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...FASTEST-GROWING of the new Harvard sects follows the teaching of a sad-eyed, bearded Indian yogi named Maharishi Mahesh. The Yogi has succeeded phenomenally in his efforts to spread his system of deep meditation in America. The number of users of his Transcendental Meditation (TM) shot from 200 to roughly 200,000 in the past eight years. The Beatles and Mia Farrow have tried Transcendental Meditation, and presently vocal users of TM include astronaut Russell Schweickart, the Beach Boys, and the majority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives. At Harvard, the number of student practitioners is not known...
Like Ramakrishna's ascetic but joyous Vedanta (which is once again growing in the U.S.), the Hindu imports of today tend to concentrate on various meditative disciplines. The most famous is the transcendental meditation of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose early converts were the Beatles. TM is, however, a basically nonreligious self-therapy...
...your article on transcendental meditation you seem to hesitate to commit yourself to a decision on its effectiveness. Although I have been meditating just five months, I can say without a doubt that TM is a most effective way of achieving "deep thought, creative intelligence and expanded awareness...
Transcendental Meditation has been incorporated into the curriculum of several universities already, including Yale. Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania. At Yale, over 1000 students and professors are meditating, according to the New Haven SIMS center. Some high schools are piloting TM programs. The Illinois House of Representatives last year passed a resolution recommending that Illinois schools give accredited courses in TM...
...steadier source of capital which course fees now provide, SIMS-IMS, a non-profit educational institution, uses the money for literature, building and maintaining centers, and constructing training academies. American money will eventually help support sister centers in poorer countries. Geeslin said the organization now hope experiments showing TM's beneficial effects on drug abusers will bring Federal funds for their programs...