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2 • Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 • 3 to the appropriate national sub-site for Meditation organisation. The addition been easier – we think your friends will the part of the world they are in (note of a sunrise effect behind the tree has love this new website,” says National that as we go to press this feature has enhanced its appeal. It will also be used Communications Office Manager Norma Dr Nick Argyle is a yet to be activated). in other promotional materials, including Sullivan, one of the team working on From psychiatrist with a background The UK site was launched on business cards, leaflets, and signs outside the site’s content. “It has a wealth of in both conventional and 22 March at an auspicious Muhurta Transcendental Meditation Centres. A information and includes video clips of alternative medicine. He has – a favourable time according to modified version (see top of front page) doctors and scientists talking about the been a clinician and researcher Maharishi Jyotish, Vedic Astrology. A has been developed for use in places benefits and the scientific research, and in anxiety disorders and a few days later, 58 sub-sites for all the such as Facebook where there may not quotes from celebrities such as David Anxiety Clinical Director in Mental Transcendental Meditation Centres in be room for the words ‘Transcendental Lynch and Oprah Winfrey. In one click, the country were also launched, again Meditation’ in full. you can find the Centre closest to Health. He has worked at a selected Muhurta. where you live or work, just by entering in Cambridge, London, Eventually a section with its own Easy to use your postcode. Booking an introductory to Peace New York and , separate home page will be built on the talk can now be done online. Don’t take and currently works as a The different pages of the website, our word for it, have a look for yourself same platform to provide information by Dr Nick Argyle psychiatrist in Australia and covering such topics as “What is TM?” - we welcome your feedback.” for Meditators about all of Maharishi’s the Pacific, working with programmes. “How is TM different?” and “Why learn Over the next few months the new TM?” have been designed with the help of global website will be rolled out to include Review by Dr Roger Chalmers refugees. He has spoken at A winning logo experts and are easy to navigate. Features links to sites for 80 countries. In this way, many conferences and on include a rotating banner with key we are doing justice to everything that is his enjoyable book elegantly bringing a second element to bear on radio and TV programmes summarises different strategies the problem – darkness is dispelled A key element of the new brand identity benefits such as ‘enlightenment’, ‘inner universal and unique about Transcendental on mental health, stress and is the logo – the tree of knowledge peace’ and ‘stress release’, a column with Meditation, as Dr Peter Warburton for managing anxiety, explaining by bringing light, not by investigating image that Maharishi worked on with testimonials, and a clear call to action explains: “This is a tool to bring Maharishi’s in clear and practical terms how darkness. Transcendental Meditation. Tthey work and for whom they are most From Anxiety to Peace shows how Lawrence Sheaff and other artists many in the middle of the home page in the knowledge more effectively and more Dr Argyle is originally from years ago. This logo stood out as a form of a search box to locate one’s local quickly to the world, to make it more helpful. The tone is positive and hopeful, different therapies help the individual the UK and now lives in clear winner against others that were Transcendental Meditation Centre. accessible to people and to bring about emphasising that anxiety is eminently to move beyond the busy, fragmented, Auckland with his wife treatable, with many useful examples and surface level of thinking – where worry considered, both in external consumer “Recommending someone to learn the Age of Enlightenment more quickly, Jacqueline. They are both research and within the Transcendental Transcendental Meditation has never Heaven on Earth.” n practical insights drawn from the author’s and agitation are all too common – to long experience at the frontline of clinical utilize more fundamentals levels of mind Teachers of Transcendental psychiatry. and intellect, where thinking is naturally Meditation. Dr Argyle distils the essential features calmer, more integrated, harmonious, of different approaches to mental health, effective and progressive. neatly integrating often confusing and Argyle highlights the inextricable link contradictory elements into a unified between mental states and brain functioning, framework. A common theme is that emphasising that all human beings are difficulties are often best solved by endowed with a state-of-the-art computer

What got you environment, your body, while Sthapatya interested in Veda takes care of the next layer, your Transcendental home. Having these in balance certainly Meditation? makes for a more blissful life. Dr Nick Argyle: I What motivated you to train learned as a teenager as a Teacher? as I was interested I trained in 1980. Teaching in the expansion of Transcendental Meditation is a good consciousness and supplement to traditional psychiatry. getting the most out of my brain. I felt I also needed to keep up with my wife there was more to education than who had trained a couple of years was taught in schools. earlier! What benefits did you gain? What results have you seen in In his newly published Establishing a level of inner calm patients who have learned to book, From Anxiety to Peace, has helped me enjoy working as a meditate? Dr Argyle shows how the psychiatrist in stressful circumstances. Rest counteracts anxiety and therapeutic approaches of Having extra rest has enabled me to fatigue while experiencing inner bliss enjoy an active life working, having a lifts mood. People who have had severe modern psychology and family, travelling round the world, illness like psychosis benefit from a psychiatry can be integrated teaching Transcendental Meditation stronger sense of Self which is steady with the natural approach and still staying fresh. and beyond the changes in the relative to healthcare from the Vedic I live in a Maharishi Vastu house we world. I have also trained in Maharishi tradition of India, including built in Auckland. Maharishi Ayur-Veda Ayur-Veda and used this in my practice Transcendental Meditation. takes care of your most immediate to good effect.

4 • Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 • 5 which we must learn to use properly. As and happiness at the most settled and a comprehensive system of natural we learn new skills, we are utilizing more of expanded state of the human mind, the health-care, Maharishi Ayur-Veda, the brain’s vast potential. Conversely, when field of consciousness which underlies which provides many time-tested Book Review A Symphony the body is free from fatigue and imbalances all aspects of experience, thinking methods for promoting balance in the then the operational capacity of our brain and behaviour. Argyle shows how physiology and in our relationship with is enhanced, leading to more rewarding experience of this field of inner peace the environment. of Silence: an experience, clearer thinking and greater is easily accessible to everyone through I highly recommend this concise and happiness. Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation comprehensive overview to anyone Refreshingly, Dr Argyle looks – a simple, effortless technique with who wants to overcome anxiety and Enlightened Vision beyond short-term, problem-oriented scientifically-documented benefits develop inner peace. It is also a useful approaches to anxiety, to consider how for integrated brain functioning, resource for doctors and other health by George Ellis individuals can best achieve personal improved mental and physical health, professionals in guiding patients towards growth towards lasting peace and and better occupational and education effective treatment for anxiety and Symphony of Silence: an Meditation. Each contributor has well-being. Building on the unified performance. greater well-being. Enlightened Vision is the second experienced the inner stillness of framework developed in his exploration From Anxiety to Peace further explores book by George Ellis about Transcendental Consciousness and of psychological therapies, he identifies how the mind-body relationship can From Anxiety to Peace by Dr Nick Argyle Transcendental Meditation. shares their experience from his or her Ellis’s first book, Inside Folsom Prison, was unique perspective. the ultimate source of inner peace be turned to our advantage through is available from Amazon.com A “To read this book, to published in 1979 and drew upon his There are reports from academics, experience of teaching Transcendental including research scientist Dr David listen to this symphony, Meditation in top security prisons in the Orme-Johnson, professor of philosophy . Jonathan Shear, and professor of is to enjoy the infinite Achieving balance with The inspiration for his second book, literature Rhoda Orme-Johnson. melodies of the ‘Song A Symphony of Silence, arose following a Of special interest is a chapter by meeting with Maharishi in 1986, although Jerry Jarvis, who first met Maharishi of Life’. This collection Maharishi Yoga Asana it was only in 2012 that Ellis completed in 1961 and for two decades served compiled by George “In the absolute state of balance, Yoga, the work. It is now available in English as National Director for the and Spanish, with 10 more translations Transcendental Meditation organisation Ellis, this symphony is found the purpose of Asana. The on the way. in the United States. In addition, unboundedness, most exalted state of “Learning the intricacies As the title suggests, the fundamental contributions from musicians, artists, of silence, allows us Totality, Brahm, that alone is eternally of each Asana week message is that there is an inner silence poets, philanthropists, business people to more deeply and stationed in eternity – this is the available to each and every one of us. and a Roman Catholic Deacon all make supreme ideal of Asana.” – Maharishi by week, alerted me to That silence is the source of all our for a fascinating read. There are heart joyously appreciate the thoughts, actions and achievements in warming stories of transformation aharishi said that time the depth of potential great teaching of life life, and it is waiting for us to discover from inside top security prisons, and a spent on Yoga Asanas that each can bring. By it at the quietest level of our own mind. report on the wonderful achievements is a golden time of the revived by Maharishi.” day. Ten people recently combining the postures Just as a symphony is a harmonious of a woman in Guatemala who – Jerry Jarvis enjoyed the 16-lesson Maharishi Yoga combination of different instruments, introduced Transcendental Meditation M together as a daily Ellis’s book brings together stories to orphanages for abandoned children. Asana course, held at Maharishi Garden Village, Rendlesham, and led by Sue commitment, I have felt of transformation from different Lincoln. Among them was a local GP, Dr individuals who practise Transcendental Available from Amazon.com n Lindsay Crockett, who commented that greater energy, greater she would love to be able to prescribe flexibility, and I’ve the course on the NHS. This short course gives a learnt how to listen to Maharishi Ayur-Veda Consultant: Sue Lincoln comprehensive understanding of the the tensions in different nature of Yoga – the unification of Tips for a healthy start to the day individual and cosmic life – as well as parts of my body. By practical training in Yoga postures (Asana) and breathing exercises giving attention to these JJ Rise with the sun. This will be easy abhyanga – a full body sesame oil 30 minutes before your cereal. (Pranayama). tensions I am able to if you go to bed before 10 pm. massage, followed by a warm bath Remember, fruit and milk at the The physical postures of the Waking up early gives you the or shower. same meal are not compatible. Maharishi Yoga Asanas are traditional understand my thoughts best start to your day. 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6 • Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 • 7 Europe’s first Maharishi Peace Palace by Richard Johnson, National Director of Transcendental Meditation, England

“You really have to desire preserved, situated in the Brahmasthan Our national Vastu consultant, John The Maharishi Peace Palace in Erfurt, Germany, viewed from the North-East. (geographical centre) of Germany, in the Renwick, together with our project to have a Maharishi state of Thuringia. management advisor, John McHale, Our visit was hosted by Eckart and carefully reviewed the all-important cost Peace Palace, and then go Lila-Maria Stein, who led the project control aspects of the development, ahead with your plan and to build the Peace Palace and are now together with the terms of contracts its Directors. Every minute of our two with the builders and sub-contractors. focus on every detail. In day stay was spent in discussion with Carrying out extensive research on the end it came out quite our hosts going through their project key components was critical in keeping in tremendous detail. The lessons that within budget. Sourcing materials direct differently from what we we learned strengthened our resolve, from manufacturers to obtain the announced earlier this year, to go ahead keenest prices proved a highly effective originally envisaged – the with construction of the main Peace Palace means of controlling costs. The porch at the main entrance makes a powerful impression. The pillars A view of the exterior walls, showing a panel from the MERU Master in Rendlesham as quickly as possible. Reviewing the wide range of issues Peace Palace was much are adorned with Vedic decorations such as lotus flower reliefs. Builder System, designed by the team of experts in Maharishi Vastu Eckart and Lila-Maria explained their relating to the external and internal architecture at Vlodrop, Holland. bigger than we planned for. strategy of obtaining key investors in the design aspects, David Williams came Everything was organised project, supplemented by donations and away from the visit with many ideas to a bank loan. With 75% of funding in place, make the building a very dignified home by Nature.” – Eckart Stein they had felt sufficiently confident to for Maharishi’s knowledge. He also took proceed with construction. Taking this more than 400 photographs to provide an embers of our Maharishi crucial decision created a momentum inspiring record of the achievement, a few Peace Palace project which inspired all the additional financial of which are shown on the opposite page. team at Maharishi Garden support they needed to complete the We all felt that stepping into and Village, Rendlesham, whole building, including the top floor. experiencing first-hand a completed MSuffolk, travelled to Germany in March to Diana Leighton, a key member of our Maharishi Peace Palace was a huge step see the newly constructed Peace Palace fundraising team, was taking extensive forward and an inspiration to start the at Erfurt – the first of its kind in Europe. notes at this point. construction of our own. The purpose of our visit was to learn Project managing the construction As Eckart said on the Maharishi Members of the team from Maharishi Garden Village in Suffolk (right) The magnificent central hall, with a beautiful marble floor, chandeliers, from the success of the project: how themselves, they used the Master Builder Global Family Chat, on 3 April: “You with their German hosts, Lila-Maria and Eckart Stein (far left) who led and large windows with sunrise detail at the top. funding was secured and costs kept under System developed under Maharishi’s really have to desire to have a Maharishi the project to build the Peace Palace. control, as well as to take note of lessons guidance at MERU, Vlodrop, in Holland. Peace Palace, and then go ahead with gleaned from the project management, This system uses pre-cast wall panels your plan and focus on every detail. In including construction methods, sourcing which incorporate all the beautiful Vedic the end it came out quite differently from of materials and design details. decorations that make such a powerful what we originally envisaged – the Peace Our first glimpse of the Maharishi impression, and in themselves are said to Palace was much bigger than we planned Peace Palace when we arrived in the promote enlightenment before one even for. Everything was organised by Nature.” evening was deeply impressive: illuminated enters the building. These delicately crafted by lights shining inside and out, the features seen from a distance attract the For information about the Maharishi Peace whiteness and purity of the building was visitor to come closer to the building to Palace at Rendlesham: 0845 605 7020 reflected by a fresh fall of snow. Located appreciate them in more detail. The full [email protected] on one hectare of land, the Peace Palace significance of a substantial porch became New Facebook page: https://facebook. is very close to the city centre giving it a clear with its important role of sheltering com/pages/MAHARISHI-PEACE- A view of the main hall showing its many uses as both a lecture room and A spacious guest suite on the first floor. Further accommodation is powerful public presence. Erfurt itself is the visitor while making the transition from PALACE-PROJECT-SUFFOLK- exhibition area. Subtle colours and a lotus design in the marble floor mark located on the top floor. a magnificent historic town, beautifully outside to inside the building. UK/481131605292190 n the exact position of the Brahmasthan (seen here in the foreground).

8 • Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 • 9 measured the severity of post-traumatic Transcendental Meditation practice stress symptoms in refugees before led to three times that drop in post- “We anticipated African refugees and after learning Transcendental traumatic stress symptoms after just Meditation. It showed dramatic 30 days. improvement, but reductions to a non-symptomatic level after just one month of practising Transcendental I didn’t expect this Find relief from Transcendental Meditation, with the Meditation reverses magnitude of change. improvement maintained at 135 days. Forty-two refugees from the the damage caused by The continued Congolese civil war, living in Uganda, trauma improvement at stress were assigned to one of two groups: one that received instruction in A person with post-traumatic stress four months also Transcendental Meditation immediately may be hyper-vigilant, sleep poorly, led us to conclude Study published in academic journal and a control group that waited until distrust others, have memory after the study. The two groups were problems, and have difficulty making that Transcendental matched for age, gender and severity decisions and following them through. Meditation may be of post-traumatic stress symptoms. All Traumatised populations are challenged participants were given a standard test, both by outer circumstances and by a very worthwhile the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder inner conditions that influence their intervention for anyone “Before [Transcendental Checklist (PCL) before learning, and ability to help themselves. As Rees and then again 30 days and 135 days after Travis point out, post-traumatic stress suffering from post- Meditation] I could not symptoms are therefore resistant to learning Transcendental Meditation. traumatic stress.” even imagine myself Both groups had severe post- change by usual therapy. being capable of taking traumatic stress symptoms at the The conclusion reached by the – Colonel Brian Rees, start of the study. For the control authors is that the state of restful care of my children, of group, PCL scores showed an upward alertness gained during Transcendental MD trend, indicating an increase in the Meditation appears to reverse the raising them. I used to damage done by traumatic experiences. severity of their symptoms, during to sponsor 10,000 Africans to learn think I should die and the experimental period. In contrast, The findings of the study replicate earlier research on veterans of Transcendental Meditation within one leave them behind. That PCL scores in the group that learnt year, and to expand the project to Transcendental Meditation went Vietnam, and of Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Vietnam study, Transcendental provide instruction for one million over is why I am so happy from high at baseline, to a non- five years. symptomatic level after 30 days of Meditation was found to be more about TM. It has saved effective in the treatment of veterans practice, and remained low at 135 days. For more information about the Africa me.” A drop of 11 points on this measure than psychotherapy for reducing anxiety, depression, insomnia, alcohol PTSD Relief Project visit http://www. is considered clinically significant – davidlynchfoundation.org/africa visible improvements can be seen. abuse, post-traumatic stress symptoms and stress reactivity. A later study “My mind can function on veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan REFERENCES again, I can sleep again.” found that three months practice of Rees, B, Travis, F, Shapiro, D and Chant, Transcendental Meditation resulted in R (2013), Reduction in Post-traumatic “I was surprised a decrease in anxiety, depression and Stress Symptoms in Congolese Refugees “Meditation helped me to post-traumatic stress symptoms. Practising Transcendental Meditation. to see how quickly Based on the research conducted Journal of Traumatic Stress, 26: pp. 295- feel peace inside again.” Transcendental so far, the authors call for large-scale 298. doi: 10.1002/jts.21790 studies to be carried out, assessing Brooks, J and Scarano, T, Transcendental Meditation practice both quantitative and qualitative Meditation in the Treatment of Post- measures to investigate the effects had an effect on Vietnam Adjustment, Journal of Counselling of Transcendental Meditation on & Development, Vol. 64, Issue 3, pp. new research paper, traumatic stress, observe the authors Army Reserves with over 37 years post-traumatic stress reducing behavioural, psychological and 212–215, Nov 1985. Published online “Reduction in Post- of the study. But, they ask, what about experience of military service) and Fred physiological symptoms resulting from symptoms in these Dec 2011: http://onlinelibrary.wiley. traumatic Stress Symptoms the victims of such violence? These Travis, PhD (Director of the Center for traumatic experiences. in Congolese Refugees victims, many of them forced to flee Brain, Consciousness and Cognition at refugees, who had no com/doi/10.1002/j.1556-6676.1985. APractising Transcendental Meditation”, as refugees, live with the constant Maharishi University of Management, Funding provided by tb01078.x/abstract home, no job and very has just been published in the April 2013 reminder of what war has done to their USA) to carry out this study. Foundation Rosenthal, J, Grosswald, S, Ross, R, Rosenthal, issue of the peer-reviewed academic lives and those of their families. little support from their N, Effects of Transcendental Meditation in journal, the Journal of Traumatic Stress Could Transcendental Meditation be Dramatic reductions to The African refugees study was funded Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (Volume 26, Issue 2, pp. 295-298). an effective antidote to post-traumatic a non-symptomatic level environment.” by the , and Operation Iraqi Freedom with Post- It is now recognised that a significant stress for such individuals? This was after just one month – Fred Travis, PhD working in partnership with African traumatic Stress Disorder: A Pilot Study: percentage of soldiers returning the question that prompted Colonel PTSD Relief to help the victims of Military Medicine, Vol. 176, No 6, June 2011 from wars exhibit symptoms of post- Brian Rees, MD (a Colonel in the US The randomised control study war in Africa. 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10 • Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 Transcendental Meditation News • June 2013 • Vol. 19 • No. 7 • 11 “In any event, I became a Maharishi University of Management. Transcendental Meditation Teacher, wanting to share my experience with I had 200 percent of life. The Hollywood “There was a others. After teaching in Laguna Beach I never missed anything. and elsewhere, I was fortunate to be I just knew this was the long period of able to teach my father, who had very fine experiences which changed his way to go. entire attitude toward life, and I also learning how to Recently Zierold was interviewed taught my favourite aunt, and saw to by Tony Ellis for an article in The it later that my mother learned too.” biogr apher who live life the hard Fairfield Source. He spoke about the Recollections of turn in his life that led to a more way and then a spiritual direction when he learnt to Maharishi meditate, or as Ellis puts it, when “he period of learning Zierold’s recollections of meetings relinquished the life of a bon vivant and found bliss with Maharishi include a charming traded in his evening cocktails for a how to do it the incident on his Teacher Training mantra.” Course in Villars, Switzerland, in 1973. Ellis: “You were right there in Published in January this year, That Reminds Me is a charming conversational easy way.” “I remember we were always the middle of two important and very hearing rumours that Maharishi was opposite trends of the ’60s: the self- memoir by the celebrated Hollywood biographer, Norman Zierold, in which he coming, but each time the rumours indulgent celebrity culture and the reminisces on six decades of extraordinary encounters with some of the greatest stars whirled about he remained absent. awakening to the spiritual wisdom One morning I awoke very early, and from the East. In a way, you went from and personalities of his time. In 1972, Zierold added a keystone to the arch of his the thought came to me strongly to sinner to saint, and that is fascinating.” go to the window. Well, it was 5:30 Zierold: “Absolutely, I did go life story, beginning the practice of Transcendental Meditation, which he found so in the morning and I was still sleepy, through that. And the spiritual trend personally satisfying that he completed training as a Teacher and taught the technique but then the thought came again, more has totally dominated the second half sharply, ‘Go to the window’. This time of my life.” to many hundreds of people. At different stages of his memoirs, he writes about this I rushed to that window and pulled up Ellis: “Do you ever have any and the influence that Maharishi’s teaching has had on him, for as he points out: “At the shade – just in time to see a falling moments of regret about the life that star whirling through space.” you gave up to pursue the spiritual?” every stage of my life, wisdom from his lectures comes back to guide me.” Later that day he heard from other Zierold: “No, because I didn’t course participants that Maharishi had really give it up. I still continued arrived. They urged him to be the first writing whenever I wanted to. I had orn in 1927, Norman Zierold he fulfilled his lifelong calling to become Meditation initially, Laguna Beach helped. speaker in the initial meeting with 200 percent of life. I never missed grew up in the Amana colonies, a writer. His books include several My writing career earlier took me to Maharishi. anything. I just knew this was the way a Christian community west Hollywood biographies: The Child Stars, , to Hollywood specifically, “So I told the story about the to go.” of Iowa City. After the war The Moguls: Hollywood’s Merchants of and then to Laguna Beach, when life in falling star, as I just told it here. Ellis: “Is it possible to encapsulate Bhe took a degree in political science at Myth, Garbo, and Sex Goddesses of the the fast lane started to pall on me.” Maharishi laughed and laughed as only your life experience in a few Harvard University, and then furthered Silent Screen. He saw a poster for an introductory he could. And then he said, ‘And now, sentences?” his studies by earning a graduate degree The famous personalities he talk on a telephone pole. He decided to it’s good it’s fallen.’ More laughter!” Zierold: “There was a long in English Literature at the University encountered and who feature in his go along, thinking that Maharishi would It was many years later, in 1983 period of learning how to live life the of Iowa. His penchant for meeting memoirs include Andy Warhol, Mae be there. during a visit to Fairfield, the home of hard way and then a period of learning famous people manifested even in these West, Groucho Marx, Rex Harrison, “He wasn’t, but a peppy young Maharishi University of Management, how to do it the easy way.” early years. As a student he fell into a Richard Burton and the composer man of 18 or 19 held forth about that Maharishi made a remark that This last remark is a fitting tribute conversation with Dylan Thomas quite Francis Poulenc. There are many Transcendental Meditation and seemed Zierold says most influenced him. to Maharishi’s teaching and the by chance when the poet was visiting fascinating anecdotes, such as his stories so happy that I thought I’d start, which “He said, ‘Why waste your life on principle of effortlessness in action. Iowa City for a reading of his work. of working with Anthony Quinn on his I did. It was pleasant, though nothing such little, little things.’ ... it rang in my However, there is one regret that Following university, Zierold spent autobiography in Libya, whilst the actor special for several months.” ears for several years.” Zierold does admit to. two years in France on a teaching filmed Lion in the Desert. While Maharishi’s remark clearly “I have my undergraduate assistantship where he landed a job One glorious day I awoke meant different things to different degree from Harvard, cum laude, teaching English to the President’s son. A new direction feeling saturated with bliss people, for Zierold it was the no less. However, while it’s a very He recalls the wonderful moment of inspiration that led him to devote good traditional school, it does not sitting down with the President and his It was in the 1970s that Zierold’s life “Then I went to a weekend residence a period of his life to the Purusha address the fundamental need to gain family at their private residence to watch took a new direction. In 1972 he learnt course. Meditating for several rounds Programme, the coherence creating Enlightenment. My regret then, is that the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Transcendental Meditation and found it must have released a huge amount of programme for single men that is I was not able to learn Transcendental Returning to America, he went so satisfying that he trained to become stress, because one glorious day I awoke dedicated to extended practice of the Meditation much earlier in life and go to New York where he worked for a Teacher. He was soon to be found feeling saturated with bliss. Not just for Transcendental Meditation and TM- on to study at MUM. Mind you, MUM several entertainment magazines, teaching the technique in California’s one hour or one day, but day after day Sidhi Programme. did not exist when I was choosing a becoming editorial director of Theatre beautiful village resort of Laguna Beach. for over a year. It no doubt went on After nearly 20 years on this college, so I did the best I could.” Arts Magazine. Eventually he went to He explains how his involvement came even after that, but I was now so used programme he moved to Fairfield, Los Angeles, where he mixed with the about. to feeling good that the contrast with Iowa, where he remains to this That Reminds Me by Norman Zierold is stars of Hollywood, and it was here that “As for how I came to Transcendental my prior state was not so strong. day, working in Media Relations at available from Amazon.co.uk n

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