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219100755025Fluency Flexibility OriginalityBeginning Meditators Long-Term Meditatorsp < .01 p < .01 p < .01Raw Test ScoreTorrance Test of Creative ThinkingThree Aspects of Creativitytm-036The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT), Verbal Form A, was used to compare 44 subjects practicing the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique for an aver age of 18 months with 41 subjects who had just learned TM. The two groups were equivalent in age, sex, education, and income level. The long-term TMers scored signifi cantly higher (p <.01) on all three scales of the TTCT %u2014 Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality %u2014 indicating that practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique increases creativity.The TTCT was developed to measure the type of creative thinking process described by eminent scientifi c researchers, inventors, and creative writers. Psychologists such as Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow have associated this type of creativity with increased self-actualization, which has also been found by independent studies to result from the TM program. These fi ndings give objective validation to the statement that TM systematically develops creative intelligence by providing a means to directly experi ence the source of creativity in the mind. The aspects of creativity measured here %u2014 fl uency, fl exibility, and originality %u2014 may be associated with integration, adap tability, and growth, three of the fundamentals of progress that are enhanced by TM.INCREASED CREATIVITYReference: MacCallum, M. J. (1977). The Transcendental Meditation program and creativity. In D. W. Orme-Johnson & J. Farrow (Eds.), Scientifi c research on the Transcendental Meditation program: Collected papers (Vol. 1, pp. 410%u2013414). Maharishi European Research University Press. (Original work published 1974)