In January, 1970, I traveled to India with many friends including Bill and Prudence to study the Transcendental Meditation(R) (TM(R)) program with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and become a teacher of TM. We traveled to and lived in Rishikesh, and received Darshan from other great saints including Sri Tat Wale Baba and Sri Anandamoyi Ma. These are my personal recollections and photographs. There was a trip to Bangalore with Maharishi and then a further journey to Alleppey, Trivandrum, Quilon, Kanyakumari, Rameswaram, and Madurai with Brahmachari Sattyanand, Geoffrey Baker and Fred den Ouden - our...

The author, Jonathan Miller, aged 22, in 1970 traveled to India to study with His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his Academy in Rishikesh. Miller provides stories of his travels to and in India as well as 156 images, 152 of which he shot on slide film, converted to digital and reworked extensively for printing and publication.

The Beatles had lived in Maharishi's Academy in 1968. The world in 1970 was undergoing and enormous transformation from the cold war through the hippies to the spiritual revival which eventually led to the great prosperity and improved stability of our...