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Who founded the Spiritual Regeneration Movement and popularized Transcendental Meditation?
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As the leader of Peoples Temple, Jim Jones was notorious for instigating a shocking mass murder-suicide, the Jonestown Massacre, in 1978.
The Spiritual Regeneration Movement was founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who also popularized the technique of Transcendental Meditation (TM) internationally starting in the late 1950s.12
While the Maharishi is credited with the global promotion of these teachings, the technique itself was originally taught by his teacher, the Hindu monk Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, also known as Guru Dev. The Maharishi organized the movement to spread these practices following the death of his teacher in 1953.13