern of Autonomic Variables 530 CATECHOLAMINE LEVELS IN Meditation programme in the workplace David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. Not Found During Periods of Forced Breath PRACTITIONERS OF THE indicates improved employee health, increased Holding �� 4562 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION job satisfaction, improved job performance This paper presents the Maharishi Effect as the practical basis for creating world peace, and TECHNIQUE and productivity, and improved organizational 526 ACUTE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL describes scientific research demonstrating the Jose Rafael Infante, PhD; Miguel Torres-Avisbal, performance and climate. These results MEDITATION ON HEMODYNAMIC effectiveness of the Maharishi Effect in generating PhD; Pilar Pinel, MD; Juan Antonio Vallejo, MD; are discussed in terms of the development FUNCTIONING IN MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS coherence and peace on all levels of society. �� 4519 Fernando Peran, PhD; Francisco Gonzalez, MD; of consciousness of the individual and the Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Frank A. Treiber, PhD; J. organization. �� 4476 Pablo Contreras, MD; Carmen Pacheco, MD; Ana 524 ACHIEVING WORLD PEACE THROUGH Rick Turner, PhD; Harry Davis, MS; and William Roldan, MD; and Jose María Latrea, PhD A NEW SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY B. Strong, MD Biochemical Indications of Decreased Stress F. Quality of Life John S. Hagelin, Ph.D. Decreased Systolic Blood Pressure; Decreased (Lower Morning Levels of Norepinephrine This paper examines scientific evidence for a new Peripheral Vasoconstriction; Effects Found During and Epinephrine, Lower Evening Level of 521 IMPROVING THE NATIONAL ECONOMY technology of world peace based on the Unified Transcendental Meditation and Also Outside the Norepinephrine) �� 4604 THROUGH ALLIANCE WITH NATURE’S Field of Natural Law, and considers its practical Practice �� 4572 GOVERNMENT: EFFECTS OF THE GROUP utilization through a field effect of consciousness 531 LOWERING CORTISOL AND CVD RISK IN PRACTICE OF MAHARISHI’S generated by large groups of experts practising 527 LOWER LIPID PEROXIDE LEVELS IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: A PILOT TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi PRACTITIONERS OF THE STUDY USING THE TRANSCENDENTAL TM-SIDHI PROGRAM programme. �� 4534 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION MEDITATION PROGRAM PROGRAM Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; Jeremy Z. Fields, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, MD; Sanford I. Nidich, EdD; Debra Levitsky, PhD; Dwight A. Harris, BS; Nirmal John W. Salerno, PhD; Hari M. Sharma, MD; D. Pugh, PhD; and Robert H. Schneider, MD Charles E. Robinson, MS; Randi J. Nidich, EdD; Lower Cortisol Response to Stress; Lower Levels and Charles N. Alexander, PhD of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Correlated with Lower Level of Plasma Lipid Peroxides �� 4580 Length of Practice of Transcendental Meditation . . 4611 528 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM ON ADAPTIVE B: Electrophysiological and MECHANISMS: CHANGES IN HORMONE Electroencephalograhic Changes LEVELS AND RESPONSES TO STRESS AFTER 4 MONTHS OF PRACTICE 532 AUTONOMIC AND EEG PATTERNS Christopher R. K. MacLean, PhD; Kenneth G. DURING EYES-CLOSED REST AND Walton, PhD; Stig R. Wenneberg, PhD; Debra K. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (TM) Levitsky, PhD; Joseph V. Mandarino, PhD; Rafiq PRACTICE: THE BASIS FOR A NEURAL Waziri, MD; Stephen L. Hillis, PhD; and Robert MODEL OF TM PRACTICE H. Schneider, MD Frederick Travis, PhD; and R. Keith Wallace, PhD More Adaptive Pattern of Cortisol in Relation Lower Respiration Rate; Lower Skin Conductance to Stress: Decreased Basal Cortisol and Average Level; Higher Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia; lxxviii lxxix SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SEVEN

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Higher Alpha Frontal EEG Coherence; Higher WITH REGULAR TRANSCENDENTAL C: Health Amparo Castillo-Richmond, MD; Robert H. Alpha Anterior-Posterior EEG Coherence �� 4617 MEDITATION PRACTICE Schneider, MD; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF Frederick Travis, PhD 541 Robert Cook, MD; Hector Myers, PhD; Sanford 533 CHANGES IN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM STRESS REDUCTION IN AFRICAN Longitudinal Improvement on a Brain Integration Nidich, EdD; Chinelo Haney, MBA; Maxwell AND EVOKED POTENTIALS DURING AMERICANS TREATED FOR Scale Comprising Global Alpha EEG Power, Rainforth, PhD; and John Salerno, PhD APPLICATION OF THE SPECIFIC FORM OF HYPERTENSION FOR OVER ONE YEAR Frontal EEG Coherence, and Contingent Negative Reduced Carotid Atherosclerosis �� 4722 PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAINING Variation Responses �� 4650 Robert H. Schneider, MD; Charles N. Alexander, (MEDITATION) PhD; Frank Staggers, MD; David W. Orme- 547 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Nicolai N. Lyubimov, DrMedSci 539 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES Johnson, PhD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; John W. MEDITATION ON SYMPTOMS AND Mobilization of Hidden Reserves of the Brain: OF HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Salerno, PhD; William Sheppard, PhD; Amparo ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN Wider Distribution of Cortical Response to DURING SLEEP IN LONG-TERM Castillo-Richmond, MD; Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; PATIENTS WITH CARDIAC SYNDROME X Somatosensory Stimuli. Increased EEG Spectral PRACTITIONERS OF THE and Sanford I. Nidich, EdD Charles Cunningham, MSc; Sue Brown, RGN, Power in Theta, Alpha, and Beta Frequencies �� 4629 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Diastolic Blood Pressure; Decreased BSc; and Juan Carlos Kaski, MD PROGRAM Use of Hypertensive Medication �� 4682 Reduced Frequency of Angina Episodes; Improved 534 THETA BURSTS AND RHYTHMICAL Lynne I. Mason, PhD; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; Response to Exercise: Increased Time to ST THETA TRAINS IN THE 542 IMPACT OF TRANSCENDENTAL Frederick T. Travis, PhD; Gail Marsh, PhD; David Depression, Decreased Maximum ST-Segment TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION MEDITATION ON CARDIOVASCULAR W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; Jayne Gackenbach, PhD; Depression; Improved Quality of Life; Quality TECHNIQUE AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM: David C. Mason, B.S.; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; FUNCTION AT REST AND DURING ACUTE STRESS IN ADOLESCENTS WITH HIGH of Life Improvement Positively Correlated A QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE and Kenneth G. Walton, PhD with Regularity of Practice of Transcendental NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE ANALYSIS OF EEG THETA ACTIVITY Experience of Pure Consciousness During Sleep Meditation �� 4725 Marcia Bernadette Murphy, PhD Associated with the Following: Theta/Alpha EEG Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Frank A. Treiber, PhD; and Harry Davis, MS IMPACT OF TRANSCENDENTAL EEG of Restful Alertness: Increased EEG Theta Activity Together with Delta Activity During Deep 548 Bursts, Increased EEG Rhythmical Theta Trains �� 4632 Sleep; Increased EEG Theta/Alpha Power During Decreased Resting Systolic Blood Pressure; MEDITATION ON MORTALITY IN Deep Sleep; Decreased EMG Activity During Calmer Response to Stress, as Measured by OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH 535 AUTONOMIC AND EEG PATTERNS Deep Sleep; Increased REM Density During REM Systolic Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and Cardiac HYPERTENSION—EIGHT-YEAR DISTINGUISH TRANSCENDING FROM Sleep; More Frequent Reports of Higher States of Output Reactivity �� 4694 FOLLOW-UP OTHER EXPERIENCES DURING Consciousness �� 4651 543 IMPACT OF TRANSCENDENTAL Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, MD; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 540 PATTERNS OF EEG COHERENCE, POWER, MEDITATION ON AMBULATORY BLOOD Charles N. Alexander, PhD; Maxwell Rainforth, PRACTICE AND CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION PRESSURE IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PhD; John W. Salerno, PhD; and Frank Staggers, MD Frederick Travis, PhD CHARACTERIZE THE INTEGRATION OF ADOLESCENTS Lower Respiration Rate, Higher Respiratory TRANSCENDENTAL AND WAKING STATES Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Frank A. Treiber, PhD; Reduced Mortality Due to Cardiovascular Disease 4728 Sinus Arrhythmia Amplitudes, Higher EEG Alpha Frederick Travis, PhD; Joseph J. Tecce, PhD; and Maribeth H. Johnson, MS Amplitude, and Higher EEG Alpha Coherence 549 LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF STRESS Alarik Arenander, PhD; and R. Keith Wallace, PhD Reduction of High Blood Pressure During Daily during Experiences of Transcending REDUCTION ON MORTALITY IN PERSONS Improved Brain Functioning among Those Activity �� 4704 in Transcendental Meditation �� 4633 ≥ 55 YEARS OF AGE WITH SYSTEMIC Reporting Stabilized Transcendental HYPERTENSION Consciousness: Enhanced Attention Capability 544 A CONTROLLED STUDY OF THE EFFECTS 536 CNV REBOUND AND DISTRACTION Robert H. Schneider, MD; Charles N. Alexander, (During Simple Reaction Time Task); More OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION EFFECTS BEFORE AND AFTER A TM PhD; Frank Staggers, MD; Maxwell Rainforth, Efficient Attention Deployment (During Choice PROGRAM ON CARDIOVASCULAR SESSION PhD; John W. Salerno, PhD; Arthur Hartz, MD; Reaction Time Task); Higher Broadband Frontal REACTIVITY AND AMBULATORY BLOOD Frederick Travis, PhD Stephen Arndt, PhD; Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; and EEG Coherence During Choice Reaction Time PRESSURE Sanford I. Nidich, EdD Decreased Distraction Effects in EEG �� 4640 Task; Higher Theta-Alpha Frontal-Central-Parietal Stig R. Wenneberg, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, EEG Amplitude During Choice Reaction Time MD; Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; Christopher R. K. Reduced Mortality Due to All Causes; Decreased 537 CORTICAL PLASTICITY, CONTINGENT Task. Improved Brain Functioning among Those MacLean, PhD; Debra K. Levitsky, PhD; John W. Cardiovascular Mortality Rate �� 4737 NEGATIVE VARIATION, AND Practising Transcendental Meditation: Higher Salerno, PhD; R. Keith Wallace, PhD; Joseph V. 550 AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCES DURING Theta-Alpha Frontal EEG Coherence During Mandarino, PhD; Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD; and REDUCING MEDICAL CARE UTILIZATION PRACTICE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Choice Reaction Time Task; Higher Broadband Rafiq Waziri, MD MEDITATION TECHNIQUE AND EXPENDITURES Frontal EEG Coherence During Transcendental Reduction in Ambulatory Diastolic Blood Pressure 4709 Frederick Travis, PhD; Joseph J. Tecce, PhD; Meditation. Sequential Improvement for Those David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; and Robert E. and Julia Guttmann, PhD Practising Transcendental Meditation and for 545 ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE Herron, PhD Higher Cortical Preparatory Response (Heightened Those Reporting Stabilized Transcendental AND TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Fewer Hospital Patient Days than Norms; Fewer Late CNV Amplitude during Simple Reaction Consciousness on a Brain Integration Scale D. Edwards Smith, MD; Michael C. Dillbeck, Outpatient Visits than Norms; Lower Total Time Trials) and More Effective Executive Derived from Multiple Measurements (Broadband PhD; and Hari M. Sharma, MD Medical Expenses than Norms; Lower Hospital Functioning (Diminished CNV Distraction Frontal EEG Coherence and Higher Theta-Alpha Lower Values of Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate; Admission Rates Across Disease Category Effects) Associated with Stabilized Experience Frontal-Central-Parietal EEG Amplitude During More Frequent Occurrence of Zero Erythrocyte Compared to Norms and to Controls �� 4743 of Transcendental Consciousness �� 4641 Choice Reaction Time Task, More Efficient Sedimentation Rate �� 4718 Attention Deployment During Choice Reaction 551 THE IMPACT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL 538 DEVELOPMENT ALONG AN INTEGRATION Time Task); Results on Each of These Measures 546 EFFECTS OF STRESS REDUCTION ON MEDITATION PROGRAM ON SCALE: LONGITUDINAL Correlated with Reports of Transcendental CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS TO TRANSFORMATION IN BRAIN DYNAMICS Experiences �� 4661 HYPERTENSIVE AFRICAN AMERICANS PHYSICIANS IN QUEBEC: AN UPDATE lxxx lxxxi SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SEVEN

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Robert E. Herron, PhD; and Stephen L. Hillis, 557 EFFECTS OF MEDITATION ON ATTENTION 563 THE SEARCH FOR BLISS: A MODEL OF Christian F. Durchholz, MSc; and Maxwell V. PhD PROCESSES EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT BASED ON Rainforth, PhD Longitudinal Reduction in Government Medical N. Jhansi Rani, PhD; and P. V. Krishna Rao, PhD MAHARISHI’S VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Improved Intellectual Expenses for Physician Treatments �� 4753 Greater Field Independence; Greater Cognitive Julia Kim Guttmann, PhD Functioning; Decreased Cognitive Distortion �� 4863 Flexibility; Greater Ability to Regulate Attention Higher Level of Emotional Development; Higher 568 WALPOLE STUDY OF THE following Transcendental Meditation �� 4807 Level of Ego Development �� 4838 art sychology TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION P II: P 558 TEMPORAL EFFECTS OF MEDITATION ON 564 TEMPORAL EFFECTS OF MEDITATION PROGRAM IN MAXIMUM SECURITY COGNITIVE STYLE AND PERSONALITY PRISONERS I: CROSS-SECTIONAL A: Intelligence, Learning, and Academic K. Sridevi, PhD; and P. V. Krishna Rao, PhD K. Sridevi, PhD; and P. V. Krishna Rao, PhD DIFFERENCES IN DEVELOPMENT AND Performance Greater Field Independence; Greater Spatial Greater Seriousness and Prudence; Greater PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 552 THREE RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS ON Reasoning Ability; Greater Right Hemispheric Conscientiousness; Greater Trust and Acceptance; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; Kenneth G. Walton, THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF THE Orientation �� 4809 Greater Practical Orientation; Greater Diplomacy PhD; and Rachel S. Goodman, PhD TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION and Astuteness; Greater Confidence; Greater Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Lower 559 WHAT DOES MEDITATION CHANGE? Organization and Self-Discipline; More Relaxed TECHNIQUE ON COGNITION MEASUREMENT OF COGNITIVE STYLES Psychopathology; Higher Personal Development; and Patient �� 4839 Higher Consciousness; Greater Self-Development; Kam-Tim So, PhD; and David W. Orme-Johnson, Yosuke Sakairi, PhD PhD 565 PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL Greater Capacity for Warm Interpersonal Greater Positivity in Selective Word Recognition; CHARACTERISTICS OF A PROPOSED Relationships; Greater Engagement in Private Increased Creativity; Increased Field Lower Anxiety; Longitudinally Increased Independence; Increased Practical Intelligence; OBJECT-REFERRAL/SELF-REFERRAL Avocational Businesses within the Institution; Positivity in Selective Word Recognition; Lower Anxiety; Less Psychopathic Deviation; Increased Fluid (General) Intelligence; Increased Longitudinally Decreased Anxiety; Increased CONTINUUM OF SELF-AWARENESS Speed of Information Processing; Decreased Trait Less Aggression; Less Tension; Less Depression; Positivity in Selective Word Recognition Frederick Travis, PhD; Alarik Arenander, PhD; Less Introversion; More Frequent Experiences of Anxiety; Decreased State Anxiety; Results of the Correlated with Decreased Anxiety �� 4811 and David DuBois, PhD Transcendental Meditation Technique Superior to Higher Consciousness �� 4879 Stabilized Pure Consciousness Associated with Control Procedures of Napping, Contemplation 560 DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE FOR the Following: Subjective Description of Self as 569 WALPOLE STUDY OF THE Meditation, or No Treatment �� 4767 MEASURING COGNITIVE STYLES Underlying Thought, Feeling and Action (Self- TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 553 ACCELERATING COGNITIVE AND SELF- MODIFIED BY MEDITATION Referral Mode); Objective Measurement of PROGRAM IN MAXIMUM SECURITY DEVELOPMENT: LONGITUDINAL STUDIES Yosuke Sakairi, PhD Personality Variables Indicating Higher Scores on PRISONERS II: LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF WITH PRESCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY Greater Flexibility; Greater Receptiveness a Consciousness Factor; Greater Inner Orientation; DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Higher Moral Reasoning; Lower State Anxiety; SCHOOL CHILDREN (Objectiveness and Positive Orientation); Charles N. Alexander, PhD; and David W. Orme- Lower Trait Anxiety; Greater Extraversion; Carol A. Dixon, PhD; Michael C. Dillbeck, PhD; Greater Happy-Go-Lucky Attribution (Good Johnson, PhD Frederick Travis, PhD; Horus I. Msemaje, MS; Fortune); Longitudinally Increased Flexibility; Greater Agreeableness; Greater Emotional Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Increased Ego- B. Mawiyah Clayborne, PhD; Susan L. Dillbeck, Longitudinally Increased Receptiveness Stability; Greater Openness to Experience �� 4841 Development; Decreased Aggression; Reduced PhD; and Charles N. Alexander, PhD (Objectiveness and Positive Orientation) �� 4812 Schizophrenic Symptoms; Increased Development Increased General Intellectual Performance; 561 EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL of Consciousness �� 4900 Increased Psychological Differentiation; Increased MEDITATION PROGRAM ON Part III: Sociology Analytical Ability; Enhanced Self-Concept �� 4782 INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT IN 570 WALPOLE STUDY OF THE 554 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (TM) COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS A: Rehabilitation TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING IN FIFTH Sanford I. Nidich, EdD; Robert H. Schneider, PROGRAM IN MAXIMUM SECURITY FIRST PRISON STUDY USING THE GRADE STUDENTS MD; Randi J. Nidich, EdD; Gloria Foster, MA; 566 PRISONERS III: REDUCED RECIDIVISM TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Rita Benn, PhD Hari Sharma, MD; John Salerno, PhD; Rachel Charles N. Alexander, PhD; Maxwell V. Rainforth, Goodman, PhD; and Charles N. Alexander, PhD PROGRAM: LA TUNA FEDERAL PhD; Paul R. Frank, MS; James D. Grant, EdD; Increased Positive Affect; Reduced Negative PENITENTIARY, 1971 Affect; Increased Positive Mood; Increased Higher Reasoning Ability; Higher Verbal Christopher von Stade, EdD; and Kenneth G. Adaptability �� 4797 Intelligence; Better Long-Term Memory; Faster David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; and Richard M. Walton, PhD Moore Speed of Processing...... 4814 Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased Recidivism; 555 IMPACT OF STRESS REDUCTION ON Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Increased Stability of Decreased Recidivism in Comparison to Other NEGATIVE SCHOOL BEHAVIOR IN the Autonomic Nervous System; Decreased Rigid Prison Treatment Programmes �� 4923 ADOLESCENTS B: Development of Personality or Obsessive Thoughts and Compulsive Behaviour Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Lynnette B. Bauza, MD; (Decreased Psychasthenia); Decreased Social 562 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 571 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL and Frank A. Treiber, PhD Introversion �� 4858 PROGRAM AND POSTCONVENTIONAL MEDITATION PROGRAM ON RECIDIVISM Reduction of Absentee Periods; Decrease in AMONG FORMER INMATES OF FOLSOM SELF-DEVELOPMENT: A 10-YEAR 567 CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED REHABILITATION School Rule Infractions; Reduction in Suspension PRISON: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS OF 15-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF INMATES IN THE NETHERLANDS Days �� 4798 FOLLOW-UP DATA Howard M. Chandler, PhD; Charles N. Alexander, ANTILLES: PSYCHOSOCIAL AND 556 MEDITATION AND ATTENTION PhD; and Dennis P. Heaton, EdD COGNITIVE CHANGES Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD; Charles N. Alexander, REGULATION Increased Ego Development; Increased Principled Mark A. Hawkins, PhD; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; and Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, PhD N. Jhansi Rani, PhD; and P. V. Krishna Rao, PhD Moral Reasoning; Increased Motivation for Warm PhD; Frederick T. Travis, PhD; Carl R. T. Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased Recidivism; Greater Ability to Regulate Attention �� 4806 Interpersonal Relationships �� 4822 Camelia, LLM; Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; Reduced Severity of Re-offence �� 4937 lxxxii lxxxiii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SEVEN

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B: Productivity and Quality of Life The Following Papers in This Section Document the 582 PREVENTING TERRORISM AND The authors review research on the benefits of Growth of Coherence in the Collective Consciousness INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT: EFFECTS OF Transcendental Meditation in prevention and 572 THE EFFECTS OF A STRESS of Cities, Nations, and the World. LARGE ASSEMBLIES OF PARTICIPANTS IN treatment of coronary heart disease. �� 5132 MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN A HIGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION SECURITY GOVERNMENT AGENCY 578 EFFECTS OF GROUP PRACTICE OF THE 587 REVIEW OF CONTROLLED RESEARCH ON TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMS THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION William D. Sheppard, PhD; Frank J. Staggers, PROGRAM ON PREVENTING VIOLENT David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; Michael C. PROGRAM AND CARDIOVASCULAR MD; and Lucille John CRIME IN WASHINGTON, DC: RESULTS OF Dillbeck, PhD; and Charles N. Alexander, PhD DISEASE: RISK FACTORS, MORBIDITY, Decreased Anxiety; Decreased Depression; THE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION Decreased International Conflict; Decreased AND MORTALITY Improved Self-Concept �� 4956 PROJECT, JUNE–JULY, 1993 International Terrorism (International, Three Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, Periods in 1983–1985) �� 573 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL John S. Hagelin, PhD; Maxwell V. Rainforth, 5080 MD; and Sanford I. Nidich, EdD MEDITATION FOR REDUCING ANXIETY PhD; David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; Kenneth L. Research is reviewed indicating that the IN JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN Cavanaugh, PhD; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; Transcendental Meditation programme reduces Susan F. Shatkin, MA; John L. Davies, PhD; Anne cardiovascular risk factors, and also the conditions Yosuke Sakairi, PhD Part IV: Theoretical O. Hughes, PhD; and Emanuel Ross that result from these factors; the possible role of Lower Anxiety Compared to Non-Meditators and Decreased Violent Crime (Washington, D.C., and Review Papers normalization in neuroendocrine functioning from Prospective Meditators; Longitudinal Reduction June–July 1993) �� 5006 the effects of chronic stress is discussed. �� 5137 in Anxiety Compared to Controls; Reduction in Anxiety Uncorrelated with Prior Expectation �� 4961 579 TRANSFORMING POLITICAL A: Physiology and Health 588 PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS AND INSTITUTIONS THROUGH INDIVIDUAL CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PART 2: PURE CONSCIOUSNESS: DISTINCT 574 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SELF- AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: THE 583 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY MAHARISHI EFFECT AND GOVERNMENT TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF Bruce McCollum, PhD Rachel S. Goodman, PhD; David W. Orme- PROGRAM IN TREATMENT AND “CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF” Increased Leadership Behaviour; Improvement Johnson, PhD; Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD; and PREVENTION Frederick Travis, PhD; and Craig Pearson, PhD in Each Subscale of Leadership Behaviour David H. Goodman, PhD Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, (Challenging the Process, Inspiring a Shared Improved Quality of Life in National Capital: The authors review subjective and physiological MD; Sanford I. Nidich, EdD; John W. Salerno, Vision, Enabling Others to Act, Modeling the Way, Decreased Emergency Psychiatric Calls, correlates of the experience of Transcendental PhD; Cheryl K. Nordstrom, PhD, MPH; and C. Encouraging the Heart) �� 4963 Decreased Hospital Trauma Cases, Decreased Consciousness, or “consciousness itself” during Noel Bairey Merz, MD Complaints Against Police, Decreased Accidental the practice of Transcendental Meditation. �� 5100 The authors review research on the Transcendental 575 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Deaths, Reduction of Social Stress Index Meditation programme indicating reduction 584 STRESS, STRESS REDUCTION, AND MEDITATION PROGRAM ON (Washington, DC, July 1993); Improved Quality of of physiological indicators of stress, and HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA IN AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL, HEALTH, SOCIAL, National Government: Increased demonstrating reduction of cardiovascular risk AMERICANS: A REVIEW AND BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS OF Approval Ratings of the Head of State (USA, factors, morbidity, and mortality. �� 5141 STRESS REDUCTION AND HUMAN 1993); Increased Media Positivity Toward the Raul Calderon, Jr, MA, MS; Robert H. Schneider, RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE Head of State (USA, 1993) �� 5031 MD; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; Hector F. Myers, 589 PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS AND INDIAN WORKPLACE PhD; Sanford I. Nidich, EdD; and Chinelo Haney, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PART 3: 580 AN ANALYSIS OF IMPROVED QUALITY OF BA CLINICAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF Thomas William Carlisle, PhD LIFE AND ENHANCED ECONOMIC The authors review research on reduction of stress RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL Decreased Perceived Stress; More Healthy PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE and reduction of coronary heart disease risk factors MEDITATION PROGRAM Lifestyle; Improved Personal Experiences; APPLICATION OF THE MAHARISHI through the practice of Transcendental Meditation, Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, Reduction of Medical Symptoms; Increased Self- EFFECT IN NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, USA, and the potential benefit of this program for MD; John W. Salerno, PhD; and Sanford I. Nidich, Esteem �� 4970 MOZAMBIQUE, AND METROPOLITAN reducing the high rates of coronary heart disease EdD 576 WORKSITE STRESS REDUCTION THROUGH MERSEYSIDE, UK among African Americans. �� 5107 The authors review research evidence for THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Guy David Hatchard, PhD prevention of cardiovascular disease and also 585 STRESS, STRESS REDUCTION, AND PROGRAM Increased International Economic Competitiveness reduction of health care expenditures related to HYPERTENSION IN AFRICAN AMERICANS: cardiovascular disease and to other disorders. �� 5156 J. Richard N. Broome, PhD; David W. Orme- (New Zealand and Norway, 1993); Stable Growth of Balanced Economic Health (New Zealand AN UPDATED REVIEW Johnson, PhD; and Jane Schmidt-Wilk, PhD 590 MEDICAL EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL and Norway, 1993–1997); Reduced Crime Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, MD; MEDITATION Reduction in Psychological Stress; Reduction in (Merseyside, U.K., 1988) �� 5049 Charles N. Alexander, PhD; and Frank Staggers, Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure; Improved MD Lars Bjørn Rasmussen, MD Corporate Climate—Greater Support; Reduction of 581 ALLEVIATING POLITICAL VIOLENCE The authors review research on the factors The author summarizes research findings on the Psychological Stress in the Entire Company Site �� THROUGH REDUCING COLLECTIVE 4971 underlying the greater prevalence of Transcendental Meditation programme indicating TENSION: IMPACT ASSESSMENT improved mental health, improved cardiovascular CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED MANAGEMENT hypertension in African Americans, and the 577 ANALYSES OF THE LEBANON WAR health, and reduction of the detrimental effects of DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDIES OF effects of behavioural stress reduction through John L. Davies, PhD; and Charles N. Alexander, the ageing process. �� 5167 INTERNATIONAL TOP MANAGEMENT Transcendental Meditation. �� 5118 PhD TEAMS 586 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, Increased Peace Index; Increased Cooperation; B: Education Jane Schmidt-Wilk, PhD Decreased Conflict; Decreased War Fatalities; HYPERTENSION AND HEART DISEASE Case Studies in Corporations—Holistic Decreased War Injuries (Lebanon, Seven Periods Michael S. King, PhD; Tim Carr, MBBS; and 591 CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED EDUCATION FOR Development in Managers and Managing Teams �� 4992 in 1983–1985) �� 5050 Cathryn D’Cruz, MBBS, FRACGP TOTAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRAIN IN lxxxiv lxxxv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME SEVEN

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CONTRAST TO EXISTING EDUCATION system in terms of the holistic development of Meditation technique demonstrating reduction The author reviews theory and research in WHICH PARTIALLY DEVELOPS THE individual life and society. �� 5225 of physiological and psychological stress, and developmental psychology, proposing that BRAIN: SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC improved behaviour among offenders who begin effective application of the concepts of total RESEARCH the practice. �� 5296 quality management (TQM) to improve corporate D: Rehabilitation performance depends upon the degree of maturity Michael C. Dillbeck, PhD; and Susan L. Dillbeck, 599 NATURAL LAW AND THE BHAGAVAD- PhD 595 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE of the executives, and cites case study experiences GITA: THE VEDIC CONCEPT OF to indicate that the Transcendental Meditation The authors review neuroscience research on TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION NATURAL LAW programme, which promotes developmental the effects of experience on brain functioning PROGRAM IN CRIMINAL Michael S. King, PhD maturity as indicated by previous research, is and development; research is also reviewed REHABILITATION AND SUBSTANCE The author discusses the Vedic understanding effective in facilitating quality improvement indicating that the experience of Transcendental ABUSE RECOVERY: A REVIEW OF THE of Natural Law in terms of the development of processes among corporate managers. �� 5342 Consciousness, in contrast to typical educational RESEARCH the ability for naturally right action; research on experiences, promotes holistic brain functioning Mark A. Hawkins, PhD the Transcendental Meditation programme on and corresponding expansion of mental The author reviews research on the Transcendental offenders is reviewed in this context. �� 5306 F: Quality of Life capabilities. �� 5169 Meditation programme as an effective modality 600 GERALDTON ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING 603 PREVENTING CRIME THROUGH THE 592 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR HIGHER for treatment and prevention of criminal behaviour REGIME: APPLYING THERAPEUTIC AND MAHARISHI EFFECT CONSCIOUSNESS: MAHARISHI and substance abuse. �� 5239 HOLISTIC JURISPRUDENCE IN THE BUSH David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AS 596 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL Michael S. King, PhD The author outlines the principle of preventing A MODEL FOR SPIRITUALITY IN MEDITATION PROGRAM ON MANAGEMENT EDUCATION The author describes an alternative sentencing crime through creation of increased coherence in NEUROENDOCRINE ABNORMALITIES approach implemented in Western Australia collective consciousness, and reviews research Jane Schmidt-Wilk, PhD; Dennis P. Heaton, EdD; ASSOCIATED WITH AGGRESSION AND which used court processes to promote healing studies indicating reduced crime and improved and David Steingard, PhD CRIME and individual responsibility through a variety quality of life in society—the Maharishi Effect— The authors analyse the integrated system of Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; and Debra K. Levitsky, of approaches; experiences of participants who through large groups of individuals practising management education at Maharishi University of PhD learn the Transcendental Meditation programme, the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Management as a model for educators seeking to The authors review research evidence for including reduced substance abuse and improved programme. �� 5353 integrate spirituality into management education, neuroendocrine abnormalities in aggression well-being, are consistent with previously and in that context review empirical findings 604 MAHARISHI’S VEDIC DEFENCE and crime related to stress, and review research published research findings. �� 5316 on student learning and development through TECHNOLOGIES: SCIENTIFICALLY indicating that the beneficial effects of the the Transcendental Meditation programme at Transcendental Meditation programme in PROVEN TO PREVENT TERRORISM AND Maharishi University of Management and other reduction of criminal behaviour may in part E: Productivity INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT universities. �� 5188 be through removing these stress-induced 601 IMPROVED TIME MANAGMENT THROUGH Howard M. Chandler, PhD 593 ATTACKING CRIME AT ITS SOURCE: neuroendocrine abnormalities. �� 5257 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: ACHIEVING The author reviews research findings on the CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED EDUCATION IN influence of peace created by large groups of 597 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION MOST WITH LEAST EXPENDITURE OF THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AND experts in the TM-Sidhi programme, including PROGRAM—A CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED TIME ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR reduction of international terrorism and DEVELOPMENTAL TECHNOLOGY FOR Harald S. Harung, PhD Christopher Jones, EdD; B. Mawiyah Clayborne, The author suggests that the development of international conflict, and considers these findings REHABILITATION AND CRIME in light of recent advances of modern physics. �� 5371 PhD; James D. Grant, EdD; and George PREVENTION consciousness of the observer is the key factor Rutherford, PhD determining the experience of time in a positive Rachel S. Goodman, PhD; Kenneth G. Walton, 605 A CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED APPROACH way, and reviews research on the Transcendental The authors review research indicating that the PhD; David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; and Robert TO HUMAN SECURITY Transcendental Meditation programme reduces Meditation programme indicating enhanced Boyer, PhD Rachel S. Goodman, PhD; David H. Goodman, risk factors for crime in four broad categories— psychological development as well as reversal of The authors examine the effectiveness of the PhD; and Richard Wolfson, PhD physiological, psychological, sociological, and the detrimental effects of ageing; development of Transcendental Meditation programme in substance abuse; and conclude that the programme higher states of consciousness is proposed as the The authors propose that the quality of individual correctional settings as an expression of the will be a highly effective means to reduce or basis for most productive management of time. �� 5327 and collective consciousness is holistically technique’s ability to promote human development eliminate violent behaviour in schools. �� 5205 responsible for the various factors that influence to higher states of consciousness; these higher 602 TQM AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL human security in society; and review research states are analysed as extending and fulfilling MEDITATION PROGRAM IN A SWEDISH studies on enhanced social security and quality of C: Psychology current psychological concepts of human TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM life through group practice of the Transcendental development. �� 5274 Jane Schmidt-Wilk, PhD Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. �� 5377 594 MAHARISHI’S VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF THE COSMIC PSYCHE 598 DETERRENCE, REHABILITATION AND David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; Eva Zimmerman, HUMAN NATURE: THE NEED FOR A MA; and Mark Hawkins, PhD HOLISTIC APPROACH TO OFFENDERS The authors present fundamental theoretical Michael S. King, PhD principles of a complete system of psychology This paper proposes that limitations of both based on Maharishi’s Vedic Science and the most deterrence and rehabilitation arise from their recent developments of modern science; and inability to systematically promote right action review research on the Transcendental Meditation by addressing the whole person; it reviews programme supporting the principles of this scientific research findings on the Transcendental lxxxvi lxxxvii LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME EIGHT

List of Scientific Papers Paper Number Page 613 CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Volume 8 MEDITATION PRACTICE ON INTERHEMISPHERIC FRONTAL ASYMMMETRY AND FRONTAL COHERENCE Frederick Travis, PhD; and Alarik Arenander, PhD Part I: Physiology Cross-sectional—Higher Frontal Broadband EEG Coherence During Task Performance; Higher EEG Alpha Lateralized Asymmetry During Eyes-Closed Rest (Due to Higher Right-Hemisphere EEG Alpha); Higher Moral Reasoning; More Inner Orientation; Greater Emotional Stability; Lower State Anxiety; Lower A: Metabolic, Biochemical, and Cardiovascular Change Trait Anxiety; Frontal Broadband EEG Coherence Correlated with Higher Moral Reasoning, Higher Inner Orientation, Greater Emotional Stability, Lower State Anxiety, and Lower Trait Anxiety. Longitudinal— Paper Number Page Short-Term Increase in Frontal Broadband EEG Coherence During the Transcendental Meditation Technique; Long-Term Increase in Frontal Broadband EEG Coherence Outside of the Transcendental Meditation Technique. � 5473 606 ANATOMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN ULTRA-WEAK PHOTON EMISSION IN PRACTITIONERS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND CONTROL SUBJECTS 614 A SELF-REFERENTIAL DEFAULT BRAIN STATE: PATTERNS OF COHERENCE, POWER, Eduard P.A. van Wijk, PhD; Heike Koch, MA; Saskia Bosman, PhD; and Roeland van Wijk, PhD AND ELORETA SOURCES DURING EYES-CLOSED REST AND TRANSCENDENTAL Lower Level of Ultraweak Photon Emission, Indicative of Lower Free Radical Activity �� 5398 MEDITATION PRACTICE Fred Travis, PhD; David A.F. Haaga, PhD; John Hagelin, PhD; Melissa Tanner, MS; Alarik Arenander, PhD; 607 DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF RELAXATION TECHNIQUES Sanford Nidich, EdD; Carolyn Gaylord-King, PhD; Sarina Grosswald, EdD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; ON ULTRAWEAK PHOTON EMISSION and Robert H. Schneider, MD Eduard P.A. van Wijk, PhD; Rainer Lüdtke, PhD; and Roeland van Wijk, PhD Increased Frontal Alpha EEG Power; Increased Frontal and Parietal Alpha EEG Coherence; Increased Frontal Lower Level of Ultra-Weak Photon Emission Compared to Controls and to Other Meditation Techniques, Beta EEG Coherence; Source Analysis (Electromagnetic Tomography) of Alpha EEG Indicative of a Ground Indicative of Lower Free Radical Activity �� 5406 State of Cerebral Functioning. �� 5483

608 DAYTIME HORMONAL RHYTHMS IN PRACTITIONERS 615 MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX AND ANTERIOR CINGULATED CORTEX IN THE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION-SIDHI PROGRAM GENERATION OF ALPHA ACTIVITY INDUCED BY TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: A MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STUDY Jose R. Infante, PhD; Fernando Peran, PhD; Juan I. Rayo, PhD; Justo Serrano, PhD; Maria L. Dominguez, MD; Lucia Garcia, MD; Carmen Duran, MD; Roman Sanchez, MD; and Ana Roldan, MD Shin Yamamoto, PhD; Yoshihiro Kitamura, PhD; Norihito Yamada, PhD; Yoshihiko Nakashima, PhD; and Shigetoshi Kuroda, PhD Different Diurnal Rhythms of ACTH and Catecholamines among TM-Sidhi Programme Participants �� 5415 Increased EEG Frontal Alpha Power; Decreased Frequency of Occipital Alpha Activity; 609 LEVELS OF IMMUNE CELLS IN TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PRACTITIONERS Magnetoencephalographic Measurements Indicate Sources of EEG Alpha Activity During Transcendental Meditation as Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Cingulate Cortex �� Jose R. Infante, PhD; Fernando Peran, PhD; Juan I. Rayo, PhD; Justo Serrano, PhD; 5494 Maria L. Dominguez, MD; Lucia Garcia, MD; Carmen Duran, MD; and Ana Roldan, MD 616 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PRACTICE ON BRAIN FUNCTIONING Higher Levels of Natural Killer Cells; Higher Levels of B Lymphocytes; Different Pattern of AND STRESS REACTIVITY IN COLLEGE STUDENTS T Lymphocyte Categories �� 5421 Fred Travis, PhD; David A.F. Haaga, PhD; John Hagelin, PhD; Melissa Tanner, MS; Sanford Nidich, EdD; 610 EFFECT OF GROUP PRACTICE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM Carolyn Gaylord-King, PhD; Sarina Grosswald, EdD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; and Robert H. Schneider, MD ON BIOCHEMICAL INDICATORS OF STRESS IN NON-MEDITATORS: A PROSPECTIVE TIME SERIES STUDY Increased Brain Integration Scale Scores; Decreased Sleepiness; Faster Habituation to Stress �� 5498 Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, PhD; and Nirmal D. Pugh 617 ADHD, BRAIN FUNCTIONING, AND TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PRACTICE Daily Increase in Size of Group Participating in the TM-Sidhi Programme Significantly Associated with Subsequent Mean Level of the Following Physiological Markers of Reduced Stress in Non-Participants: Frederick Travis, PhD; Sarina Grosswald, EdD; and William Stixrud, PhD Lower Cortisol Excretion, Higher Excretion of Serotonin Metabolite 5-HIAA, and Higher Ratio of Excretion Decreased Theta/Beta Ratio in EEG (associated with ADHD); Increased Theta EEG Coherence; Increased Rates of 5-HIAA to Cortisol �� 5426 Letter Fluency; Parental Rating of Increased Ability to Focus on Schoolwork; Increased Organizational Ability; Increased Ability to Work Independently; Increased Happiness; Improved Quality of Sleep. �� 5509 611 IMPACT OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS 618 NEUROIMAGING OF MEDITATION’S EFFECT ON BRAIN REACTIVITY TO PAIN Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Gaston K. Kapuku, MD, PhD; and Frank A. Treiber, PhD David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, MD; Young D. Son, MSc; Sanford Nidich, EdD; Decreased Left Ventricular Mass; Decreased Left Ventricular Mass Index; Reduced Body Mass Index; and Cho Zang-Hee, PhD Less Increase in Body Weight �� 5446 Reduction of Affective Dimension of Brain’s Response to Pain: Less Activation in Thalamus and Total Brain among Participants in the Transcendental Meditation Programme, and Longitudinal Reduction of Activation of Thalamus, Prefrontal Cortex, and Total Brain among Those who Learn B: Electrophysiological and Electroencephalographic Changes the Transcendental Meditation Technique �� 5520

612 ENHANCED EEG ALPHA TIME-DOMAIN PHASE SYNCHRONY DURING 619 COMPARISON OF COHERENCE, AMPLITUDE, AND ELORETA PATTERNS DURING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR CORTICAL INTEGRATION THEORY TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PRACTICE Russell Hebert, PhD; Dietrich Lehmann, Prof Dr Med; Gabriel Tan, PhD; Fred Travis, PhD; Fred Travis, PhD and Alarik Arenander, PhD Higher Frontal Alpha1 EEG Amplitude during TM-Sidhi Practice; Higher Frontal Beta1 EEG Amplitude Increased EEG Long-Range Anterior-Posterior Alpha Phase Synchrony; Increased Global EEG during TM-Sidhi Practice; Source Analysis (Electromagnetic Tomography) of Alpha1 EEG Indicating Phase Synchrony; Increased Incidence of Zero-Lag EEG Alpha Synchrony �� 5456 Right-Hemisphere Object-Recognition Areas Involved in Specific/Holistic Representation. �� 5521 cii ciii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME EIGHT

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C: Health 628 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM ON SUBSTANCE USE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS 620 EFFECTS OF A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION David A.F. Haaga; Sarina Grosswald, EdD; Carolyn Gaylord-King, PhD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; ON COMPONENTS OF THE METABOLIC SYNDROME IN SUBJECTS Melissa Tanner, MS; Fred Travis, PhD; and Robert H. Schneider, MD WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE Reduced Alcohol Drinking Rate among Male Students �� 5576 Maura Paul-Labrador, MPH; Donna Polk, MD, MPH; James H. Dwyer, PhD; Ivan Velasquez, MD; Sanford Nidich, EdD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; Robert Schneider, MD; and C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD 629 A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL Decreased Systolic Blood Pressure; Decreased Mean Arterial Blood Pressure; Decreased Insulin Resistance �� 5531 MEDITATION ON QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLDER BREAST CANCER PATIENTS Sanford Nidich, EdD; Jeremy Z. Fields, PhD; Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD; Rhoda Pomerantz, MD; 621 EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY David Cella, PD; Jean Kristeller, PhD; John W. Salerno, PhD; and Robert H. Schneider, MD AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: Improved Quality of Life; Increased Emotional Well-Being; Increased Social Well-Being; A RANDOMIZED CONTROL STUDY Improved Mental Health �� 5585 Ravishankar Jayadevappa, PhD; Jerry C. Johnson, MD; Bernard S. Bloom, PhD; Sanford Nidich, EdD; Shashank Desai, MD; Sumedha Chhatre, PhD; Donna B. Raziano, MD; and Robert Schneider, MD 630 EFFECTS OF BEHAVIORAL STRESS REDUCTION TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Improved Functional Capacity as Measured by Performance on Six-Minute Walk Test; Improved Quality INTERVENTION IN PERSONS WITH HIV of Life (Social Functioning); Decreased Depression �� 5540 Sumedha Chhatre, PhD; David S. Metzger, PhD; Ian Frank, MD; Jean Boyer, PhD; Edward Thompson, BS; Sanford Nidich, EdD; Luis J. Montaner, DM, DPhil; and Ravishankar Jayadevappa, PhD 622 BLOOD PRESSURE RESPONSE TO TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: A META-ANALYSIS Improved General Health; and Improved HIV-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life �� 5593 James W. Anderson, MD; Chunxu Liu, MS; and Richard J. Kryscio, PhD CAN THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM REDUCE THE MEDICAL Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure; Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure; Results Consistent 631 for Hypertensive Subjects and Highest-Quality Studies �� 5547 EXPENDITURES OF OLDER PEOPLE? A LONGITUDINAL COST-REDUCTION STUDY IN CANADA Robert E. Herron, PhD; and Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, PhD 623 STRESS REDUCTION PROGRAMS IN PATIENTS WITH ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE: Longitudinal Reduction in Government Medical Expenses for Physician Treatments A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS Among Those Over Age 65 �� 5600 Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD; Robert H. Schneider, MD; Sanford I. Nidich, EdD; CHANGES IN PHYSICIAN COSTS AMONG HIGH COST TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Carolyn Gaylord-King, PhD; John W. Salerno, PhD; and James W. Anderson, MD 632 PRACTITIONERS COMPARED WITH HIGH-COST NONPRACTITIONERS OVER 5 YEARS Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure; Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure; Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Blood Pressure Unique among Stress Reduction Programmes �� 5555 Robert E. Herron, PhD Reduced Physician Costs among High-Cost Patients �� 5615 624 A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL ON EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL TREATMENT OF FIBROMYALGIA AT THE MAHARISHI AYURVEDA HEALTH CENTRE MEDITATION PROGRAM ON BLOOD PRESSURE, PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, 633 IN NORWAY. A SIX-MONTH FOLLOW-UP STUDY AND COPING IN YOUNG ADULTS Sanford Nidich, EdD; Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD; David A.F. Haaga, PhD; John Hagelin, PhD; Lars Bjørn Rasmussen, MD; Knut Mikkelson, MD; Margaretha Haugen, RD, PhD; Are H. Pripp, PhD; John W Salerno, PhD; Fred Travis, PhD; Melissa Tanner, MS; Carolyn Gaylord-King, PhD; and Øystein T. Førre, PhD Sarina Grosswald, EdD; and Robert H. Schneider, MD Among Patients Learning the Transcendental Meditation Technique Compared to Other Patients— Reduced Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure Among Hypertension Risk Subjects; Reduced Psychological Increased Working Ability; Decreased Pain; Decreased Tiredness; Decreased Morning Tiredness; Distress; Decreased Anxiety; Decreased Depression; Decreased Anger/Hostility; Improved Coping �� 5564 Decreased Stiffness; Decreased Anxiety. Among All Patients in Maharishi Ayurveda Treatment— Increased Working Ability; Decreased Pain; Decreased Tiredness; Decreased Morning Tiredness; 625 INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON BLOOD PRESSURE; Decreased Stiffness; Decreased Depression �� 5621 A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS 634 TREATMENT OF FIBROMYALGIA AT THE MAHARISHI AYURVEDA HEALTH CENTRE Zhenggang Bai, PhD; Jianbo Chang, BS; Changshun Chen. BS; Peilin Li, BS; Kehu Yang, MS; IN NORWAY. II—A 24-MONTH FOLLOW-UP PILOT STUDY and Iris Chi, DSW Lars Bjørn Rasmussen, MD; Knut Mikkelson, MD; Margaretha Haugen, RD, PhD; Are H. Pripp, PhD; Reduced Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure; Subgroup Analysis Suggested Results Influenced Jeremy Z. Fields, PhD; and Øystein T. Førre, PhD by Subject Factors: Age, Initial Blood Pressure, Study Duration, Gender �� 5572 Among Patients Learning the Transcendental Meditation Technique Compared to Other Participants— Increased Working Ability; Decreased Pain; Decreased Tiredness; Decreased Morning Tiredness; COMMENT ON ‘INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 626 Decreased Stiffness; Decreased Anxiety; Decreased Depression; Alleviation of Symptoms. Among ON BLOOD PRESSURE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS’ All Participants in Maharishi Ayurveda Treatment—Increased Working Ability; Decreased Pain; D. Orme-Johnson, PhD Decreased Tiredness; Decreased Morning Tiredness; Decreased Stiffness; Decreased Anxiety �� 5628 Bai et al. Subgroup Analyses Had Confounded Factors. In Particular, It May Be Important to Consider Initial Level of Blood Pressure and More Detail About Study Duration. �� 5573

627 STRESS REDUCTION IN THE SECONDARY PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: Part II: Psychology RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED TRIAL OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND HEALTH EDUCATION IN BLACKS A: Intelligence, Learning, and Academic Performance Robert H. Schneider, MD; Clarence E. Grim, MD; Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD; Theodore Kotchen, MD; Sanford I. Nidich, EdD; Carolyn Gaylord-King, PhD; John W. Salerno, PhD; Jane Morley Kotchen, MD, 635 EFFECT OF PRACTICE OF MAHARISHI WORD OF WISDOM TECHNIQUE ON CHILDREN’S MPH; and Charles N. Alexander, PhD COGNITIVE STAGE DEVELOPMENT: ACQUISITION AND CONSOLIDATION OF CONSERVATION Reduction in Mortality, Myocardial Infarction, and Stroke; Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; Sidney C. Kurth, JD; Frederick Travis, PhD; Reduced Anger Expression �� 5575 and Victoria K. Alexander, JD, LLM civ cv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME EIGHT

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Advanced Cognitive Stage Development in Children: Faster Rate of Acquisition of Conservation, 645 DEVELOPING SITUATION AWARENESS CAPACITY TO IMPROVE and More Rapid Consolidation of Conservation �� 5639 EXECUTIVE JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING UNDER STRESS Martha M. Batorski, EdD 636 AWARENESS AND COGNITION: THE ROLE OF AWARENESS TRAINING IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT Improved Perception Capacity (Improved Problem-Solving Time); Increased Projection Capacity Tifrah Q. Warner, PhD (Improved Global Constructive Thinking; Improved Emotional Coping) �� 5717 Higher Levels of Cognitive Performance in Children: Enhanced Working Memory, Greater Reflectivity, Greater Flexibility. Verbal IQ Correlated with Length of Practice (Controlling for Age) �� 5653 646 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS? A PERSPECTIVE David O. Black, MD; and Norman Rosenthal, MD 637 THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS: Case Studies of Reduced Stress and Anxiety and Other Benefits of Transcendental Meditation A QUALITATIVE REPORT for Those with Autism Spectrum Disorders �� 5718 Cara Rosaen, BA; and Rita Benn, PhD Student Experiences of Increased Restful Alertness, Improved Emotional Intelligence Skills, 647 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE ON TRAIT ANXIETY: and Improved Academic Performance �� 5663 A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; and Vernon A. Barnes, PhD USE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE TO REDUCE SYMPTOMS 638 Decreased Trait Anxiety in Comparison to Active Alternative Treatments; Decreased Trait Anxiety OF ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) BY REDUCING STRESS in Comparison to Treatment-as-usual Controls; Greater Anxiety Reduction for Participants AND ANXIETY: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY with Higher Initial Anxiety, But Not Moderated by Other Factors �� 5722 Sarina J. Grosswald, EdD; William R. Stixrud, PhD; Fred Travis, PhD; and Mark A. Bateh, MS Reduced Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Reported by Students; Reduced 648 METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS FOR META-ANALYSES OF MEDITATION: Symptoms of ADHD Reported by Teachers; Improved Executive Function; Improved Behavioural Regulation; COMMENT ON SEDLMEIER ET AL. (2012) Improved Metacognition; Improved Performance Measures of Executive Performance �� 5668 David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; and Michael C. Dillbeck, PhD Larger Effect Size of Transcendental Meditation Compared to Other Meditation Techniques 639 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: on Psychological Variables �� 5736 A STUDY WITH AT-RISK URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Sanford Nidich, EdD; Shujaa Mjasiri, MBA; Randi Nidich, EdD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; 649 STRESS REDUCTION WITH THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM James Grant, EdD; Laurent Valosek, BA; Walter Chang, MA; and Ronald L. Zigler, EdD IN CAREGIVERS: A PILOT STUDY Improved Mathematics Achievement; Improved Language Achievement �� 5678 Sanford Nidich, EdD; Randi J. Nidich, EdD; John Salerno, PhD; Brooke Hadfield, BA; and Charles Elder, MD, MPH 640 EFFECT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM ON GRADUATION, Reduced Stress; Improved Perceived Physical Health; Increase Spiritual Well-Being; COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE AND DROPOUT RATES FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING Reduced Mood Disturbance �� 5745 AN URBAN PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL Robert D. Colbert, PhD; and Sanford Nidich, EdD Increased Graduation Rate from Secondary School; Decreased Dropout Rate from Secondary School; art ociology Increased Post-Secondary Education Acceptance Rate �� 5684 P III: S

641 THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM ON MINDFULNESS A: Rehabilitation Melissa A. Tanner, MS; Fred Travis, PhD; Carolyn Gaylord-King, PhD; David A.F. Haaga, PhD; Sarina Grosswald, EdD; and Robert H. Schneider, MD 650 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN VETERANS OF OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM AND OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM WITH POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: Increased Mindfulness �� 5689 A PILOT STUDY Joshua Z. Rosenthal, MD; Sarina Grosswald, EdD; Richard Ross, MD, PhD; and Norman Rosenthal, MD B: Development of Personality Reduced Clinician Administered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale; Reduced Clinician-Assessed Severity; Reduced Self-Assessed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms; 642 REDUCED PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITY STUDENTS Increased Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction �� 5754 PRACTICING THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM Charles Elder, MD, MPH; Sanford Nidich, EdD; Robert Colbert, PhD; John Hagelin, PhD; Lisa Grayshield, 651 CLINICAL CASE SERIES: TREATMENT OF PTSD WITH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PhD; Dynah Oviedo-Lim, MA; Randi Nidich, EdD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; Chris Jones, EdD; IN ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY PERSONNEL and Denise Gerace, PhD Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; John L. Rigg, MD; and Jennifer J. Williams, LCSW Decreased Psychological Distress; Decreased Anxiety �� 5702 Case Studies Indicating Reduced Self-Assessed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms �� 5759

643 PRACTICING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN HIGH SCHOOLS: 652 IMPACT OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION USE RELATIONSHIP TO WELL-BEING AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG STUDENTS AMONG ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS WITH ANXIETY AND PTSD Staci Wendt, PhD; Jerry Hipps, PhD; Allen Abrams, PhD; Jamie Grant, EdD; Laurent Valosek, BA; Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; Andrea Monto, LMSW; Jennifer J. Williams, LCSW; and John L. Rigg, MD and Sanford Nidich, EdD Reduced Need for Medication to Maintain Psychological Stability; Reduction of Severity of Psychological Reduced Anxiety; Increased Resilience �� 5708 Symptoms Compared to Matched Controls �� 5765

644 THE EFFECT OF MEDITATION ON SELF-REPORTED MEASURES OF STRESS, 653 REDUCTION IN POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS SYMPTOMS IN ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND PERFECTIONISM IN A COLLEGE POPULATION CONGOLESE REFUGEES PRACTICING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Jaime L. Burns; Randolph M. Lee; and Lauren J. Brown Brian Rees, MD, MPH; Fred Travis, PhD; David Shapiro, MA; and Ruth Chant, MSc Decreased Perceived Stress; Decreased Anxiety; Decreased Depression �� 5716 Decreased Self-Assessed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms �� 5774 cvi cvii SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME EIGHT

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654 SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS IN POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS SYMPTOMS IN of experiences of Transcendental Consciousness during the Transcendental Meditation technique. The author CONGOLESE REFUGEES WITHIN 10 DAYS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PRACTICE also reviews research on individuals reporting the stabilization of Transcendental Consciousness as an ongoing Brian Rees, MD, MPH; Fred Travis, PhD; David Shapiro, MA; and Ruth Chant, MSc feature of experience, termed the state of Cosmic Consciousness �� 5899 Decreased Self-Assessed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms �� 5778

655 DISASTER RELIEF FOR THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE-TSUNAMI OF 2011: B: Physiology and Health STRESS REDUCTION THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Mitsunobu Yoshimura, BA; Etsuko Kurokawa, BA; Takayuki Noda, BA; Koji Hineno, MD; 663 FOCUSED ATTENTION, OPEN MONITORING AND AUTOMATIC SELF-TRANSCENDING: Yasuo Tanaka, MD; Yuji Kawai, BA; and Michael C. Dillbeck, PhD CATEGORIES TO ORGANIZE MEDITATIONS FROM VEDIC, BUDDHIST Immediate Reduction in Total Mental and Physical Symptoms; Immediate Reduction AND CHINESE TRADITIONS in Intensity of Mental and Physical Symptoms �� 5782 Fred Travis, PhD; and Jonathan Shear, PhD The authors present categories useful for classifying the EEG research findings on different types B: Productivity and Quality of Life of meditation; the Transcendental Meditation technique is described as a unique class of meditation based on effortless transcending, with distinctive EEG characteristics �� 5906 656 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON EMPLOYEES STRESS, DEPRESSION, AND BURNOUT: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY 664 STRESS REDUCTION AND PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR Charles Elder, MD, MPH; Sanford Nidich, EdD; Francis Moriarty, EdD; and Randi Nidich, EdD DISEASE IN AFRICAN AMERICANS: A REVIEW OF CONTROLLED RESEARCH Decreased Perceived Stress; Decreased Depression; Decreased Teacher Burnout �� 5791 ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM Robert H. Schneider, MD; Charles N. Alexander, PhD; John Salerno, PhD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD; 657 SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION and Sanford Nidich, EdD AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAM PRACTITIONERS Research is reviewed demonstrating that the Transcendental Meditation programme reduces stress and Eva Norlyk Herriott, PhD; Jane Schmidt-Wilk, PhD; and Dennis P. Heaton, EdD simultaneously reduces risk factors for cardiovascular disease, disease events, and their underlying Greater Inner Stability; Broader Awareness and Intuition �� 5798 pathophysiological mechanisms �� 5917

The Following Papers in This Section Document the Growth of Coherence 665 CLINICAL AND PRE-CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION in the Collective Consciousness of States, Nations, and the World. PROGRAM IN THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN YOUTH AND ADULTS 658 A FIELD-THEORETIC VIEW OF CONSCIOUSNESS: REPLY TO CRITICS David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; and Robert M. Oates, MA Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; and David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD Replication of Improved Quality of Life (Israel, August-September 1983) Controlling The authors review research findings indicating reduction of blood pressure and reduced risk for Cultural/Political Events �� 5808 for cardiovascular disease in adults and adolescents, and emphasize the importance of the Transcendental Meditation technique for programmes to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease �� 5929 659 SOCIETAL VIOLENCE AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: REDUCTION OF U.S. HOMICIDE AND URBAN VIOLENT CRIME RATES 666 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION Michael C. Dillbeck, PhD; and Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, PhD WITH THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM AND Reduction of Homicide Rate in the United States; Reduction of Urban Violent Crime in the United States MAHARISHI CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED HEALTH CARE (United States, 2007–2010) 5826 Robert Schneider, H. MD; Kenneth G. Walton, PhD; John W. Salerno, PhD; and Sanford I. Nidich, EdD The authors summarize results demonstrating the effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique in reducing blood pressure, reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease, reducing cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality, as well as reducing health care costs; theoretical principles and additional treatment Part IV: Theoretical and Review Papers modalities of Maharishi Consciousness-Based Health Care are also reviewed �� 5944

A: Consciousness 667 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PREVENTION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE 660 CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALL THERE IS: A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH WITH APPLICATIONS D. W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; V. A. Barnes, PhD; and R. H. Schneider, MD Tony Nader, MD, PhD, MARR The authors review research studies demonstrating that the Transcendental Meditation programme reduces The author analyses the axiomatic implications of the postulate that consciousness is all that there is, and physiological and psychological stress, and reduces the risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) among examines the experiential consistency of the approach and also its practical utility for solving previously subclinical CHD patients, as well as reducing cardiovascular mortality and clinical events, and improving intractable problems in the study of consciousness �� 5851 physiological functioning in patients with coronary artery disease �� 5958 661 TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS WAKES UP IN DREAMING AND DEEP SLEEP Lynne I. Mason, PhD; and David Orme-Johnson, PhD 668 PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN ADOLESCENTS ® The authors review research findings indicating that among participants in the Transcendental Meditation AND ADULTS THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM : programme who report the stable experience of Transcendental Consciousness, the EEG characteristics of A RESEARCH REVIEW UPDATE Transcendental Consciousness are found during dreaming and deep sleep �� 5894 Vernon A. Barnes, PhD; and David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD The authors review the wide range of findings of the Transcendental Meditation technique indicating 662 TRANSCENDENTAL EXPERIENCES DURING MEDITATION PRACTICE reduction of stress responses, reduced chronic stress, improved stress reactivity, reduction of risk factors Frederick Travis, PhD for cardiovascular disease, decreases in a number of cardiovascular disease parameters, decreased The author describes research evaluating both the subjective characteristics and the physiological correlates cardiovascular morbidity, and decreased mortality �� 5965 cviii cix SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME EIGHT

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669 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT E. Productivity OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS: AN EVIDENCE-BASED REVIEW 677 HIGHER DEVELOPMENT, BRAIN INTEGRATION, AND EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP Robert H. Schneider, MD; and Timothy Carr, MBBS Harald Harung, PhD; Fred Travis, PhD; Warren Blank, PhD; and Dennis Heaton, EdD The authors review effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique for prevention and treatment of The authors review research indicating that top performing managers, in contrast to managers at lower levels cardiovascular disease (CVD), including reducing the physiological processes associated with CVD, of responsibility, show higher levels of brain integration, moral maturity, and peak experiences; other research reducing the physiological and behavioural risk factors for CVD, and reducing clinical events studies show that these same characteristics are found to develop through the Transcendental Meditation such as heart attack and stroke �� 5984 technique, indicating the potential of this technique for the development of physiological, psychological, and sociological dimensions of leadership �� 6056 C: Psychology F: Quality of Life 670 FROM I TO I: CONCEPTS OF SELF ON A OBJECT-REFERRAL / SELF-REFERRAL CONTINUUM Fred Travis, PhD 678 A NEW ROLE FOR THE MILITARY: PREVENTING ENEMIES FROM ARISING— REVIVING AN ANCIENT APPROACH TO PEACE The author classifies concepts of self in the history of psychology along a dimension from object-referral to self-referral, indicating the latter to be ultimately the experience of pure self-awareness gained during David Leffler, PhD practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique. The author reviews physiological indicators of pure The author reviews research indicating that the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi self-awareness during Transcendental Meditation and also of the stabilized state of pure self-awareness in programme reduces societal stress and conflict, and proposes the implementation of this technology by the daily activity through regular practice of Transcendental Meditation �� 5992 military as a means of prevention against domestic or foreign disturbance �� 6071

671 TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE POSTREPRESENTATIONAL SELF Dennis Heaton, EdD The author reviews research indicating that the Transcendental Meditation technique fosters growth to higher level of self-development, and presents theoretical descriptions from Maharishi Vedic Science of higher states of human consciousness �� 6007

672 MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND NATURAL LAW Randi J. Nidich, EdD; Sanford I. Nidich, EdD; and Charles N. Alexander, PhD Experience of Transcendental Consciousness, reflected in high EEG coherence, is associated with a higher stage of moral reasoning characterized by a cosmic perspective �� 6008

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673 RE-ENLIVENING AND FULFILLING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REHABILITATIVE IDEAL THROUGH THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMS: PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY PREVENTION Mark A. Hawkins, PhD; David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD; and Christian F. Durchholz, MSc The authors review research findings on the Transcendental Meditation programme related to reduction of crime-producing factors in society (primary prevention), reduced pathology and maturation of the personality in offenders (secondary prevention) as well as in the general population, and reduced criminal recidivism (tertiary prevention) �� 6015

674 THE USE OF MEDITATION IN CORRECTIONS David Orme-Johnson, PhD The author reviews research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation in improving psychological health and behaviour among inmates who learn the practice, in fostering higher levels of psychological development among inmates, and in enhancing neuroendocrine functioning associated with decreased stress �� 6038

675 IS ADHD A STRESS-RELATED DISORDER? WHY MEDITATION CAN HELP Sarina J. Grosswald, EdD The author considers research findings related to stress-related factors that detrimentally influence brain development, as well as the known effects of stress upon ADHD. The influence of the Transcendental Meditation technique on brain functioning and on ADHD are reviewed, and the implications of this technique for prevention and amelioration of ADHD symptoms is discussed �� 6040

676 CAM AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Alex Hankey, PhD The author reviews findings on the Transcendental Meditation technique in relation to alleviation of posttraumatic stress disorder among Vietnam veterans, as well as related findings of reduced stress and more effective brain functioning �� 6053 cx cxi