Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his

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 Legal fight over calming technique lacks harmony
 Heavenly Mountain tract to be sold
 Meditation school to transfer to state sector
 Flying yogis and flying millions
 Trance 101
 Just Say 'Om': The Fab Two Give a Little Help to a Cause
 And now children, it's time for your yogic flying lesson
 Meditation-based Maharishi University expected to settle lawsuit over student's stabbing death in Iowa
 Trial set in 2004 stabbing at Maharishi University
 David Lynch makes Laura Harring a Goodwill Ambassadort
 Towns meditate on fate of peace palace project
 Need 450 acres near Disney? Get ready to fork over $150M
 Smith Center residents balk at Peace Palaces
 More pandits arrive, with goal of hosting 1,050
 Maharishi group faces building fines
 Vedic City woman charges herbs caused lead poisoning
 Sites for 'Maharishi Effect' (Welcome to Parma) Spread Across U.S.
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 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies
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 Gurus Transcend Party Politics
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 Mini Santiniketan, Scotland-style
 Vedic City's annexation plan approved by state
 Songwriter expresses anger over eminent domain issue
 $3.5m city tower
 Top researchers criticize new meditation and health study
 Maharishi's Minions Come to Wall Street
 Vedic City considers eminent domain to seize farmer's land
 Maharishi, Mayfield Hts. head to court
 Ok, kids, chill out: Children as young as 10 are picking up Transcendental Meditation, and they're not the only ones feeling good about it
 Pandits come for peace
 Maharishi sees Peace Palaces; others see pipe dreams
 Transcendental Life
 David Lynch's Shockingly Peaceful Inner Life
 Filmmaker David Lynch is leading a meditation revival
 A Guru And A Vacant Hotel
 Montgomery to Maharishi: Thanks but no thanks
 'Peace palace' planned for Springs
 Developer gets OK for Delta expansion
 Guru wants to build peace palace
 Yogi's group chooses 3 Cuyahoga sites for 'Peace Palaces'
 Om on the Grange
 Another Cult Classic from David Lynch
 Hansen: Iowa meditators shield Lebanon, rally stocks
 Marin school drops meditation club
 California school loses funds over meditation controversy
 High School's Club Called 'Religion,' 'Cult' By Parents
 Plans for meditation at Terra Linda High don't soothe everyone
 Outer Peace
 A lotus amid the Iowa corn
 Group's Plan Causes Tension in Kansas Town
 Transcendental Meditation: Bliss! Hippy days are here again
 Dissociative bliss becomes addictive
 Maharishi to build World Capital of Peace in Kansas
 Mind Medicine: What Proof?
 Maharishi sued for not protecting students
 Maharishi's group announces plans for university, school in Lancaster
 Maharishi: All you need is love ... and cash
 Too Good to Be True? Dutch Yogis Offer 15% Bond
 Man fails to fly sues Camelot owner (Part 4)
 Yogic flyers plan palace
 Man who stabbed student sent back to mental facility
 World Peace may come to Danbury
 Camelot owner hopes for "Peace Palace" (Part 3)
 Camelot Owners Responsible for National Pattern (Part 2)
 Once Grand Camelot Hotel Had a Quick Demise (Part 1)
 Judge asked to find suspect insane
 Ex-Maharishi student not guilty of murder by insanity
 M.U.M. murder trial set to begin Tuesday
 Peace group has big plans for Black Dirt
 Authors: Meditate, prolong your life
 Sem waives his right to jury trial
 Bouncing to a higher consciousness
 S.E. Iowa town set to run its own college
 Maharishi finds buyer for transcendent mess
 Flyaway peace palaces
 Trial Set For Student Stabbing
 Meditation advocates hope to convert the schools
 Meditation enters schools
 Big mantra on campus
 Windham family finds peace in meditation
 Meditation and the art of capital-raising
 Maharshi Murder Proceedings Suspended
 Sem found incompetent to stand trial
 Competency hearing scheduled for July 19
 Spiritual Center tells TM residents to vacate
 Student Accused Of Fatal Stabbing Stays Put
 Sem to use insanity defense at murder trial
 Maharishi Vedic School looks to be sold
 Future of Heavenly Mountain disputed
 Meditation Controversy
 Charter school eyes Aug. opening
 Sem pleads not guilty
 Trouble in transcendental paradise as murder rocks the Maharishi University
 Weed, meth nabbed
 Students organizing cultural exchange
 Vedic City to break ground on housing for 500
 Vedic City Plans World Peace Meditation
 Proponents want schools to introduce meditation
 Time to reflect called religion
 Avon Lake mayor wants resort declared blighted
 Tell us about the most money you ever wasted
 Judge delays murder suspect ruling
 Reporting policies vary at Iowa's private colleges
 Maharishi Student Accused Of 2 Stabbings In 1 Day
 Student dies in stabbing at Maharishi University
 Iowa legislators consider alternative health care bill
 TM officials say money is in place for 500 from India
 Meditate On This
 Meditating on a lost party
 Trailing in polls, Kucinich gains loyal following in Fairfield area
 Boy Scouts see effects of drug abuse
 Vedic City voters add Maharishi to name
 The Maharishi's Hotel of Emptiness
 Vedic City officials meet with supervisors
 Seeds of peace and carrots
 M.U.M. celebrates 30th anniversary, advocates meditation in education
 CIDA, the innovative university in central Johannesburg, has parted ways with a major sponsor, audit firm KPMG, after disagreements about the use of Transcendental Meditation (TM)
 Relax: Denver to vote on stress-reducing referendum
 TM courses halted as fees soar
 Ex-Beatles bud sells Blackstone
 Celebrities push for Transcendental Meditation center in L.A.
 Divine intervention fails to get back investors' money
 Vedic City drops bid for sales tax money
 Meditators Eyeing Bay State 'Peace Palace'
 Spiritual center must pay taxes
 Peace palace proposed for Marin
 Peace Palace a place to ponder
 Beatles photos with Mahesh Yogi to be displayed
 Think Peace
 M.U.M.'s Hagelin plans "second government"
 M.U.M. asks county to help secure funding
 Vedic City gets Rebuild Iowa grant for environmental projects
 M.U.M. building dorms in Vedic City
 Labor union sues Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
 Dutch National Bank signals warning regarding Maharishi's money
 Group Founded by Beatles Guru in Dutch Money Probe
 Maharishi Fund OKs $14 million price for right of way
 Vedic City Working To Outlaw Non-organic Food
 Panel offers $4 million extra for SH 121 land
 'King of the world' preaches peace through 'yogic flying'
 Where all roads lead to om
 Meditation movement's big plans have often come to little ends
 Maharishi's town puts its own mark on money
 Taking a Yogic Flier on 'Peace Bonds'
 Natural Law Party sues over Kansas law
 Natural Law Party sues over Kansas law restricting party names
 Guru's disciples find peace in crime-ridden estate
 All he's saying is . . .
 Payoff is limited as sect issues notes
 Town sees mass meditation as way to world peace
 Group's 'governor' says meditation could put an end to wars
 Mystic Plans Skyscraper Despite WTC Attack
 All you need is funds
 Peace Could Be Just a 'Yogic' Hop Away
 Peace answer seen in 40,000
 Maharishi says
 Mystic's followers wants own country
 Voters give overwhelming 'yes' to new city
 Hindu principle guides community
 In Many Ways, a New Iowa Town Looks to East
 Yogic flyers crash out of British politics
 Property Tax Commission Rules Against Maharishi Spiritual Center
 Natural Law deputy floats in for visit
 M.U.M. reveals plans for Barhydt Chapel
 State Board may decide on new city next month
 Officials raise questions about Vedic City
 The Reform Party, feelin' guru-vy
 Roo the day
 Maharishi eyes Colony project
 Reform's John Hagelin, Transcending Politics
 Building will help creativity
 Dodging the Yogic Fliers
 A Search for Serenity
 Meditating and making money
 Thinking man's magician flirted with political career
 Dispute over meditation center in Rheinsberg
 Maharishi's followers have integrated into small Iowa town
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 Reclusive Guru's in Battle to Demolish Historic Dutch Monastery
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 TM's Deceptions
 The Guru Scene
 Group Says Movement a Cult
 Man Who Said He Didn't Get To Fly Awarded $138,000
 Sexy romps of the Beatle's giggling guru


Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
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