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Transcendental meditation comes to the United States.

Date: 1959

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi begins teaching transcendental meditation in the United States. It will continue to grow in popularity in the 1960s and 70s, and will be co-opted and commodified as a massive industry of self-care develops in the U.S.