Here’s what I wrote about radiance: TMers emanate a type of radiance during group meditations. Maharishi and the TM movement have had several publicity campaigns extolling possible benefits to society from radiance.
There are many instances besides meditation when a kind of energy is transferred from person to person. For example, the electricity-like atmosphere at concerts, plays, and sporting events is an amazing, worthwhile life experience. Another possibility of energy transference might occur when seeing someone else yawn, or when riding in a car with someone who takes a nap. In 1973, I first noticed that meditations seemed deeper when meditating with others on my Science of Creative Intelligence course. There is a radiance effect coming off a meditator that does affect other meditators in the vicinity. I noticed a radiance effect also when learning the TM-Sidhi on levitation in that I was more likely to hop when someone close to me was also hopping. During the years that I was ungrounded, I seemed to sense a deeper quality of silence when entering the city of Fairfield, Iowa. Although the placebo effect could be at play, I think that an ungrounded person is more likely to sense the deeper silence in Fairfield than someone who is grounded. The TM organization came up with what seems to be fanciful mathematics to predict the radiance effect of the TM-Sidhis program. They stated that when the square root of 1% of a population practices the TM-Sidhis program as a group, there will be an immediate reduction of hostility and violence in the population. These kinds of unbelievable claims eventually made it easy for me to walk away from the TM movement. I do think there is a super-radiance effect from large groups practicing the TM and TM-Sidhi program, but I suspect it has a mixture of healthy and unhealthy effects. The unhealthy effect of TM super-radiance is probably greater on people who are ungrounded. I suspect that the effect on the population as a whole would be negligible, but there might be a means of small benefit through hormesis. More on my musings at https://myenlightenmentdelusion.wordpress.com From: Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 2:59 PM To: Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Statistical Truth, The Call to Spiritual Order,Rally Now to Meditation! I was wondering just what kind of research might show up under "group effects of meditation." group effects of meditation - Google Scholar group effects of meditation - Google Scholar This search on Google does not search for only results from TM.
