Customer Reviews
Interesting book - By: Anglepoise user, 02 Aug 2008 
An interesting good read & on sale at a good price too. It wont tell you how to actually meditate though. At one time the TM organisation used to charge really modest fees, now they are sky high at £1200in the UK. I have heard they have dropped the price recently. Unless the price is down to about £75, it is still sky high.
This book dates from the early days of the TM organisation, before it started getting bad publicity for e.g. claiming to be able to teach people to levitate! " Yogic Flying" as they called it at the time. They charged sky high fees for this too. No wonder the organisation is wealthy.
How to meditate, using a very similar technique, is shownin the book " The Relaxation response" by Herbert Benson. Dr Benson's meditation technique is based on the style of meditation taught by the T.M. organisation.
If you want to learn this technique get Benson's book for a bargain price on Amazon.
I feel the book, science of living, although informative, is a sort of sales tract for the TM technique. Get the book for the info.in it but dont pay the high fees they want you pay to learn TM.
science of being, life, art of living,fulfillment - By: Barbara Salmon, 15 Feb 2005 When I first read the book, I was amazed at how straight forward it was. Very clear - no nonsense - interesting - &in places exceptionally humerous. A very enjoyable read. It still seems years ahead of its time (The book was publishedin 1963, I bought my copyin 2001, & I'm writing this reviewin 2005). It has four sections - I science of being; II life III Art of Living IV Fulfillment & my 2001 edition has 9 very interesting Appendixes. In the book, Maharishi explains what his TM (Transcendental Meditation) technique is, how & why it works, what the effects are As far as book on Maharishi' TM goes - you can't go much better than a book by the original 1950's TM Teacher himself - Maharishi!!!
Maharishi's message of hope - By: barryji108@aol.com, 08 Oct 2001 Maharishi's treatise on contacting transcendental consciousness (pure being)and developing itin one's daily life through deep meditation. In this book Maharishi lays out his philosophy of life & living & shows how, through TM, one can overcome suffering, disease & conflict & align oneself & society with the natural tendency of life to move towards greater harmony, happiness, energy & intelligence.
A life changer...wonderful - By: , 23 May 2000 I learned T.M & within less than a year I found that everything Maharishi speaks ofin this book is totally true. T.M is like an undoing process to make us more natural, just like the book points out (that is natural with anger, stress, lust etc GONE without effort or wanting them gone)! Maharishiin bringing T.M to the world has brought a saving device for humanity, he has brought us the keys to the kingdom of heaven!
Is there a TM book out there that shows HOW it's done??? - By: , 26 Jul 1999 
I was looking through the extensive selection Amazon.com has on Transcendental Meditation & I noticed that any book that either has the TM techniques contained within the pages or criticizes Transcendental Meditation is suspiciously out of print. I understand that TM has been used in prisons to very good effect, so I'm not disputing TM itself, just some of it's teachers who would rather have you shell out big bucks for a seminar, rather than $9.95 for a book. Most of these books seem to brag about TMs benefits. I'm already convinced, but I don't feel like being ripped off by some wolfin shaman's clothing.
