Word: tm
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DUSTY SCHWEICKART. One of the astronauts who will be on the next Apollo flight to the moon, practices Transcendental Meditation (TM). While this fact might surprise many people who associate meditation with passive seclusion, other meditators such as Major General Franklin Davis, or the Beach Boys, would consider his practice perfectly natural...
Transcendental Meditation first appeared on the California horizon 13 years ago when Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of India introduced the technique to this country. In 1967 after a period of gradual expansion. TM suddenly burst into the limelight when the Beatles. Mia Farrow and other celebities adopted Maharishi's method...
Whatever its merits, TM has been taught for credit at dozens of U.S. colleges, including Yale, Stanford and the University of Colorado. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare has granted $21,540 to show 150 high school faculty members how to teach creative intelligence through TM. At the University of Michigan, a researcher has studied the use of TM to help stutterers, and at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn., Psychiatrist Bernard Glueck Jr. is about to investigate the technique's possible value in treating both neurotics and psychotics. "If we laugh at the hocuspocus...
Both the Harvard and Stanford studies are inconclusive, as the experimenters themselves recognize. Part of the problem in trying to document the psychological effects of TM, says the British medical journal Lancet, is that it is "difficult to exclude the effects of suggestion." So difficult, in fact, that TM's true value-or lack of it-seems likely to remain in doubt for a long time...
...Including the Beatles, though they helped make the maharishi famous by embracing TM...