Word: tm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That recommendation alone is enough for many people in this Valium-saturated age, and the TM organization can scarcely keep up with those seeking nirvana by the numbers. Some 30,000 are signing up every month?more than three times as many as a year ago. There are now 370 TM centers around the country, and around 6,000 TM teachers...
...movement is biggest in that supermarket of Eastern cults and fads, California, which claims 123,000 meditators. According to the TM organization's statistics, there are also 300,000 TM meditators and 2,000 teachers in other countries. Canada leads the way with 90,000, followed by West Germany...
Books about TM are on both the hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, up there, for the moment at least, with the joys of sex, the dictates of diet, and the woes of Watergate...
...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...
...national headquarters in Los Angeles, 60 full-time employees oversee a conglomerate of euphoria that includes the Students International Meditation Society, which has programs on 100 campuses; the International Meditation Society, which gives both beginning and advanced TM courses; and the American Foundation for the Science of Creative Intelligence, which caters to businessmen. In addition to the many TM centers, there are also five fully owned and hundreds of rented country retreats offering lectures, seminars and advanced meditation (up to 120 minutes a day, or three times the usual dosage). One such center that the movement owns is set amid...