Meditation, Delusion and Deception

TM is not a science

TM's "scientific" claims as a branch of physics are spurious. Physicist Heinz R. PageIs, Ph.D., Executive Director of The New York Academy of Sciences prepared an affidavit on behalf of ex-TMer Robert Kropinski in 1986 for a court case here in Washington, D.C. Pagels wrote as a "theoretical physicist specializing in the area of quantum field theory":

My summary opinion ... is that the views expressed in the literature issued by [TM] that purport to find a connection between the recent ideas of theoretical physics -- unified field theory, the vacuum state and collective phenomena -- and states of con- sciousness attained by transcendental medi- tation are false and profoundly misleading. No qualified physicist that I know would claim to find such a connection without knowingly committing fraud.