Remembering my friend, Alan Scherr, murdered in the Mumbai massacre, and explaining how to use the Maharishi Effect to kill hate

Today is my debut at Newsreal, the blog magazine founded by David Horowitz to expose bias in the media and fight totalitarianism in all its forms. My first post there begins as follows: A year ago, on November 26, my friend, Alan Scherr, 58, and his daughter Naomi, 13, were murdered in the restaurant of …

Proven technology for producing peace

This is a video from 1990 of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, explaining how the Maharishi Effect can create peace and positive trends. The Maharishi Effect begins when any given population has at least one percent practicing the Transcendental Meditation program twice a day, or the square root of one …

'I kept on turning the handle'

The woman singing “I kept on turning the handle,” a song from the point of view of a silent movie camera operator in 1913, is Joanna Seaton. She is the lovely and charming wife of my friend, Donald Sosin, who is a famous composer, arranger and accompanist for silent movies. Donnie and I met on …

In this meditation, we swat flies

I learned the Transcendental Meditation technique way back in February 1974 when I was in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. I’ll say more about its comprehensive benefits another time. Right now, I’ll say that my late life partner, Margaret Ardussi, was a highly respected TM teacher and that buying instruction in the TM …

Ageless beauty teleseminars April 25 and May 9

I first met Nancy Lonsdorf when she was a medical student at Johns Hopkins University in the 1970’s. We were part of a small group who practiced the yogic flying technique of the TM-Sidhi program at the Transcendendental Meditation Center in Pikesville, Maryland, near Baltimore. Now she is Dr. Lonsdorf and she has spent most …

Pretty much everyone is some kind of creationist except my father

(NOTE: It would be very helpful if some of y’all would click the “Donate” button to help me buy about $100 in materials I’d like to use to explain the coding theory you need to know to understand why the origin of life is an axiom of biology just as the origin of matter is …

Wolverines!!!!!

I am a Wolverine, in the University of Michigan, “Hail to the Victors Valiant” sense, so when the Wolverines meme got rolling, it caught my eye. I think it started on Feb. 14 with a National Review Online list of the top 25 conservative movies here, which listed Red Dawn at number 15. In this …

Sir Paul McCartney, et al., in NYC on April 4

The media embargo must be up! Entertainment writer Mike Ragogna has the scoop at HuffPo about the concert slated for April 4 in New York City at Radio City Music Hall organized by filmmaker David Lynch and featuring Sir Paul McCartney and “Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Moby, Ben Harper, and Sheryl Crow, along with Donovan, …

Is the Transcendental Meditation program a religion or cult?

No, the Transcendental Meditation program is not a religion. No, the Transcendental Meditation program is not a cult. The TM program is not a religion because it does not require you to believe anything. You do not even have to believe the TM technique will work in order to learn it and practice it successfully. …