The Maharishi Effect

"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.

• Author: Geoff Gilpin
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Published: 2006
• Pages: 248