A Skeptic’s Guide To Meditation: Bob Roth On The Science & Extreme Benefits of Transcendental Meditation

It's no longer a luxury to say I'm going to take some time out to meditate. It's now a necessity. Meditation just means thinking. And as the world gets more intense, we want to have practical tools that can help us deal with what's coming. Transcendental meditation sets up the condition for the attention of your mind to turn within, and then automatically your active thinking mind just begins to settle down towards that unbounded source of thought.

The mind is not a monkey. The mind does not wander aimlessly. The human brain and nervous system are hardwired to take deep rest at will. We've forgotten how to do it. Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast.

Today we are going to continue our ever-evolving and ongoing exploration into meditation. And we're going to do it with Bob Roth, a man who has played quite a large and important role in pioneering meditation as this. mainstream practice in the West, specifically the practice of a very specific type of meditation called transcendental meditation, or what is commonly referred to as TM. Bob first discovered meditation as a freshman at Berkeley during the height of the sixties, And with absolutely extraordinary consistency ever since, meditation is something he has practiced every single day, twice a day, for more than 50 years, which I think authorizes him to have authored what is considered the authoritative text on TM titled simply Transcendental Meditation.

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