Word: maharishi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Epstein died last week, the Beatles were some 225 miles away in Wales, getting initiated into an Indian mystic cult led by one Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -a recent enthusiasm of theirs. All four Beatles rushed back to London, making statements like John's, "We loved Brian...
Transcendental Meditation can improve your grades, make you a better citizen, assure you of a higher salary, alleviate world suffering, and increase the productivity of the national economy, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi promised an overflow crowd of about 200 in Leverett House Junior Common Room last night...
After David Katz, President of the Yale chapter of the International Meditation Society had been laughed down attempting to explain the Indian mystic's philosophy, Maharishi appeared, half an hour late. He was a slight, dark man with a gray beard who dressed in long white robes and carried a bouquet of flowers...
...Maharishi described how, through meditation, a person could perceive his thoughts at progressively deeper levels of consciousness and eventually arrive at the blissful state where his consciousness had reached its absolute limits...
When students attempted to pin Maharishi down on just how to attain this expanded consciousness, he insisted that it was impossible to describe to a group and could be explained only in a private session with an instructor...