John Hagelin
John Samuel Hagelin (born June 9, 1954) is the leader of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement in the United States. He is president of Maharishi International University (MIU) in Fairfield, Iowa, and honorary chair of its board of trustees. The university was established in 1973 by the TM movement's founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to deliver a "consciousness-based education".
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| Born | John Samuel Hagelin June 9, 1954 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | A.B. (physics), Dartmouth College, 1975 M.A. (physics), Harvard University, 1976 Ph.D. (physics), Harvard University, 1981 |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Harvard University |
| Employer | Maharishi University of Management |
| Known for | Three-time candidate for U.S. President, leader of U.S. Transcendental Meditation movement, president of Maharishi University of Management |
| Title | Raja of Invincible America, president of the US Peace Government, and others |
| Political party | Natural Law Party |
| Spouse | Kara Anastasio (2010) |
| Awards | Kilby, Ig Nobel |
| Website | www |
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Hagelin graduated with a Ph.D., in physics, in 1981, from Harvard University, and did several months of post-doctoral research at the CERN, before moving to do further post-doctoral work at the SLAC. In 1984, he became a professor of physics at Maharishi International University (MIU), then later became university president. Hagelin postulates that his extended version of unified field theory is identified with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's "unified field of consciousness", a view that was rejected by "virtually every theoretical physicist in the world" in 2006.
Hagelin stood as a candidate for President of the United States for the Natural Law Party, a party founded by the TM movement, in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 elections. He is the author of Manual for a Perfect Government (1998), which sets out how to apply "natural law" to matters of governance. Hagelin is also president of the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes TM.