 TM and Cult Mania is a non @-@ fiction book that examines assertions made by the Transcendental Meditation movement ( TM ) . The book is authored by Michael Persinger , Normand Carrey and Lynn Suess and published in 1980 by Christopher Publishing House . Persinger is a neurophysiologist and has worked out of Laurentian University . He trained as a psychologist and focused on the impacts of religious experience . Carrey is a medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry . He focused his studies into child psychiatry with research at Dalhousie University , and has taught physicians in a psychiatry residency program in the field of family therapy . Suess assisted Persinger in researching effects of geological phenomena on unidentified flying object sightings in Washington ; the two conducted similar research in Toronto and Ottawa . 
