Center for International and Regional Studies
1983
Marie-Christine Rhally
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is an Indian spiritual teacher who has had a considerable influence in the West over the past twenty years. His teaching has two aspects, practical (the practice of Transcendental Meditation) and theoretical. As a philosopher, Maharishi claims to be an exponent of the Advaita Vedanta according to Sankara, yet his presentation is modern and practical. This thesis examines...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1983
Michael C. Dillbeck
6 citations
This paper addresses the empirical testability of the Vedic psychological theory found in the Bhagavad-Gita.It is suggested that research on a meditation practice which is consistent with the descriptions of the Bhagavad-Gita may be used to assess the theory's testability.Research on the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program is reviewed as evidence relating to the following...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1982
Robert D. Ogilvie, Harry T. Hunt, Paul D. Tyson et al.
61 citations
10 good dream recallers spent 2 nights in the sleep lab during which they were awakened 4 times per night from REM sleep, twice during their highest alpha activity in REM, and twice during low REM alpha. 5 were given alpha feedback training prior to sleep onset. Arousals from high alpha REM sleep yielded significantly higher lucidity ratings. Alpha feedback had no effect upon lucidity or REM...
International Journal of Neuroscience
May 1982
David W. Orme-Johnson, Michael C. Dillbeck, R K Wallace et al.
EEG coherence was measured between pairs of three different subjects during a one-hour period practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program. Coherence between subjects was evaluated for two sequential fifteen minute periods. On six experimental days, these periods preceded and then coincided with a fifteen minute period during which 2500 students participated in the TM-Sidhi program at...
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
1982
Hans Hof
1 citation
Phenomena such as ecstasy and mysticism display both psychological and physical features. The purpose of this paper is finding and understanding the structures in human consciousness which characterise the experience of certain kinds of ecstasy. The context in which this task is performed is an outline of fundamental changes in consciousness brought about by those methods of meditation which,...
Biofeedback and self-regulation
June 1981
B W Bradley, T R McCanne
Forty-eight male subjects with no previous meditative experience engaged in either progressive relaxation (PR), a meditative treatment designed to induce the relaxation response (RR), or a no-treatment control experience (C) during four sessions on consecutive days. Negative expectations regarding the effectiveness of each technique for reducing physiological responses to stress were induced...
Etudes théologiques et religieuses
1981
C. Izard
Etude de la meditation Zen qui interesse a la fois le theologien, le psychophysiologiste et le psychotherapeute. L'A. detaille les differents Zen, essaie de specifier les niveaux de conscience, puis aborde la question des effets psychophysiologiques de la meditation, expose differents points de vue chretiens sur le Zen (U. von Balthasar, E. Lassalle). Fondee sur l'Ecriture et la Parole de...
Sociological Analysis
1981
David L. Preston
15 citations
This paper is concerned with the processes of conversion-commitment to a new religious forro and how it is actually accomplished by the individual. Physiological consequences of meditative practices are seen as neglected by sociologists and as important for shedding light on how one becomes in this case a Zen practitioner. Becker's analysis of the learning involved in becoming a marijuana user...
American Journal of Psychiatry
June 1, 1980
R Walsh
In recent years a number of assessments of the non-Western consciousness disciplines have been undertaken by Western behavioral scientists. The author suggests that a variety of conceptual, methodological, experimential, and content inadequacies render the conclusions of these investigations of doubtful validity. He then describes the models of human nature postulated by these disciplines and...
British Journal of Medical Psychology
September 1, 1979
Peter Buckley, Marc Galanter
A contemporary ‘enthusiastic’ religion, the Divine Light Mission (DLM), was studied by the authors in an attempt to elucidate some of the psychological factors underlying the burgeoning appeal of this charismatic religious sect for American youth. The DLM is constituted of followers of the Guru Maharaji, an Indian who first came to the United States in 1972 at the age of 14. Method. The study...