David W Orme-Johnson was born on January 17,1941 and is a former professor of psychology at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.
21 Facts About David Orme-Johnson
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David Orme-Johnson is the author of over 100 papers investigating the effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique.
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From 1969 to 1971, Orme-Johnson served as a lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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David Orme-Johnson was director of research and evaluation for the US Army drug rehabilitation program at Fort Bliss from 1971 to 1972.
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In 1973, David Orme-Johnson joined Maharishi International University, formerly Maharishi University of Management, in Fairfield, Iowa.
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David Orme-Johnson served as the Chairman of the Psychology Department and Dean of Research until 1996.
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David Orme-Johnson served as director of research at the Institute of Science, Technology, and Public Policy.
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In 1982, David Orme-Johnson was the co-presenter for a report on Transcendental Meditation research given at Congressional hearings by the Subcommittees on International Security and Scientific Affairs to establish an Academy of Peace.
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David Orme-Johnson gave a four-point proposal dedicated to peace in the US and around the world.
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David Orme-Johnson noted that published plots of the raw data were given to Fales and Markovsky and that a simple visual inspection of these plots would have shown that their alternate hypotheses could not explain the study's results.
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David Orme-Johnson participated in a delegation of teachers from Maharishi International University who traveled to the Soviet Union to provide instruction in Transcendental Meditation in 1990.
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In 1993, David Orme-Johnson proposed that the city of Omaha, Nebraska, spend $23 million for 600 meditators to end crime in the city.
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In 1995, the National Institutes of Health nominated David Orme-Johnson to be an expert presenter on the effects of meditation as a relaxation technique on chronic pain and insomnia at the NIH technology assessment conference held in Bethesda, Maryland.
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In 2006, David Orme-Johnson was the principal investigator for an NIH grant sponsored collaboration between Maharishi University of Management and the University of California at Irvine to conduct the first neuroimaging study on the effects of meditation on pain.
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David Orme-Johnson studied visual arts at Columbia College from 1959 to 1963 in drawing, painting, sculpture and history of the movies, and at the University of Maryland from 1963 to 1968 in print making, glass blowing, sculpting and painting.
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David Orme-Johnson studied painting through the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC in 1967.
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David Orme-Johnson's work has been exhibited in group shows at Columbia University, and has been shown in Fairfield, Iowa and El Paso, Texas.
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David Orme-Johnson's wife, Rhoda Orme-Johnson, a teacher of Transcendental Meditation, was a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Literature and Languages at Maharishi International University from 1973 to 1996, and the Administrative Dean of Maharishi European Research University, in Seelisberg, Switzerland from 1975 to 1976.
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David Orme-Johnson is a poet, real estate agent, and the author of two books, Inside Maharishi's Ashram: A Personal Story, and The Flow of Consciousness: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Literature and Language, 1971 to 1976.
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David Orme-Johnson's brother, William, was a professor of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert on inorganic chemistry.
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The most frequently cited papers in which DW David Orme-Johnson was the lead author include:.