The potential impact of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the David Lynch Foundation programs on public health
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- Common Good Vermont: Consciousness & Social Policy
Lauren-Glenn Davitian, host of Common Good Vermont, interviews Edwards Smith M.D. about the impact of Transcendental Meditation on individual and social health. Edwards Smith is a western and AyurVedic doctor and leading practitioner of Transcendental Meditation as a practice for personal resilience and community well-being....[The] interview, titled Consciousness and Public Policy, was filmed on February 23, 2017 for Channel 17/Town Meeting TV in Burlington, Vermont.
- Meditation As a Form of Empowerment (Randolph Carter)
Workshop on Health and Wellbeing in Communities of Color from the 38th Annual Minority Health Conference, February 24, 2017. Presented by Randolph Carter, M.Ed., Director, East Ed; Senior Associate, Mid West Ed (Slides plus audio)
- Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools (1)
David L. Kirp SFGate / San Francisco Chronicle
Published 6:37 pm, Sunday, January 12, 2014
- Science of Creative Intelligence
- Silence and speech, by Richard F. Allen
Richard Francis Allen (1908-1990) was an active member of Britain Yearly Meeting and served as clerk of his Preparative, Monthly, and General Meetings. Quoting British author and Friend Lorna M. Marsden, the Universalist (January, 1991) noted Richard Allen’s keen intellect and spiritual depth, his commitment to the Quaker Universalist Group and the Seekers Association, his “devotion to the Quaker way . . . and his great concern for the preservation of our traditional insights in terms which could serve the present day.”
- Virtual library folder on "Health effects and scientific research" on TM
One problem with research in this area is deciding whether practices are minor variations of the same basic practice or considered as different practices. For example, TM is often grouped with other practices (e.g., MBSR) as "meditation", even though practitioners and some other researchers regard them as very different.
- Virtual library folder on Transcendental Meditation and the David Lynch Foundation
Plenty of material (articles, video) for browsing.