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Unprecedented Outcomes: Modern Science Measures the Growth of Enlightenment
1960s, in laboratories around the world, scientists have been conducting research with profound significance for every person on earth. Through their research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, they have been giving us an increasingly detailed picture of what happens as we begin developing our inner potential — the latent creativity and intelligence we typically go through life not using. We are seeing something rather like a photograph developing before our eyes. Through an ever-growing body of scientific findings, we are gaining a picture of higher states of consciousness — of what it means to be enlightened. The results transform our understanding of human life. In Chapter 4, we looked at the picture scientists have gained of the fourth state of consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness. The many research studies conducted on people while they are practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique have yielded a picture of dramatically increased coherence in brain functioning and deep physiological rest and balance. Scientists have also been conducting long-term research: What are the effects outside the practice? What happens as people experience Transcendental Consciousness twice a day, every day, for months or years? Coming into focus is a picture of the fifth state of consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness — the next stage of enlightenment. ince the late
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