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.
In India, Dewey encounters the Beatles dropping acid and sitting in lotus position with the Maharishi.
Before long the Fab Four were ensconced in the maharishi's ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas.
All in all, some 5m people are said to have been taught the maharishi's techniques since 1955.
An army general even joined the board of Maharishi International University, set up in Fairfield in 1974.
This, however, did not stop the maharishi then launching the raam, a global currency intended to foster development.
The Maharishi got a lot of mileage out of hanging with the Beatles.
The aura surrounding things Indian haven't been this cool since the Beatles were sitting at the feet of the Maharishi Yogi.
Two years ago the Maharishi established his own "country, " a borderless state of mind called the Global Country of World Peace.
George Harrison had already fallen under the spell of the sitar and the maharishi's message appealed to John Lennon's angry pacifism.
The First National Bank of Fairfield and Iowa State Bank keep reserves of the Maharishi's dollars on hand to cover raams in circulation.
James Dorn, a currency expert at the Cato Institute, is skeptical that the Maharishi's plan for saving the world through co-ops and raams will work.
Vedic, 110 miles southeast of Des Moines, is where 3, 000 of the Maharishi's followers live and study at something called the Maharishi University of Management.
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After years studying under a Hindu divine in the late 1950s, he had pronounced himself a maharishi (great seer) and set up the Spiritual Regeneration Movement.
In this sublime state of consciousness which Maharishi has declared as the natural birth right of every man and woman on earth, man is one with the Creator, the process of creation and the creation itself.
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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