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| Hagelin has a keen ear and derives much enjoyment from high end audio equipment. He had various insights on how to improve the sound quality of digital to analog (D-to-A) conversion from compact disc playback. Working with Enlightened Audio Designs (EAD) he co-designed a high end D-to-A system that was commercially marketed. | Hagelin has a keen ear and derives much enjoyment from high end audio equipment. He had various insights on how to improve the sound quality of digital to analog (D-to-A) conversion from compact disc playback. Working with Enlightened Audio Designs (EAD) he co-designed a high end D-to-A system that was commercially marketed. | ||
| He is set to appear at the Second Annual David Lynch Weekend. Filmmaker David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, INLAND EMPIRE), renowned quantum physicist John Hagelin (What the bleep do we know?!, The Secret), and legendary singer/songwriter Donovan Leitch (Hurdy Gurdy Man, Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow) will lead an extraordinary national student weekend entitled, “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity” at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, over Memorial Day Weekend, from May 25 to 27. | |||
| Students from throughout the United States and around the world are invited to attend. | |||
| During the weekend, Mr. Lynch will hold special workshops on filmmaking and the creative process; Dr. Hagelin will present recent discoveries in modern physics and brain neuroscience, which reveal deep insights into the origin of the universe—and the nature of human consciousness; and Donovan will perform his classic hit songs from the 60s. All three will explore the role of meditation in developing consciousness and creativity, and promoting peace. | |||
| www.lynchweekend.org | |||
| ==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
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John Hagelin (June 9 1954) is a practitioner and teacher of Transcendental Meditation. He was a candidate for President of the United States three times. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a theoretical physicist specializing in superstring theory and an electronic designer of high-end audio equipment prior to becoming a professor at the Maharishi University of Management . Hagelin was formerly married to Margaret Cowhig of Vancouver, British Columbia in the 1980s, but they divorced without having had any children. He has not remarried.
Natural Law Party
Hagelin is a follower of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and a co-founder of the Natural Law Party, an entity created by the Maharishi's followers. Hagelin was its Presidential candidate in 1992, 1996 and 2000. In the 2000 Presidential election, Hagelin was also nominated by the Perot faction of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of Pat Buchanan.
After a legal battle with the supporters of Buchanan, the Federal Election Commission ruled that Buchanan was the official candidate of the Reform Party in September 2000 and hence eligible for federal election funds. As part of the ruling, the Reform convention that nominated Hagelin was declared invalid and he lost the Reform spot on state ballots to Buchanan. He remained on several state ballots, however, as the Reform Party nominee due to the independent nature of various state Reform parties, and on the ballot in many other states as the Natural Law Party nominee.
Hagelin's Presidential electoral results:
1992 - Ballot status in 32 states - 39,000 votes - 0.04%.
1996 - Ballot status in 44 states - 110,000 votes - 0.1%.
2000 - Ballot status in 39 states - 83,000 votes - 0.08%.
Hagelin's Vice Presidential running-mate in 1992 and 1996 was Dr. Michael Tompkins, a co-founder of the US Natural Law Party. His Vice Presidential runningmate in 2000 was Nat Goldhaber, a wealthy businessman and longtime associate of the Maharishi.
In the 2004 primary elections, Hagelin endorsed Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich. When the Maharishi directed his followers to close all of the world-wide Natural Law Parties, the US NLP shut down in April 2004; the remaining NLP ballot lines were secured for the campaign of Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate Walt Brown . Hagelin then joined the Maharishi's new movement: the United States Peace Government.
Best performances
Hagelin performed exceptionally well in Jefferson County, Iowa, which contains Fairfield, the closest town to the area where Hagelin lives, where a substantial fraction of the town's population are associated with Maharishi University of Management which is based there. He received 23.94% in 1992, 22.82% in 1996, and 16.31% in 2000.
In 2000, Hagelin received over 30 percent of the vote in the precinct that serves northern and eastern Ketchum, Idaho. However, Hagelin received 1.07% of the vote or less in all other precincts.
Hagelin's Curriculum Vitae
- 1975: Bachelor of Arts Dartmouth College
- 1976: Masters of Arts Dartmouth College
- 1981: Ph. D. in physics Harvard University where he studied under Howard Georgi,
- 1979-1995:Publishes () a number of peer-reviewed papers in particle physics dealing with supersymmetry and grand unification theory.
- 1982: Researcher at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics) in Switzerland
- 1983-1984: SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).
- 1984: Moves to Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa and founded a graduate program in Theoretical Physics.
- 1992: Founds the Natural Law Party in the USA
- 1992: Receives the Kilby Award, for scientists who have made "major contributions to society through their applied research in the fields of science and technology". The award states it is for "a scientist in the tradition of Einstein, Jeans, Bohr and Eddington".
- 1994: Awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 practicitioners of the TM-Sidhi program who gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Summer, caused a 23.3 percent decrease in crime in that city during an 8 week period.
- 1994: Last published Physics research.
- 1999: Published a study on meditation's effect on crime in Washington, D.C.
Present Day
Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at Maharishi University of Management, and Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace.
Hagelin has a keen ear and derives much enjoyment from high end audio equipment. He had various insights on how to improve the sound quality of digital to analog (D-to-A) conversion from compact disc playback. Working with Enlightened Audio Designs (EAD) he co-designed a high end D-to-A system that was commercially marketed.
He is set to appear at the Second Annual David Lynch Weekend. Filmmaker David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, INLAND EMPIRE), renowned quantum physicist John Hagelin (What the bleep do we know?!, The Secret), and legendary singer/songwriter Donovan Leitch (Hurdy Gurdy Man, Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow) will lead an extraordinary national student weekend entitled, “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity” at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, over Memorial Day Weekend, from May 25 to 27.
Students from throughout the United States and around the world are invited to attend.
During the weekend, Mr. Lynch will hold special workshops on filmmaking and the creative process; Dr. Hagelin will present recent discoveries in modern physics and brain neuroscience, which reveal deep insights into the origin of the universe—and the nature of human consciousness; and Donovan will perform his classic hit songs from the 60s. All three will explore the role of meditation in developing consciousness and creativity, and promoting peace.
www.lynchweekend.org
Further reading
- Hagelin, J.S., Rainforth, M.V., Orme-Johnson, D.W., Cavanaugh, K. L., Alexander, C.N., Shatkin, S.F., Davies, J.L, Hughes, A.O, and Ross, E. 1999. Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program on preventing violent crime in Washington D.C.: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June-July, 1993. Social Indicators Research, 47(2): 153-201.
External links
- Official site
- Podcast on physics and consciousness
- Kilby Award past laureates - listing John Hagelin
| Preceded by(none) | Natural Law Party Presidential candidate 1992 (lost), 1996 (lost), 2000 (lost) |
Succeeded by(none) |