Skeptics question whether SCI is actually scientific According to proponents, practicing the TM technique can lead to higher levels of consciousness and supernormal effects, including the Maharishi Effect.

According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip.

According to J. Lynwood King, in his dissertation Fundamentals of Maharishi Vedic Science, the feedback Brahmachari Mahesh received from the diverse population that learned his technique suggested to him that it could be of wide benefit.

According to Chopra, the Maharishi accused him, in July 1993, of trying to compete for the position of guru and asked him to stop travelling and writing books, which led to Chopra's decision to leave the movement in January 1994.

According to Mozambique's President Chissano, the result of inviting the Maharishi to Maputo in 1992 was balance and peace.

According to spokesman Bob Roth, " The Maharishi has said the party has to grow to encompass everyone ".

According to Kenneth Pelletier, " Insofar as Ayurveda constitutes an integrated orientation to healthy physical, mental, and spiritual practices, as it does in the Maharishi Ayur-Ved system, it would seem to be conducive to good health and spiritual well-being.

According to the Maharishi Open University web site archive, there are Maharishi Ayurveda spas and health centers around the world, including two in the United States, three in Germany, two in Switzerland and one in Yugoslovia.

According Maharishi Jyotish, the solar system has an influence on the human brain, cells and DNA.

According to the Maharishi and his successor, Tony Nader, there is a correspondence between the nine Grahas of Vedic Astrology and the structure of DNA, the brain and the structure of cells.

According to his own account, Chopra was accused by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of attempting to compete with the Maharishi's position as guru.

According to science writer Sharon Begley of Newsweek magazine, Maharishi and, by extension, the researchers affiliated with Maharishi University of Management helped launch the field of mind-body medicine.

According to Marcy Braverman, in her book Transcendental Meditation, Contemporary American Religion, the Maharishi had no legal ties to the WPEC.

According to Anand Shrivastava, he is the " chairmen and managing director of the Maharishi Group of Companies ". According to Deepak Chopra " the Indian TM organization " is " centered around the Maharishi's nephews, Prakash and Anand Shrivastava ".

According to the Dun and Bradstreet website companies that are " related or similar " to Maharishi Ltd include Ayurveda Ltd., M S V Homes Ltd., Ideal Community & Sport Developments Ltd.

According to the movement's Global Good News website, there are 23 Maharishi Vedic Health Centres in 15 countries, including Austria, France, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.

According to Saraswati's disciple, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Saraswati's " devotees felt that the expression ' His Holiness ' did not adequately describe this personified Divine Effulgence ; and so the new expression ' His Divinity ' was used.

According to Brewers Dictionaary, outside of India, the most well known Maharishi was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who founded Transcendental Meditation and made it available to the West.

According to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, an early outtake of " Sexy Sadie " features Lennon demonstrating the song's original working lyrics to the rest of the band: " Maharishi, you little twat / Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Oh, you cunt.

According to puranic legend Dabas are the descendants of Maharishi Dadhichi the great king of Sindh in Vedic period.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Mexico had 16 companies in the list.

According to the Global Competitiveness Report, the Most Problematic Factors for Doing Business is the access to finances, corruption and bureaucracy.

According to Ugandan AIDS activists, the Global Gag Rule undermined community efforts to reduce HIV prevalence and HIV transmission.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank as much as 95 % from about 1963 to 1998, but " the 2007 ( satellite ) image shows significant improvement over previous years.

According to the 2005 Global Sex Survey by Durex people have had on average 9 sexual partners, the most in Turkey ( 14. 5 ) and Australia ( 13. 3 ), and the least in India ( 3 ) and China ( 3. 1 ).

According to the CSUCS 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers, there were at least nine documented suicide attacks involving Palestinian minors between October 2000 and March 2004: but also stated, " There was no evidence of systematic recruitment of children by Palestinian armed groups.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to the 2011 Global Go To Think Tank Index, Cato is the 6th most influential US based think tank, ranking 3rd in Economic Policy and 2nd in Social Policy.

According to the Global Health Council, rather than the use of professionally schooled doctors, the training of villagers to remedy most maladies in towns in the developing world is most appropriate.

According to Ode, " In the field of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, David leads the movement towards a more sustainable future, as manifested in many international forums and gatherings, such as the Global Forum ' Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change '".

According to the Kyodo News, in March 2010 PRC officials told US officials that they consider the South China Sea a " core interest " on par with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang In July 2010 the Communist Party-controlled Global Times stated that " China will never waive its right to protect its core interest with military means " and a Ministry of Defense spokesman said that " China has indisputable sovereignty of the South Sea and China has sufficient historical and legal backing " to underpin its claims.

According to the 2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest & Paper Industry Survey, the top 10 forest and paper products companies in Japan were:

According to the 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest & Paper Industry Survey, the top 10 forest and paper products companies in Europe were:

According to the Christian Science Monitor, " C. Peter Wagner, head of Global Harvest Ministries in Colorado Springs, Colo., is in the vanguard of the warfare movement.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list Berkshire Hathaway is the eighth largest public company in the world.

According to the survey in 2010 by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 76 % of Pakistanis polled supported the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion.

Raam currency. According to Benjamin Feldman, the Minister of Finance for the Global Country of World Peace: " There are 1. 5 billion people living in extreme poverty and currencies like the US dollar are not available to most of them.

According to the Global Internet Statistics in 2003, internet population around the world has grown exceptionally fast in less than a decade, rising from 16 million users in 1995 to approximately 680 million in late 2003.

According to Edwin Rekosh, Executive Director of PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law ( www. pilnet. org ), " public interest law does not describe a body of law or a legal field ; the term was adopted to describe whom the public interest lawyers were representing, rather than what matters they would work on.

According to information provided by the Intelligence Resource Program of the Federation of American Scientists based on the 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism report the strength of the organisation in terms of human resources remains unknown.

According to the One World Trust's Global Accountability Report 2008 which assessed a range of organisations in areas such as transparency, stakeholder participation and evaluation capacity, " IFOAM is the highest scoring international NGO, and at the top of the 30 organisations this year with a score of 71 percent ".

According to its website, the Global Peacebuilding Center ( GPC ) is " designed to engage visitors in the work of the Institute and excite them about the role that they, as individuals, can play in the peacebuilding process.