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Most of us believe that we live in only three states of consciousness: wakefulness, sleep, and dreaming. But there is so much more.
In Super Mind, clinical psychiatrist and bestselling author Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., shows how the incredibly simple daily practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) can permanently improve your state of mind during the routine hours of waking life--placing you into a super-mind state of consciousness where you consistently perform at peak aptitude.
In his most ambitious and practical book yet, Rosenthal shows how TM is more than a tool for destressing or for general wellness. It is a gateway to functioning physically, emotionally, and intellectually at levels we never knew we could attain. Written in Rosenthals trademark style of restraint and intellectual carefulness, Super Mind explores how we can aspire to so much more than we ever thought possible.
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Names: Rosenthal, Norman E., author.
Title: Super mind : how to boost performance and live a richer and happier life through transcendental meditation / Norman E Rosenthal MD.
Description: New York : TarcherPerigee, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016006787 (print) | LCCN 2016010923 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399174742 (hardback) | ISBN 9781101983478 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Transcendental Meditation. | Self-actualization (Psychology) | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Meditation. | SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General. | SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness.
Classification: LCC BF637.T68 R667 2016 (print) | LCC BF637.T68 (ebook) | DDC 158.1/25dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016006787
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Our normal waking consciousness... is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality, which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.
WILLIAM JAMES
Through the repeated experience of settling, a continuum of calmness develops.
PATANJALI
In my end is my beginning.
T. S. Eliot
H ave you ever concluded a projector thought you hadonly to change your mind later? All those feelings you had at the timepremature in retrospectwere genuine: typically relief, mixed (one hopes) with a measure of contentment, though mingled with sadness. It can be hard to say good-bye to ideas and characters with whom youve shared so many hours. Conclusion and closure bring rewards, but also a sense of loss. That is how I felt when I completed Transcendence, a book thatlike the present onedeals with the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and its effects. I thought I had said everything I had to say on the subject.
But I was wrong. T. S. Eliot, quoted above, was wiser: In my end is my beginning. Exactly so.
I had come full cycle once before with regard to TM. I first learned the technique back in South Africa in the early 1970s, but in the helter-skelter of daily life I let it fall by the wayside. Thirty-five years later (in 2008), challenged by a young patient to renew my TM practice, I did so and have been meditating regularly ever since. After observing beneficial effects of meditation in myselfsuch as decreased anxiety and reactivityI began recommending the technique to some of my patients. Many experienced results that were equally impressiveor even more so. After delving into the literature on TM, I was so impressed with its many benefits that I felt compelled to write about itand do so, once again.
Although both Transcendence and Super Mind explore the effects of TM, the earlier book dealt mostly with its documented benefits on physical and emotional health, especially in people with problems such as anxiety, depression, addictions, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In contrast, this book explores not only the advantages that TM can bring to your task-driven life, but how it can actually result in a new state of consciousnessa word that may seem troublesome to a scientist, but seems perfectly apt for the experiences I will describe.
The founder of TM, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, outlined several states of consciousnessthe three widely acknowledged states (waking, sleeping, and dreaming), and four others, which are summarized in table 1 below and presented in more detail in the notes.
Table 1: The Four Higher States of Consciousness (According to Vedic tradition)
Stage 4: Transcendencethe experience of the Self in the silence of meditation. |
Stage 5: Cosmic Consciousnessthe experience of the transcendent in activitytraditionally used to express the state in its fully realized, continuous form. |
Stage 6: Refined Cosmic Consciousnessa state in which the development of the senses and emotions are at their maximum. |
Stage 7: Unity Consciousnessa state in which you experience the transcendental reality not just within yourself, but also within everyone and everything. |
I will discuss transcendence (the fourth state) in some detail in chapters 4 and 5, and Cosmic Consciousness (the fifth state) in its fully realized form in chapter 18. When it comes to stages of consciousness beyond stage 4 (transcendence), however, I will speak of them collectively as Super Minda term that seems well suited to our present frenetic and interconnected era. Indeed, in these stressful times we need to have all our neurons, synapses, and brain circuits at our disposal. I selected the term Super Mind because it describes an experience of not only heightened aptitude and problem-solving ability but also a state of emotional sensitivity, empathy, perspective, and diplomatic skills. It is the mind in peak condition, not just momentarilyas we have all experiencedbut with a consistency that tends to grow over time.
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I first began to get a glimpse of this state in myself and some of my patients soon after publishing
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