Transcendental Meditation

Movement·Founded 1958 CE·The organisation says several million people have been taught the technique since 1955. How many still practise is not published and has never been independently counted.

Vedic Religion → Hinduism → Transcendental Meditation

Branch

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
Rishikesh, February 1968. The Beatles arrived at Maharishi's ashram and left again in acrimony, and the technique became famous in about eight weeks. The movement gained the world and spent thirty years arguing about the price. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

Maharishi's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1–6 (1967)

Science of Being and Art of Living (1963)

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