
Fred Travis, Ph.D., professor of Maharishi Vedic Science at Maharishi University of Management, has been participating in discussion on TMFreeblog about his recently published research on Transcendental Meditation and brain functioning.
A couple of scientists, Maharishi's biographer, and other former TMers who are educated about TM's promotional methods are having an interesting discussion with Fred about TM research. We hope this discussion will continue.
We are grateful and honored that Dr. Fred Travis joined us to discuss research on Transcendental Meditation.
We honor Fred's integrity to openly discuss TM research!
Fred, I always liked you, even though I never fully agreed with your conclusions. It's truly an honor to have you here.
You may read Fred's University bio here.
Fred is offering to provide copies of published research so that individuals may intelligently discuss his studies.
In the course of discussion, Fred acknowledged negative side effects seen by long TM rounding programs; he wrote "I am also concerned about the issues you bring up about long rounding. Thank you for bringing these to my attention again."
He also humbly acknowledged, "There are no studies on Yagya, and one on MVVT. Yes, they need to be investigated."
For our TMFreeblogspot readers who are not following this discussion, you might find it of interest - stop by to read comments to the following blog post :
More Doubtful Transcendental Meditation "Research" Clogging the Intertubes by John Knapp.
For more information on Dr. Fred Travis, a google search provides oodles of background about Fred's research and work promoting Transcendental Meditation with brain research, click :
"fred travis" "transcendental meditation"
Again, to Fred, Thank you for stopping by! We hope you stay a while!
Again, the conversation with Dr. Travis can be read in comments to this post:
More Doubtful Transcendental Meditation "Research" Clogging the Intertubes by John Knapp.