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Monday January 28, 2008

Transcendental Meditation:

Maharishi lays down leadership of Transcendental Meditation movement

Prior to his announcement, Maharishi set up a leadership structure voor each country and for the entire world. World leader will be Maharaja Nader Raam. Thirteen ministers and 27 so-called raja’s will help him. They will bear the responsibility for the movement in various countries.

Friday January 4, 2008

Transcendental Meditation:

In This Farm Town, Gurus Transcend Party Politics

For politicians, a challenge here is to respect the community’s faith in Yogic Flying, or mass meditation. Derived from a combination of quantum physics and the proven benefits of meditation, Yogic Flying occurs each afternoon at 5 p.m.

Friday December 21, 2007

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Beatles derelict ashram could take on new life

Former Hollywood actress who now runs schools for India’s poor wants to turn landmark into home for destitute women, children.

Transcendental Meditation:

How close is Transcendental Meditation to building its peace palaces in Ohio?

Officials in the municipalities where the group wants to build have received site planning proposals. Murach said the group hopes to break ground in the spring or early summer.

Tuesday November 20, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

David Lynch’s German guru angers students with Goebbels rallying cry

Plans by the Hollywood film director David Lynch to build a “Transcendental Meditation” university in Berlin have provoked a storm of criticism in Germany after the project’s chief guru used a phrase of Hitler’s propaganda minister in promoting the scheme.

Wednesday October 24, 2007

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What is transcendental meditation, and is it the cure for society’s ills?

Film director David Lynch and Sixties pop star Donovan have teamed up to launch a campaign to encourage children to meditate in school. What is it all about?

Transcendental Meditation:

Bring peace to schools by meditation, say Lynch and Donovan

One is among Hollywood’s most celebrated directors, with a reputation for making dark films and a fondness for creating “peace palaces” in his spare time. The other is an ageing Scottish folk singer who once collaborated with The Beatles. Together, they want to change education across the world forever.

Monday October 22, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

Vedic City’s annexation plan approved by state

Ohio state has approved the annexation of 84 acres into Maharishi Vedic City, despite urgings against the move from local County officials.

Wednesday September 26, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

Maharishi Vedic City annexation opposed

Jefferson County is opposing an annexation plan by city officials here, claiming the city should not expand until it provides municipal services for its current land.

Saturday July 28, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

Meditators predict Dow 17,000, near U.S. utopia

U.S. stocks had a tough week with the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its worst one-week point drop in five years, but a group of meditators promise their good vibrations will send the index past 17,000 within a year.

Tuesday July 17, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

New school in bid to calm troubled teens

A new school set to open next year will see a group of budding yogis exploring the benefits of meditation as part of its curriculum.

Tuesday July 3, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

Maharishi’s Minions Come to Wall Street

When the Beatles sought guidance from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968, they traveled to India. Now that the “giggling guru,” as he has been called, is seeking investors, a branch of his organization has come to the New York financial district.

Wednesday June 27, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

Vedic City considers eminent domain to seize farmer’s land

A southeast Iowa city established six years ago by the followers of Transcendental Meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is considering a plan to seize a farmer’s land to prevent him from building a hog operation next to the city.

Tuesday May 8, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

TM fans say it’s all in their head

The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi invented TM in 1957, basing it on traditional Indian meditation techniques. The system took off a few years later when the Beatles and other 1960s celebrities embraced it.

Friday May 4, 2007

Transcendental Meditation:

David Lynch: Fight school violence with meditation

Maverick American filmmaker David Lynch overnight called for schools around the world to adopt transcendental meditation to help avoid a repeat of last month’s US university shooting in which 33 people died.

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