Word: tm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the center was forthcoming about the benefits of TM, no one there would talk about what actually happens in their method of meditation. In an interview, all the director of the center would reveal is that the TM student receives a special mantra the first time he or she meets the teacher. The mantra remains the meditator's secret, as does the meditation process...
...course of instruction costs $1,000 for adults, $600 for students--perhaps one reason the TM corporation wishes to guard the secrecy of the process...
Still, one former TM practitioner was willing to talk about the process...
...think it's a heavy component of hype," says Bruce C. Atwood, who began TM with his wife in the early 1960s...
...Center affirms that levitation, or "yogic flying," is possible for advanced practitioners. During yogic flying, says Amy A. Ruff of the Cambridge TM Center, the left and right hemispheres of the brain achieve "maximum brainwave coherence," which, she asserts, has a positive effect on world peace...