Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory ( STAI) and Shostrom' s Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) were completed by three groups of undergraduates at the University of New England at Armidale, Australia, a few days prior to either beginning a program of Transcendental Meditation (TM group, N = 25), a parallel program of progressive relaxation (PR group, N =40), or acting as controls (N =...

A retrospective study was conducted comparing the grade point averages (GPA' s) of 25 subjects who had begun the practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique during their undergraduate studies to the GPA's of25 subjects who had received their undergraduate degrees before learning TM. The mean GPAfor the TM group rose from 2.52 for the three terms immediately before learning TM to 3....

Two studies investigated frontal alpha lateral asymmetry and frontal interhemispheric coherence during eyes-closed rest, Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice, and computerized reaction-time tasks. In the first study, frontal coherence and lateralized asymmetry were higher in 13 TM subjects than in 12 controls. In the second study (N = 14), a one-year longitudinal study, lateral asymmetry did...

Ernst Cassirer in his The Philosophy of the Enlightenment writes Kant’s overcoming yet giving its deepest justification. This justification came form epistemology which transformed modern worldview, handing and content over to science. medieval theistic worldview had be cleansed from miracles mysticism give way a scientific worldview. However, Enlighteners, though initiating this movement, coul...

Abstract Husserl’s (2023) “Paradox of the Psychological Reduction,” with support and elucidation from published writings, shows necessity employing phenomenological epoché reduction in order to perform valid psychological research. The relationship between transcendental reductions, including their closeness, differences, peculiar identity are explored. Although necessary, method does not guara...

Increases in EEG coherence were found from an eyes-closed pre-control period to the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique, and from the practice of Transcendental Meditation to the practice of the TM-Sidhi techniques, while a decrease was found from the practice of the TM-Sidhi techniques to a post-control period with eyes closed, indicating that the Transcendental Meditation and ...

A heuristic method to construct uniform approximations to analytic transcendental functions is developed as a generalization of the Hermite-Padé interpolation to infinite intervals. The resulting uniform approximants are built from elementary functions using known series and asymptotic expansions of the given transcendental function. In one case (Lambert’s W function) we obtained a uniform appr...

The distribution of the roots of a second order transcendental polynomial is analyzed, and it is used for solving the purely imaginary eigenvalue of a transcendental characteristic equation with two transcendental terms. The results are applied to the stability and associated Hopf bifurcation of a constant equilibrium of a general reaction–diffusion system or a system of ordinary differential e...

NLCertify is a software package for handling formal certification of nonlinear inequalities involving transcendental multivariate functions. The tool exploits sparse semialgebraic optimization techniques with approximation methods for transcendental functions, as well as formal features. Given a box and a transcendental multivariate function as input, NLCertify provides OCaml libraries that pro...