Maharishi prof hopes to use algae to produce fuel

The Chicago Tribune, July 22, 2008
[Excerpt] “You know that greenish tinge the swimming pool gets when you run out of chlorine? . . . What if you could use that to run your car? Some researchers believe thats possible. And the state is considering a proposal from Maharishi University of Management to create an algae bioreactor.” Full Story

Maharishi University meals transcend mundane cafeteria food

The Des Moines Register, March 6, 2008
[Excerpt] “Food served in the dining hall of the new $7.5 million Argiro Student Center of the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield is 100 percent vegetarian, and almost exclusively organic.” Full Story

A New Campus, According to Ancient Principles

insidehighered.com, January 28, 2008
[Excerpt] “We want the students to have every possible advantage for the growth of their health, the growth of their well-being, and the personal growth from within. When we have the prospect of a system of architecture that is said to promote clarity of thought, greater well-being…then we thought, ‘Well, that’s just terrific.’” Full Story

Calm amid college storm

The Daily Iowan, December 18, 2007
[Excerpt] "The whole learning model [at Maharishi University] is just different; I remember stuff and am like: how did I learn that?" said Tricia Spurio, a student at the university. Full Story

They find it easy being green

The Des Moines Register, December 19, 2006
[Excerpt] Maharishi University in Fairfield is establishing itself as a leader in sustainable living architecture among Iowa’s institutions of higher learning. Full Story (PDF)

Transcendental Iowa:
They're seriously meditating in Fairfield, Iowa

The Washington Post, by Gary Lee,Staff Writer,
November 12, 2006
[Excerpt] While other '70s-era spiritual movements are fading, Transcendental Meditation — or TM, a relaxation and awareness technique — is thriving here...With this heavy accent on healthy living, it's no wonder that Mother Jones magazine, the bible for the ecologically minded, earlier this year named Fairfield among the dozen best places to live that you've never heard of. Full Story (PDF)

Conference Promotes Meditation in School

The Boston Globe, by Cristina Silva, Staff Writer,
May 6, 2006
[Excerpt] Twenty minutes of silence twice daily can help boost students' grades, improve their social skills, and ignite their creativity. That's the message Transcendental Meditation practitioners brought to more than 100 Boston-area educators yesterday during a three-hour conference on how to help students overwhelmed by social pressures and the stress of getting into college. Full Story (PDF)

Review: “Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity,” a new book by filmmaker David Lynch

Variety, by Cheryl Biggs, January 14, 2007
[Excerpt] Lynch maintains meditating enhances compassion — and the ability to help others... “You start diving down and experiencing this ocean of pure love, pure peace — you could say pure compassion,” he observes. “You experience it by being it. Then you go out into the world and you can really do something for people.” Full Story

“Trend of Meditation Remedies Grows on Campuses”

The Penn State Daily Collegian, by Rachel Spivak,
Staff Writer, December 9, 2005
[Excerpt] A growing trend in the country that may reduce stress, create clearer thinking and help academic achievement is here. And it's not in pill form.... Transcendental Meditation is hitting the mainstream via universities and training sessions across the country. Full Story (PDF)

“Filmmaker Starts Foundation to Help Students Chill Out-with Transcendental Meditation”

The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Eric Hoover
March 25, 2005
[Excerpt] In the late 1960s, college students closed their eyes, expanded their minds, and made meditation popular on campuses. Now filmmaker David Lynch wants them to do it again....Mr. Lynch is scheduled to announce today the establishment of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, an organization that will promote the mental and physical benefits of Transcendental Meditation. Full Story (PDF)

St Louis Post Dispatch, March 25, 2005
[Excerpt] College life at Maharishi U. in southeastern Iowa ... includes eating organic vegetarian meals in the cafeteria, taking one course at a time in month-long blocks, hitting the hay at 10 p.m. and meditating twice a day. Full Story (PDF)

“Meditation helps students”

International Herald Tribune,by Dana Micucci,
February 15, 2005
[Excerpt] New research appears to be strengthening the case for teaching Transcendental Meditation in U.S. schools, showing it to be a means to improve the concentration of students and a way to enhance their physical and mental well being. Proponents say that students who meditate daily are calmer, less distracted and less stressed and less prone to violent behavior. Full Story

Mind over markets: meditation is helping millions get focused, stay healthy — and make money

Barron’s, by Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal
April 19, 2004
[Excerpt] For some traders and corporate professionals who have been practicing meditation techniques, conjuring inner markets — and then winning in real ones — it isn't just a dream. "If your mind is clear, you're going to be able to get into the rhythm of the market better," says Arjuna Martlin, 29, a successful day trader in Chicago and an ardent practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, one of the most popular forms of meditation in the U.S. Full Story (PDF)

Meditation for Moppets

Business Week, March 29, 2004
[Excerpt] Several decades of academic studies show beneficial effects of TM in adults, including lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol . . . Now, researchers are finding that even in children, this technique of deep relaxation can reduce anxiety and improve everything from blood pressure to creativity and self-esteem. Full Story (PDF)

Higher Learning — Maharishi Prep

The New Yorker, March 22, 2004
[Excerpt] Pollack has been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation since he was ten years old, and he, along with a handful of other junior meditators, had been drafted by the New York Committee for Stress-Free Schools to demonstrate just how fantastically healthful and helpful a state of what was described as “restful alertness” could be for the city’s teen-agers. Full Story

The Science of Meditation

Time Magazine, August 4, 2003
[Excerpt] “It’s easy to spend a lot of time worrying and obsessing, but meditation puts me in a blissful place,” says [actress Heather] Graham, who typically meditates for 20 minutes when she wakes up and then again in the afternoon. “At the end of the day, all that star stuff doesn't mean anything. Transcendental Meditation reminds you that it’s how you feel inside that’s important. If you have that, you have everything.”
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