Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Early Transcendental Meditation Movement

Record summary

Mahesh Yogi began publicly organizing the Transcendental Meditation movement in the late 1950s, presenting mantra practice as a portable method of mental and spiritual development. His Indian tours, the 1958 Spiritual Regeneration Movement, and the International Academy of Meditation at Rishikesh provide identifiable documentary anchors. The lead matters for comparing traditional mantra claims with standardized, globalized instruction. Early promotional literature and later biographies may blend devotional, therapeutic, and metaphysical language, so the chronology and wording of claimed effects need independent checking.