{"id":4583,"date":"2011-07-21T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2011-08-13T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:22:51","slug":"transcendence-best-seller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/video\/transcendence-best-seller\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTranscendence\u201d becomes a  New York Times bestseller!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month, Dr. Norman Rosenthal\u2019s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transcendence-Healing-Transformation-Through-Meditation\/dp\/1585428736\/psychcentral\"><em>Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation<\/em><\/a> has landed on the bestseller lists of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/best-sellers-books\/2011-06-19\/hardcover-advice\/list.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/video\/transcendence-best-seller\/\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, and <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>. And Dr. Rosenthal, a prominent Georgetown University Medical School psychiatrist and researcher, has addressed large crowds of doctors and other professionals about the profound and practical value of the TM program.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a brief compilation of some video highlights of Dr. Rosenthal\u2019s talks in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JRcbihfC6Cs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JRcbihfC6Cs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>During his talk in June at American University in Washington, DC, Dr. Rosenthal described his motivation for writing this new book: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><div id=\"attachment_3724\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Norman-Rosenthal.jpg\" alt=\"Norman-Rosenthal\" title=\"Norman-Rosenthal\" width=\"140\" height=\"136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3724\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Norman Rosenthal<\/p><\/div>\u201cFor anxiety, for problems with alcohol abuse, for anger management problems, I saw people responding. I referred them to the local TM Center and they would respond. I would see it in my patients, I would see it in myself, and I would see it in my research. I (started to) feel like I would have to write a book on the subject, and I looked in the research literature and sure enough there were hundreds of publications, many of them in first-rate journals. The subject just captivated me and the result is the book, Transcendence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In her incisive and engaging <a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/lib\/2011\/transcendental-meditation-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work\/\">review of <em>Transcendence<\/em> that appeared recently in the popular online health site PsychCentral<\/a>, Therese Bouchard writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Psych-Central.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Psych-Central\" width=\"230\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4594\" \/>\u201cBeing that my job is to feature and review books on psychology, spirituality, and especially the intersection between the two, I receive my share of books on meditation. And as a person who has been trying to meditate for two years, but who just can\u2019t seem to get the hang of it, I always open the cover a tad sinister, looking for a magic bullet. <\/p>\n<p>The book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transcendence-Healing-Transformation-Through-Meditation\/dp\/1585428736\/psychcentral\"><em>Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation<\/em><\/a> was on my \u201cdecline\u201d stack until I read the short bio on Norman Rosenthal, M.D. and became intrigued. He\u2019s a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School. He conducted research at the National Institute of Mental Health. And he was the one who first described and diagnosed <a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/library\/seasonal_affective.htm\">seasonal affective disorder<\/a> (SAD)\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>So, with those credentials, I opened the book and began to read stories that inspired me and gave me hope that one day I might be a meditator too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/normanrosenthal\">Click here to visit Dr. Norman Rosenthal&#8217;s Facebook page for a FREE giveaway of his book.<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month, Dr. Norman Rosenthal\u2019s new book <em>Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation<\/em> has landed on the bestseller lists of the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, and <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/video\/transcendence-best-seller\/\">Read more <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}