by David J. Bardin, Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & KahnWashington Counsel for American Family Foundation (AFF) and Cult Awareness Network (CAN) He’s really not so transcendental A true master of mental manipulation has targeted Washington, D.C. Hecalls himself Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. His devotees adore him, simply, as“Maharishi.” He sells Transcendental Meditation,…
Organization and "Front Group" names used by the TM movement
World Government of the Age of Enlightenment
World Plan Executive Council – U.S. (WPEC-US) – umbrella
International Meditation Society – listed on brochures as Educational Service of World Plan Executive Council”
Students International Meditation Society
American Association for Ideal Education – copyright holder on recent brochures (1991)
Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation (1959)
Publishing
Age of Enlightenment Press
MIU PressSchools – Colleges – UniversitiesMaharishi International University (Fairfield, Iowa, USA) –
accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges
and Schools. Organizations based at MIU:Institute for Law, Consciousness and the Science of Creative Intelligence (1979)
Institute of World Leadership (1983)
Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Maharishi Institute of Management
American Association for Ideal Education – copyright holder on recent brochures (1991)
MIU College of Natural Law – the now defunct college based in Washington, DC; was licensed by the DC Educational Institution Licensure Commission, according to an MIU brochure (1982)
Maharishi European Research University, Seelisberg, Switzerland – alleged to be a few desks in the movement’s hotel there
Maharishi University of Natural Law, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire England – is officially unrecognized.
Maharishi Vedic University – A corporate entity that has no campus, no course catalogue and no students
Maharishi Ayur-Vedic University – is a heading in MIU’s gopher server, status unknown
Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, Age of Enlightenment School – Elementary and secondary schools for grades K-12 in Fairfield and Washington, DCCenters / Informal Groups / Etc.
Capital of the Age of Enlightenment, World Plan Center – the local TM center
Ideal Village Council
Sidha Village
Association of Executive Governors
Non-profit Corporations
Global Television, Inc. – Former owner of KSCI(TV), Channel 18, San Bernadino (Los Angeles), CA
For-profit Corporations and Projects
Maharishi Ayur-Veda Products Inc, Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA
Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Corporation
Vedaland
American City Project
Politics
Natural Law Party
Maharishi European Council of Natural Law PartiesCompiled by Mike Doughney, mike@access.digex.net
Salvation Road – 26-page teacher’s guide
“Salvation Road,” a play by Dolores Gregory, was performed at the New York University Steinhardt School of Educational Theatre on October 26 and November 4, 2012.
Jonathan Jones, Program Administrator at Steinhardt, and Master’s student Leslee Meyers, created an informative and useful 26-page teacher’s guide for this play.
Times Calls Reparative Therapy "Pseudopsychiatry"
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
In an editorial in today’s edition, theNew York Times condemns as dangerous so-called reparative therapy, which its adherents claim can change homosexuals into heterosexuals, labeling it “absurd, potentially harmful, pseudopsychiatry.”
The paper published the editorial in response to its article a few days earlier describing psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, M.D.’s, renouncing of a widely publicized—and widely condemned—study a decade ago in which he said he found evidence that reparative therapy can indeed change sexual orientation. Spitzer gained fame as one of the lead architects behind APA’s 1973 deletion of homosexuality as a mental disorder from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and became a hero of the gay-rights movement, thus making his claims about reparative therapy especially shocking. However, he recently admitted that his study was flawed, relying solely on the personal accounts of people who said they had successfully changed their sexual orientation and whose names were supplied by organizations promoting reparative therapy. There was no control group or standard definition of what the so-called therapy involved. In its condemnation of the practice, theTimes stated that evidence exists showing that “reparative therapy can lead to depression or suicidal thoughts and behavior…. It should have been rejected long ago.”
Read an account of Spitzer’s original study in Psychiatric News, and for a comprehensive review of mental health issues related to sexual orientation, see The LGBT Casebook, new from American Psychiatric Publishing.