Super Mind: Q & A with Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal and Bobby Roth

Bob Roth is the Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation. Bob has been a teacher of Transcendental Meditation over 44 years.

Dr. Norman Rosenthal is considered one of the finest psychiatrists and researchers in the world. He spent 20 years as a senior researcher at the National Institutes of Mental Health. He is the bestselling author of several books as well as the clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School.

Bobby Roth:

The reason we are talking today is because Dr. Rosenthal has written a second in a series of books on Transcendental Meditation.

Can you tell us why you wrote a second book on Transcendental Meditation and why you call it Super Mind?

Norman Rosenthal:

Well the reason that I chose to write about the subject of the book, The Super Mind is that I perceived both in myself and in my patients who are meditating with Transcendental Meditation an actual growth in mental capacity… a stillness that entered to their daily lives along side their activity—a sense that they were finally experiencing life in a new way as authentic people vibrantly engaging in their world. But at the same time very calmly able to reflect what was going on. It is a distinct type of consciousness that is associated with multiple benefits.