Lola Kirke, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham Talk Meditation

Lola Kirke is a rising star. She’s best known for her leading role in the popular Amazon original series Mozart in the Jungle and her acclaimed performance in Gone Girl. I asked Lola recently what personal benefits she has experienced since learning how to do Transcendental Meditation through the TM organization for women. She wrote:

In the two plus years that I have been practicing TM, both my inner and outer life has changed radically. TM helps me take care of myself: it helps me feel centered and be in touch with myself and my feelings in a world that sometimes seems to insist that we feel otherwise. Ultimately the practice has helped me to feel at home even when I am far away from my home and that is a true gift. I am tremendously grateful for the practice and would recommend it to anyone.

How to Create an Empowering Work Environment

A leader’s job is to create an empowering environment where the best ideas can surface. – Maria Contreras-Sweet, Administrator of the Small Business Administration, member of President Obama’s cabinet, champion […]

Musicians who Meditate: Music, Infinity, Reality

In the past I’ve had the pleasure of meeting accomplished composing, recording and performing artists, including George Harrison, who told me that the Transcendental Meditation program helped to awaken and […]

Women and Alcoholism

It was a distinct joy to meet Marty Mann (1904-1980) when she attended a 1972 conference I’d organized in New York City so that alcohol and drug abuse experts could meet with Maharishi to learn about the application of the TM program in their fields.

Marty was the author of “Women Suffer Too”. She was the founder of the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism (now the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), after having personally experienced the life threatening effects of alcohol addiction; it had reduced her to poverty and caused her to twice try to take her own life. After many years of misery, she found recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous and through learning the Transcendental Meditation technique. She confided in me that TM was an integral part of her survival and recovery.

Violating the Laws of Nature

Should I take a job that takes me away from my family that allows me to be a better provider, or should I take a job that pays less but […]

Interview with a Pioneering Scientist: Dr. Sarina Grosswald

Dr. Grosswald has a doctorate in education, is an expert in cognitive learning, and president of SJ Grosswald and Associates, a consulting firm in medical education in Arlington, Virginia. She […]

Flawless

In the March 24 NY Times magazine section there was an article by Parul Sehgal called “How ‘Flawless’ Became a Feminine Declaration”. Most of the article is dedicated to the […]

Our Daughters, Our Granddaughters, Ourselves

I don’t know how old you are, but I’m guessing that if you aren’t a female between 13 and 25 years of age, you know one. I certainly know a […]

Renewed Research into Psychedelics: A Wise Choice?

A psychedelic is described as a drug that produces radical changes in consciousness, often including hallucinations. The word ‘psychedelic’—meaning mind-manifesting— was coined by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1957. From […]

Epigenetics: Yes We Can!

There are always shifts in our world view based on new information uncovered by accident, by persistence, or by the systematic focus of research scientists. Some breakthroughs have brought dramatic […]