Transcendence (Rosenthal book)

Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation is a book written by psychiatrist and researcher Norman E. Rosenthal, published in 2011 by the Tarcher imprint of the Penguin Group.

It presents the author's personal experiences and professional views on Transcendental Meditation research, as well as interviews with celebrity practitioners.

The book contains a foreword by Mehmet Oz and four main sections entitled: "Transcendence", "Healing", "Transformation", and "Harmony."

[3] According to the publisher the book describes how Transcendental Meditation is learned and "what they [the readers] stand to gain, physically and emotionally, from achieving transcendence".

[8][9] A reviewer at PsychCentral, wrote: "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" and the chapters on "acute anxiety, major depression, and bipolar disorder" were "especially enlightening".