Lauren-Glenn Davitian, host of Common Good Vermont, interviews Edwards Smith M.D. about the impact of Transcendental Meditation on individual and social health. Lauren prefaces the interview by saying, “We’re going to talk about Transcendental Meditation and consciousness as a way of improving the well-being of our community and as a social policy tool.”
Edwards Smith M.D. is a western and AyurVedic doctor and leading practitioner of Transcendental Meditation as a practice for personal resilience and community well-being. Dr. Smith served in active duty with the US Army Medical Corps, taught at Maharishi University of Management, ran the Maharishi College of Vedic Medicine in Albuquerque, and is widely published on subjects ranging from pharmacology and rheumatology to Transcendental Meditation. Based on his experience with war veterans and community indicators of well-being, he believes that TM and TM-Sidhi programs are human resource-based technologies that offer immense potential for the health care system of any country.
This excellent interview, titled Consciousness and Public Policy, was filmed on February 23, 2017 for Channel 17/Town Meeting TV in Burlington, Vermont. Dr. Smith is very thorough in his explanations of TM research and how it has impacted the health of individual lives and societies as a whole. Click here to watch (25:53).
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February 26, 2017 at 6:22 pm |
Excellent! Dr Edwards Smith is always so clear. I shared the article and video clip on my TM Facebook page too.
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May 11, 2020 at 10:37 am |
Thank you for posting this. If, like me, someone is reading this 3 years after it was originally posted, you will find the “Click here to watch” link is broken. The server address has changed, so as of today, this is the correct link:
[video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/cctv-library/cctv/library/2017/02/CGVTConsciousnessSocialPolicy_F_02232017/CGVTConsciousnessSocialPolicy_F_02232017.broadband.mp4" /]
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May 11, 2020 at 6:29 pm |
Thanks, Jeff, for the updated link. These things happen over time. I’ve now repaired the link. However, if you click on the interview title it will still take you to their page where you can see the interview in their larger format. https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/consciousness-social-policy
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