Swami Rama’s physiological demonstrations at the Menninger Foundation

Record summary

Swami Rama was studied by Elmer and Alyce Green and colleagues at the Menninger Foundation in demonstrations involving meditation, peripheral temperature, heart-rate control, and other physiological measures. Popular accounts sometimes present these sessions as evidence of extraordinary yogic control, while critics emphasize small samples, incomplete reporting, possible voluntary movement or measurement artifacts, and the difference between autonomic regulation and psi. The lead matters for comparing laboratory studies of meditation with stronger paranormal claims. Original reports, protocols, recordings, and replication attempts require direct inspection.