The band had gone to Bangor to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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He studied business at the Maharishi International University, founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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Best known as guru to the Beatles in the 1960s, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has 4 million followers worldwide who believe that a diet of meditation and organic foods is the path to personal enlightenment and world peace.

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