Maharishi introduces the TM-Sidhi Program and the experience of bubbling bliss in Yogic Flying... 1978: Maharishi inaugurates the "Ideal Society Campaign in 108 Countries"... Maharishi creates the World Peace Project... Maharishi formulates his Absolute Theories of Government, Education, Health, Defence, Economy, Management, and Law and Order...
..... The Maharishi is best known as the "Giggling Guru" who brought Transcendental Meditation (TM) to the Beatles, Mia Farrow, and other '60s celebrities.... Most recently, he urged his followers to found the Natural Law Party, headed by Dr. John Hagelin in the United States... In 1992, the Maharishi urged his followers to enter global politics to avert coming global calamity. At his direction, leaders of the Transcendental Meditation movement founded the Natural Law Party and entered political campaigns in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and many other countries.
The Maharishi and Hagelin have both claimed that a small number of advanced meditators forming a "coherence-creating group" in one spot can have amazing effects on others... The movement gathered a few thousand "Yogic flyers" in Washington, D.C. and claimed that as a result of their activity, the local crime rate plummeted. Those outside the movement failed to see any such cause-and-effect relationship. Hagelin has recently suggested that NATO use 2,000 TM experts in Bosnia to create another "coherence-creating group"...
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1944: Maharishi helps organize a 10-day Global Yagya performance by 2000 Vedic Pandits with the intention to bring an end to World War II.
1957: Maharishi states that if one percent of the world’s population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique, there would be no more war.
1963: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Maharishi asks Meditators attending a course on Catalina Island, California, to extend their periods of meditation, helping avert the danger to America and the world.
1974: The “one-percent effect” or Maharishi Effect, predicted by Maharishi in 1957, is verified by significant crime reductions in cities where one percent of the population has learned the Transcendental Meditation technique.
1978: Maharishi’s World Peace Project sends 1400 Yogic Flyers to the five most troubled areas of the world to calm the violence through their group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi® programs.
1980: More than 3000 Yogic Flyers assemble in India for the International Vedic Science Course, creating a timely influence of coherence for India and it’s neighbors.
1988: 7000 students from the Vedic families of India are assembled at Maharishi Nagar near New Delhi to practice Yogic Flying and perform Vedic Yagyas for peace. During this time, the Berlin Wall falls and the Cold War ends. But when the group cannot be maintained financially, new tensions arise in the world.
1983: During a two-month period, 2000 Yogic Flyers gather in the Middle East, reducing war intensity and fatalities in the region.
1984: During the Taste of Utopia conference in Fairfield, Iowa, 7000 Yogic Flyers create the Global Maharishi Effect, producing a wide range of positive effects worldwide. These positive trends were reversed when the assembly ended.
1993: 4000 Yogic Flyers dramatically reduce violent crime in Washington, D.C., during a demonstration project monitored by an independent review board.
1999: Maharishi Universities of World Peace are founded for every time zone to maintain a wave of coherence circling the globe.
2000: Maharishi establishes the Global Country of World Peace to open the world of Unity Consciousness to people of every nation.
2001: Maharishi warns the U.S. government against taking the “path of failure” by responding to terrorism with violence, and offers permanent world peace to every nation through 40,000 Yogic Flying Vedic Pandits in India
2006: TM movement begins $15 million dollar construction project of 12 marble peace palaces in Smith Center, Kansas. This is to be their World Capital of Peace.
2006: There are Katyusha rockets falling in villages and towns all around them, but for the squadron of 30 Israeli Yogic Flyers assembled at a hotel in Israel all is quiet. That's because they have managed to create a shield of invincibility around their gathering place. Now they are calling for another 235 Flyers to come and join them to create a shield that would, they say, cover all of Israel. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1968:
Feb. 15: The Beatles leave for India to study Trancendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Ringo and Maureen are the first to leave 10 days later, complaining about the food and routine. John and George stay almost two months before leaving when it’s rumored the Maharishi had tried to seduce actress Mia Farrow.
March 9: “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” wins four Grammys, including Best Album.
May 14: Lennon and McCartney appear on “The Tonight Show,” not hosted that night by Johnny Carson, but a substitute, Joe Garagiola, who reveals his knowledge of the Beatles by asking which one is Ringo. Also on the show was a somewhat inebriated Tallulah Bankhead.
July 31: The group’s Apple clothing boutique is closed, and the clothing is given away, first to friends, then to the public.
Aug. 7: Harrison and his wife pay a surprise visit to San Francisco, strolling through Golden Gate Park and the Haight-Ashbury district. He later criticizes the hippie lifestyle as "wasteful."
Aug. 14: During the individualistic sessions for “The Beatles (White Album)”, John sing lead vocals on the most bizarre song ever recorded for the group, “What’s the New Mary Jane.” The song is punctuated by the chorus, “What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.” The song is left off the album, and later considered by John’s Plastic Ono Band, but not issued.
Aug. 22: Cynthia files for divorce from John, who had found himself a new romantic and artistic partner in Yoko Ono.
Nov. 11: John and Yoko’s “Unfinished Music No. 1 -- Two Virgins” album is released with a nude front and back cover covered by brown wrappers.
Nov. 13: The psychedelic animated cartoon “Yellow Submarine” premieres. A segment with the song “Hey Bulldog” is shown in British theaters, but omitted from American prints.