Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder and leader of Transcendental Meditation (TM), is attempting to make inroads within America’s public schools reports the Fairfield Ledger.
In press conferences carried by satellite uplink across the United States and in Canada the guru’s devotees touted TM as “consciousness-based education.”
Perennial presidential candidate John Hagelin, Maharishi’s pick for the White House, was busy spinning for his mentor.
“Conventional education has failed in its purpose of developing full human ability,” Hagelin told a crowd. “Maharishi’s consciousness-based education focuses on the development of the knower,” he claimed.
Right.
Is that the same educational process that has apparently transformed Hagelin from a Harvard Ph.D. to little more than a stooge for Maharishi?
Maybe that’s the point of “Maharishi…ED,” to persuade people and draw them into orbit around the old guru. This certainly seems to be the case with Hagelin and many other TM enthusiasts.
Another of the guru’s groupies proclaimed that through Maharishi’s teachings “a new world of angelic individuals” might be created.
But public schools are a place for education, not indoctrination according to some spiritual master’s special philosophy.
It appears that Maharishi and his cult following, are hoping to indoctrinate school children.
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