India, Land of the Veda: Tour on Maharishi's Vedic Science by renowned brain
research expert an 'overwhelming success'
by Global Good News staff writer
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4 October 2008
Speaking on Maharishi Global Family Chat on 1 October, Raja Harris Kaplan, Raja
of Invincible India, the land of the Veda, for the Global Country of World
Peace, introduced Dr Alarik Arenander and Dr Cynthia Arenander and spoke of the
'overwhelming success' of their tour of Northern India. The Arenanders are
presenting Maharishi's Vedic Science to thousands of people there from the
perspective of modern science and brain wave research.
Raja Harris began by saying that recently in India he 'had met a force of
nature, a very peaceful ''hurricane'' by the name of Hurricane Alarik and
Hurricane Cynthia Arenander, who have come through India with a hurricane of
peace and enlightenment'. (Raja Harris was alluding humorously to a recent
series of storms in the western hemisphere.)
Raja Harris said that 'this most fabulous couple' are still in India, and
introduced the Arenanders, who 'by their own look and feeling, even before
words start, convince people to practise Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's technologies
of consciousness. And then when they speak, everyone says ''I want to start
right now.'' '
Speaking from Allahabad, India, Dr Alarik Arenander explained that they are in
the middle of a six-week tour of India. He expressed their thanks to Raja
Harris and Dr Girish Varma*, the leader of the 'gigantic' Indian organization
of the Global Country of World Peace, for all their guidance, bliss, and
support during the tour. Dr Alarik also thanked and praised all the individual
organizers of the tour for 'so kindly taking care of everything' and looking
after them so well.
Dr Arenander explained they have given 55 presentations to literally thousands
of people in groups of 200-500—including government officials, business people,
students, teachers, Rotary members—many of whom are leaders in business and
government institutions.
Dr Alarik said that when they speak the people are 'enraptured with Maharishi's
knowledge. It comes back to them in this logical, simple, research-oriented
format, but it is Maharishi they love automatically, and [the knowledge] coming
back in this scientific garb, they like it. They just so much appreciate it
that everybody wants to start' the practice of Transcendental Meditation.
Dr Alarik showed slides of the faculty and Transcendental Meditation Teachers
working at Allahabad University—where Maharishi himself was a student—which has
100,000 students. There was a great response to a lecture the Arenanders gave
to the leaders of the university, and Maharishi University of Management has
organized a team of Transcendental Meditation Teachers to be in Allahabad to
help structure a programme for teaching the many individuals at the university.
Dr Cynthia Arenander added that 'the air there is so traditional, and to think
that Maharishi was there is a very special feeling.'
Dr Alarik showed the EEG (electroencephalograph) reading for a local
practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, which confirmed again 'that indeed,
at the beginning of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Technique, within a
very few moments, there is a phenomenon in the brain, a ''neuro-switch'', in
which there is a very rapid and highly sustained onset of brain orderliness.'
The appearance of pure alpha frequencies, coherence, and power is a 'very great
indicator, a characteristic of the experience of Atma [the Self], the
experience of Turiya [the fourth state of consciousness], Transcendental
Consciousness. There is a sustained, very high level of coherence between the
two sides of the brain and especially in the pre-frontal cortex, the learning
or control centre of our lives,' Dr Arenander explained.
'This phenomenon is unique to Transcendental Meditation, and is at the basis of
all good things that come from the brain, and therefore all good things that
come in the lives of those practising Transcendental Meditation.'
Dr Cynthia added that 'a lot of the success is due to the old saying, ''Seeing
is believing.'' ' When people actually see rather than just hear about all the
scientific research, 'a switch goes on, she said. 'We feel that the doctors,
especially, are saying that now they are given the documentation, this logic,
that's how the brain is trained'—when they grasp the logic, 'as one doctor from
Jabalpur Hospital said, ''Now you have our stamp of approval. We've always
wanted to believe about Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation since Maharishi
comes from this area, but now that we can actual see it, you have our stamp of
approval.' This doctor will be learning Transcendental Meditation himself.
Global Good News will continue to report on the Arenanders' tour of India in
the coming days.
* Dr Girish Varma is National Director of the Global Country of World Peace for
Veda Bhumi Bharat—India, land of the eternal Vedic Tradition of knowledge. He
is also Minister of Higher Education of the Global Country of World Peace,
Director-General of the Global Capital of World Peace at the Brahma-Sthan
[geographical centre] of India, Chairman of the 160 Maharishi Vidya Mandir
Schools Group, and President of the Maharishi Institutes of Management and
Information Technology, in India.
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