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nscendental Meditation: Medical Miracle or >ther Kooky Fad"? win ROGERSku ESP ranscen- heai so *4re the DEC-O-RATIONnethiqg, its conview of 'legions'' irvana," tnce are jest that fact btt. We e k l y rwin to nee has one of rndental ; report skeptic, ^dilation m to be rruck. It i (while lave be- a large i Iowa, lifomia, players, ucians). if frivorom the iblicized Beatles, OF INDEPENDENCE EXPRESSION YOUR RIGHTS: EXPRESSION of your personal tastes and life style. Ring in a new look for your home with Rogers colors that say rt your way Hundreds of tints, shades and accents let you break away from yesterday, create your own living tradition today With a guarantee of ! complete satisfaction nght on the label C99 Gallon Accents slightly higher m the monkey sm. For hat TM n physi- tation is bly seen iits with turmurs ims that ding his >ast four Herbert )le heart bert K. tf, have ique un^ational :alth. In lospital, Medical ROGERS PAINT PRODUCTS available at Sh e r w in -Wil l ia ms St o r e s See Yellow Pages under Paint for the location of the store nearest you. School, they attached electrodes and other sensing devices to hundreds of people while they were doing TM. Among the re sults reported: --The work load on medita tors' hearts was reduced by about 25 percent. Their metabolic rale de creased significantly (resulting in less tension on the body). --They drew fewer breaths, with smaller amounts of carbon dioxide exhaled, to a level usually achieved only alter six hours of sleep. Their blood generated less lactic acid, a possible sign of reduced anxiety. -Their skin produced less sweat-a sign of a relaxed state -The brain's aJpha waves in creased in frequency, another sign of profound relaxation. In his fipf study of 400 med itators in California. Dr V>.i! lace found that a large majontv hud fewer colds, headm-he*. allergjc reactions and pcrunls ol depression Most dramaiK a survev of 1,862 meditators K\ the Wall ace - Jenson team Turned Up evidence that drug abuse (including the use ot marijuana, heroin and LSDhad declined sharply after reg ular meditation "Practically all of (hem," Dr Benson com menled. "said thev had given up drugs because they fell then meditation experience was su penor to what they achieve through drugs. And drugs inlet fered with their ability to med itate ( However. Dr Benson .i meticulous researcher, um lions that his study did not n Jude a control group of otheis who tried to end their addition wuhout TM ) What's it all about'1 1 he cm tent (ranscendental-meditution surge stems from the mvstu Mahan&ht Mahesh Yogs ot India (remember him the (landhi-looking mystic talked through his nose and * ,iv making appearances on fhe lonight" show a few veatv ago1) For a while. I'M faded But now it's back again and. picking up hordes of studeM' adherents. As expounded by ferven' disciples, TM aims to make life more fulfilling, help ^ gain heightened awarene^i. anu develop creative intelligent e The natural tendency of the mind, they contend, ts to xe*V a held of greater happiness "'The technique," the Maha nvhi explains, somewhat ob scurely. "turns the attention m ward toward the subtle levels of a thought until the mind transcends (or surpasses) the experiences of the subtlest states of the thought and arrives at the source of the thought." Thus, presumably, the meditator at lains his natural "true being To allow the transcending process to function, the medita tor focuses on a "mantra," a euphonious though meaninglesv word or syllables from Sanskrit 8. 1972 I < I J