Journal articles: 'TM-Sidhi program'

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Gelderloos, Paul, Phil H. Goddard, Henry H. B. Ahlstrom, and Rita Jacoby. "Cognitive Orientation toward Positive Values in Advanced Participants of the TM and TM-Sidhi Program." Perceptual and Motor Skills 64, no. 3 (June 1987): 1003–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1987.64.3.1003.

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The results of two studies, with 15 and 10 college students practicing the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program (ages: M = 28 yr.; M = 29 yr.), and 10 and 9 controls (ages: M = 22.9 yr.; M = 26.2 yr.), respectively, indicate that advanced participants of the TM and TM-Sidhi program may have a cognitive set oriented toward more positive values. Subjects in the TM-TM-Sidhi program exhibited a better recall of positively valued words than the control group in a long-term memory task (45 min.), and they needed fewer exposures to recognize positive than negative words at lower absolute thresholds than the controls in a tachistoscopic experiment. They appraised “significant others” more favorably than the control group on LaForge's Interpersonal Checklist, while self-appraisal was high in both groups. A third study of 11 college students, M age of 22.3 yr., yielded an inverse relationship between differential recognition thresholds for positive and negative affect terms on a tachistoscopic task and the reported experienced intensity of the corresponding affects. This suggests that enhanced perception of certain affect terms may be a function of more frequent experiences of those affects.

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Dillbeck, Michael C., Panayotis D. Assimakis, Dennis Raimondi, David W. Orme-Johnson, and Robin Rowe. "Longitudinal Effects of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program on Cognitive Ability and Cognitive Style." Perceptual and Motor Skills 62, no. 3 (June 1986): 731–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1986.62.3.731.

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50 college students practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program were administered the Culture Fair Intelligence Test and Group Embedded Figures Test. Significant longitudinal increases over a 3- to 5-yr. period were found in performance on both measures. In the context of normative data, these findings indicate that the practices contribute to an increase in the effectiveness of cognitive ability and cognitive style. The results are consistent with previous findings on the positive effect of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program on these variables in an educational setting.

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JEDRCZAK, ANDREW, MICHAEL BERESFORD, and GEOFFREY CLEMENTS. "The TM-Sidhi Program, Pure Consciousness, Creativity and Intelligence." Journal of Creative Behavior 19, no. 4 (December 1985): 270–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2162-6057.1985.tb00409.x.

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Norlyk Herriott, Eva, Jane Schmidt‐Wilk, and Dennis P. Heaton. "Spiritual dimensions of entrepreneurship in Transcendental Meditation and TM‐Sidhi program practitioners." Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion 6, no. 3 (September 2009): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766080903069299.

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Dillbeck, Michael C., and Kenneth L. Cavanaugh. "Empirical Evaluation of the Possible Contribution of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program to Reduction in Drug-Related Mortality." Medicina 59, no. 2 (January 18, 2023): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59020195.

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Background and Objectives: CDC data indicate that the U.S. is experiencing a sustained epidemic of drug-related mortality, with such deaths exceeding a record 100,000 in 2021, up 47% from 2019. Opioids, especially the synthetic opioid fentanyl, account for approximately 75% of this mortality. This study evaluates a proposed Consciousness-Based® approach that may possibly help reduce trends in drug-related fatalities by mitigating what WHO refers to as an “epidemic of stress” in society that helps fuel drug misuse and other negative public health trends. This approach involves providing support in public and private sector public health initiatives for individual and group practice of a subjective, evidence-based meditation procedure suitable for those of all educational, cultural, and religious backgrounds: the Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) technique and its advanced aspect, the TM-Sidhi® program. Materials and Methods: Segmented-trend regression analysis of monthly CDC data on U.S. drug-related fatality rates (dfr) from a prospective social experiment (2002–2016) was used to replicate and extend prior peer-reviewed research. Results: As hypothesized, (1) practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi program by a group of theoretically predicted size (√1% of the U.S. population) was associated with a statistically and practically significant reduction in dfr trend during the five-year “demonstration period” of the quasi-experiment; and (2) monthly dfr trend subsequently increased during the five-year follow-up period when the group fell below the required size (both p’s < 0.0001). The estimated total percent decrease in dfr during the demonstration period was 35.5%, calculated relative to the baseline mean. This decline was followed by total dfr increases of 11.8% and 47.4% relative to the demonstration-period mean during the two phases of the follow-up period. Conclusion: Existing evidence warrants implementation and further evaluation of this approach in U. S. public health initiatives.

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Cavanaugh, Kenneth L., Michael C. Dillbeck, and David W. Orme-Johnson. "Evaluating a Field Theory of Consciousness and Social Change: Group Practice of Transcendental Meditation and Homicide Trends." Studies in Asian Social Science 8, no. 1 (July 29, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/sass.v8n1p1.

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This study outlines and empirically tests a field-theoretic view of consciousness and positive social change based on the ancient Vedic tradition of knowledge from India (Veda means “knowledge” in Sanskrit) as brought to light by the Vedic scholar and scientist of consciousness, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In contrast to most contemporary theories of mind and consciousness originating in the West, Maharishi’s Vedic science of consciousness posits the existence of an interpersonal, nonlocalized dimension of consciousness that underlies both individual consciousness and the “collective consciousness” of society, or “national consciousness.” We review previous empirical tests in Cambodia, India, the Philippines (and other countries) of hypotheses derived from this field-theoretic view of consciousness. We then present new empirical results, which together with prior research, provide evidence for an interpersonal dimension to consciousness. Segmented-trend regression analysis of data from a prospective, 15-year U.S. national social experiment found support for the hypothesis that “field effects of consciousness” created by group practice of Transcendental Meditation® and its advanced technique, the TM-Sidhi® program, by a theoretically predicted number of participants contributed to a reduction in social stress in national consciousness as indicated by improved monthly homicide trends during the study’s experimental period 2007-2011 (p < .0001). These results are consistent with significant reductions in crime and violence associated with group practice of the TM® and TM-Sidhi® program as reported in previous peer-reviewed research. This reduction was followed by a predicted subsequent increase in homicide trends 2012-2016 (p < .0001) after the group fell below the required size (approximately the √1% of the U.S. population).

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Werner, O. R., R. K. Wallace, B. Charles, G. Janssen, T. Stryker, and R. A. Chalmers. "Long-term endocrinologic changes in subjects practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program." Psychosomatic Medicine 48, no. 1 (January 1986): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006842-198601000-00004.

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Fergusson, Lee C., and Kenneth L. Cavanaugh. "Socio-political Violence in Cambodia Between 1990 and 2008: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study of Social Coherence." Studies in Asian Social Science 6, no. 2 (April 20, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/sass.v6n2p1.

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The relationship between individual and group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program andreductions in social stress, tension, and violence has been the topic of systematic exploration since the 1970s in Canada,India, Israel, Lebanon, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, and United States.Findings from these quantitative studies have been published in leading international conflict resolution and peacestudies journals. However, research in Cambodia has to date only been of a descriptive and qualitative nature with afocus on economic and social variables not violence or crime.The purpose of the present study is therefore to examine socio-political violence in Cambodia between January 1990and December 1992 (the baseline period) and the possible influence of group practice of the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi program at Maharishi Vedic University (MVU) by 550 undergraduate students beginning in January1993 through December 2008 (the impact-assessment period). This study uses an explanatory mixed methods designto examine socio-political violence using time series analysis of machine-coded news reports (quantitative data) anddocument analysis of national and international media reports, personal statements, and public documents (qualitativedata).Results indicate that beginning in January 1993, when meditating students at MVU began their group practice, amarked downward shift occurred in the trends of socio-political violence and other forms of violent crime in Cambodia,contrary to predicted baseline trends and contrary to widespread community and media expectations. Such aconclusion can be drawn from both the quantitative and qualitative evidence when comparing baseline andimpact-assessment periods, suggesting that the observed decline in socio-political violence during this time wasassociated with an increase in peace, order, and harmony—that is, a rise of social coherence—in the collectiveconsciousness of Cambodia generated by the group of meditating students at MVU.

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Gelderloos, Paul, Hubert J. M. Hermans, Henry H. Ahlscröm, and Rita Jacoby. "Transcendence and Psychological Health: Studies With Long-Term Participants of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program." Journal of Psychology 124, no. 2 (March 1990): 177–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1990.10543215.

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Orme-Johnson, David Wear, Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Michael C. Dillbeck, and Rachael S. Goodman. "Field-Effects of Consciousness: A Seventeen-Year Study of the Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs on Reducing National Stress in the United States." World Journal of Social Science 9, no. 2 (December 20, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjss.v9n2p1.

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Many conceptions of field-effects of consciousness have been proposed. The most well-developed of these is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s, which holds that every individual in society, whether stressed or coherent, contributes to collective consciousness. Collective consciousness in turn impacts the life of every individual, guiding the trends of life in the nation. Over 600 studies have documented that the Transcendental Meditation® and advanced TM-Sidhi® program increase coherence in the individual, as indicated by improved brain integration, health, cognitive abilities, and behavior. Fifty additional studies indicate that these more coherent individuals radiate an influence of coherence throughout society, as reflected in reductions of conflicts and improvements in quality of life. In the present study, interrupted time series analysis was used to evaluate the effectiveness of this population-level health intervention that was implemented at a clearly defined point in time. It found that during the Demonstration period of 2007-2011, compared to the Baseline period of 2000 to 2006, when a group practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi techniques reached or exceeded a predicted required threshold of √1% of the U.S. population (1725) there were significant and meaningful trend reductions in indicators of national stress: homicides, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, infant mortality, drug-related deaths, motor vehicle fatalities, fatalities due to injuries in youths ages 10-19, and in a composite index of all eight variables (p’s < .0001). Moreover, from 2007 to 2016, when the size of the group decreased to below the required threshold, all stress indicators increased again. Potential alternative explanations in terms of changes in economic conditions, political leadership, population demographics, and policing strategies could not explain the results. The results support a new highly practical field-theoretic understanding of social dynamics.

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Assimakis, Panayotis D., and Michael C. Dillbeck. "Time Series Analysis of Improved Quality of Life in Canada: Social Change, Collective Consciousness, and the Tm-Sidhi Program." Psychological Reports 76, no. 3_suppl (June 1995): 1171–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1995.76.3c.1171.

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Two replication studies test in Canada a field theory of the effect of consciousness on social change. The exogenous variable is the number of participants in the largest North American group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, in Iowa. The first study indicated a significant reduction in violent deaths (homicide, suicide, and motor vehicle fatalities), using both time series intervention analysis and transfer function analysis methods, in weeks following change in the exogenous variable during the period 1983 to 1985. The second study, using time series intervention analysis, gave during and after intervention periods a significant improvement in quality of life on an index composed of the behavioral variables available on a monthly basis for Canada from 1972 to 1986—homicide, suicide, motor vehicle fatalities, cigarette consumption, and workers' days lost due to strikes. Implications of the findings for theory and social policy are noted briefly.

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Dillbeck, Michael C., and Kenneth L. Cavanaugh. "Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® Program and Reductions in Infant Mortality and Drug-Related Death." SAGE Open 7, no. 1 (January 2017): 215824401769716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244017697164.

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These two studies tested the prediction that the group practice of a procedure for the development of consciousness, the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, by a sufficiently large group of individuals would be sufficient to reduce collective stress in the larger population, reflected in two stress-related health indicators, infant mortality rate and drug-related fatality rate. Based on theoretical prediction and prior research, from January 2007 through 2010 (intervention period), this effect should have been measurable. Change in the rates of these two indicators during the intervention period were estimated from 2002 through 2010 data using a broken-trend (or segmented trend) intervention model with time series regression methods. Significant changes in trend for both the infant mortality rate and drug-related fatality rate were evident at the predicted time and in the predicted direction, controlling for preintervention trends, seasonality, and autocorrelation. The changes in trend were both statistically and practically significant, indicating an average annual decline of 3.12% in infant mortality rate and 7.61% in drug-related fatality rate. Diagnostic tests are satisfactory and indicate that it is unlikely that the statistical results are attributable to spurious regression. The mechanism for these collective effects is discussed in view of possible alternative hypotheses.

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Dillbeck, Michael C. "Test of a field theory of consciousness and social change: Time series analysis of participation in the TM-Sidhi program and reduction of violent death in the U.S." Social Indicators Research 22, no. 4 (June 1990): 399–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00303834.

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Glaser, Jay L., Joel L. Brind, Joseph H. Vogelman, Michael J. Eisner, Michael C. Dillbeck, R. Keith Wallace, Deepak Chopra, and Norman Orentreich. "Elevated serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi programs." Journal of Behavioral Medicine 15, no. 4 (August 1992): 327–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00844726.

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Schneider, Robert H., Michael C. Dillbeck, Gunvant Yeola, and Tony Nader. "Peace through health: traditional medicine meditation in the prevention of collective stress, violence, and war." Frontiers in Public Health 12 (April 3, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1380626.

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In the midst of global armed conflicts, notably the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars, there is an urgent need for innovative public health strategies in peacebuilding. The devastating impact of wars, including mortality, injury, disease, and the diversion of healthcare resources, necessitates effective and durable interventions. This perspective aligns with WHO recommendations and examines the role of evidence-based meditation from Ayurveda and Yoga in public health to mitigate collective stress and prevent collective violence and war. It highlights the Transcendental Meditation program, recognized for reducing stress, with contemporary evidence supporting its effectiveness in mental health, mind–body disorders, cardiovascular disease, and public health. Empirical studies with cross-cultural replications indicate that these Traditional Medicine meditation practices can reduce collective stress and prevent collective violence and war activity while improving quality of life. The mechanisms of group meditation in mitigating collective violence are explored through public health models, cognitive neuroscience, population neuroscience, quantum physics principles, and systems medicine. This perspective suggests that Transcendental Meditation and the advanced TM-Sidhi program, as a component of Traditional Medicine, can provide a valuable platform for enhancing societal well-being and peace by addressing brain-based factors fundamental to collective stress and violence.

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Leffle, David R. "A NEW ROLE FOR THE MILITARY: PREVENTING ENEMIES FROM ARISING-REVIVING AN ANCIENT APPROACH TO PEACE." IBT Journal of Business Studies 5, no. 2 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2009.05.02.06.

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The military's primary job is to fully protect its country from attack by enemies, both foreign and domestic. In many countries, lives are lost and vast resources are expended in defenses against these enemies. Preventing enemies from arising would be both effective and cost effective in establishing peace. This paper introduces a new role for the military- "Prevention Wings" whose purpose is to prevent enemies from arising. A new approach derived from the ancient Vedic tradition and termed "Invincible Defense Technology (IDT)," is supported by over 50 scientific studies indicating it can achieve this goal as well as assist in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace building roles. Two to three percent of a nation's military personnel would be trained on a voluntary basis in the primary components of IDT-the techniques known as the Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) and TM-Sidhi® programs.1 Peer reviewed studies show that IDT reduces the collective societal stress held by many to be responsible for war, terrorism, and crime. The absence of collective stress translates into the absence of tension between the countries, religious groups, or even within individual terrorists. By applying this human resource-based, non-lethal, and non-destructive technology, it is proposed that any military can reduce societal stress and prevent enemies from arising.

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