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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique
00:02:01 1 Practice
00:04:04 1.1 Mantra
00:04:54 1.1.1 Selection
00:07:20 1.1.2 Meaning and sound value
00:10:07 2 Course descriptions
00:15:54 2.1 TM-Sidhi program
00:17:36 3 Teachers
00:21:07 4 Research
00:23:01 5 Institutional programs
00:23:11 5.1 In schools and universities
00:26:11 5.2 Corporate programs
00:27:18 5.3 Social programs
00:29:51 5.4 Military
00:31:19 6 Theoretical concepts
00:31:30 6.1 Views on consciousness (1963)
00:34:13 6.2 TM and altered states of consciousness
00:36:22 6.3 Science of Creative Intelligence (1971)
00:40:46 6.4 Maharishi effect (1974)
00:42:45 6.5 Maharishi Vedic Science (1981)
00:43:52 7 Characterizations
00:45:54 7.1 Religious leaders
00:47:52 7.1.1 Laypersons
00:48:48 7.2 Scholars
00:54:07 7.3 Government
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The Transcendental Meditation technique or TM is a form of silent mantra meditation, developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The meditation practice involves the use of a mantra and is practiced for 20 minutes twice per day while sitting with one's eyes closed. It is one of the most-widely practiced, and among the most widely researched meditation techniques, with over 340 peer-reviewed studies published. Beginning in 1965, the Transcendental Meditation technique has been incorporated into schools, universities, corporations, and prison programs in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and India. In 1977, a U.S. federal district court ruled that a curriculum in TM and the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) being taught in some New Jersey schools was religious in nature and in violation of the First Amendment. However, the technique has since been included in a number of educational and social programs around the world.The technique has been described as both religious and non-religious, as an aspect of a new religious movement, as rooted in Hinduism, and as a non-religious practice for self-development. Over its 50-year history the technique has had high visibility in the mass media and effective global propagation, and used celebrity and scientific endorsements as a marketing tool. Advanced courses supplement the TM technique and include an advanced meditation called the TM-Sidhi program. In 1970 the Science of Creative Intelligence, described as "modern science with ancient Vedic science", became the theoretical basis for the Transcendental Meditation technique. The Science of Creative Intelligence is widely seen as being a pseudoscience.
