Returning to Goloka

Also during this time, Maharishi presented his concept of a human life
that continued for thousands of years on Earth, he said “in the direction of
immortality.” A new course was just getting started at that time called Purusha.
This was the manifestation of the Jyotish-Kalpa course mentioned earlier. It
was for single men who could commit to several years of an in-residence
course. This was for me so I retired from my business (I was 35 years old at
the time) and joined the Purusha course. I intended for it to be my life from
that point on, and it was for the next 12 years.
Soon, Maharishi had us enroll in an MBA program at MIU. Some men
left at that point - after all what does a celibate monk want with an MBA?
However, I was determined that whatever Maharishi wanted me to do, I would
do it so I stayed. Near the end of the MBA I got the idea, from reading his
Science of Being, that the next wave of the future would be the science of the
mind, psychology, so I asked if I could enroll for a Ph.D. in psychology and
Maharishi approved. About a dozen of the Purusha stayed on at MIU to get
advanced degrees after the MBA while the rest of the group moved to
Livingston Manor.
In a couple of years, in 1987, I graduated with a master's degree in
psychology and joined my fellow Purusha course members at Livingston
Manor to do my doctoral research in EEG. My project was to create a
topographic brain mapping system that could determine the state of
consciousness of a person. I wanted to see if the brain map would reveal when
a person was in Cosmic Consciousness or better yet Brahman Consciousness.
Over the next couple of years, I did my very long Purusha meditation
program and worked on EEG research and became increasingly
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