34 Facts About John Hagelin

John Samuel Hagelin was born on June 9,1954 and is the leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement in the United States.

John Hagelin is president of the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, and honorary chair of its board of trustees.

John Hagelin vanished in 1983 in the midst of personal problems and reappeared a year later as physics professor at the Maharishi University of Management, then became its president.

John Hagelin believes that his extended version of unified field theory is identified with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's "unified field of consciousness", a view that was rejected by "virtually every theoretical physicist in the world" in 2006.

John Hagelin stood as a candidate for President of the United States for the Natural Law Party, a party founded by the TM movement, in the 1992,1996 and 2000 elections.

John Hagelin is the author of Manual for a Perfect Government, which sets out how to apply "natural law" to matters of governance.

John Hagelin is president of the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes TM.

John Hagelin was raised in Connecticut, and won a scholarship to the Taft School for boys in Watertown.

John Hagelin went on to study physics at Harvard University under Howard Georgi, earning a master's degree in 1976 and a Ph.

In 1981 John Hagelin became a postdoctoral researcher for few months at the European Center for Particle Physics in Switzerland, and in 1982 he moved to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California.

John Hagelin left SLAC in 1983, reportedly because of personal problems.

Two of Hagelin's previous collaborators, Dimitri Nanopoulos and John Ellis, were uncomfortable with his move to MIU, but they continued to work with him.

John Hagelin became a trustee of MUM and, in 2016, its president.

From 1979 to 1996, John Hagelin published over 70 papers about particle physics, electroweak unification, grand unification, supersymmetry and cosmology, most of them in academic scientific journals.

John Hagelin co-authored a 1983 paper in Physics Letters B, "Weak symmetry breaking by radiative corrections in broken supergravity", that became one of the 103 most-cited articles in the physical sciences in 1983 and 1984.

In 1987 and 1989 John Hagelin published two papers in the Maharishi University of Management's Journal of Modern Science and Vedic Science in which he claimed that superstring theory's "unified field" was identical to what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi called the "unified field of consciousness".

John Hagelin argued that consciousness is a fundamental property of the natural world, and that TM practitioners can experience a state of consciousness "in which the observer, the process of observation, and the observed are unified".

In 1999 John Hagelin held a press conference in Washington, DC to announce that the TM movement could end the Kosovo War with yogic flying.

John Hagelin suggested that NATO set up an elite corps of 7,000 yogic flyers at a cost of $33 million.

In 1990 John Hagelin founded Enlightened Audio Designs Corporation with Alastair Roxburgh.

John Hagelin favored abortion rights without public financing, campaign-finance law reform, more restrictive gun control, and a flat tax, with no tax for families earning less than $34,000 per year.

John Hagelin campaigned to eradicate PACs and soft money campaign contributions, and advocated safety locks on guns, school vouchers, and efforts to prevent war in the Middle East by reducing "people's tension".

John Hagelin received 39,212 votes from 32 states in 1992, and 113,659 votes from 43 states in 1996.

John Hagelin ran for president again in 2000, nominated both by the NLP and by the Perot wing of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of Pat Buchanan.

The Reform Party convention that nominated John Hagelin was declared invalid.

In spite of the ruling, John Hagelin remained on several state ballots as the Reform Party nominee because of the independent nature of some state affiliates; he was the national nominee of the Natural Law Party, and in New York was the Independence Party nominee.

John Hagelin is the Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, a MUM think tank.

In 1993 he helped draft a paragraph in Hillary Rodham Clinton's 10,000-page health care plan; according to John Hagelin, his was the only paragraph that addressed preventive health care.

John Hagelin established the US Peace Government in July 2003, as an affiliate of the Global Country of World Peace and served as the latter's minister of science and technology.

John Hagelin organized the Invincible America Assembly in Fairfield in July 2006.

John Hagelin predicted that as the number of Yogic flyers increased towards 3500, "[p]eace and prosperity will reign [in America], and violence and conflict will subside completely".

John Hagelin is president of the Global Union of Scientists for Peace, an organization of scientists opposed to nuclear proliferation and war, and president of the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes TM.

In 1992 John Hagelin received a Kilby International Award from the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce "for his promising work in particle physics in the development of supersymmetric grand unified field theory".

John Hagelin married Kara Anastasio, the former vice-chair of the Natural Law Party of Ohio, in 2010.