The Apprentice
In another life, I practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for many years. At least it seems like another life looking back on it now. As luck would have it, during my time as a TCM practitioner, I had the great honor of apprenticing under, arguably, one of the finest and most successful Acupuncture practitioners in the western world. Incidentally, he had also practiced Transcendental Meditation (TM) for more than 45 years at the time of my apprenticeship. Needless to say, I was a bit in awe of his skills as a TCM practitioner and his business acumen. His practice saw roughly 200 patients daily, 6 days a week. His pulse diagnostic skills were absolutely legendary, and I watched him bring people he had never met before to tears of disbelief just by placing his fingers on their wrists.
Of course this was all within the first few hours of a 3 day interview consisting of an IQ test, psych eval, and roughly 25 hours of shadowing him at his practice. It was essential for this individual that your energy jived with what he was about. He had an incredible standing and reputation to maintain both within his local community and the TCM community at large and was a stickler for details many didn't even know existed. The locals MDs referred to him as 'the pulse guy,' and were fully aware of his reputation. It was not uncommon to be chatting with patients and hear testimonials of how blocked arteries were unblocked, heart attacks averted, cancers discovered early, etc. all through pulse diagnosis. TCM practitioners worldwide paid good money to come shadow him for weeks at a time.
Right Hand Man
As time went by I was shocked to learn he had been the right hand man of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of TM, for more than 10 years. He had studied in India for many years with Maharishi and was instrumental to the early development of TM in the United States and Canada, training many of the earliest followers who went on to become teachers themselves. At one point he was meditating for 18+ hours a day. During that point of intense practice, he was offered the gift of enlightenment, but he was unwilling or unable to let go completely. After several months of this Maharishi made it clear to him that there were things he could yet accomplish for TM and sent him into the world. This is where the synchronicity of his life really began to unfold.
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Universal Gifts
He told me many times how important it is to recognize the small sychronicities in your life. This is the universe giving you opportunity and you simply recognize and accept these gifts or you don't. It was his opinion, that the more consistent your mental framework, the more consistently you create/recognize synchronicity. TM has been shown to unify brainwaves across both left and right hemispheres which is key to having consistent thought processes.
When he left Maharishi, he stumbled into an oil brokerage position, one of the first of its kind in the world. He and his partners made billions brokering oil deals between international oil firms. The bulk of his wealth he donated to the TM institute. He knew TM was instrumental to his success.
Clearly, Maharishi had been right.