Leading American psychiatrist identifies ‘lost’ human experience that could be the key to health and happiness – and reveals how we can rediscover it, in his book Transcendence . We experience life within the realm of three changing states: waking, dreaming and sleeping. Yet in every culture mystics, poets or sages have alluded to a ‘higher’ or greater state of consciousness that...

More than 3,000 Buddhist monks in 100 monasteries throughout Southeast Asia have learned the Transcendental Meditation  (TM) technique, as a result of the work of a revered Japanese Buddhist monk, Reverend Koji Oshima, who is a long-term practitioner and teacher of TM. According to Rev Oshima, who has personally instructed the technique in many of the monasteries and...

The following is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Sun newspaper on 8 December 2009: He has just returned from a four-day retreat to master the art of Transcendental Meditation. The practice, which sees devotees use a repeated mantra to gain inner calm, was established by THE BEATLES' favourite mystic, MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI. Snake-hipped comic Russ is a...