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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...
Drug abuse control is just one of the uses seen by some of the advocates of Transcendental Meditation. William J. Murphy, majority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives, steered through a resolution last summer immodestly praising the Yogi's system as a way to cool down student unrest as well as to fight drugs. "School officials have noted a lessening of student unrest and an improvement in grades and student-parent and teacher relationships among practicitioners of Transcendental Meditation," Murphy's resolution read...
Strangely, one of the most out-spoken proponents of Transcendental Meditation is Major General Franklin M. Davis, commandant of the Army War College. The War College has few problems keeping its student body pacified, so Davis has other ideas in mind. He believes the Yogi's teachings may help to relieve combat fatigue as well as drug abuse among soldiers, and at his request, classes in Transcendental Meditation have begun at Fort Dix and Fort Bliss...
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...
...efforts with other patients have failed.) At Topeka's Menninger Foundation, Psychologist Elmer Green is regularly successful in alleviating migraine headaches by teaching patients to increase the blood flow to their hands (as yet, he cannot explain why this works). Green has also tested Swami Rama, an Indian yogi who demonstrated his ability to stop his heart for 17 seconds. Like that of his colleagues, Green's research is motivated by a belief that human beings can assume responsibility for their own wellbeing. Ultimately, Green predicts, people will be able to stay healthy not by taking drugs...