{"product_id":"the-maharishi-effect","title":"The Maharishi Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"His move back to Fairfield, Iowa, proved both revealing and unsettling. He rediscovered what had drawn his generation to Eastern spirituality - and what he and his cohorts had lost in following the usual path to careerism. But he also experienced disturbing changes in a spiritual organization that - while attracting money, celebrity, and clout - had seemingly drifted from its early ideals. Its inner culture. Gilpin observed, had divided into haves and have-nots, in ways both subtle and obvious. The Maharishi - believed to be in his late eighties or early nineties and now living in Holland - was promoting projects that involved global government, third-world rulers, claims of levitation, and grandiose fund-raising campaigns.\" \"The Maharishi Effect is one man's bittersweet chronicle of innocence found and lost in the movement that, more than any other defined spirituality for a generation.\"--BOOK JACKET.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoff Gilpin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tarcher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 2006\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tarcher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62802481742195,"sku":"9781585425075","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/0812\/8115\/files\/content_0e2885dc-9754-444e-b47d-1b6b72f04b10.jpg?v=1777797715","url":"https:\/\/readaura.store\/products\/the-maharishi-effect","provider":"Read Aura","version":"1.0","type":"link"}