Transcendental Meditation ( TM ) refers to a specific form of mantra meditation called the Transcendental Meditation technique and an organization called the Transcendental Meditation movement.

TM became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s, as the Maharishi shifted to a more scientific presentation and his meditation technique was practiced by celebrities.

The TM technique involves the use of a sound or mantra and is practiced for 15 – 20 minutes twice per day.

Research reviews of the effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique show results ranging from inconclusive to clinically significant .< ref > Skeptics have called TM or its associated theories and technologies a pseudoscience.

After personally initiating thousands of people, the Maharishi developed a program to create more teachers of the technique as a way to accelerate the rate of teaching TM to more people.

These factors, coupled with endorsements by celebrities who practiced TM, and also, scientific research validating the technique, helped to popularize it in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Transcendental Meditation technique is a specific form of mantra meditation often referred to as Transcendental Meditation or simply, TM.

The TM technique is made available worldwide by certified teachers trained by the Transcendental Meditation movement.

Worldwide, as many as six to ten million people are reported to be practitioners of the TM technique.

Skeptics question whether SCI is actually scientific According to proponents, practicing the TM technique can lead to higher levels of consciousness and supernormal effects, including the Maharishi Effect.

TM is actively marketed as a scientifically proven technique but not a religion, while there are sociologists and governmental bodies that have categorized it as part of a new religious movement.

Other sources assert that TM is not a religion, but a meditation technique ; and they hold that the TM movement is a spiritual organization, and not a religion or a cult.

Research reviews of benefits for the TM technique show results ranging from inconclusive to clinically significant .< ref > More research is needed to determine the therapeutic effects of meditation practices.

Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique ( TM ) claim that in its practice and results, the technique is distinguished from other types of meditation or self-development " by its naturalness, effortlessness and profound effectiveness ".

By 1955, the Maharishi had introduced the Transcendental Meditation ( TM ) technique and other related programmes and initiatives to the world.

The Maharishi is reported to have trained more than 40, 000 TM teachers, taught the Transcendental Meditation technique to " more than five million people " and founded thousands of teaching centers and hundreds of colleges, universities and schools, while TM websites report tens of thousands learned the TM-Sidhi program.

Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health ( MVAH ) ( also known as Maharishi Ayurveda and Maharishi Vedic Medicine ) was founded internationally in the mid 1980s by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who developed the Transcendental Meditation technique ( TM ).

After reading about the Transcendental Meditation technique ( TM ), Chopra and his wife learned the practice in 1981, and two months later they went on to learn the advanced TM-Sidhi program.

Sources also describe a 1981 meeting between Chopra and Ayurvedic physician Brihaspati Dev Triguna in Delhi, India, in which Triguna advised Chopra to learn the TM technique.

The Transcendental Meditation movement ( also referred to as Transcendental Meditation ( TM ), " Maharishi's worldwide movement ", and the Transcendental Meditation organization ) is a term or phrase that refers to the programs and organizations connected to the Transcendental Meditation technique, which was developed and or introduced by the founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

While Natural Law Party leaders denied formal connection with the Transcendental Meditation movement, Bob Roth, a spokesman at the party's headquarters in Fairfield reportedly said, " It's no secret this is the TM party.

Tompkins said that more than half of its founders were connected to the TM movement.

One critic said that it was " just another front group for the TM movement ".

The Transcendental Meditation ( TM ) program and the Transcendental Meditation movement originated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the organization, and continue beyond his death ( 2008 ).

By the late 2000s, TM had been taught to millions of individuals and the Maharishi was overseeing a large multinational movement.

The Transcendental Meditation movement ( also referred to as Transcendental Meditation ( TM ), " Maharishi's worldwide movement ", and the Transcendental Meditation organization ) is a world-wide organization, sometimes characterised as a neo-Hindu new religious movement, and also as non-religious, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 1950s.

The TM movement has been described as a spiritual movement, as a new religious movement, and a " Neo-Hindu " sect.

In the mid 1970s, the Maharishi's U. S. movement was operating 370 TM centres manned by 6, 000 TM teachers.

His TM movement came to be increasingly structured along the lines of a multinational corporation.

The teaching of TM and the Science of Creative Intelligence in a New Jersey public school was stopped when a US court, in 1977, declared the movement to be religious, and ruled adoption of TM by public organisations in breach of the separation of church and state ( First Amendment ).

She writes that former MUM professor of economics and business law, Anthony DeNaro, " alleged " in 1986 that there was " a very serious and deliberate pattern of fraud ... designed to misrepresent the TM movement as a science ( not a cult ), and fraudulently claim and obtain tax exempt status with the IRS ".

By one report, almost all of the 92 candidates who ran on the NLP slate in California in 1996 were TM practitioners.

Among the first organizations to promote TM were the Spiritual Regeneration Movement and the International Meditation Society.

TM researchers, in a published response, suggested that the studies in question were not biased due to the fact that they were conducted in collaboration with independent researchers at several other universities.

In a published response, TM researchers suggested that the studies were not biased due to the fact that they were conducted in collaboration with independent researchers at several other universities.

The Intel MCS-51 ( commonly referred to as 8051 ) is a Harvard architecture, single chip microcontroller ( µC ) series which was developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded systems .< ref > John Wharton: An Introduction to the Intel MCS-51 < sup > TM </ sup > Single-Chip Microcomputer Family, Application Note AP-69, May 1980, Intel Corporation .</ ref >< ref > John Wharton: Using the Intel MCS-51 < sup > TM </ sup > Boolean Processing Capabilities, Application Note AP-70, May 1980, Intel Corporation .</ ref > Intel's original versions were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.

All known material of Sahelanthropus were found between July 2001 to March 2002 at three sites ( TM 247, TM 266 which yielded most of the material, and TM 292 ).

This was based on a supplement for the Indiana Jones RPG, in which some figures were marked with " Nazi < sup > TM </ sup >".

In the United States, resorts and hotels, many in city centres, were purchased to be used as TM training centres.

External and internal “ gates ” were assigned to pairs of negatively and positively charged residues in the extracellular cavity and near the cytoplasmic ends of TM helices 1 and 8.

The review and its primary author were partially funded by Howard Settle, a proponent of TM.

CAT developed their display technologies further into several, patented antibody discovery / functional genomics tools, which were named Proximol < sup > TM </ sup > and ProAb < sup > TM </ sup >.

In 1977, the Los Angeles Times reported that the TM movement said there were 394 TM centers in the U. S., that about half of the 8, 000 trained TM teachers were still active, and that one million Americans had been taught the technique.