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...greatest spiritual leader of our age," proclaimed one of the Maharishi's devoted band. "He hasn't established a religion, but a knowledge to benefit mankind...
Last week the man who brought TM to America and the rest of the world, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was in the U.S. on one of his infrequent visits to spread The Word. The white-bearded guru visited his new university, the Maharishi International University in Iowa, and then flew to Los Angeles, where he taped the Merv Griffin show. Scores of his followers were in the audience, welcoming their leader with the traditional Indian greeting in which the hands are held, prayer-like, just below the chin...
Outside the TV studio, however, a group of Christian fundamentalists was present to demonstrate that the diminutive guru has attracted more than a few detractors. JESUS IS THE LORD, NOT MAHARISHI, read their signs. The Maharishi saw them, then was whisked away in his limousine to a suite in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. "We are not a religion," he retorted...
...Maharishi International University occupies a 185-acre campus in Fairfield, Iowa, and is offering 600 students courses in such ordinary subjects as administration as well as such esoterica as "Astronomy, Cosmology and the Science of Creative Intelligence" (SCI, as it is always called, is the grand and somewhat amorphous theory behind TM). The revenues of the World Plan Executive Council-U.S., the umbrella name for the burgeoning American TM movement, now amount to $12 million a year...
...even setting up a television station in Los Angeles. Channel 18 is scheduled to go on the air in November with taped lectures by the Maharishi and variety shows featuring such famous meditators as Stevie Wonder, Peggy Lee and the Beach Boys, who have written a one-line TM song ("Transcendental Meditation is good for you"). Station KSCI will report only good news. there is talk of a TM network sending smiles from...