The band had gone to Bangor to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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This took transcendental meditation, which he had trademarked, to the world, with Hollywood one of the first stops.

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Transcendental meditation, which he took up following a trip to India by the Beatles, also helped his work habits.

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Manzarek met Densmore and Krieger at a Transcendental Meditation lecture and the four became the house band at The London Fog on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1966.

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She experimented with mysticism and transcendental meditation in college.

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He visits schools and prisons to teach transcendental meditation.

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Mr. Lynch embraced transcendental meditation around the time he made the 1977 curiosity "Eraserhead, " and since 2005 has headed the David Lynch Foundation, a charity he created to fund the teaching of T.

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In a study published last year in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, African-Americans with heart disease who practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly were 48% less likely to have a heart attack or stroke, or to die, than those who attended a health-education class.

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Although all this high-end bathing -- not to mention an onboard sushi chef (who Larson says is "the best in Scandinavia") -- account for much of the boat's allure, the 40-year-old meditation enthusiast believes there's something a little more transcendental about the whole experience.

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