Dr. Benson has been a pioneer with intestinal fortitude, studying the physiological changes during meditation techniques since 1968 as a professor at Harvard helping them become acceptable topics of study. He persevered through years of ridicule by his peers at Harvard Medical School, and kept doing research and publishing. | Dr. Benson and Dr. Robert K.
Wallace published first study, "A wakeful hypometabolic physiologic state" in the American Journal of Physiology, 1971 Other scientists joined in. |
Dr. Benson became Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Harvard. Now there are over 600 published papers, including studies funded with over $20 million by the conservative National Institutes of Health, discussed in medical school classrooms. www.TM.org/research |
Now there are 7 volumes of
Scientific Research on TM
Collected Papers
www.maharishi.org/tm/research/508_studies.html (now over 600)
Coming Soon:
Collected Articles on Nine Eleven, Volume I
www.CAONE.org