Transcendental Meditation: Revised and Updated Edition

by Robert Roth

From one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world (clients include Oprah, Jerry Seinfeld, Arianna Huffington, and Hugh Jackman), an introduction to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's easy, effective, and scientifically-proven technique for promoting better health, gaining relaxation, and increasing creativity and Transcendental Meditation (TM). This is the only book endorsed as a primer on TM by the Transcendental Meditation Organization of North America.

Genres: Meditation

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm giving this one star because I don't want people to think I didn't rate it! This was basically an advertisement for TM instead of really telling you about it and how to go about it. Guess they don't want their trade secrets to get out since they charge $1500 for you to learn how to do this if you go to one of their centers. In the book, it talks about how if more people did this that it would make the world a better place (as in less crime, better health & lower health care costs, etc.). If that's the case and the TM center is a non-profit, then why aren't they teaching people for free to make the world better?

[Jeanne Cumby · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sales job all the way. After the first chapter or two you just say "Okay. I get it." and stop reading. I flipped through the rest just to make sure there wasn't anything substantive. It does have a section on what to expect when you go to the expensive ( at least I assume it's expensive) school where you will learn the TM technique. It gives you no instruction at all on how to begin to learn it yourself.

[Rebecca · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read bits of this years ago and was really confused by it for a long time because it doesn't talk about TM at all really, just talks about how beneficial it is over and over, without saying what it is, and discourages you from trying it on your own.

Instead it says you need to go to a guru and spend months (and dollars) with them so they can get to know you and tell you exactly what mantra suits you, because if you chant using a mantra that hasn't been tailor made to your specific body thetan or whatever the hell, anyway if it's not specific to you then it is downright dangerous apparently. It can make you depressed and stuff. Well this all perplexed me so much and I wondered who on earth would publish a book like this until I found out recently that TM is actually a cult and this is just a bit of recruiting material for them and now it all makes perfect sense.

TL;DR My creative potential is still folded, one star.

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had already watched Youtube content and read online; this book was not useful. If you want to see charts on all their early studies, read Bob Roth's ocean analogy and other TM descriptions, hear about their theory on impacting society at large with a small influx of meditators, and read countless personal testimonials, this is for you.

[Lori Cotten · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was very disappointed to read through the entire book, and never learn how to do transcendental meditation. The title is misleading. The whole book is a commercial to take courses in transcendental meditation.

[Mine Gedik · Rating 1 out of 5]

Kitabın adı TM tekniği ama bir gram teknik yok. Övmüşler de övmüşler. Evet şahane bir şeymiş. Bravo. Aferin.

[Orhun · Rating 3 out of 5]

A really nice book full of the scientific side of TM and its results. As a TM practitioner everything in the book made so much sense to me. But I could also see that the way this books constructed can easily make people doubt the trustfulness of the information inside and find it as more of an advertisement rather than an objective source of information, especially considering how much it contradicts with the current paradigm.

[Henrik Akselsen · Rating 1 out of 5]

A complete waste of paper. It is basically an infomercial in book form, which goes out of its way to not actually provide any useful information.

[Iman Ben chaibah · Rating 1 out of 5]

it doesnt explain the theory! just a promotional book.