The gal that wrote this article should really have talked to a few of the skin boys first.
________________________________ From: Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 11:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back One of the more concise histories of TM written: "From the moment that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi arrived at the Honolulu airport in 1958, wearing robes, his ambition was to make Transcendental Meditation a global practice. He had been traveling across India for a few years, spreading the notion that meditation wasn't just for monks and yogis but instead could be simplified for the masses. He would soon seize on a generation of young people's desires to recreate the nirvana of hallucinogenic drugs and to live meaningful lives. In 1967, the Beatles met Maharishi, and he quickly became their spiritual adviser. Life magazine declared 1968 "the Year of the Guru," with photographs of Maharishi. By 1977, a Gallup poll reported that 4 percent of Americans said they practiced T.M. But then things got murky, and questions about the cult of personality grew. The Beatles left Maharishi's ashram in a huff. Maharishi intensified his focus on a "world plan" to create peace through what he called the "Maharishi Effect," in which 1 percent of the square root of the world population would meditate and radiate positivity. By the late 1970s, he had told his followers that they should practice more advanced, and more expensive, meditation techniques that took about two hours a day and could result in superhuman powers — the strength of an elephant and the ability to levitate. By the 1980s, only a devout base remained dedicated to the world plan, and many of them settled in a small community in a corner of southern Iowa. Deepak Chopra, who worked for the Maharishi at the time, told me, "I started to be uncomfortable with what I sensed was a cultish atmosphere around Maharishi." Soon, Maharishi stopped making public appearances, spending his time in an isolated compound in the Netherlands. He named a Lebanese neuroscientist as his successor, giving him the ceremonial name and title Majaraja Adiraj Rajaraam, the First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace. He had given him his weight in gold." Article at The New York Times here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-meditation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
