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Thom Knoles
Thom Knoles is a maharishi (or pre-eminent master-teacher) of Vedic Meditation (an effortless mental technique that allows one to experience fully-awake restful consciousness and its many physiological benefits). He has tens of thousands of personally-taught students worldwide. Thom is a thought-leader and celebrated speaker on the cognitive sciences, on the potential of the brain and health of the body, on the relationship between quantum physics and human consciousness, and on the 5,000 year-old body of wisdom known as the Veda (knowledge governing the unity of the laws of nature and human consciousness from which yoga, meditation, and Ayur Veda are derived). In India, he is called “Maharishi Vyasananda.” It means “the great seer who sequentially elaborates knowledge blissfully”. Born in the 1950s to American parents in post-war Germany, Thom grew up traveling extensively and was educated in Southeast Asia, Hawaii, California, and Washington, DC. His father was a highly-decorated US Air Force general and his paternal grandfather was a senator in Arizona. In the ’60s, Thom discovered yoga and his life was changed. He learned Vedic Meditation from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who became Thom’s personal mentor and his predominant spiritual and educational influence over the next two decades. After basing himself in Australia, Thom became an acclaimed teacher of yoga and meditation before the age of twenty. Continuing his training with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India and in Europe, Thom spent most of the 1970s teaching in Australia and researching abroad at Maharishi European Research University (MERU), a prestigious post-graduate neuroscience-and-consciousness research institute based in Switzerland which attracted the support of several Nobel laureates, eminent scholars and researchers. He received an honorary doctorate, “Doctor of Science of Creative Intelligence” (D.Sci) in 1978 and quickly became a sought-after public speaker and educator, consulting to more than 40 top corporations and federal and state governments in Australia and abroad, as well as government-funded meditation programs in prisons in Australia and in the United States. Thom became the national coordinator of a meditation-teaching organization in Australia, coordinating public relations, teaching activities, and advanced training of some 85 Australian meditation instructors. He oversaw the organization’s expansion of physical facilities and real estate holdings into the 1980s. He had taught 3,000 new meditators before the age of thirty