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Patanjali's Eight Stages of Yoga and Meditation Art & Science of Meditation Mahesh Yogi's scientific research on meditation:
In 1970 the first scientific study on the Transcendental Meditation technique was published in the Journal of Science. In the early 70s, courses on the Science of Creative Intelligence and Maharishi's unified theory of life were offered at universities such as Stanford, Yale, University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin and Oregon State University. From the mid-1970s, the Maharishi began to target businesses, professionals, adapting his message to promise "increased creativity and flexibility, increased productivity, improved job satisfaction, improved relations with supervisors and co-workers." Maharishi began teaching advanced mental techniques called the TM-Siddhi Program which included a technique for the development of what he termed Yogic Flying. The program was said to create the Maharishi Effect. Based on studies which reported that in US cities where 1 percent of the population meditated the crime rate dropped. Maharishi stated that 30 minutes of TM morning and evening by 1 percent of the population would "dispel the clouds of war for thousands of
years."
Maharishi believed the knowledge of the Vedas had been lost and found many times and its recurrence is outlined in the Bhagavad-Gita and in the teachings of Buddha and Shankara. He came out to teach with the "avowed intention"
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