Scientific studies have detailed the cumulative effects of Transcendental Meditation practice. Regular transcending triggers a remarkable growth process encompassing every area of life. The benefits, including increased intelligence and creativity, improved health, balanced personality development, and improved relationships, are often unprecedented.

Human development levels off in adolescence, as shown in measures of intelligence, field independence, moral maturity, and ego development. But regular transcending through the TM program expands consciousness, integrates brain functioning, and promotes human development even after it has plateaued.

For example, intelligence (IQ) grows during childhood, then typically levels off in adolescence, around the same time physical growth plateaus, with a slow decline beginning around age 26. But with regular experience of transcending, intelligence resumes growing, regardless of age, indicating that the “freezing” of growth in adolescence can be “unfrozen” and that human development need not stop.

The same is true of moral maturity, field independence, and ego development, all of them profound measures of personal growth: All level off in adolescence, but all resume their growth with regular TM practice.

The TM technique is widely appreciated as an effective means of reducing stress, but what we are seeing here goes far beyond relaxation and stress release. We are looking at a fundamental activation of human growth, especially of our higher human capacities.