Word: tm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TM authors take a swipe at psychotherapy, claiming that its focus on "previous negative experiences can lead to a loss of self-esteem rather than its enhancement." Their rather pat conclusion: "The key to successful therapy lies instead in creating psychological and physiological conditions which optimize the natural tendency of the nervous system to stabilize itself. TM appears to offer a systematic method to achieve this goal...
...main drawback of both books is that they tell almost everything about TM except how to go about it. Readers are referred to the 397 meditation centers across the country that offer a seven-session course in the TM fundamentals for $125 ($65 for college students). Following the procedures set up by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the nonprofit TM movement, new recruits are initiated in candlelit, incense-filled rooms. Trained teachers assign each student a personal mantra-a meaningless sound that must be kept secret. Students are taught to close their eyes for 20 minutes twice daily, focus...
This kind of training, practitioners of TM insist, cannot be given in a book. Indeed, readers of the Bloomfield book are warned that mantras that are adopted without professional advice may lead to various "negative or unsettling" aftereffects. The books are, of course, on sale at most TM centers. As Harvard's Schwartz puts it wryly: "TM is no longer just a movement, but an industry...
...Birk: "Transcendental Meditation appears to be based on art rather than science, and there is something people like about that. The white-coated laboratory researcher is just not as comforting as the Indian guru who has centuries of human wisdom behind him." Even so, the sweeping claims about TM still need to be proved definitively...
...TM: Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress, Bloomfield, Cain & Joffe...