The Maharishi Effect A Personal Journey Through the Movement That Transformed American Spirituality 1st Edition by Geoff Gilpin 1585425079 9781585425075
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ISBN 10: 1585425079
ISBN 13: 9781585425075
Author: Geoff Gilpin
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.
The Maharishi Effect A Personal Journey Through the Movement That Transformed American Spirituality 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 – Maharishi’s Final Warning
Chapter 2 – The Movement
Chapter 3 – A Simple Technique
Chapter 4 – The Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge
Chapter 5 – The Jerusalem Experiment
Chapter 6 – The Department of Development of Consciousness
Chapter 7 – Sensual Desires
Chapter 8 – Fairfield Life
Chapter 9 – Supreme Political Science
Chapter 10 – Bliss Ninnies
Chapter 11 – Perfect Health
Chapter 12 – The Brain Integration Report Card
Chapter 13 – Immortality
Chapter 14 – The Enlightenment Course
Chapter 15 – Excommunication
Chapter 16 – The Global Country of World Peace
Chapter 17 – A Long, Strange Trip
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