What Rick Alan Ross has said about Transcendental Meditation
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 22, 2026
Rick Alan Ross, American cult intervention specialist, founder of the Cult Education Institute and author of Cults Inside Out, has been quoted on Transcendental Meditation once in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ross says meditation creates a suggestible state and one should examine how a group like TM uses it.
“when you're in meditation, you're in a very suggestible state. How does the group use that suggestible state?”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 30:03
Episodes
Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan RossMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 22, 2026 · 51 min
Mayim Bialik talks with cult expert Rick Alan Ross about how cults recruit and break people down, deprogramming, Scientology, AA, religion and Lev Tahor.
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