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TRANSCENDENCE Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation NORMAN E. ROSENTHAL, M.D. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. New York TRANSCENDENCE TRANSCENDENCE Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation NORMAN E. ROSENTHAL, M.D. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. New York JEREMY P. TARCHER/PENGUIN Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA  • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi–110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright © 2011 by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copy­ righted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. Published simultaneously in Canada Transcendental Meditation® and TM® are protected trademarks licensed to Maharishi Foundation USA, a nonprofit educational organization. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Little Gidding” in Four Quartets, copyright © 1942 by T. S. Eliot and renewed in 1970 by Esmé Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Most Tarcher/Penguin books are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchase for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, and educational needs. Special books or book excerpts also can be created to fit specific needs. For details, write Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Special Markets, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rosenthal, Norman E. Transcendence: healing and transformation through transcendental meditation / Norman E. Rosenthal. p. cm. ISBN 1-101-50596-6 1. Transcendental meditation. I. Title. BF637.T68R67 2011 2011004946 158.1'25—dc22 Book design by Lucy Albanese Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with a physician. All matters regarding your health require medical supervision. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or dam­ age allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book. While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet ad- dresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any con­ trol over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. For Josh, Liana, and Ari CONTENTS Foreword by Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. ix Part I: TRANSCENDENCE Introduction: My Journey Back 3 1. A Return to the Self: Aspects of Meditation 13 2. The Mind Within the Mind: What Is Transcendence? 31 Part II: HEALING 3. Decompression: Managing Toxic Stress 55

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