Word: yogi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marty Marion 105)Ken Boyer 106)Gene Mauch (his nephew is shortstop Roy Smalley, III) 107)Yogi Berra 108)Joe McCarthy. Yogi Berra and Al Dark
...mentions that California is seeking federal funding to support a TM program in the prisons. I hope the agencies involved will consider the case of Malnak vs. Yogi in New Jersey, 1977, in which it was determined that TM was based on religious doctrine. I have no argument with the teaching of religious principles to rehabilitate criminals-indeed a Christian conversion would produce the same results-but feel no religion should be taught with the tax support and approval of Government. If Transcendental Meditation is to be taught in the prisons, then its adherents should foot the bill...
...recruit contributors, the TM organization uses a videotape of Convict Corum talking by phone to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru from India who brought TM to Europe and the U.S. TM organizers are also putting together an index of rehabilitation, though there is some doubt that parole boards would-or should-judge an inmate ready for release on the basis of things like improved alpha and theta brain waves. Penal authorities are more likely to be persuaded by the support TM has so far given parolees through free counseling at the 80 TM centers around the state...
Some have been started by the recent claims that levitation by mere intention, disappearing from sight without actually going anywhere, supernormal compassion, and other unusual abilities are being experienced by growing numbers of participants in Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation program...
Josephson has practiced the T.M. technique since 1971 and has been increasingly impressed, both with his own new experiences and with the wealth of knowledge that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi exemplifies in his teachings. Conferences on "Consciousness and Natural Law," several of which have been held on the main campus of Maharishi International University in Iowa and at Maharishi European Research University in Switzerland, have attracted Josephson, I. Prigogine, E.C.G. Sudarshan, K.P. Sinha, C. Piron and other leading physicists...