A Little Tour

 

It's been awhile since I've been to Maharishiville. Maharishiville is a name given to a place near where I used to live where John Lennon's yogi from India claimed it was the center of the universe and bought up a local community college. The college is still a college but teaches mandatory transcendental meditation (TM) along with any curriculum. Many of the followers of TM got fed up with living in a town with us heathen non-TM followers so started their own town, the first in nearly 100 years in our state, and I refer to it lovingly as Maharishiville after their founder.

Whenever we have guests who are looking for a little bit of flavor from our part of the land, we often take them a tour of Maharishiville to see such sights as the "Tower of Invincibility" and the "Twin World Peace Capital" buildings. Since my last visit, the latter seems to have been converted into office space but the Tower of Invincibility still stands strong near the his and her meditation domes. Another site we go to is the World Global Observatory though since my last visit it has been downgraded by name to the Maharishi Vedic Observatory. Though downgraded in name, it has increased dramatically in stature as there were a lot more concrete "instruments" that I didn't remember from my last visit.

I'm not sure how the massive center peace relates to the "total expression of Natural Law" but many of the smaller periphery ones I could decipher their use in determining the azimuth, meridian, time or other more common cosmic things. The center one with it's Indian words though is a mystery to me anyway.

Along with stops at the farm garden and the American Gothic House, we took our guests to last Symphony Orchestra performance of the 2020/2021 season which is always the Big Band portion of the symphony called No Strings Attached. It was a Latin music theme and we were all able to socially distance ourselves on a nice grassy hillside and enjoy beverages and a picnic supper while listening. It was a great evening and a nice cap to a relaxing day. The next day we got our guests back onto the road for their journeys home and are now resting up for the start of the 2021/2022 symphony orchestra season which begins in about four short weeks.