Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and governmentAbout the AuthorsKenneth L. Cavanaugh is Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics,Department of Management and Public Affairs, and Fellow,Institute of World Peace, at Maharishi University of Management. Heformerly served as Dean of International Affairs and University Secretaryat Maharishi University of Management. Dr. Cavanaugh receivedhis B.A. from Yale University in 1964, Master of Public Affairs (withspecialization in International Affairs) from the Woodrow WilsonSchool of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in1969, MA. in Education from the Graduate School of Education atStanford University in 1973, and Ph.D. in Economics in 1983 fromthe University of Washington. His current area of research includeseffects of the group practice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs on international relations and economicdevelopment. Dr. Cavanaugh’s papers have appeared in the Proceedingsof the American Statistical Association, Journal of International Money andFinance, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, and Journal of Social Behaviorand Personality.Paul Gelderloos (Ph.D.) received his doctorate at the University ofNijmegen, the Netherlands. In 1983 he joined the faculty of MaharishiUniversity of Management. It was during this time that he conductedthe research on the Maharishi Effect and its impact on the U.S. qualityof life as well as the international relationship between the U.S. andthe former Soviet Union. Two papers resulted, included in this volume.He also published several studies on the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs and psychological measures such as fieldindependence and psychological health; as well as theoretical papers onthe development of consciousness. He spent time in India, Thailand,and Russia, where he taught almost 5,000 people the TranscendentalMeditation technique. He then returned to the Netherlands, his homecountry, and became a very successful businessman in the Internetindustry. In recent years he has focused on creating invincibility for theNetherlands and for India, by organizing groups of practitioners of theTM and TM-Sidhi programs, by acquiring schools in Holland and bysupporting the Maharishi Vedic Pandit project in India.456