Patterns of EEG coherence, power, and contingent negative variation characterize the integration of transcendental and waking states.
Biological Psychology November 2002 Fred Travis, Joe Tecce, Alarik Arenander et al.
Long-term meditating subjects report that transcendental experiences (TE), which first occurred during their Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice, now subjectively co-exist with waking and sleeping states. To investigate neurophysiological correlates of this integrated state, we recorded EEG in these subjects and in two comparison groups during simple and choice contingent negative variation...