 A capsule review of the book for the Los Angeles Times , Phil Freshman commented , " Using hard logic and crackling humor , a trio of Canadian laboratory researchers cogently deflates Transcendental Meditation ; they spotlight transparencies in its claims and warn of its latent hazards to those in wobbly mental health . " In his book Rational Mysticism , author John Horgan comments that although Persinger says he 's neutral toward religious belief , he 's more biased than other <unk> and that his two books " cast religious belief and spiritual practices in a psychopathological light " . 
