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Teachers' Reflections and Insights

On Teaching Transcendental Meditation
Paulene Saxton

A Teacher Dear to Maharishi

Reflections by Jim Thompson, Member of Purusha

Sent in an email to TMC Teacher K. Kearik Sunev, also on Purusha

Brian Ferry March 2012

 

Paulene Saxton was born in Atlanta on September 12, 1913. Her father was a professor at Gammon Theological Seminary and her mother was a school teacher. She graduated from Clark College and later moved to New York where she had a catering business.

 

Paulene, close to and trusted by Maharishi

She was interested in metaphysical things and attended many classes of that type. In one, Rev. Ike was also a student. She had a guru, I think from India, but she and a friend saw where Maharishi was speaking and they both attended. At one point in the lecture, Maharishi said, "I want you to learn." Nobody was quite sure who he meant and each person asked, "Me?" "Me?" Then Paulene asked, "Me?" and he said, "Yes."

Reflections by Dee Monroe

Her inspiration was the genesis for the TTC in Ethiopia

​Susan Smith March 2012

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The inspiration for our very own teacher training course (TTC) and for it to be held in Africa was an article in Ebony magazine on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (MMY). The issue has Martin Luther King on the cover. I believe it was in the spring of 1968 soon after King’s death. I remember this article well as Maharishi said, up to that time, it was the best article done on him. Era Bell Thompson was the International Editor and simply wrote the conversation between her and MMY. Maharishi stated that we (Indians) have been black all of our lives. In response to a question about spreading TM in the black community, he said that he would hold a TTC for us anywhere and anytime. This stuck in my mind. So, after my TTC in Majorca, Spain and in Fiuggi, Italy, where we (George Quant and I) had networked with Kibra Dawit from Ethiopia, I saw we had an opportunity to realize our course.

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