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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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This video is about a transcendental artist that emerged recently whose art was of a new form that man didn't understand.

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Vision and Spirit: Raymond Jonson and the Transcendental... | Colores

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An intimate story of the New Mexico artists who brought modernism to New Mexico.

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In this picture we see a person sitting amongst nature. They may be attempting to connect with it. The transcendentalist idea of being one with nature is perfectly captured in this photo.

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The New York Times explains the role current celebrities have in bringing transcendental meditation into the mainstream.

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The Transcendental Meditation program attributes the spike to a series of recent studies that suggest TM can help reduce blood pressure and stress, and to the relatively recent affordability of TM. (The adult course, which had ballooned from $75 in the '60s to $2,500 in 2007, dropped, because of the economy, to $1,500 in 2008.) No less important has been Mr. Lynch's foundation, started in 2005, for which enlisted celebrities like Mr. Brand, interrogated often by news outlets about their diets and alternative lifestyle remedies, have been preaching about the technique.

"It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean," Dr. Mehmet Oz, who meditates in an armchair in an enclave off his bedroom, said at Mr. Lynch's benefit. "And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface."

The actress Susan Sarandon meditates once a day for 20 minutes in bed. "It helps me chill out and focus," she said. (Ms. Sarandon said she doesn't practice TM specifically, but was at the benefit to gather insight.)

The singer Moby, another guest, has meditated in the back of a taxicab. "Transcendental Meditation has given me a perspective on agitation," he said. "That it's a temporary state of mind and I don't necessarily need to take it that seriously." Moby said the technique helped him quit drinking more than a year ago. "I used to think that TM was for weird old hippies," he added. "But then I heard that David Lynch was involved, and that made me curious."

ON the afternoon before the benefit, Mr. Lynch, 65, arrived at the museum, holding hands with his wife, Emily Lynch, 32, and was escorted by a museum employee to a green room downstairs. Mr. Lynch, like a cartoon character, has maintained the same uniform for decades: a pressed white shirt under a boxy black suit and a hedge of gray hair. He scooped up a soggy egg- salad sandwich from a tray and explained what brought him to the practice.

"I was not into meditation one bit," Mr. Lynch said, in his laconic Missoula, Mont., drawl that years of living in Los Angeles has failed to dilute. "I thought it was a fad. I thought you had to eat nuts and raisins, and I didn't want any part of it."

Mr. Lynch was persuaded by his sister, Martha, when he began having marital difficulties with the first of his four wives, Peggy, in the early '70s. "I had a whole bunch of personal anger that I would take out on her," he said. "I think I was a weak person. I wasn't self-assured. I was not a happy camper inside. Two weeks after I started, my wife comes to me and says, 'This anger, where did it go?' I felt a freedom and happiness growing inside. It was like - poooft! - I felt a kind of smile from Mother Nature. The world looked better and better. It's an ocean of unbounded love within us, so it's real hard to get a conflict going." (Still, a year later, the couple divorced.)

It's easy to shrug off such utterances as hokey, New Age prattle - who can forget Jeff Goldblum's flaky character in "Annie Hall" on the phone, complaining that he'd forgotten his mantra? - but less so when the person reciting it has dreamed up his most widely admired, vivid films on the days when he was dropping out of consciousness for at least 30 minutes a day.

"Artists like to say, 'I like a little bit of suffering and anger,' " he said. "But if you had a splitting headache, diarrhea and vomiting, how much would you enjoy the work and how much work would you get done? Maybe suffering is a romantic idea to get girls, but it's an enemy to creativity."

As he continued to explain the practice, Mr. Lynch was becoming excited. And he was making sound effects again. "It's like a key that opens the door to the treasury within," he said. "Here's an experience - poooft! - total brain coherence. It's what's missing from life today: unbounded intelligence, creativity, bliss, love, energy, peace. Things like tension, anxieties, traumatic stress, sorrow, depression, hate, rage, need for revenge, fear - poooft! - all this starts to lift away. You see life getting better and better and better. Give the people that experience and - poooft. Man, it's beautiful."

Sharing that experience is the purpose of Mr. Lynch's foundation. Money raised at the December benefit - along with private contributions - pay TM program fees to teach the technique in schools and prisons and to other groups that apply for a grant. (Some public school parents have resisted on the premise that TM is believed by some to be rooted in Hinduism; the organization maintains that it's not a religion and that there is no inherent belief system.)

In the last decade, independent studies have found that the technique may reduce hypertension, obesity and diabetes in patients with coronary heart disease (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles) and can be beneficial to brain function and cognitive development (American University). But Sara Weber, the chairwoman of the Contemplative Studies Project of New York University's postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, expressed some skepticism.

"Believe me, it's a great relaxation and everyone needs to relax, and probably relaxing makes everyone feel better and promotes some of those things," Dr. Weber said. "And some people can deal with what arises just by calming down. But other people who have been through trauma disassociate and go into a deadened space where they don't feel. So what happens if that breaks down in the middle of one of those bliss sessions?"

In her experience, Dr. Weber said, the technique could even have adverse side effects. "Some people report falling apart," she said. "They can have very intense and bad emotional experiences."

Back at Mr. Lynch's benefit, Robert Roth, the vice president of Mr. Lynch's foundation - known to TM's celebrity clients as, simply, Bobby - was sharing a table with Mr. Brand and Ms. Perry. Mr. Roth insisted that the celebrity muscle of the evening was for fund-raising purposes and wouldn't have much sway over bringing in clients. "No one is going to meditate twice a day because a Hollywood filmmaker is doing it," Mr. Roth said.

Though it helps with publicity, the Hollywood community's embrace of the technique could in theory cheapen TM's message, in light of that particular group's capricious spiritual tastes - Madonna and the kabbalah or Tom Cruise and Scientology.

Indeed, at least one guest at the benefit had already moved on from TM.

"I tried it 10 years ago," said Rose McGowan, the actress. "It was fantastic, but now I do fight training. For me, personally, it's the only thing that gets me out of my mind. I think even David Lynch would approve."

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The Transcendental Meditation program attributes the spike to a series of recent studies that suggest TM can help reduce blood pressure and stress, and to the relatively recent affordability of TM. (The adult course, which had ballooned from $75 in the '60s to $2,500 in 2007, dropped, because of the economy, to $1,500 in 2008.)

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Schools are places where people are forced to conform in order to advance in life. You are given two choices, fit in to some clique or be an outcast. Being a drifter in school, although occasionally depressing, might perhaps be the only way to keep your own ideas.

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Song of Nature is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is about how humans are one with nature and how peace comes with the acceptance of this truth.

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Song of Nature - Mine are the night and morning,

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Coach Hazard may not be a transcendentalist, but he stands for what he believes in, and doesn't give a hoot about what people think about him.

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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
This quote explains the difficulty that people run into whilst trying to retain their individuality in a society.

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In the End by Linkin Park
"The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
You didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window"
This song, to me, is a reminder that in the end, nothing really matters because of how insignificant we are as a species in this vast universe. It also calls to attention the transcendentalist idea that people will just sit by and watch their time pass without ever actually truly being.

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The United States Government has failed the people it claims to serve countless times. Many of these people wish nothing from the government, but are still forced to support it. The U.S. government tends to engage in conflict where it shouldn't, and people who would rather not be involved are forced to by laws put in place by the government.

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future and the past are too far away to worry about, the present is the most important, so live each moment to the fullest.

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(Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult
This song is a constant reminder to me that although death is eternity, I shouldn’t fear it. No other thing in nature has the same fear of death that humans do. "Seasons don’t fear the reaper, Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain." This idea that nature has no fear of death is transcendental in that since we are one with nature we should learn from it and learn to overcome the irrational fear of death.

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"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
This quote explains in simple words how people should have more meaning in their lives. Humans should care less about the material and focus on actually living their lives.

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This image of a sculpture represent how even is, at first glance, someone seems much different and doesn't make sense, if shown in a different light, they may be just a person being a person. They are being an individual, and to them, it doesn't matter how they are viewed by the outside world.

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#1222 Michael Shermer
-The Joe Rogan Experience
In this podcast, Joe Rogan, a comedian/public influencer/self-proclaimed intellect, interview professional skeptic Michael Shermer. They discuss in great detail several of the world's greatest conspiracy theories. They talk about how people shouldn't just believe what they are told and that humans in society should express themselves as individuals more frequently. Free thinking individuals have often been criticized as outcast, but occasionally the words they preach have had greater impact as the rest of the world gradually learned and understood what they did. Henry David is a great example of one of the people, who at the time, seemed crazy, but as society matured, his ideas made much more sense and became relevant.

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This article covers and explains the topic of transcendental meditation and the role it plays in today's society.

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Transcendental Meditation, also called TM, technique of meditation in which practitioners mentally repeat a special Sanskrit word or phrase ( mantra) with the aim of achieving a state of inner peacefulness and bodily calm. The technique was taught by the Hindu monk Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, also known as Guru Dev (died 1953), and was promoted internationally from the late 1950s by one of his disciples, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917?-2008), through the latter's Spiritual Regeneration Movement. The Maharishi coined the term Transcendental Meditation to distinguish the technique from other meditative practices and to emphasize its independence from Hinduism (indeed from any religion). In the West, Transcendental Meditation eventually came to be taught and practiced as a secular path toward mental, emotional, and physical well-being. The popularity of Transcendental Meditation in the West increased significantly in the late 1960s, when the British rock group the Beatles and other celebrities joined the Maharishi's following and began to meditate.

Through the repetition of a mantra, the practitioner of Transcendental Meditation aims to still the activity of thought and to experience a deep state of relaxation, which is said to lead to enhanced contentment, vitality, and creativity. The theoretical perspective behind Transcendental Meditation, called the Science of Creative Intelligence, is based on Vedanta philosophy, though practitioners do not need to subscribe to the philosophy in order to use the technique successfully.

To practice Transcendental Meditation, a person must first be initiated by a teacher. This involves sessions of formal instruction followed by a brief ceremony in which the person receives a mantra, which is selected by the teacher on the basis of the person's temperament and occupation. There are three subsequent "checking" sessions, in which the person meditates under the teacher's observation. The person then begins meditating independently twice a day for periods of 20 minutes each and continues to do so indefinitely. Further levels of training are available.

Many physiologists and psychologists have claimed, and many scientific studies have suggested, that Transcendental Meditation relaxes and vitalizes both the body and the mind, including by reducing stress and anxiety, lowering blood pressure ( hypertension), enhancing creativity and other intellectual abilities, and relieving depression. However, other researchers have questioned the validity of such studies, asserting that they were poorly designed.

The early 1970s was a period of rapid growth in the popularity of Transcendental Meditation. The Maharishi founded a university in 1971. In 1975-76 a high-school course that incorporated the technique, "The Science of Creative Intelligence-Transcendental Meditation," was introduced into five public schools in New Jersey. In 1977 a federal district court ruled that the course and its textbook were based on religious concepts, in violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment, and consequently enjoined the teaching of the course. The decision was affirmed by a federal appeals court in 1979.

In 1972 the Maharishi announced his "world plan" for a new human future, which became the foundation for the World Plan Executive Council, the international organization that guided the spread of Transcendental Meditation worldwide. Each of the council's divisions attempted to introduce meditation into a particular area of human life. In the mid-1970s the council introduced the siddha ("miraculous powers") program, an advanced course that promised to teach students various supernormal abilities, especially levitation, a claim challenged by critics.

In 1987 a former instructor of Transcendental Meditation successfully sued the World Plan Executive Council-United States (since renamed Maharishi Foundation USA), a nonprofit organization that oversaw teaching of Transcendental Meditation in the country, alleging that the program had failed to deliver on its promises. However, the plaintiff's claim of negligent infliction of psychological injury was dismissed on appeal, and his claims of physical injury and fraud were remanded for a new trial and eventually settled out of court.

During the 1990s the movement placed particular emphasis on disseminating Ayurveda, the traditional system of Indian medicine, in the West. By the early 21st century some six million people worldwide had taken classes in the meditation technique, but the number of formal members of Transcendental Meditation organizations and institutions, which continued to be led by the Maharishi until his death, was uncertain.

J. Gordon Melton The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Transcendental Meditation: Transcendental Meditation, technique of meditation in which practitioners mentally repeat a special Sanskrit word or phrase (mantra) with the aim of achieving a state of inner peacefulness and bodily calm. The technique was taught by the Hindu monk Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, also known as Guru

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Anti-Everything by DED
"Run your monopoly
I am the opposite God forbid I could be
Living antithesis, revel in this resist
Maybe you get the gist venomous
Standing in line is the way that you go
I will survive on the path that I chose
Sever the ties from the blind and all those
Ignorant b*st*rds I am in control."

This song’s main focus is the opposition to literally everything. In my opinion this is transcendentalist because it glorifies the non-conformist ideals, and even takes them a step further.

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“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.”

-Isaac Asimov
One of the most important ideas to the transcendentalist movement is that nature and people are one. In today’s world we have separated ourselves from nature and according to transcendentalist thinkers, this may be the root to many of our problems.

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