Kaffman, Mordecai, M.D.: "The Use of Transcendental Meditation to Promote Social Progress in Israel"

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This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1986, Volume 3, Number 1, pages 135-141. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.

The Use of Transcendental Meditation to Promote Social Progress in Israel

Mordecai Kaffman

Abstract

The author explains why his organization refused to collaborate with Transcendental Meditation in a research project concerning the effects of TM on improving Israeli social, economic, and political conditions. The methods of TM researchers are dismissed as unscientific, and their claims of positive results in the Israeli context are deemed unconvincing. The TM theory of the "unified field" is no more credible than was Blondot's 1913 claim -- supported by many papers from his collaborators -- that metals gave off N-rays.

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