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CHAPTER VII<br />

THE SIXTH BEATLE<br />

(MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI)<br />

Physicist John S. Hagelin ... has predicted that Maharishi’s<br />

influence on history “will be far greater than that of Einstein<br />

or Gandhi” (Gardner, 1996).<br />

You could not meet with Maharishi without recognizing instantly<br />

his integrity. You look in his eyes and <strong>the</strong>re it is<br />

(Buckminster Fuller, in [Forem, 1973]).<br />

Maharishi’s entire movement revolves around ... faith in his<br />

supposed omniscience (Scott, 1978).<br />

BORN IN 1918, THE MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI graduated with a<br />

physics degree from <strong>the</strong> University of Allahabad. Soon <strong>the</strong>reafter,<br />

he received <strong>the</strong> system of Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) from<br />

his “Guru Dev,” Swami <strong>Brahma</strong>nand Saraswati, who occupied <strong>the</strong><br />

“nor<strong>the</strong>rn seat” of yoga in India, as one of four yogic “popes” in <strong>the</strong><br />

country. He practiced yoga for thirteen years under Guru Dev, until<br />

<strong>the</strong> latter’s death in 1953. The Maharishi (“Great Sage”) <strong>the</strong>n<br />

traveled to London in 1959 to set up what was to become a branch<br />

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