The Competitive Edge

Raja John Bright is a Princeton graduate and longtime leader in the Transcendental Meditation movement who spent decades studying under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1970 he was trained as a TM teacher under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and worked as his personal assistant until 1973. During this time, he became the first administrative vice president of Maharishi International University, and later that year traveled to the Middle East, where he opened the first TM centers in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. Since then he has led Bhagavad-Gita study groups and taught meditation for over 40 years around the world. In our conversation, John breaks down the exact mechanisms by which transcendental states trigger physiological upgrades. We discuss why our body must physically transform before higher consciousness can stabilize. He has witnessed thousands of people undergo profound physiological transformations. I was excited to explore this topic, because I’ve experienced how the physical body changes with consciousness first h