Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa

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index ° 209 index ashrams, 162 Assembly of God, 43 astral beings, 147 astrology, 35, 119, 121, 163 AT&T, 73, 137 atheists, 30 Atlanta (Georgia), 55 Austin (Texas), 25, 130 authors, 11, 62, 137–38, 142–43, 145, 162–66 Ayurvedic medicines, 29, 49–51, 119, 152, 156–57, 161, 169. See also Vedic Medicine Baby Boomers, 1–3, 5–6, 10–12, 17, 22, 51, 75, 81, 120–22, 128, 153–54, 156, 157, 179, 189 Badgett, Candace, 174 Badgett, Rogers, 174 Bahr, Tim, 187–88 Bainbridge, William Sims, 20, 22, 23, 35, 157–58 Baltimore (Maryland), 127–28 Baltimore Sun, 68 Banner Preschool, 123 Baptist church, 42 Barhydt Memorial Chapel, 54–55, 76, 77 Beach Boys, 20, 54 Beall, Richard, 10, 109–12, 115–16, 118, 119, 121, 123–24, fig. 14 The Beatles, 1, 9, 20, 54, 57, 75, 148 Beckley, Edward J., 142–43 Belilove, Jim, 140–41 Bergman, Ingmar, 74 Berkeley (California), 20, 123 Berkowitz, Marc, 42, 43 Beth Hillel synagogue, 123 Beth Shalom synagogue, 29, 41–43 Bhagavad Gita, 2, 118 Biden, Joseph, 134 Bloom, Benjamin S., 120 Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, 185 Books Are Fun, 145–46, 149 Bordow, Laura, 10, 111, 112, 120–24 Bormann, Jill, 187 Boston Consulting Group, 136 Bourque, Judith, 13, 147–48, 150 Boyer, Connie, 60–63, 66, fig. 7 Boyer, Robert, 62, 94 Boyum, Kent, 168, 169, 172, 174, 175 Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation, 139, 194n10 Brahmans, 175 Brahmasthan, 139 Brand, Russell, 34, 54–55, 58 Brase, Mark, 38–39 Brennan Healing Science, 9 210 ° index Bridgewater Associates L.P., 12, 58 Brook Farm, 12 Brooks, James, 95 Broyles, Dean R., 32–33 Bryant, Miles T., 88, 120 Bu-Jews, 40 Buddhism, 2, 19, 40, 184–86 Bush, George H. W., 133–34 businesses: of Amana Colonies, 6; in Fairfield, 10, 14–15, 51, 125–44, 189; meditation in, 14, 31, 58, 64, 184; of meditators, 3–4, 10, 145–46, 148–49; in MVC, 172–73; study at MUM, 83, 84; support of MSAE, 124. See also entrepreneurs Butler, Joshua, 91, 97, 98 Butler, Evelyn, 91, 92, 97–99, 102 Butler, Khaldun, 91, 92, 97–99, 102 Butler, Levi Andelin, 89, 95, 97–104, fig. 3 Café Paradiso, 8, 126, fig. 5 California: Andy Puddicombe in, 186; Butler lawsuit in, 97–98; Doug Hamilton in, 47; fundraising in, 58; Levi Bulter in, 89, 90; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in, 19, 155; meditation training in, 10, 30–33, 47, 55, 56, 123, 185; meditators from, 51; TM movement in, 20, 55, 56, 155; university in, 16, 39, 75; Vedanta Society center in, 19; Vivekanada in, 18 Cambridge Investment Research, 126, 129–32, fig. 9 Campbell, Joseph, 19 Canter, Peter H., 182–83 Capital of the Global Country of World Peace, 173–74 Caplan, Jimmy, 24–25 Carolina International School, 123–24 Carson, Johnny, 142 Catholics, 5, 28–29, 43–46, 64, 83, 180 celebrities, 11–12, 20, 22, 34, 54–55, 57–59, 75, 155, 185 celibacy, 13, 35, 36, 41, 147–50. See also sexual relations Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE), 30–33, 55, 56. See also education Chabad Lubavitch rabbis, 42. See also Lubavitchers “Change Begins Within” weekends, 54 Charlotte Observer, 68 Chicken Soup for the Soul series, 11, 146 children and young people, 13, 38, 43, 153–54, 157, 159–60, 172–82, 183 Chopra, Deepak, 145, 161–62 The Christian Century, 39 Christian Scientists, 33, 34, 43 Christianity, 5, 6, 29, 32–33, 37–38, 40, 41, 45, 46, 61, 62, 99, 150, 153, 160, 185. See also Jesus Christ; Western audience Christmas, 19 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Mormons Church of Scientology, 14 churches, 14, 37–38, 41, 43–44 Clemens, Samuel, 112 clergy, 39, 46, 74 Clifford, Jonathan, 176, 177 CNN, 3, 11, 12, 34, 58 cognitive function, 183 college campuses, 20, 25, 79–80, 108, 172 College of the Desert, 91 Collins, Stephen, 58–59, 67 Community of True Inspiration, 6 compassion meditation, 186 competition, 117–18, 137, 161–62 computer science, 71–73, 82–84, 86, 197n2. See also Internet consciousness, 9, 21, 26, 44–45, 71, 73, 80–81, 110, 111, 114–16, 127, 129, 139, 169, 173, 198n2 index ° 211 Consciousness-Based Books, 72, 73, 197n2 Constitution of the Universe, 168 Constitution of the Universe Golf and Learning Center, 174–75 Cosmic Consciousness, 21. See also consciousness Cosmic Intelligence, 29, 169...