John Hagelin

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John Samuel Hagelin (; born June 9, 1954) is an American physicist and the leader of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement in the United States. He was president of Maharishi International University (MIU), formerly Maharishi University of Management (MUM), in Fairfield, Iowa, and honorary chair of its board of trustees. In 1981, Hagelin graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University and then did several months of post-doctoral research at CERN. He went on to do post-doctoral work at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). In 1984, he became a professor of physics at MIU, and later became the university's president. Hagelin postulates that his extended version of unified field theory is identified with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's "unified field of consciousness", but this view was rejected by "virtually every theoretical physicist in the world" in 2006. Hagelin has published over 70 papers about particle physics, electroweak unification, grand unification, supersymmetry...

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