The Force of Non-Violence is a book written by Professor Judith Butler, the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley and published in 2020. Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist. There are several points of contact between Butler’s book [...]
Summary from an article by David W. Orme-Johnson & Lee Fergusson World peace is the urgent goal of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s revival of the consciousness-based technologies of ancient Vedic India. Towards this end, Maharishi created a worldwide organisation, founded universities in several countries, and trained over 20,000 teachers of [...]
Can more be done besides diet and exercise to better recover from a heart attack, a stroke, or to prevent one? Scientists from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Institute for Prevention Research conducted a study, with and without meditation, to find out. The study, published in the Journal [...]
A randomized controlled study recently published in Ethnicity & Disease in their Autumn 2019 Hypertension issue found that the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique helps to prevent abnormal enlargement of the heart compared to health education (HE) controls. Also known as left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), it can lead to chronic heart failure [...]
The Transcendental Meditation® technique was not only found to reduce perceived depression, anxiety, and stress in a new study, but also magnetic resonance imaging of the subjects while resting with their eyes closed showed the associated changes that took place in their brains as a result of their meditation [...]
