title: [A cold look at transcendental meditation].
abstract: The transcendental meditation, which has been initiated in Occident for twenty years, is being more and more popular with the general public. So, its more and more numerous devotees may bear witness to that fact. In this article, the authors are looking over the diverse publications which have been done about that mental technique up to now. In spite of many demands of the transcendental meditation movement, the authors, with their own analysis, are induced to formulate a few reserves on the scientific credit to be given to that movement; for, in a way, it may look like an "organized magic" within humane agony.
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chemical_list: D007773:Lactates
vernacular_title: Regard froid sur la méditation transcendantale.