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Tuesday July 3, 2007
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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.
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Wednesday June 27, 2007
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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.
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Tuesday May 8, 2007
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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.
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Friday May 4, 2007
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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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Monday March 19, 2007
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The Global Country of World Peace wants to build a peace palace and a private high school Mayfield Heights. Owned by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the palace would teach transcendental meditation and peaceful enlightenment. But the pacifists say their Mayfield Heights reception has been anything but peaceful.
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Friday March 2, 2007
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Global Country of World Peace, which has its U.S. headquarters in Iowa, eventually plans to build what it calls a Peace Palace, which focuses on teaching transcendental meditation.
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Tuesday January 9, 2007
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There are about 1.5 million people in the United States who practice TM twice a day.
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These Indian pandits – scholars of Transcendental Meditation with three-year visas – are among 600 advanced-level meditators who began to arrive in late summer. Another 200 are expected to arrive in the next month.
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Saturday December 30, 2006
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David Lynch, the filmmaker whose darkly inspired works have included Eraserhead, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, is unsettling viewers once again with the release of his newest film, Inland Empire, which stars Laura Dern as an actress in trouble. But what’s really on the director’s mind is not the movie but his new book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity. Much of this autobiographical work, due out in January, is about Lynch’s life as a devotee of Transcendental Meditation.
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David Lynch remembers how he recoiled from the concept of Transcendental Meditation when he heard about it in the late 1960s, when the movement — founded by the Indian spiritual leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi — was experiencing its first wave of popularity among young people in the West thanks to proselytizing by pop stars like the Beatles and Donovan.
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Tuesday December 26, 2006
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The Maharishi may be holding out for rising commercial real estate values in downtown Hartford, but the building is increasingly standing out as a gaping hole in an area that has been abuzz with redevelopment.
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Friday December 1, 2006
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Transcendental Mediation Peace palaces promoting holistic health programs will be built in Colorado Springs and 20 other cities across the nation if the Colorado Health Facilities Authority approves a request for $51 million in revenue bonds Monday.
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Tuesday November 28, 2006
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In the coming weeks, nearly 2,000 practitioners of Transcendental Meditation will gather in Iowa in an effort to bolser world peace through meditation and yogic flying.
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Tuesday October 24, 2006
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The man in charge of the “Invincible America Course” is John Hagelin, a quantum physicist who graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth, earned a doctorate from Harvard and was a researcher at Stanford before moving to Fairfield and becoming the director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Maharishi University of Management.
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Thursday October 19, 2006
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A controversial plan for a Transcendental Meditation program at Terra Linda High School was dropped Wednesday after the David Lynch Foundation withdrew a $175,000 grant.
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Marin County may be etched in the public imagination as a liberal land of hot tubs, aging hippies and free thinkers, but even a bastion of alternative spirituality apparently has its limits. Plans for a high school meditation club funded by filmmaker David Lynch evaporated this week after parents caught wind that students would be taught Transcendental Meditation, the method developed by a one-time spiritual teacher to The Beatles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Amid protests that TM was a form of religious practice and therefore inappropriate for a public school, the David Lynch Foundation on Tuesday withdrew the $175,000 it had pledged to Terra Linda High School in San Rafael.
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Tuesday October 17, 2006
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Mediation has gained growing acceptance in the West as a way to reduce stress and clear the mind. Terra Linda High School’s decision to offer Transcendental Meditation, with the help of a $175,000 grant from filmmaker David Lynch’s foundation, as part of a new wellness program is having the opposite effect.
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Saturday October 14, 2006
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An information meeting about Transcendental Meditation ended in a shouting match Thursday night at Terra Linda High School. Principal Carole Ramsey hosted half a dozen supporters of the program so they could explain it and answer questions from parents who want to know more about the school’s possible new club. But Ramsey ended the meeting abruptly when a parent stormed the stage, refused to leave and angrily denounced Transcendental Meditation as a cult she’d broken free of after teaching it for 35 years.
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Thursday October 12, 2006
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Terra Linda High School plans in Marin, California, plans to launch a Transcendental Meditation program with the help of a $175,000 grant from noted filmmaker David Lynch.
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Monday October 9, 2006
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In the 1960’s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi — called the giggling guru by the press — gained a measure of celebrity for promoting his mantra-repetition technique of Transcendental Meditation around the world and for serving a brief stint as spiritual adviser to the Beatles. His message was that with the proper techniques, each individual could find peace, as one of his disciples, George Harrison, sang, within. Today, his organization claims to hold U.S. assets of $300 million and to have taught six million adherents – training now costs $2,500 – in T.M. centers around the world.
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Friday October 6, 2006
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A rural Kansas county has backed off a plan to keep an affilaite of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Meditation movement from building a dozen marble “peace palaces” on prime farmland near the geographic center of the lower 48 continantal U.S. states.
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Sunday September 24, 2006
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Spokespeople for the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, gave special TM practitioners credit last week for improvements in Lebanon, in Gulf Coast weather, the stock market and other cosmically accursed realms.
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Monday August 14, 2006
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Smith Center, Kan. - A couple of minutes with the morning coffee klatch at the Second Cup Cafe is all it takes to get a feel for how these locals see plans by a global meditation empire to build a utopian city just north of town.
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Monday July 31, 2006
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TIBERIAS, Israel (AFP) - Reuven Zelinkovsky was a colonel in the Israeli army, but now he has renounced military might to join a squadron of yogic flyers at the Sea of Galilee to throw a "shield of invincibility" around the Jewish state.
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Wednesday July 5, 2006
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LELYSTAD, 05/07/06 - Lelystad is to get a school where the subject transcendental meditation (TM) is to be taught. Initiator Sjoerd Vos expects the government to approve the plan, because the school is founded on religious principles.
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