Word: tm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meditative disciplines," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story and is well known as a skeptic, "TM is the one that seems to have really caught on. But there is still plenty of debate over the efficacy of TM as opposed to other methods...
TIME Geneva Stringer Robert Kroon, who interviewed TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the French Alps not long ago, still claims to receive all the transcendental soothing he needs from the music of J.S. Bach. In a modern Western hotel, surrounded by efficient American business types and electronic paraphernalia, Kroon recounts, the Maharishi seemed a bit uprooted, "like a flamingo in an Arctic landscape," but he still registered as an affable and reasonably forthcoming personality...
...closes her eyes. On warm afternoons in Rome, Ga., Municipal Court Judge Gary Hamilton and his wife Virginia can be found on their screened porch, apparently dozing. It is not a compulsion to sleep that these and perhaps 600,000 other Americans have in common. It is TM, or Transcendental Meditation, a ritual that they practice almost religiously twice a day and every...
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...
...there so much fuss about something so arcane-sounding as Transcendental Meditation? Simple. TM is the turn-on of the '70s?a drugless high that even the narc squad might enjoy...