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TM and Cult Mania is a non-fiction book that examines assertions made by the Transcendental Meditation movement (TM). [1] The book is authored by Michael Persinger, Normand Carrey and Lynn Suess [2] and published in 1980 by Christopher Publishing House. [2] Persinger is a neurophysiologist and has worked out of Laurentian University. [1]
Transcendental Meditation in education (also known as Consciousness-Based Education) is the application of the Transcendental Meditation technique in an educational setting or institution. These educational programs and institutions have been founded in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Africa and Japan.
The occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden". [1] In common usage, occult refers to "knowledge of the paranormal", as opposed to "knowledge of the measurable", [2] usually referred to as science.
The Transcendental Meditation movement (TM) are programs and organizations that promote the Transcendental Meditation technique founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India in the 1950s. The organization was estimated to have 900,000 participants in 1977, [ 1 ] a million by the 1980s, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and 5 million in more recent years.
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate , a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
The application of the labels "cults" or "sects" to (for example) religious movements in government documents usually signifies the popular and negative use of the term "cult" in English and a functionally similar use of words translated as "sect" in several European languages.
Cults are often depicted as organizations that exert control over their members, sometimes through manipulation (psychology), coercion, or psychological abuse. At the same time, the label "cult" has been used in popular culture and media as a sensationalized term, contributing to stigmatization and fear of these groups, sometimes based more on ...
Taylor Swift may be leaning into a new Era: “Female Rage: The Musical.”. Us Weekly can confirm that TAS Rights Management submitted paperwork to trademark the phrase on Saturday, May 11. Since ...