Transcendental Meditation: Cult, Quackery, or Science?
Boundless Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, we have the material world |
| 0:06.0 | and we had the spiritual world and the spiritual, the wholeness of life is what |
| 0:10.0 | would underlie all of the activities in the material to where we start to |
| 0:14.2 | experience a field of pure consciousness, pure awareness and it is a field of |
| 0:19.7 | bliss, energy, joy, order, intelligence. So what you're saying is that under the |
| 0:25.6 | right circumstances you can drive stuff towards a different order of happiness |
| 0:29.5 | or alignment. Yes, you start to experience that. |
| 0:32.9 | Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much |
| 0:42.6 | more. My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:52.6 | Hey, this ought to be an interesting show for you. Many of you do not know that |
| 0:59.0 | I have been trained in transcendental meditation when first being exposed |
| 1:04.1 | to it by my friend and music mogul Rick Rubin. After speaking with him quite a |
| 1:10.0 | bit about transcendental meditation, I connected with a gentleman named Philip |
| 1:14.2 | Land, who has been practicing TM for the past 40 years and he taught me TM, |
| 1:20.9 | came into my house over several sessions and led me through the entire |
| 1:25.3 | transcendental meditation protocol and trained me in TM. I have a TM certification |
| 1:31.2 | here in my office now. Anyways, I had a chance to interview him and I actually |
| 1:37.0 | interviewed him sometime ago but found that podcast so intriguing and thought |
| 1:42.6 | that you would too that I decided that I wanted to redeliver to you today, |
| 1:46.4 | transcendental meditation, cult, quackery, or science. So this one should be |
| 1:53.6 | interesting for you. We've been talking about meditation a lot lately. We have |
| 1:58.4 | our meditation book that is available now at getkeyon.com slash meditation, |
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