Download or read book The Maharishi Effect written by Geoff Gilpin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penetrating literary-journalistic memoir depicts the clash between promise and reality within the movement that virtually defined alternative spirituality in America: Transcendental Meditation and its iconic guru, the Maharishi. Like hundreds of thousands of young people, Geoff Gilpin entered the Transcendental Meditation movement in the early seventies, when its guru, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was fresh in the public mind as the spiritual guide to the Beatles and the man who made "meditation" a household word. The movement's Iowa campus was a center of spiritual idealism and healthy living. Gilpin left after five years, settling into a successful career in the software business. Two decades later, wistful over the past and concerned by the increasingly harsh tone of the Maharishi's public pronouncements, Gilpin decided to return and find out what had become of the spiritual community of his youth. His move back to Fairfield, Iowa, proved both revealing and unsettling. He rediscovered what had drawn his generation to Eastern spirituality - and what he and his cohorts had lost in following the usual path to careerism. But he also experienced disturbing changes in a spiritual organization that - while attracting money, celebrity, and clout - had seemingly drifted from its early ideals. Its inner culture, Gilpin observed, had divided into haves and have-nots, in ways both subtle and obvious. The Maharishi - believed to be in his late eighties or early nineties and now living in Holland - was promoting projects that involved global government, third-world rulers, claims of levitation, and grandiose fund-raising campaigns. The Maharishi Effect is one man's bittersweet chronicle of innocence found and lost in the movement that, more than any other, defined spirituality for a generation.
Download or read book An Antidote to Violence written by Barry Spivack and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s widely accepted that Transcendental Meditation (TM) can create peace for the individual, but can it create peace in society as a whole? And if it can, what could possibly be the mechanism? In An Antidote to Violence Barry Spivack and Patricia Anne Saunders examine the peer-reviewed research and suggest that TM can influence the collective consciousness of a society which leads to a decrease in negative social trends, such as a decline in war fatalities, and to an increase in cooperation between nations. Weaving together psychology, sociology, philosophy, statistics, politics, physics and meditation, An Antidote to Violence provides evidence that we have the knowledge to reduce all kinds of violence in society.
Download or read book Invincible America Assembly written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Maharishi Effect written by Elaine Aron and published by E P Dutton. This book was released on 1986-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that groups of people practicing transcendental meditation can use their consciousness to influence the world, describes actual experiments, and explains what can be done to improve the world using this technique
Download or read book Transcendental Meditation written by Jack Forem and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a simple, natural method of allowing the mind to go beyond thoughts and gain access to the silent inner field of creativity, energy, peace, and happiness that is our own essential nature, our Self. Widely known and prescribed by physicians for its powerful stress-reducing effects, TM is much more than that. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918–2008), who brought TM to the West, said that TM offers any individual not only a gateway to the highest spiritual unfoldment (Enlightenment), but also "sound physical and mental health, greater ability in action, a greater capacity to think clearly, increased efficiency in work, and more loving and rewarding relationships with others." Five million TM practitioners around the world and more than 360 published, peer-reviewed scientific studies have consistently corroborated these lofty claims. Described as "a great book, by far the most comprehensive on the TM Program" when it was a bestseller in its original version, Jack Forem’s study of TM became a much-loved classic. This updated edition contains all the features of the original plus much more. Clear, easy-to-read diagrams explain scientific research showing TM’s beneficial effect on the brain and a broad spectrum of contemporary concerns, from health, self-actualization, and development of intelligence to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and much more. In these pages: · Oprah Winfrey tells how she has offered TM to everyone on her staff. · Dr. Mehmet Oz explains the benefits of TM for heart health. · School principals describe the dramatically positive effect on their students when TM is introduced in the classroom. Interviews with celebrities as well as men and women of every age, background, and religion provide a lively testimonial to the efficacy of TM in making anyone’s life happier, healthier, and more creative.
Download or read book Transcendental Meditation in America written by Joseph Weber and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stores selling exotic goods popped up, TM followers built odd-looking homes that modeled the guru's rules for peace-inspiring architecture, and the new university knocked down a historic chapel, even as it erected massive golden-domed buildings for meditators. Some newcomers got elected--and others were defeated--when they ran for local and statewide offices. At times, thousands from across the globe visited the small town. Yet Transcendental Meditation did not always achieve its aims of personal and social tranquility. Suicides and a murder unsettled the meditating community over the years, and some followers were fleeced by con men from their own ranks. Some battled a local farmer over land use and one another over doctrine. Notably, the world has not gotten more peaceful. Today the guru is dead. His followers are graying, and few of their children are moving into leadership roles.
Download or read book Transcendental Deception written by Aryeh Siegel and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former TM insider inundated with publicity about TM being a scientific relaxation technology that is a cure for just about everything and, since non-religious, should be in our public schools. It was a false narrative. Someone needed to set the record straight, and with his background in public health and behavioral science, he decided to do it.
Download or read book Greetings from Utopia Park written by Claire Hoffman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and ’90s—a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When Claire Hoffman’s alcoholic father abandons his family, his desperate wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven—Iowa—to live in Maharishi’s national headquarters for Heaven on Earth. For Claire’s mother, Transcendental Meditation—the Maharishi’s method of meditation and his approach to living the fullest possible life—was a salvo that promised world peace and enlightenment just as their family fell apart. At first this secluded utopia offers warmth and support, and makes these outsiders feel calm, secure, and connected to the world. At the Maharishi School, Claire learns Maharishi’s philosophy for living and meditates with her class. With the promise of peace and enlightenment constantly on the horizon, every day is infused with magic and meaning. But as Claire and Stacey mature, their adolescent skepticism kicks in, drawing them away from the community and into delinquency and drugs. To save herself, Claire moves to California with her father and breaks from Maharishi completely. After a decade of working in journalism and academia, the challenges of adulthood propel her back to Iowa, where she reexamines her spiritual upbringing and tries to reconnect with the magic of her childhood. Greetings from Utopia Park takes us deep into this complex, unusual world, illuminating its joys and comforts, and its disturbing problems. While there is no utopia on earth, Hoffman reveals, there are noble goals worth striving for: believing in belief, inner peace, and a firm understanding that there is a larger fabric of the universe to which we all belong.
Download or read book Transcendental Meditation written by Robert Keith Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Robert Keith Wallace is internationally recognized as a pioneer researcher in the study of consciousness and the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. In this book he provides an easy to understand and comprehensive survey of research on the Transcendental Meditation technique in terms of his personal experience as a scientist and teacher.
Download or read book Transcendence written by Norman E. Rosenthal and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive book on the scientifically proven health and stress-relieving benefits of Transcendental Meditation, a renowned psychiatrist and researcher explores why TM works, what it can do, and how to use it for maximum effect.
Download or read book Maharishi s Absolute Theory Of Defence Sovereignty In Invincibility written by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maharishi`S Programme To Create A Prevention Wing In Every Military Offers `Victory Before War`.
Download or read book The Super Radiance Effect written by Jeremy Old and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Super Radiance effect" describes the extraordinary, positive effect that can be radiated to the rest of society by a group of specially trained expert meditators. The resulting impact on the host population is truly dramatic and almost instantaneous. Open warfare has been known to stop within 24 hours and terrorism decline by 72% over a matter of days. The Super Radiance effect effect only takes place when a sufficient number of these meditators form a group to practice a specific type of meditation together at the same time and on a daily basis. The particular meditation required to create this powerful social effect is an advanced form of Transcendental Meditation known as the TM-Sidhi programme. One fascinating characteristic of the TM-Sidhi programme is that it stimulates highly coherent brain waves for the individual meditator or TM-Sidha as they are called. The significance of this is that a highly coherent brain has access to higher mental and emotional faculties usually found dormant when the brain is in a more stressed state. When performed in a group this TM-Sidhi meditation, not only generates highly coherent brainwaves for each TM-Sidha, but also radiates this powerful brainwave effect to the surrounding non-meditating population as well. So far there have been fifty research projects on Super Radiance over the last forty years. These have been conducted in numerous countries by a variety of different researchers and institutes with many studies being published in peer reviewed scientific journals. Reader can see for themselves that the studies show unequivocally that the Super Radiance effect reduces war deaths in war zones, reduces terrorism, reduces crime rates, and even has a positive impact on other negative statistics such as emergency calls, suicides and motor vehicle accidents. On the economic side when the Super Radiance effect takes place in a host community, there are more business start-ups, more patent applications, improved stock indexes, lower inflation, higher employment rates, higher economic growth rates and so on. It is important to note that this transformation in negative social trends is not generated by any social or physical interaction by the TM-Sidhas with the rest of the population. The effect is created silently and anonymously and can even be broadcast from other countries. One significant feature of the Super Radiance effect is that the larger the group the more disproportionate the impact. The larger the group of TM-Sidhas, the wider the effect stretches. So for instance to produce the desired effect for a country the size of the UK we need about 750 TM-Sidhas, for the USA we need about 1,800. To calm down the fighting in the Middle East and stop the war in Syria would take about 3,000 TM-Sidhas. For the whole world of 7 billion people we only require about 9,300 TM-Sidhas. 9,300 TM-Sidhas is all that is required to bring about an immediate cessation of warfare, terrorism and political violence across the entire globe. The cost of doing this would be less than the cost of a single Stealth bomber. The author summarizes each of the fifty research studies to provide the average reader with the basic facts about this astonishing but little known phenomenon. Amazingly or perhaps typically, despite the evident opportunities provided by the Super Radiance effect for world peace and the prevention of terrorism, no government, at least in the developed world, has so far taken the idea seriously. The aim of the book is to get the concept of Super Radiance across to a much wider public in an attempt to influence politicians, civil servants and the media that we now have an invaluable technology for world peace and that it should be taken seriously for the benefit of us all.
Download or read book Subtle Activism written by David Nicol and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can awakened consciousness contribute to social change and, if so, how? David Nicol introduces the concept of "subtle activism" to describe the use of consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer to support collective transformation, such as global meditation directed toward peaceful resolution of a conflict. Subtle activism represents a bridge between the consciousness movement and the movements for peace, environmental sustainability, and social justice. It is not a substitute for physical action but rather a potentially crucial component of a more integrated approach to social change. Although ancient lore is rife with tales of shamans and adepts intervening on spiritual levels for the benefit of humanity, this book is the first comprehensive treatment of this topic. Nicol grounds his consideration in the available scientific research and in dialogue with a broad range of thinkers in the fields of consciousness studies, transpersonal theory, and New Paradigm thought.
Download or read book Preventing Crime and Violence written by Brent Teasdale and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies. Its interdisciplinary perspective expands on our knowledge of risk factors to isolate the malleable mechanisms that produce criminal outcomes, and can therefore be targeted for intervention. In addition, the text identifies developmental, lifespan, and social areas for effective intervention. Reviews of family-, community-, and criminal justice-based crime prevention approaches not only detail a wide gamut of successful techniques, but also provide evidence for why they succeed. And as an extra research dimension, the book’s chapters on methodological issues and challenges uncover rich possibilities for the next generation of crime prevention studies. Included in the coverage: Integrating criminology and prevention research Social disorganization theory: its history and relevance to crime prevention Research designs in crime and violence prevention Macro- and micro-approaches to crime prevention and intervention programs Implications of life course: approaches for prevention science Promising avenues for prevention, including confronting sexual victimization on college campuses Spotlighting current progress and continuing evolution of the field, Preventing Crime and Violence will enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, academicians, and policymakers in public health, prevention science, criminology, and criminal justice, as well as students interested in criminology and criminal justice.
Download or read book Maharishi s Absolute Theory of Government written by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and published by . This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Maharishi`S Transcendental Meditation And Tm-Sidhi Programe, It Is Possible To Create Administration On A Par With The Perfect Administration Of The Universe.
Download or read book Yogic Flying According to Yoga Vasishtha written by Peter F. Freund and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasishtha teaches the young boy Rama, the future king of Ayodhya, through stories. Here is the story where Vasishtha explains Yogic Flying. In this true story from the ancient past, King Shikhidhvaja and Queen Chudala are a perfect couple, deeply in love, enjoying the comforts and diversions of royal life together. As they get older and realize that life is fleeting, they turn to meditation. Queen Chudala has great success and gains enlightenment, a state of complete inner and outer fulfillment. But she is unable to convince her husband of the worth of her accomplishment. So she learns Yogic Flying in order to be able to demonstrate her mastery of natural law to her husband. At this point, Rama wants to know what this Yogic Flying is. Vasishtha launches into a 220 verse exposition of the mechanics of Yogic Flying, its stages of development, and its purpose: This is the most comprehensive description of Yogic Flying available in the Vedic Literature. Vasishtha devotes one chapter to explaining the theory and practice of Yogic Flying, and then three chapters on the three stages of Yogic Flying. The first stage is lifting off the ground in short hops; the second stage is marked when the flyer remains in the air, floating; and the third stage is demonstrated by the ability to fly anywhere at will. Special attention is given to the liftoff. The moment of liftoff demonstrates supreme mind-body coordination and gives a glimpse into the world of mastery of total natural law. Even the rank beginners in the practice of Yogic Flying, lifting off the ground in short hops, can have a dramatic influence on the collective consciousness of the whole society, Vasishtha says.In the context of explaining Yogic Flying, Vasishtha teaches Rama the whole story of health and disease. The cause of all disease, Vasishtha explains, is restricted awareness, the inability to grasp the total picture of reality. The cure for this mistake of the intellect, the cure for this ignorant perception of reality according to Vasishtha, is the experience of the total potential of natural law at the moment of liftoff in Yogic Flying. Thus Yogic Flying according to the Yoga Vasishtha is the supreme technology for creating perfect health. These chapters, called Yogasara in the literature, contain the essence of the knowledge of Yoga. This is the core teaching of Yoga in the Yoga Vasishtha.
Download or read book Transcendental Meditation written by Jack Forem and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
