Current Issues in Education
March 27, 2026
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
Our prior research with indigenous school children and adolescents in Perú, often in remote high-altitude Andean locations, mostly centres on an exploration of health and school performance and their relation to the practice of Transcendental Meditation, an easy-to-learn technique for mental and physiological rest and stress reduction. We have established that higher levels of health and school...
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
January 29, 2026
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
Self-esteem and a strong sense of self are reliable predictors of health and longevity. Transcendental Meditation develops both self-esteem and an empowered sense of self. Our research program in Peru has focused on quantitative and qualitative variables in students, teachers, parents, orphans and carers, and other mostly indigenous people. However, it has yet to investigate self-esteem or...
2026
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
The term ‘Peruvian miracle’ is not ours and we are not the first to use it. Indeed, many authoritative observers have referred to Peru’s remarkable socio-economic recovery and transformation after 1995 as a miracle. However, uniquely, this book explores the antecedents of this phenomenon by tracing its origin to a 1983 visit to Lima by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental...
Journal of Scientific Exploration
December 18, 2025
Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Lee Fergusson
The purpose of this preliminary study is to explore whether application of consciousness-based procedures whose stated purpose is to influence the natural and social environment, referred to as Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness (MTC), can positively affect weather phenomena. The theoretical framework underlying these procedures is based on a field-theoretic view of consciousness derived...
Journal of Latinos & Education
February 2, 2025
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
ABSTRACT Adverse impacts on children in home isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic have been documented. These impacts include increased loneliness, anxiety, depression, posttraumatic disorder, and heightened risk of psychiatric illness. The present study introduces a proto-theoretical model of stress, psychophysiology, and coping to explain this phenomenon. A focus of the research is on...
World Journal of Social Science
November 13, 2023
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
More than 60 well-controlled empirical studies since 1974 have indicated there is a statistically observable causal link between the number of people who practice the Transcendental Meditation technique and the state of order, harmony and prosperity in a city, region, country or the world. Such a phenomenon is based on the level of brainwave coherence generated by the practice and the effect...
Tapuya
March 15, 2022
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
Approximately 2000 indigenous students at Institución Educativa Privada Prescott in Puno, located in the Andes high on the Altiplano of Lake Titicaca, have been instructed in Transcendental Meditation. In this study, we examine the impact of home isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic on physical, cognitive, and emotional health, and school performance for a group of 54 meditating students, and...
Educación
September 28, 2021
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
A paucity of data in school children generally, and in non-Western schools specifically, related to health, school performance, and practice of meditation necessitated this study. The fact that almost no prior research of this type has been conducted in Latin America makes the present investigation especially worthwhile. This mostly quantitative study was carried out with 91 randomly selected...
Journal of Latinos & Education
March 19, 2021
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
ABSTRACT Practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique in schools and universities throughout the world has been well researched over a 50-year period suggesting it is a useful tool for student development and learning. However, introduction of the practice into school systems throughout Latin America is a relatively recent phenomenon and no research has been published on the likely or...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
September 1, 2020
Geoffrey A. Wells, Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek
We have emphasised Maharishi’s description of Transcendental Meditation as a technique. In this context, we have described some of the remarkable and beneficial changes it brings to both mind and body during the period of practice. Maharishi also, however, speaks of his. Transcendental Meditation program. This refers to the fact that Transcendental Meditation is practiced twice a day, in the...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
September 1, 2020
Geoffrey A. Wells, Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek
We come now to the final steps in Maharishi’s supreme vision of the possibilities open to human life: the sixth and seventh states of consciousness. Here, Maharishi teaches, is found the pinnacle of human development, the state of glorified life that the human mind and body are designed to live, which, through his simple technologies of consciousness, is open to anyone. Maharishi’s published...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
September 1, 2020
Geoffrey A. Wells, Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek
In this chapter, we will explore further the relationship between action, impression, and desire and consider their relation to living Cosmic Consciousness. Such considerations illuminate the nature of ignorance as well as the nature of enlightenment and the means by which the former is transformed into the latter. Action, impression, and desire were constant themes of Maharishi’s teaching in...
Higher Education Research & Development
1996
Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek, Gildas Le Masson
10 citations
This study surveys the current status of higher education in Cambodia, and examines the influence of a Vedic Science curriculum, which included the Transcendental Meditation program, on undergraduate nonverbal intelligence. The Culture Fair Intelligence Test was administered to 70 students from two institutions of higher learning: the Institute of Economic Science (n = 23) in Phnom Penh, and...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1993
Lee Fergusson
This study confirmed that scores on the Group Embedded Figures Test of 106 undergraduate art students from four universities were positively correlated .32 with grade point average, .27 with artistic ability, and .21 with how students perceived their own artistic competence in relation to peers. The 12 art students who practiced Transcendental Meditation tended to score higher on the test of...