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 Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation
ASIN: 0452282667
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent introduction to spirituality, and TM.
Comments: The Science of Being and Art of Living was one of the most profound books I have ever read. It probes deeply into the nature of existance, life and spirituality in a very structured and logical manner. This book also shows how meditation, specifically Transcendental Meditation, provides real fulfilment to the Art of Living. I enjoyed this book very much as it provided me with profound knowledge of how spirituality can be integrated with modern material life.
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 How to Uncover Your Past Lives (Llwellyn's How to Ser)
ASIN: 0875420222
Customer's Rating: 3
Summary: Back to the Past...
Comments: How To Uncover Your Past Lives contains a lot of information regarding reincarnation as well as various excercises to help you discover who you were. It is not required that you know anything about reincarnation to understand this book. The author puts forth all the information you need in easy to read theories and examples. He even gives a word-for-word guide for self-hypnosis that you can tape record and use at home.
I thought this book was a little too cheesy for my taste. Although I learned few things I did not know before, and it made me contemplate a few different questions, it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. I guess if this is your first venture into reincarnation this book is a good one to start out with. But for those of you that have studied it, I would recommend skipping this one.
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 Self-Recovery: Treating Addictions Using Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Ayur-Veda
ASIN: 1560230444
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Very inspiring
Comments: Charles Alexander's book, Self Recovery is particulary helpful because it includes many different experiences with recovering from drug abuse. In some, the recovery is simple and immediate with beginning the regular practice of TM. He also gives examples of more difficult cases where recovery is interrupted and regained several times before self recovery is achieved. The study imvolving alcoholics living on the street was especially important as it showed that by adding a stress management strategy to a traditional treatment program, some actual progress was made where progress is not usually seen.
That there is a stress management technique effective enough to break the grip of drug addiction is exciting. That it is sometimes challenging to keep people on the program is realistic. That it is sometimes incredibly easy and immediate is corroberated in the prioneering work on TM that Dr. Herbert Benson and Dr. Keith Wallace did at Harvard in the early 70's. It is described in Benson's book, The Relaxation Response.
Dr. Alexander's book is timely. The only real way to win the war on drugs is to reduce the demand for drugs. TM is a useful tool in establing self sufficiency, clear thinking and success in life.
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 Positive Addiction
ASIN: 0060912499
Customer's Rating: 1
Summary: I'm sure he meant well...
Comments: I'm sure William Glasser meant well when he wrote this book. It's short, but it still never should have been a book. In my entire life, I don't think I've ever read a book that says only one thing, but says it over and over. If you read the first chapter, or even the back cover, you have his entire theory. The entire book repeats the theory over and over, and doesn't add any new information beyond what you read in the first few pages.
It's amazing to me that this wasn't just written as an article in some psychology magazine. The entire book could *easily* be condensed into an article of 2-3 pages.
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 The Transcendental Meditation TM Book : How to Enjoy the Rest of Your Life
ASIN: 093178302X
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read
Comments: This book offers a lot of insight into the benefits of Transcendental Meditation (TM). It is not a how-to book, but there are no how-to books. You can only learn this technique from a qualified instructor.
Denniston's book is a great introduction to the benefits of the TM technique. It is straight forward and easy to follow. A great companion to this book is TM Transcendental Meditation by Robert Roth. Both of these are the premier titles of the Transcendental Meditation Organization (www.tm.org).
The results of TM are immediate. $1,000 is a lot of money to pay to learn this technique, but once you start practicing TM you will feel that every penny was worth it. After just practicing TM once I had so much energy. I went home and cleaned my entire apartment in just a few hours--a chore that used to be an all-day event. Tasks that used to seem demanding became effortless.
Practicing TM also increases your entire well-being. You will feel blissful and happier. Big problems become manageable. Personal stores of the results of TM are also presented.
This book discusses the many benefits of TM including scientific studies that discuss the physiological benefits of the technique. I highly recommend the book.
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 TM - Transcendental Meditation : A New Introduction to Maharishi's Easy, Effective and Scientifically Proven Technique for Promoting Better Health, Unfolding Your Creative Potential, and Creating Peace in the World
ASIN: 1556114036
Customer's Rating: 3
Summary: Certainly a good program, but not the best
Comments: I read most of Transcendental Meditation book and enjoyed it, even though most of it was testimonials. I think where TM really falls short is the fact that they get you to concentrate more on the technique rather than what you goal it. (The technique is merely the tool you use to get there.) However, it is one of the easiest ways to calm down your mind and improve the quality of your life. Anyone who is meditating is very well off in the spiritual sense
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 Heal Your Self, Heal Your World: Turn Illness and Suffering into Health and Peace Through Scientifically Proven Methods
ASIN: 0965231933
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: a MUST-READ for anyone with a human body
Comments: Dr. Rees outlines a holistic approach for achieving health that goes far beyond most books on mind-body medicine. He links health of the mind, body and spirit with health of the planet, and gives practical suggestions for restoring balance to all through the ancient techniques of ayurveda. However, Dr. Rees assures us, restoring balance is not a difficult proposition when one utilizes the natural healing processes that are already present within each human being. "Heal Yourself, Heal Your World" is humorous and written in a clear and compassionate style, so it makes the very deep knowledge it contains go down easy. Get the book and do what the man says--your body and your world will thank you!
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 Sixth Cartesian Meditation: The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method (Studies in Continental Thought)
ASIN: 0253322731
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: This book is important
Comments: The "Sixth Cartesian Meditation" engages with crucial issues of what we might call the place of phenomenology in the human (social, existential, etc.) world, and the place of various aspects of the human world (e.g., science, phenomenology itself...) in phenomenology. The positions stated are generally described as being only beginnings of approaches to issues each of which requires a great deal of work which is beyond the scope of the text. And it seems to me that there is ample room for questioning whether the positions sketched out (or at least translated -- I have no idea what the original is...) are always beyond dispute in all their particulars. But it is a rare book that even *tries* to raise these issues, and I think the general outline presented for phenomenology as offering the [only] way to a radical and universal transformation of human life, such that all human existence hitherto will, in retrospect, be seen to have been naive, limited, etc., is sound. This is an extremely important book (of course there are others, but this one is short, and, for the difficulty of its subject matter, accessible). The task of humanity in our time is to get on with carrying out the detailed path of thinking it outlines, and, thereby, bringing that incommensurably better world into being. At the very least, the book helps us understanding how far our present "culture" falls short of what phenomenology makes possible for us. To adduce a phrase from Hermann Broch's _The Sleepwalkers_: "Raised high above the clamour of the non-existent..."
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 Constitution of India fulfilled through Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation: Maharishi's Constitution of the Universe, Rk Veda--Total Natural Law that Governs the Universe with Perfect Order--Supports Every Article of the Indian Constitution through Transcendental Meditation: Natural Law Upholds National Law through Transcendental Meditation Documented by Scientific Research
ASIN: 8175230045
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Ancient and Modern Knowledge for a World without Fear
Comments: In this splendid volume the full import of the Vedic Knowledge on which the ancient Vedic Civilization was based is set out. Could such a civilization ever exist again? The answer provided in this book is a resounding 'Yes!' India can again become Ideal India and can be a Lighthouse of Peace on Earth.
This book is a tour-de-force, integrating the deepest significance of the plethora of expressions of Natural Law embodied in the different Vedic Devatas, with the most recent understandings of how the vibrational modes of the Superstring Quantum Field Theory give rise to all creation. It details how the very existence of our human physiology is an integrated expression of both. In addition, whatever your field: government,
education, medicine, defence, agriculture etc., the knowledge for ide al administration of your area is clearly set out, together with extensive references to recent research, and presentations by those who have begun to implement these principles. In language anyone can easily understand, this book presents fully the practical applications of the teachings of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
To be Indian at a time when this level of knowledge is available everywhere (check out Veda Vision/The Maharishi Channel, a world-wide satellite TV channel referred to in this book), must be to swell with a pride greater than that of the citizens of any of the world's great empires. This book is an investment that no-one can afford to be without in this 21st century.
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 Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Government-Automation in Administration
ASIN: 8175230029
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Government
Comments: The very first line of Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Government tips the reader off that this book is like none other in the field of administration: 'My philosophy of government locates the absolute government supreme government, at the unmanifest basis of creation...'
This book opened my vision to the amazing possibility that all the diverse desires of the millions of constituents of any government can actually be simultaneously fulfilled. And how could such an impossible feat be accomplished--that one administration could make everyone happy? Democrats and Republicans, rich and poor, farmers and industrialists, young and old...all can be fulfilled through the knowledge of the unified state of Natural Law, the 'unbounded seat of intelligence' at the basis of each person's own consciousness.
What is this level of perfection? It is described as pure, non-changing, supreme, self-referral, beyond space and time. The book proclaims that administration from this absolute level of life will reflect the same perfect harmony as the administration of the complex universe. It makes clear that absolute, perfect administration is not the phenomenon of action, it is the phenomenon of least action, of silence, of that level where we are all the same, where all our differences are unified. It is about a state of governing where the governor and governed are ONE.
Such a concept is breathtaking yet so utterly simple. Maharishi lays out the logic that we need only to align our human intelligence with the intelligence of Nature at the unmanifest basis of creation, that unified level which holds together all diversity, through the mental technique of Transcendental Meditation. And--voila--our lives can spontaneously be lived in the same innocent, beautiful harmony as the cosmos, in perfection.
This book convinced me that government can work. Especially in these days of chaos and confusion, we urgently need to go beyond the surface level of the problem to this knowledge of the perfect unity that lies within each of us.
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 Tm and Cult Mania
ASIN: 0815803923
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: "I was there", and Persinger is right
Comments: I was involved with Transcendental Meditation for 13 years, including 11 years qualified as a TM teacher. Persinger is absolutely dead-on. "TM" is just trance and suggestion, which is applied unethically to implant very eccentric spiritual doctrines in unsuspecting recruits who happen to be susceptible to post-trance indoctrination. This is a psychological issue, not a spiritual doctrinal issue. See also "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan.
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 The Maharishi: The Biography of the Man Who Gave Transcendental Meditation to the World
ASIN: 1852305711
Customer's Rating: 3
Summary: TM practitioner exposes the BS underlying it all
Comments: Well I bought this book used for three dollars and it was worth every penny.In the very beginning inside the cover it states that Paul Mason has practiced TM for over twenty years yet throughout the book he seems negative about his own Guru.Perhaps he is being truthful(the reason I gave three stars) but he does not mention the benefits of TM for himself REALLY so is he trapped in a mere habit of doing TM everyday? Also he fails to mention that capitalistic Westerners are running the TM movement for the elderly Guru and with or without his permission are ripping people off for ungodly sums of money for mere words. It costs $2,500.00 to learn TM and $3000.00 to learn to hop around in the lotus position for the Sidhi techniques.He goes farther to disprove and discredit TM than a lot of anti-TM authors...thanks Paul for telling people what a line of BS TM really is. :) Save your money and look elsewhere...
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 Hinduism, TM and Hare Krishna
ASIN: 0310703913
Customer's Rating: 1
Summary: It Bears His Hoofprints
Comments: I know nothing of Yamamoto or the other author, but, given that the third author is Kurt Van Gorden, I wasn't altogether surprised to find that this little book was something of a hatchet job.
I'm not a Hindu -- far from it -- but I don't think that religious understanding is served by this kind of hostile, slanted propaganda.
Read something else about Hinduism or, if that doesn't appeal, read nothing at all (and avoid the misinformation contained in this thing). Personally, I think Huston Smith's work on the great world religions is the place to begin.
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 The Miracle Power of Transcendental Meditation
ASIN: 0135857112
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: A book beyond compare!
Comments: Easily one of the best self-help books of this century, it presents the transcendental meditation techniques in a simple and understandable manner and outlines the INNUMERABLE BENEFITS(like health,wealth,creativity,problem-solving etc.) we can reap through Metaphysics, that too,very QUICKLY.Your life will not be the same after reading and practising the easy-to-follow techniques in this book.It gives you CONFIDENCE in place of dejection,SELF-ESTEEM in place of diffidence,STRENGTH in place of weakness, ENTHUSIASM in place of lassitude and much, much more.It is no wonder that the author is one of the most respected and acclaimed masters in the field. Mr. Norvell's narrations of the several case-histories are also delightful and wholly absorbing reading.
It is however, saddening to note that almost all his books have become out-of-print.
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