STATES OF HUMAN REALIZATION: SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES
PSYCHOLOGIA 1974 DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.1974.126 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Transcendental Meditation |
| Citations | 2 |
| Key findings | Argues that Eastern meditative systems, particularly Transcendental Meditation, warrant scientific evaluation in the West, and reviews physiological, psychological, and social research on TM alongside work on training people to produce subjectively pleasant states of mind, in order to examine correlates of states of "human realization." |
Abstract
Systems for promoting self-realization have come both from the West and the East.Two basically Eastern systems of "therapy," in the Zen tradition and the Hindu Yoga meditative tradition, are now attracting substantial interest in the West.There is now substantial Western concern to evaluate their effectiveness in the way that many other psychotherapeutic traditions have been examined.In particular a technique in the Hindu Yoga meditative tradition, Transcendental Meditation (TM) is beginning to attract strong scientific attention in the West.This paper looks at some of the physiological, psychological and social research on this practice, and also looks at some of the rather arresting work done in the training of people to produce states of mind found subjectively to be pleasen!.This paper then is concerned to look at some of the correlates of states of "human realization."