Bevan Morris
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Bevan G. Morris is the president of Maharishi University of Management
Maharishi University of Management
Maharishi University of Management , formerly known as Maharishi International University, is a non-profit, American university, located in Fairfield, Iowa. It was founded in 1973 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and features a "consciousness-based education" system that includes the practice of the...

 in Fairfield, Iowa
Fairfield, Iowa
Fairfield is a city and the county seat of Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 9,464 in the 2010 census, a decline from 9,509 in the 2000 census. - History :...

, President of the Global Country of World Peace
Global Country of World Peace
The Global Country of World Peace was declared by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder and guru of the Transcendental Meditation movement, on Vijayadashami , October 7, 2000. He described it as "a country without borders for peace loving people everywhere"...

, President of Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation, Prime Minister of the United States Peace Government, President of the Maharishi World Peace Fund, and founder of the Natural Law Party
Natural Law Party
The Natural Law Party was a transnational party based on the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was active in up to 74 countries, and ran candidates in at least ten. Founded in 1992, it was mostly disbanded in 2004 but continues in India and in some U.S. states.The NLP viewed "natural law" as...

.

Early life

Morris learned Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation refers to the Transcendental Meditation technique, a specific form of mantra meditation, and to the Transcendental Meditation movement, a spiritual movement...

 (TM) from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , born Mahesh Prasad Varma , developed the Transcendental Meditation technique and was the leader and guru of the TM movement, characterised as a new religious movement and also as non-religious...

 at age 19, in Australia. He attended a TM Teacher Training at Maharishi's Academy at Rishikesh where he lived for two years from 1969-1971.

Education

Morris received his B.A. and M.A. in psychology and philosophy from Gonville and Caius College
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...

 of Cambridge University, England. He earned a Masters degree and a Ph.D. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi European Research University
MERU, Holland
MERU, Holland, is a residential and office complex which includes the residence of the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a capital of the Global Country of World Peace, a campus of Maharishi European Research University , and other institutions of the Transcendental Meditation movement. It occupies the...

 (MERU) in Vlodrop
Vlodrop
Vlodrop is a town in the south-eastern part of The Netherlands in the municipality of Roerdalen. The town is situated near the German border, about 8 km southeast of Roermond....

, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. He also holds a Doctorate of World Peace from MERU in Switzerland.

Career

From 1975 to 1979, Morris was the international coordinator for MERU.

In 1979 Morris was appointed President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Maharishi International University, which was renamed Maharishi University of Management in 1995. During his tenure there was expansion of the university campus, and accreditation through the Ph.D. level. In the 1990s, he was reported to be the lowest-paid college president in Iowa, receiving an annual salary of $9,000 in 1994.

Morris held a special three-week "Taste of Utopia" gathering in December 1983 which attracted 7,000 practitioners of the TM-Sidhi program. He later reported that reduced world tensions and a higher Dow Jones stock index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average , also called the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow...

 occurred during, and as a result of, the event.

In 1984, Morris toured the country seeking expert meditators to form a "collective conscience" that would include "super radiance". In 1990 he sought a $90 million annual expenditure from the U.S. government to fund a group of 10,000 professional meditators whose activities would result in peace and prosperity for the nation. He made the request in an open letter, printed in an advertisement in the Washington Post, to President George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

. In a subsequent press conference he suggested that the president learn Transcendental Meditation.

Morris is the founder and national chairman of the U.S. Natural Law Party (NLP), which was described by a spokesman as "the TM party". He took a leave of absence from the MUM to oversee John Hagelin
John Hagelin
John Samuel Hagelin is an American particle physicist, three-time candidate of the Natural Law Party for President of the United States , and the director of the Transcendental Meditation movement for the US....

's first campaign for U.S. President, in 1992. Morris was also described in 1992 as the party's spokesman on education. In 1993, he campaigned for a seat in the Australian House of Representatives
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....

 on the NLP ticket, from a district in suburban Adelaide
Division of Boothby
The Division of Boothby is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1903 and is named after William Boothby , the Returning Officer for the first election of Members of the House of Representatives in 1901....

.

Morris was appointed Chairman of the Maharishi Council of Supreme Intelligence of Age of Enlightenment in 1987. Morris is the International President of Maharishi Vedic Universities, a network of institutions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. He is also on the board of trustees of the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment is an independent, non-denominational, college preparatory school located in Fairfield, Iowa, USA.The school was founded in 1974, received state accreditation in 1986 and began single-gender classes in 1989...

. He was appointed Minister of Enlightenment of the Global Country of World Peace
Global Country of World Peace
The Global Country of World Peace was declared by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder and guru of the Transcendental Meditation movement, on Vijayadashami , October 7, 2000. He described it as "a country without borders for peace loving people everywhere"...

in 2000 and is now its president. He was appointed President of the Maharishi World Peace Fund in 2003. He is also Prime Minister of the United States Peace Government, of which John Hagelin is president.

In 2009, Morris was living in Adelaide, Australia and reportedly spent a only few weeks a year in the Fairfield area. Morris became the Emeritus Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MUM in 2009 after having served as chairman for 30 years and while continuing to serve as its president.
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