Experiments with teaching students transcendental meditation (TM) as a way to tap into "creative intelligence" were a dramatic example of the impact of 1960s counterculture on 1970s education. As the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the foremost proponent of the practice, explained, "New disciples of the Science of Creative Intelligence [SCI] turn their attention inward toward subtler levels of a thought until the mind transcends the experience of the subtlest state of the thought and arrives at the source of that thought." The promise was that the attainment of higher states of consciousness, and correspondingly more profound levels of knowledge, could be within reach of anyone through the practice of transcendental meditation. Some educators and scientists agreed: the Illinois House of Representatives formally encouraged all educational institutions in that state to study the feasibility of courses in TM and SCI, and the...