On Transcendence – Episode 0001
Guest: Dr. Fred Travis
Host: Dr. Baruti KMT-Sisouvong
Title: When Science Meets Stillness
In this inaugural episode of On Transcendence, I sit down with Dr. Fred Travis—neuroscientist, author, and Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi International University.
Our discussion explores how decades of research on the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique reveal a distinctive neural signature of transcendence—the quiet coherence that links subjective experience to objective measurement.
Together, we examine how the brain integrates pure consciousness into daily life, how silence fuels creativity, and how enlightenment may represent not a mystical abstraction but a measurable stage of human development.
This conversation bridges ancient insight and modern neuroscience—a dialogue between science and spirit, between data and direct experience.
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About the Host
Dr. Baruti KMT-Sisouvong is a consciousness scholar, executive coach, and Certified Teacher of Transcendental Meditation® based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work—spanning the Model for Perpetual Growth and Progress and the Seven Layers of Manifestation—explores how Pure Consciousness, neuroscience, and social-systems transformation intersect in the evolution of both the individual and society. Alongside his wife, Mina, he co-directs the Cambridge and Metropolitan Boston TM Program. He is the Host / Founder of International Meditation Hour (IMH), a quarterly gathering dedicated to experiencing the unifying power of silence. He writes from the conviction that the most important race is not between nations or machines, but between the conditioned mind and the awakening soul. They are the proud parents of four children.
To learn more, visit https://www.barutikmtsisouvong.com/.
