Vedic City, IA
• New Age (Old Silliness)
If The Beatles hadn't been fans of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi would Maharishi Vedic City exist? Been a long time since I thought about TM. I knew a few people who paid for their transcendental meditation mantras.
"They came in with a lot of ideas," said John Kelley, a non-meditator and superintendent of Fairfield Community Schools for the last 24 years. "They talked about controlling the stock market. . . . There've been articles written that they would reduce the crime rate if they meditated in a group. I didn't believe it and I still don't, and I don't take any solace in the fact that they think they can do that."
Cathleen Falsani, Chicago Sun-Times: Experiencing the lightness of being in Iowa