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## Background: Across cultures and throughout history, transcendent states achieved through meditative practices have been reported. the practices to attain transcendent states vary from transcendental meditation to yoga to contemplative prayer, to other various forms of sitting meditation. while these transcendent states are ascribed many different terms, those who experience them describe a similar unitive, ineffable state of consciousness. despite the common description, few studies have systematically examined transcendent states during meditation. ## Objectives: The objectives of this systematic review were to: 1) characterize studies evaluating transcendent states associated with meditation in any tradition; 2) qualitatively describe physiological and phenomenological outcomes collected during transcendent states and; 3) evaluate the quality of these studies using the quality assessment tool. ## Methods: Medline, psycinfo, cinahl, althealthwatch, amed, and the institute of noetic science meditation library were searched for relevant papers in any language. included studies required adult participants and the collection of outcomes before, during, or after a reported transcend

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Author

Helané Wahbeh; Amira Sagher; Wallis Back; Pooja Pundhir; Frederick Travis

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)