At the Guru Purnima, July 29, 2007, the first almost 14-meter-high 'invincibility tower' was built on a hill between the two meditation halls of the 'Maharishi University of Management' (Fairfield, Iowa) , USA, and inaugurated of 500 Indian pandits at the end of an invincibility course.

Dr. Eike Hartmann, TM Minister for Architecture of the Global Land of World Peace, had designed it.

A little later, Dr. Benjamin Feldman, Finance Minister of the Global Land of World Peace, presented a list of the names of more than 50 countries, in which the foundations for the invincibility towers are laid at the Guru Purnima Day, in Germany, among others in Erfurt (and other invincibility schools).

In this context Maharishi founded the Brahmanand Saraswati Trust shortly before his death on January 11th, 2008, "which is supposed to ensure invincibility for the whole of humanity in the course of time by establishing the groups of Vedic TM pandits in the world capital of Raam Raj Brahma-Sthan (center of India) at 48 Brahmanand Saraswati Nagar (street) continuously supported and in all Maharishi towers of invincibility around the world, but this did not mean that he invested part of his huge fortune or bequeathed it to the trust.  --- with the alleged agreement of Shankaracharya Vasudevanand Saraswati .

In 2010, a disappointed friend of several wrote a book (Robes of Silk Feet of Clay) about her affair with Maharishis from 1971-1972 (John Lennon had already commented on such things in Rishikesh.).

Further details on  the drastic increased prices since 2002 and the conversion of the initiators to a licensing system can be found at tm.org, who try to present themselfes as a nonprofit organisation.

Also the Maharishi Ayurveda-Shops pay licenses comparable with a Franchise-System.

Prices( 2020) were from  500 Euro pro adult Person upwards with special conditions for children, students u.a..

Seminars, Fertilizers and Siddhi-Techniques make further big costs.

Transcendence is not only a "state of restful alertness" (alpha-waves; Maharishi 5 FEBRUARY 2008), possibly accompanied by coherence patterns, however deep this may be.

Therefore the (meanwhile overtaken) Samadhi teaching with specific Alphawaves, "recognized" by some meditators there, is another sad example of an attempt to "explain" the spirituality in a modern way and gain further influence and sucess and money. Spirituality cannot become spiritual materialism - that would be a variant of the black Tantra path.

Alpha waves are not indicative of spirituality. Transcendence is not just a relaxed "state of calm wakefulness" (alpha waves), possibly accompanied by patterns of coherence, however deep this may be. ( Maharishi 5. FEBRUAR 2008)

Meanwhile there are now more modern theories about strong gamma waves as a mark of deep meditation. The advanced Vajrayana monks associated with this do not practice Vipassana but mahamudra- or dzogchen - meditations. Therefore the samadhi teaching with specific alpha waves "recognized" by some local meditators and initiators is another sad example of an attempt to "explain" spirituality in a modern way and thus gain further influence.

* TM-Independent bends the samadhi doctrine and the nirvikalpa - samadhi in a completely pseudo-scientific way: "For 47% of beginners, TM leads to the experience of objectless samadhi in just a few days, and for another 40% to the samapatti experience just as quickly (Samadhi in Mix with objects) ", i.e. with reference to : Travis, F., Arenander, A., DuBois, D. (2004) Psychological and physiological characteristics of a proposed  object-referral/self-referral continuum of self-awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, Vol. 13 (2), pg.401 - 420. There a misleading false lower self is referenced. (It goes without saying that both authors belong to the Institute for Research on Higher States of Consciousness of the TM movement ...)

* The much-cited modern Quantum physics describes the area of the lower creations of Maya below the Prakriti, and it has not proved a 'uniform field' either (which is not the Shabda) but Mula-Prakriti or Maya-ethers).

Deep relaxation alpha - waves are not a sign of spirituality. Meanwhile there are also more modern theories about strong gamma - waves as a sign of deep meditation.

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😟👎  In conclusion, I can only disapprove of the spirit that dominates the TM movement, which also has something to do with the fact, that the Yama and the Niyama of the propagated Pantanjali Yoga are not put into practice here. Spirituality can not become a spiritual materialism - that would be a variant of the black tantric path..

There are too many meditants here, mainly for the sake of success and siddhis, who have little to do with introspection (Svadhyaya) and who therefore would never have been accepted by traditional gurus.

I therefore personally classify this path as a modern variant of the black tantra path, which can lead at most to enlightenment. This is a completely natural false aspiration on our planet that results from identification with the material self.

The mere fact that so many souls do not sink into darkness, never to be seen again, is positive from my point of view.

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Since then is Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam Tony Nader President for the 'Global country of worldpeace' and Raja of the USA.

In india overtook Maharishis nephew Girish Varma , who had been trained by Maharishi during his years in Seelisberg, the government of the TM-Movement, who also reigns the Vidya-Mandir-scools.