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LTRP Note<\/strong>: In this Psychology Today<\/em> article, it reveals that a Hindu meditation teacher is in the process of teaching “elite” American business people the “art” of Hindu meditation. The implications could be colossal, and the effects would roll over into other sectors of American society. Below this article, please read Ray Yungen’s take on New Age in business.<\/p>\n

By Dorian Rolston<\/strong>
\nPsychology Today<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Can One Man Save American Business?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hitendra Wadhwa teaches current and future executives how to breathe. He believes that self-regulation can achieve what market regulation cannot\u2014great business leadership.<\/p>\n

\"ZemantaEver since 2009\u2014shortly after the housing market collapsed, the finance industry was shaken by its own recklessness, and the economy descended into recession\u2014Hitendra Wadhwa has been teaching the wildly overenrolled course to the current and future elite of American business. The award-winning professor promises not how to make a living but how to live.<\/p>\n

Mumbai-born, Bollywood-handsome, trained by spiritual<\/a> gurus in India, as well as by management scholars at MIT, and experienced in American business, six-foot-four Wadhwa straddles two world views: “the material advancement America has been leading” and “the spiritual wealth that has existed in certain other cultures over time,” especially in India. The two are not at odds with each other, he insists. “It’s important to have both. One trains you on mastering your inner life, the other on mastering your outer life.” Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n

Related: “New Age in Business and the Serious Implications” by Ray Yungen<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there was one single group to whom the promise of creating one\u2019s own reality would have specific appeal, it would be business people. The competition in the corporate world is so keen that anything, no matter how unusual, may be eagerly embraced if it offers results. As they say in the business world, the bottom line is success.<\/p>\n

The way New Age thought has crept into corporations is simple to understand. Management trainers and human resource developers hold positions where they can incorporate metaphysics into business under titles such as Intuition Development, Right Brain Creativity, and Superlearning. The New Age nature of these seminars may be introduced by employers either intentionally or unwittingly. The New Age Journal<\/em> states:<\/p>\n

An unconventional new breed of consultant has surfaced on the corporate lecture circuit. They speak of meditation, energy flow and tapping into the unused potential of the mind. What\u2019s more, they are spreading their Arcane curriculum not only among the alternative entrepreneurs who populate the capitalist fringe, but within the heart of corporate America as well. General Electric, IBM, Shell, Polaroid, and the Chase Manhattan Bank are sending their fast-trackers to crash courses in, strange as it may sound, intuition.1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once, while attending a New Age convention, I was told by one of these new breeds that resistance to New Age concepts in business was being replaced by a new openness. \u201cHow you focus it is all important,\u201d he began, and then added:<\/p>\n

If you barge in with occult lingo it turns them off right away. You have to tell them how you can make their employees happier and get more productivity out of them\u2014then they will listen. You are really teaching metaphysics, but you present it as human development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Quiet Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n

This approach has tremendous appeal because companies naturally want to get the most out of their people. New Agers know this approach works to their advantage. One trainer defines her role the following way:<\/p>\n

There is something new in the fact that businesses are taking an active interest in the potential of these techniques to bring about transformational change within large groups of people for organizational ends. You have to deal with the whole person\u2014body, mind and spirit\u2014if real change is to happen.2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In one interview, New Age writer Marilyn Ferguson echoes the same theme:<\/p>\n

Business leaders have, by and large, exhausted materialistic values and are often open to spiritual values… What\u2019s more, top-level business people are not afraid of the transformative process, and typically, after I speak to them, they say, \u201cI didn\u2019t know that such things were possible. I don\u2019t understand everything you\u2019re saying, but I\u2019m going to find out about it.\u201d Whereas most people who don\u2019t understand new concepts automatically reject them, business people, who by nature are trained in risk taking, go after them.3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dennis T. Jaffe, Ph.D., founder and director of the Learning for Health Clinic in Los Angeles, had this to say:<\/p>\n

Many progressive companies are incorporating some of the inner-directed exercises I mentioned [in meditation and visualization] into their \u201cmanual of procedures\u201d . . . These changes point to a quiet, inner-directed revolution that is reshaping many companies into being agents of self-realization. . . . Many social thinkers, such as Marilyn Ferguson, believe that because of its openness to change, business has the greatest potential for spiritualizing the world. (emphasis mine)4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A number of courses, books, and individuals are having a great impact on the business world. Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers have written a book titled Creativity in Business. The book is based on a Stanford University course that they claim has \u201crevolutionized the art of success.\u201d5 Two people who enthusiastically endorse this book are Spencer Johnson, MD., coauthor of The One Minute Manager, and Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence. Silicon Valley Bank Chairman, N.W. Medearis, says the book is \u201can experience which will leave one significantly changed.\u201d6<\/p>\n

Ray and Myers acknowledge that the book takes much of its inspiration from \u201cEastern philosophies, mysticism, and meditation techniques\u201d and that \u201cdozens of America\u2019s brightest and most successful business practitioners and entrepreneurs have contributed to the course and to this book.\u201d7<\/p>\n

It is absolutely amazing how unabashed Creativity in Business is in recommending its source of creativity. In one section we find the heading, \u201cGetting in Touch with Your Inner Guide.\u201d It reads:<\/p>\n

In this exercise you meet your wisdom-keeper or spirit guide\u2014an inner person who can be with you in life, someone to whom you can turn for guidance.8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These beings are contacted either through meditative breathing exercises or with mantra meditation. If there is any doubt the book is talking about New Age meditation, it is resolved upon reading:<\/p>\n

As meditation master Swami Muktananda says: \u201cWe do not meditate just to relax a little and experience some peace. We meditate to unfold our inner being.\u201d9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tarot cards are even presented as a source of creativity. As with other New Age categories, it begins with breathing exercises (or as the book says, go into silence). The person then picks the cards, which are supposed to give \u201csome important insights.\u201d10<\/p>\n

A new generation of New Age business gurus is starting to emerge on the scene. One of the more prominent is T. Harv Eker, who leads \u201cMillionaire Mind Seminars\u201d through his company Peak Potentials Training. This is one of the fastest growing corporate training companies in the country today, with 250,000 trainees to date. What these eager folks learn is apparent by Eker\u2019s statement that his \u201cMission is to educate and inspire people to live in their Higher Self.\u201d11<\/p>\n

This is a typical approach. You will recall an earlier quote, \u201cbusinessmen eat this stuff up, the experience sells itself.\u201d That is why it is making such headway, it works. If these methods work for people in business today the way they worked for Madame Blavatsky in finding the woman\u2019s lost brooch related in chapter two, then it\u2019s easy to see the implications of metaphysics in the business world.<\/p>\n

Quite often I will hear people from a certain age group and social outlook dismiss what I am researching with terms such as \u201cweirdo hippie religion.\u201d When I hear this, I think of articles appearing in such well respected magazines as U.S. News & World Report which paint a far different picture. One article in particular dealt specifically with New Age spirituality in the corporate world. It was called \u201cShush. The Guy in the Cubicle is Meditating.\u201d The article disclosed that such consultants had become \u201cthe darlings of business circles\u201d12 and not just any business circles:<\/p>\n

[W]hen 2,000 global powerbrokers gathered for the elite World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the agenda included confabs on \u201cspiritual anchors for the new millennium\u201d and \u201cthe future of meditation in a networked economy.\u201d Indeed, 30 MBA programs now offer courses on the issue. It\u2019s also the focus of the . . . Harvard Business School Bulletin. (emphasis mine)13<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What this shows is that the dismissal of New Age spirituality as hippy\/dippy is very much outdated and unsound. As one corporate trainer proudly proclaimed, \u201cWhat\u2019s new is that it\u2019s just entered the mainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corporate \u201cWellness\u201d<\/strong>
\nCreativity is not the only New Age avenue into the corporate scene. Health and fitness programs presented in the context of corporate wellness are becoming increasingly popular. Executives give a willing ear to ways of keeping productivity up and absenteeism down.<\/p>\n

Many of these programs have metaphysical motives within them. One such wellness expert promoting total health explained how she was able to teach mantra meditation to a group of businessmen:<\/p>\n

Just yesterday I met with a whole room of executives for breakfast\u2014top executives in a huge multinational company. . . . Here were these executives closing their eyes and breathing deeply into their abdomens, and quieting their mind by repeating just one word\u2014\u201crelax, relax.\u201d14<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier in the interview this woman related how she had \u201cstudied metaphysics\u201d and \u201cmeditated three or four times a day for direction.\u201d15<\/p>\n

In her joy at being able to subtly introduce meditation to those who would have rejected it as being too \u201cfar out\u201d otherwise, she commented: \u201cTen years ago in an American company I would have been thrown out in the street, I\u2019m sure.\u201d16<\/p>\n

Business\u2014The Most Logical Candidate<\/strong>
\nThe New Age effort to transform business is very real and becoming more successful all the time. When asked in an interview about where he thought the vanguard of transformation was in the country today, New Ager James Fadiman replied:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s fascinating to me is that when I met recently with some of the old-timers in the movement, I discovered that all of us had expanded from working in growth centers to working in American business. What the business community needs, wants, and appreciates at this time are insights from the human potential movement. . . . I\u2019m finding executives who, twenty years ago, considered the human potential movement a kind of joke and who are now recruiting specialists into the most conservative industries.17<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Larry Wilson, coauthor of The One Minute Sales Person, clearly stated in an interview that metaphysics is the core of what is being taught:<\/p>\n

The heart of our new management training represents a return to the ancient spiritual wisdom about the true identity and power of the individual. In our courses, we aim to empower people so they can get in touch with their creative Source and then apply the potential to every part of their lives, including their work life. (emphasis mine)18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wilson also revealed in the interview that it is the higher self that is at the heart of this \u201cancient spiritual wisdom.\u201d He explained:<\/p>\n

Once a sufficient number of employees get in touch with their true potential, the organization changes . . . it helps to have top management in tune with it.19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In another interview, the late futurist and New Age leader Willis Harman acknowledged that:<\/p>\n

Some of the most creative and successful people in business are really part of this new paradigm movement. You can find this sort of talk going on in business. In fact, a group of business executives and myself got together and created something we call the World Business Academy, which is a network of business executives who have already gone through their own personal transformations to a considerable extent and are asking: \u201cWhat\u2019s the new role of business? What\u2019s the new corporation?\u201d20<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

International Management magazine revealed that many of the major European corporations are also eagerly embracing New Age spirituality. Included in the list were the Bank of England and the UK\u2019s Ministry of Defense and Cabinet Office.21<\/p>\n

The previously mentioned individuals, and numerous others like them, are working diligently within the corporate world to bring about a paradigm shift of potentially staggering proportions. Larry Wilson acknowledged this by saying, \u201cThis new approach is changing the corporation, and that change will affect other institutions of our Society.\u201d22<\/p>\n

This is not an understatement. In the 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (a New Age think tank), it reveals:<\/p>\n

Since 1994 more than 100,000 executives from 56 countries have taken the Self-Management and Leadership Course (SML). SML is a two-day residential retreat inspired by the principles of raja yoga, which advocates inner stillness through breathwork, movement, meditation, and self-inquiry as a path to wisdom and inner balance.23<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New Agers know that if they can transform business, they will have transformed the world. The reason for this is that business and government feed into each other, so to speak. Many politicians are also business people, or lawyers with strong ties to business. Also, many politicians go back into the corporate world when they leave office. The two cultures are profoundly intertwined. If the corporate world goes New Age (as we see it doing) the world of government isn\u2019t far behind. (For more information on how the New Age has come into our North American society, read For Many Shall Come in My Name<\/em><\/a> by Ray Yungen.)<\/p>\n

Endnotes:<\/strong>
\n1. E. Armstrong, \u201cBottom-Line Intuition\u201d (New Age Journal<\/em>, December 1985), p. 32.
\n2. \u201cWhat\u2019s New in the New Age?\u201d (Training Magazine<\/em>, September 1987), p. 25.
\n3. Interview with Marilyn Ferguson (Science of Mind<\/em> magazine, May 1983), pp. 11-12.
\n4. \u201cFrom Burnout to Balance,\u201d Interview with Dennis Jaffe, Ph.D., (Science of Mind <\/em>magazine, June 1985), pp. 88-89.
\n5. Michael Ray and Rochelle Meyers, Creativity in Business<\/em> (Garden City, New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1986), front cover.
\n6. Ibid., back cover.
\n7. Ibid., back flap.
\n8. Ibid., pp. 36-37.
\n9. Ibid., p. 142.
\n10. Ibid., p. 154.
\n11. T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind<\/em>; quote taken from Eker\u2019s Peak Potentials Training website, http:\/\/www.peakpotentials.com\/new, accessed 11\/2011.
\n12. Marci McDonald, \u201cShush. The Guy in the Cubicle is Meditating: Spirituality is the latest corporate buzzword\u201d (U.S. News & World Report<\/em>, May 3, 1999), p. 46.
\n13. Ibid.
\n14. Kathy Juline, \u201cWellness Works: A New Lifestyle for a New World,\u201d Interview with Elaine Willis, Ph.D. (Science of Mind<\/em> magazine, June 1990), p. 25.
\n15. Ibid., pp. 19-20.
\n16. Ibid.
\n17. Interview with James Fadiman (Science of Mind<\/em> magazine, June 1988), p. 77.
\n18. \u201cChanging the Game in Business,\u201d Interview with Larry Wilson (Science of Mind<\/em> magazine, February 1987), p. 10.
\n19. Ibid., p. 14.
\n20. Willis Harman, \u201cThe New Age of Consciousness\u201d (Guide to New Age Living<\/em>, 1989), pp. 18, 20.
\n21. \u201cDisciples of the New Age,\u201d (International Management<\/em> magazine, March, 1991), p. 45.
\n22. Larry Wilson interview, op. cit., p. 31.
\n23. 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming Journal<\/em> (Petaluma, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences, March-May 2007, No. 14, 2007), p. 55.<\/p>\n

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