Cool School of the Month
Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Fairfield, Iowa was featured as "Cool School of the Month" in the April 1999 issue of Teen People, a national magazine in the United States. The two-page spread included nine photos of school life, including students practicing the TM technique, Yogic Flying, self-pulse reading, and playing the tabla. The highly positive article also mentioned reading Sanksrit, studying Vedic Mathematics, and EEG brain research on the TM technique.

Courses Return to Livingston Manor
The Capital of the Age of Enlightenment in Livingston Manor, New York is once again offering World Peace Assemblies and Meditator Residence Courses. For more than 25 years, the Capital has hosted programs for extended meditation and research into consciousness. Located in the scenic Catskill Mountains, its 430 acres of forest, fields and lawns overlook tranquil Lake Shandalee. For course schedules, call 914-439-5018, or send an e-mail to kebel@fcc.net.

New Study Finds Lowered Blood Pressure in Teens
Research at the Georgia Prevention Institute of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta has found that the Transcendental Meditation technique can benefit the cardiovascular functioning of adolescents who are at risk for developing hypertension. The group practicing the TM technique showed greater decreases in resting blood pressure compared to controls, as well as greater decreases in blood pressure reactivity to stressful situations. The study was conducted by Maharishi University of Management Ph.D. graduate Vernon Barnes and colleagues at the Prevention Institute.

First Physician’s Office Built According to Natural Law
In Bakersfield, California, Ravi Patel, M.D. has recently completed construction of a 25,500-sq. ft. clinic according to the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design. Dr. Patel reports that his patients and staff feel very peaceful and happy in the building, and notes that his practice has grown within the first few months of moving in. "Perhaps the most important benefit I’m experiencing," says Dr. Patel, "is a very strong desire to achieve balance in all aspects of my life—regularity with my TM and TM-Sidhi programs; more balance between work and home; and greater purity of life."

Yogic Flying on National Television
On May 6, over 2.5 million Americans watched Yogic Flying on "Roseanne", a popular national daytime television show. An excited Roseanne Barr told viewers they would see a scientific method to stop the war in Yugoslavia and promised this would be the best show she had ever done.

She introduced Dr. John Hagelin as "one of the world's greatest geniuses," and he told the audience that modern science now recognizes a Unified Field that pervades everything in the universe and equates with human consciousness. He described how we can positively affect each other through this field, even at a distance, if we use the right technique.

Dr. Hagelin also discussed the research on Yogic Flying showing that group practice can significantly reduce crime and violence, even in war torn areas. He said it had lowered war deaths and injuries during the Lebanon War and that he was recommending Yogic Flying to NATO leaders to resolve the crisis in the Balkans

After the demonstration Roseanne interviewed three of the four Yogic Flyers, who told her "from inside you feel connected to the whole universe" and "you just can’t resist popping into the air."