Cosmic Consciousness

Divide your paper into two columns Divide your paper into two columns. In the left column, describe your deepest experiences during TM practice.

Transcendental Consciousness: EEGCoherence, Apneustic Breathing and Autonomic Measures Notice the breath quiescent period. It begins with an exhale and ends with an exhale suggesting a slow continous inhale throughout This line is skin conductance, and this is heart rate variability. This pattern of response is seen during orienting to significant experiences. Also, this desynchronized EEG here is a hallmark of orienting.

Now in the right column, write what you have noticed changing in your life since your started TM practice.

Now compare the adjectives in both columns… Now compare the adjectives in both columns…. Do you notice that experiences during TM are being seen in activity?

Gita IV 38, commentary. “Now, for Transcendental Consciousness to become permanent and to co-exist with the waking state of consciousness, it is necessary that the two states of the nervous system corresponding to those two states of consciousness should co-exist. This is brought about by the mind gaining Transcendental Consciousness and the waking state of consciousness, passing from one to the other. This gradual and systematic culture of the physical nervous system creates a physiological situation in which the two states of consciousness exist together simultaneously.”

Four Months TM Practice (18 years old) Eyes Open Travis, 1991

Eight Years TM Practice (18 years old) Eyes Open Travis, 1991

Cosmic Consciousness: Inner Wakefulness during Sleep: Higher Theta-alpha activity Mason, et al, Sleep, 1997.

Cortical Preparatory Response Cosmic Consciousness in Activity: Brain Integration Scale Alpha/ gamma ratio Cortical Preparatory Response Broad Band Coherence

Correlation of the Brain Integration Report Card with: * p < .05, ** p < .01 Mean Std R (28) Moral Reasoning 3.46 0.41 0.66** Emotional Stability 3.86 0.85 0.52** Openness to exp 4.42 0.47 0.46* State Anxiety 27.75 11.92 -0.46* Trait Anxiety 31.29 12.23 -0.47* Travis et al 2004, Consciousness and Cognition, 13/2, 401-420.

American University College Students (random assignment to groups) Brain Integration during tasks (3-mon TM) Travis et al, 2009

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