Another Piece of TM History - anybody remember listening to that phone call?
In 1979, Maharishi phoned the first World Peace Assembly, which was taking place in Amherst, Massachusetts, with alarming news and a dramatic proposal. The world was on the verge of destruction, he claimed, and only the TMO could save it by engaging in sustained daily group meditations and sidhi practice. The larger the number of sidhas, the greater the positive effect would be, so gathering a huge group in one place was essential. Maharishi begged the nearly 3,000 assembled sidhas to move as soon as possible to Fairfield, Iowa, the home of Maharishi International University (now Maharishi University of Management, or MUM) in order to meditate together and save the world. Despite the numerous hardships this move entailed, more than 2,000 sidhas relocated to Fairfield over the next months, where they soon constituted more than twenty percent of the town’s population. Fairfield would never be the same (Lowe 2010).
