John Hagelin

Hagelin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the second of four sons, to Mary Lee Hagelin ({{nee|Stephenson}}), a schoolteacher, and Carl William Hagelin, a businessman.For date and place of birth, second of four sons, and parents' first names and professions, {{cite web|title=Profile: John Hagelin, Ph.D, of Fairfield, Iowa (Natural Law Party)|year=2000|url=https://www.gwu.edu/~action/hage.html|publisher=George Washington University|ref={{sfnRef|Profile: John Hagelin, George Washington University|2000}}|access-date=September 18, 2016|archive-date=February 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215141654/http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eaction/hage.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=News Release: Hagelin-Goldhaber Lead Powerful New Natural Law/Independent Coalition|url=http://archive.hagelin.org/HagelinPressKit.pdf|publisher=hagelin.org|access-date=October 18, 2012|ref={{sfnRef|Hagelin release|2012}}|archive-date=March 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301160459/http://archive.hagelin.org/HagelinPressKit.pdf|url-status=live}} He was raised in Connecticut{{sfn|Profile: John Hagelin, George Washington University|2000}} and won a scholarship to the Taft School for boys in Watertown. In July 1970, while at Taft, he was involved in a motorcycle crash that led to a long stay{{em dash}}in a body cast{{em dash}}in the school infirmary. During his time there, he began reading about quantum mechanics but was also introduced to TM by a practitioner, Rick Archer, who had been invited to the school to talk about the meditation form.{{cite web |last=Dickie |first=Neil |title=John Hagelin and the Constitution of the Universe |work=The Fairfield Source |date=February 1992 |pages=10–13 |url=http://www.iowasource.com/fairfield/hagelin_0292.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216005431/http://www.iowasource.com/fairfield/hagelin_0292.html |archive-date=February 16, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}{{cite web |last=Poltilove |first=Josh |title=Hagelin Runs On Common Sense |work=Tampa Tribune |url=http://www.natural-law.org/news/press_articles/2000_11_04.html |access-date=October 21, 2012 |ref={{sfnRef|Poltilove|2000}} |archive-date=January 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109214615/http://www.natural-law.org/news/press_articles/2000_11_04.html |url-status=live }}

After Taft, Hagelin attended Dartmouth College. At the end of his freshman year, he studied TM in Vittel, France, and returned as a qualified TM teacher. In 1975, he obtained his A.B. in physics with highest honors (summa cum laude) from Dartmouth.{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec00/hagelin_bio.html |title=Online NewsHour: John Hagelin's Biography |publisher=PBS |date=2000 |ref={{sfnRef|PBS Hagelin|2000}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010626214203/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec00/hagelin_bio.html |archive-date=June 26, 2001 }} He went on to study physics at Harvard University under Howard Georgi, earning a master's degree in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1981. By the time he had received his Ph.D., he had published several papers on particle theory.{{cite book |last=Woit |first=Peter |title=Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law |publisher=Vintage Books |year=2007 |isbn=9781446443019 |location=London |pages=209–211}}

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In 1981, Hagelin became a postdoctoral researcher for a few months at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland, and in 1982, he moved to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. He left SLAC in 1983, reportedly because of personal problems. A year later, he joined Maharishi International University (MIU) as chair of the physics department.{{cite book |last=Park |first=Robert |title=Voodoo Science: The road from foolishness to fraud |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2000 |location=New York |pages=29–31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzCK6-Kqs6QC |isbn=978-0-19-860443-3 |access-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-date=February 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215101903/https://books.google.com/books?id=xzCK6-Kqs6QC |url-status=live }}{{cite web |first=Jonathan |last=Fox |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/2000-10-05/news/good-vibrations/ |title=Good Vibrations |work=Dallas Observer |date=October 5, 2000 |ref={{sfnRef|Fox|2005}} |access-date=December 8, 2009 |archive-date=June 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617073232/http://www.dallasobserver.com/2000-10-05/news/good-vibrations/ |url-status=dead }}Stenger, Victor J. (2009). Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness, Amherst: Prometheus Books, pp. 60–61. Two of Hagelin's previous collaborators, Dimitri Nanopoulos and John Ellis, were uncomfortable with his move to MIU, but they continued to work with him.{{cite journal |last=Freedman |first=David |title=The new theory of everything |journal=Discover |date=August 1991 |pages=54–61}} While at MIU, Hagelin received funding from the National Science Foundation.

Hagelin became a trustee of MUM and, in 2016, its president.[http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/professor-john-hagelin-named-president-of-maharishi-university-of-management-2137318.htm "Professor John Hagelin Named President of Maharishi University of Management"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729154052/http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/professor-john-hagelin-named-president-of-maharishi-university-of-management-2137318.htm |date=July 29, 2016 }}, Market Wired, June 24, 2016. It was intended that he become president of Maharishi Central University, which was under construction in Smith Center, Kansas, until early 2008, when, according to Hagelin, the project was put on hold while the TM organization dealt with the death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.{{cite news |last=Draper |first=Bill |title=Towns Meditate On Fate of Peace Palace Project |newspaper=Hutchnews |location=Hutchinson, Kansas |date=September 21, 2008 |url=http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/meditate |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126112110/http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/meditate |archive-date=January 26, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}

In 1992, Hagelin received a Kilby International Award from the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce "for his promising work in particle physics in the development of supersymmetric grand unified field theory".{{cite web |url=http://www.kilby.org/kl_past_laureates.html |title=Kilby laureates |publisher=The Kilby International Awards |access-date=January 15, 2011 |ref={{sfnRef|Kilby|2011}} |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514102456/http://www.kilby.org/kl_past_laureates.html |url-status=live }} According to a member of the selection committee, Hagelin's nomination was proposed by another selection-committee member who was a fellow TM practitioner.Humes, Cynthia Ann. "The Trandescendental Organization and Its Encounter with Science", in James R. Lewis, Olav Hammer (eds.), Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science, Leiden: Brill, 2010 (345–370), 360. {{ISBN|9789004187917}} Chris Anderson, in a 1992 Nature article about Hagelin's first presidential campaign, questioned the value of the award.

During his time at CERN, SLAC and MUM, Hagelin worked on supersymmetric extensions of the standard model and grand unification theories. His work on the flipped SU(5) heterotic superstring theory is considered one of the more successful unified field theories, or "theories of everything",{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Christopher |title=Physicist running for president is accused of distorting science to fit guru's ideas |journal=Nature |volume=359|date=September 10, 1992 | doi = 10.1038/359097a0 | page=97 |bibcode = 1992Natur.359...97A |issue=6391|doi-access=free }} and was highlighted in 1991 in a cover story in Discover magazine.

From 1979 to 1996, Hagelin published over 70 papers about particle physics, electroweak unification, grand unification, supersymmetry and cosmology, most of them in academic scientific journals. He co-authored a 1983 paper in Physics Letters B, "Weak symmetry breaking by radiative corrections in broken supergravity", that became one of the 103 most-cited articles in the physical sciences in 1983 and 1984.{{cite journal |last2=Hagelin |first2=John |last3=Nanopoulos |first3=D V |last4=Tamvakis |first4=K. |last1=Ellis |first1=John |title=Weak symmetry breaking by radiative corrections in broken supergravity |journal=Physics Letters B |issue=4 |pages=275–281 |date=2 June 1983 |ref={{sfnRef|Hagelin-Nanopolous|1983}} |bibcode=1983PhLB..125..275E |volume=125 |doi=10.1016/0370-2693(83)91283-2 |osti=1446647 |url=https://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getdoc/slac-pub-3042.pdf |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815184501/https://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getdoc/slac-pub-3042.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v8p480y1985.pdf|title=Physical Science papers cited most in 1983/84|publisher=garfield.library.upenn.edu|date=December 16, 1985|ref={{sfnRef|Cited papers|1985}}|access-date=May 30, 2007|archive-date=October 3, 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001003145734/http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v8p480y1985.pdf|url-status=dead}} In a 2012 interview in Science Watch, co-author Keith Olive said that his work for the 1984 study was one of the areas that had given him the greatest sense of accomplishment.{{cite web |last=Taubes |first=Gary |title=Keith Olive on Possibilities for Supersymmetric Dark Matter |url=http://archive.sciencewatch.com/ana/st/super/11decSTSuperOliv/ |work=Science Watch |date=December 2011 |ref={{sfnRef|Taubes|2012}} |access-date=September 25, 2012 |archive-date=December 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203060333/http://archive.sciencewatch.com/ana/st/super/11decSTSuperOliv/ |url-status=live }} A 1984 paper by Hagelin and John Ellis in Nuclear Physics B, "Supersymmetric relics from the big bang", had been cited over 500 times by 2007.{{cite journal | last1 = Ellis | first1 = John | first2 = J. S. | last2 = Hagelin | first3 = D. V. | last3 = Nanopoulos | first4 = K. | last4 = Olive | first5 = M. | last5 = Srednicki | title = Supersymmetric relics from the big bang | journal = Nucl. Phys. B | volume = 238 | issue = 2 | pages = 453–476 | date = 11 June 1984 | doi = 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90461-9 | bibcode = 1984NuPhB.238..453E | osti = 1432463 | url = https://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getdoc/slac-pub-3171.pdf | access-date = June 23, 2021 | archive-date = June 24, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205255/https://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getdoc/slac-pub-3171.pdf | url-status = live }}

In the summer of 1993, Hagelin directed a project aimed at demonstrating what TM practitioners call the Maharishi effect, the purported ability of a large group to affect the behavior of others by practising TM.Goodstein, Laurie (July 30, 1993). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/07/30/meditators-see-signs-of-success/922d2ee0-f690-42f8-89d4-298cb30f5e82/ "Meditators See Signs of Success"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205095914/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/07/30/meditators-see-signs-of-success/922d2ee0-f690-42f8-89d4-298cb30f5e82/ |date=February 5, 2017 }}, The Washington Post. Accessed January 11, 2023. The TM movement believes that one tenth of the square root of the population of a country meditating can bring about peace.{{cite book |last=Weber |first=Joseph |title=Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa |publisher= University of Iowa Press |year= 2014 |location=Iowa City|isbn=978-1609382353 |pages=23–24|quote=Movement publications over time have suggested various numbers needed to create this Maharishi Effect, moving from as high as one-tenth of the adult population to one-hundredth and even one-thousandth. The movement settled on the figure of the square root of 1 percent of a given population....}} However, critics point to a lack of credible supporting evidence.

Approximately 4,000 people from 82 countries gathered in Washington, DC, and practiced TM for six hours a day from June 7 to July 30. The meditation included "yogic flying", a technique taught through the TM-Sidhi program in which practitioners engage in a series of hops while seated in the lotus position. Hagelin claimed that there was a local reduction in crime due to this activity.Castaneda, Ruben (October 7, 1994). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/10/07/fighting-crime-by-meditation/be5c6863-1dfe-4870-9f5c-b158fda5a9c6/ "Fighting crime by meditation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205095923/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/10/07/fighting-crime-by-meditation/be5c6863-1dfe-4870-9f5c-b158fda5a9c6/ |date=February 5, 2017 }}, The Washington Post.

According to Hagelin, the analysis was examined by an "independent review board", although all members of the board were TM practitioners. Robert L. Park, research professor and former chair of the physics department at the University of Maryland, called the study a "clinic in data distortion". In 1994, a science satire magazine, Annals of Improbable Research, "awarded" Hagelin the Ig Nobel Prize for Peace, "for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C."{{cite web |url=http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig1994 |title=The 1994 Ig Nobel Prize Winners |work=Annals of Improbable Research |date=August 2006 |access-date=January 15, 2011 |ref={{sfnRef|Ig Noble|2012}} |archive-date=February 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226100552/http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig1994 |url-status=live }}Abrahams, Marc (October 8, 2012). [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/oct/08/meditation-crime-prevention-research "Scientist fighting crime and gravity"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429204850/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/oct/08/meditation-crime-prevention-research |date=April 29, 2021 }}, The Guardian.

In 1999, Hagelin held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to announce that the TM movement could end the Kosovo War with yogic flying. He suggested that NATO set up an elite corps of 7,000 yogic flyers at a cost of $33 million.{{cite book| last= Bruce| first= Alexandra |year= 2007| title= Beyond The Secret: The Definitive Unauthorized Guide to The Secret| place= New York| publisher= The Disinformation Company, Red Wheel Weiser| page= 100| isbn= 9781934708408}}

In 1990, Hagelin founded Enlightened Audio Designs Corporation (EAD) with Alastair Roxburgh.{{cite web |url=http://www.dagogo.com/View-Article.asp?hArticle=442 |title=Constantine Soo listens to the Enlightened Audio Designs Ovation Plus as modified by Boelen/Noble Electronics |publisher=Dagogo |date=October 2005 |first=Constantine |last=Soo |access-date=October 11, 2012 |archive-date=October 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017043515/http://dagogo.com/View-Article.asp?hArticle=442 |url-status=live }} The company designed and manufactured high-end digital-to-analog converters.{{cite web|last=Wilson |first=Kim |title=Enlightened Audio Designs Theater Master Digital Processor |url=http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-preamplifiers/av-preamps/enlightened-audio-designs-theater-master-digital-processor.html |publisher=Audio Video Revolution |date=December 1, 1998 |ref={{sfnRef|Audio|1998}} |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080531132110/http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-preamplifiers/av-preamps/enlightened-audio-designs-theater-master-digital-processor.html |archive-date= May 31, 2008 }} EAD was sold in 2001 to Alpha Digital Technologies in Oregon.

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Hagelin and 12 others founded the Natural Law Party in April 1992 in Fairfeld, based on the view that problems of governance could be solved more effectively by following "natural law", the organizing principle of the universe.Nemeth, Stephen (2014). "Natural Law Party", in Larry J. Sabato, Howard R. Ernst (eds.), Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections, Infobase Publishing, p. 241. The party platform included preventive health care, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy technologies. Hagelin favored abortion rights without public financing, campaign-finance law reform, more restrictive gun control, and a flat tax, with no tax for families earning less than $34,000 per year.{{cite news|last=Lindlaw |first=Scott |url=http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=123165 |title=Profile: John Hagelin |work=ABC News |date=August 11, 2000 |archive-date=June 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615134140/https://abcnews.go.com/print?id=123165 |ref={{sfnRef|ABC profile|2000}} |url-status=dead }} He campaigned to eradicate PACs and soft money campaign contributions and advocated safety locks on guns, school vouchers, and efforts to prevent war in the Middle East by reducing "people's tension".{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RkVTAAAAIBAJ&pg=1479,1152887&dq=john+hagelin&hl=en |title=Natural Law Party Says He'll Debate Anytime, Anywhere |newspaper=Nashville Daily News |date=September 30, 1992 |pages=1, 3 |ref={{sfnRef|Daily News debate|1992}} |access-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308183134/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RkVTAAAAIBAJ&pg=1479,1152887&dq=john+hagelin&hl=en |url-status=live }}

The party chose Hagelin and Mike Tompkins as its presidential and vice-presidential candidates in 1992 and 1996.{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7SsEAAAAMBAJ |title=Party out of Bounds: Who Says There Are Only Two Choices in This Election? |journal=Vibe |date=November 1996 |volume=4 |issue=9 |page=70 |last1=Farley |first1=Christopher |last2=McKissack |first2=Fred }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Hagelin received 39,212 votes from 32 states in 1992 (and 23 percent of the vote in Jefferson County, where MIU is located), and 113,659 votes from 43 states in 1996 (21 percent in Jefferson County).{{cite web |url=http://www.issues2000.org/Profile_John_Hagelin.htm |title=On The Issues |publisher=Issues 2000 |date=June 9, 1994 |ref={{sfnRef|Profile|1994}} |access-date=July 19, 2010 |archive-date=August 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812090930/http://issues2000.org/Profile_John_Hagelin.htm |url-status=dead }}Kraus, Daniel (25 August 2000). [https://www.salon.com/2000/08/25/roos/ "Roo the day"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205100130/https://www.salon.com/2000/08/25/roos/ |date=February 5, 2017 }}, Salon.{{cite news |last=Schmitt |first=Eric |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/05/us/on-the-sidelines-many-third-party-candidates-are-hoping-to-make-a-point.html |title=On the Sidelines, Many Third-Party Candidates Are Hoping to Make a Point |date=October 5, 1996 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128124908/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/05/us/on-the-sidelines-many-third-party-candidates-are-hoping-to-make-a-point.html |url-status=live }}

Hagelin ran for president again in 2000, nominated both by the NLP and by the Perot wing of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of Pat Buchanan.{{cite book |last1=Corrado |first1=Anthony |last2=Mann |first2=Thomas |last3=Ortiz |first3=Daniel |last4=Potter |first4=Trevor |title=The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=zWThVWqRcv0C&pg=PA194 194] |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-8157-0005-0}}Wall, Amy (July 7, 2000). [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/07/us/the-presidential-candidate-from-maharishi-u.html "The Presidential Candidate From Maharishi U."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106172932/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DC1638F934A35754C0A9669C8B63 |date=January 6, 2008 }}, The New York Times. Hagelin's running mate was Nat Goldhaber. A dispute over the Reform Party's nomination generated legal action between the Hagelin and Buchanan campaigns. In September 2000, the Federal Election Commission ruled that Buchanan was the official candidate of the Reform Party and hence eligible to receive federal election funds.{{cite book|first1=Paul |last1=Herrnson |last2=Green |first2=John Clifford |title=Multiparty politics in America |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ewneO8ToymIC&pg=PA111 111] |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7425-1599-4}} The Reform Party convention that nominated Hagelin was declared invalid.{{cite journal |date=November 2000 |journal=Federal Election Commission Record |volume=26 |issue=11 |title=Reform Party of the United States v. John Hagelin and Reform Party of the United States v. Gerald M. Moan |page=10 |url=http://www.fec.gov/pdf/record/2000/nov00.pdf |ref={{sfnRef|Hagelin and Reform Party|2000|p=10}} |access-date=July 15, 2010 |archive-date=June 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623183903/http://www.fec.gov//pdf/record/2000/nov00.pdf |url-status=live }} In spite of the ruling, Hagelin remained on several state ballots as the Reform Party nominee because of the independent nature of some state affiliates; he was also the national nominee of the Natural Law Party, and in New York was the Independence Party nominee. He received 83,714 votes from 39 states.{{cite web |title=2000 Official Presidential General Election Results General Election Date: 11/7/00 |date=December 2001 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |url=http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm |access-date=July 18, 2010 |ref={{sfnRef|Commission|2001}} |archive-date=September 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912083944/http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm |url-status=live }} During the 2004 primary elections, Hagelin endorsed Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich,{{cite news |title=Kucinich, Declaring for President, Takes Populist Stance |first=Jennifer |last=Lee |work=The New York Times |date=October 14, 2003 |page=A21 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/us/kucinich-declaring-for-president-takes-populist-stance.html |ref={{sfnRef|Lee/Times|2003}} |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=February 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205020449/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/us/kucinich-declaring-for-president-takes-populist-stance.html |url-status=live }} and in April that year the Executive Committee of the NLP dissolved the NLP as a national organization.{{cite web|title=Natural Law Party|url=http://www.natural-law.org/letter.html|publisher=natural-law.org|date=April 5, 2004|access-date=February 4, 2017|archive-date=December 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161206023340/http://natural-law.org/letter.html|url-status=live}}

Hagelin is the director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP), an MIU think tank.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=999|title=Hagelin, John|publisher=Our Campaigns|website=ourcampaigns.com|access-date=January 15, 2011|ref={{sfnRef|OurCampaigns|2011}}|archive-date=November 29, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129221408/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=999|url-status=live}} According to the ISTPP's website, he has met with members of Congress and officials at the Department of State and Department of Defense to discuss terrorism.{{cite web |url=http://istpp.org/bio/hagelin.html |title=Dr. John Hagelin |publisher=Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy |website=istpp.org |ref={{sfnRef|Bio|2012}} |access-date=July 19, 2010 |archive-date=March 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326050810/http://istpp.org/bio/hagelin.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://istpp.org/news/2001_december/01.html |date=December 2001 |title='Invincible Defense' Strategy Welcomed on Capitol Hill |publisher=Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy |website=istpp.org |ref={{sfnRef|Strategy|2001}} |access-date=July 19, 2010 |archive-date=April 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425112042/http://www.istpp.org/news/2001_december/01.html |url-status=live }} In 1993, he helped draft a paragraph in Hillary Rodham Clinton's 10,000-page health care plan; according to Hagelin, his was the only paragraph that addressed preventive health care.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/05/us/public-lives-taking-a-scientist-s-approach-to-the-problems-of-politics.html |title=Public Lives: Taking a Scientist's Approach to the Problem of Politics |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Michael |last=Janofsky |date=August 5, 2000 |ref={{sfnRef|Janofsky/Times|2000}} |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073234/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/05/us/public-lives-taking-a-scientist-s-approach-to-the-problems-of-politics.html |url-status=live }} In 1998, the ISTPP testified about germ-line technologies to the DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health; Hagelin's report to the committee said that "recombinant DNA technology is inherently risky because of the high probability of unexpected side-effects".{{cite web|url=http://oba.od.nih.gov/oba/rac/minutes/9-98rac.pdf |title=Minutes of meeting |publisher= Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee |date=September 24–25, 1998 |pages=15–16 |access-date=January 15, 2011 |ref={{sfnRef|DNA|1998|pp=15–16}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114193507/http://oba.od.nih.gov/oba/rac/minutes/9-98rac.pdf |archive-date=January 14, 2009 }}{{cite web |url=http://istpp.org/enews/1998_09_24.html |title=The Institute's Testimony to the National Institute of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee In Utero Genetic Engineering on Human Fetuses |website=istpp.org |publisher=Institute of Science, Technology & Public Policy |date=September 24, 1998 |ref={{sfnRef|enews|1998}} |access-date=September 15, 2009 |archive-date=October 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011030540/http://www.istpp.org/enews/1998_09_24.html |url-status=live }}

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Hagelin established the US Peace Government (USPG) in July 2003 as an affiliate of the Global Country of World Peace and served as the latter's minister of science and technology.{{sfn|Weber|2014|p=57}} According to USPG's website, the TM movement created US Peace Government and the Global Country of World Peace to promote evidence-based, sustainable problem-solving and governance policies that align with "natural law".{{cite web |url=http://www.uspeacegovernment.org/ |title=USPG officIal web site |publisher=US Peace Government |year=2011 |access-date=January 15, 2011 |ref={{sfnRef|USPG|2011}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415122924/http://www.uspeacegovernment.org/ |archive-date=April 15, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi appointed Hagelin the "Raja of Invincible America" in November 2007. Hagelin organized the Invincible America Assembly in Fairfield in July 2006. The assembly comprised individuals practicing TM and TM-Sidhi techniques twice daily. Hagelin predicted that as the number of Yogic flyers increased towards 3500, "[p]eace and prosperity will reign [in America], and violence and conflict will subside completely".{{cite web |url=http://invincibleamerica.org/press/2006_07_25.html |title=Press Release: Meditators Fly for Peace |publisher=InvincibleAmerica |date=July 25, 2007 |ref={{sfnRef|Fly|2007}} |access-date=December 13, 2009 |archive-date=October 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017004829/http://www.invincibleamerica.org/press/2006_07_25.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://istpp.org/news/2009_05_ia_assembly.html |title=Press Release: Invincible America Assembly Nears Goal of 2500 Participants |date=February 2008 |publisher=Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy |ref={{sfnRef|Invincible|2008}} |access-date=December 13, 2009 |archive-date=December 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216020917/http://www.istpp.org/news/2009_05_ia_assembly.html |url-status=live }} In July 2007, he said that the assembly was responsible for the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching a record high of 14,022 and predicted that it would top 17,000 within a year.{{cite news |last=Rascoe |first=Ayesha |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspro-stocks-dc-idUSN2725479920070727 |title=Meditators predict Dow 17,000, near US utopia |work=Reuters |date=July 27, 2007 |access-date=July 1, 2017 |archive-date=September 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928072353/http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/07/27/businesspro-stocks-dc-idUSN2725479920070727 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Litterick |first=David |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2813491/Wall-Street-life-Were-picking-up-God-vibrations-its-giving-the-Dow-excitations.html |title=Wall Street life: We're picking up God vibrations, it's giving the Dow excitations |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=August 4, 2007 |access-date=April 2, 2018 |archive-date=November 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118131421/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2813491/Wall-Street-life-Were-picking-up-God-vibrations-its-giving-the-Dow-excitations.html |url-status=live }}

Hagelin is also president of the Global Union of Scientists for Peace, an organization of scientists opposed to nuclear proliferation and war,{{cite web|url=http://www.gusp.org/|title=Global Union of Scientists for Peace|publisher=gusp.org|access-date=December 26, 2015|archive-date=December 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226071046/http://www.gusp.org/|url-status=live}} and president of the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes TM.{{sfn|Weber|2014|p=57}}

Hagelin and the credibility of his work have received criticism throughout the years. Hagelin's former academic peers "ostracized him" for combining science with a "form of Hinduism that doesn't acknowledge its roots". Neuroscientist and meditation researcher David Vago states that all of Hagelin's Maharishi Effect studies are "correlation without causation" and Dennis Roark, former chairman of the physics department at MIU, derided Hagelin's research as "crackpot science".{{cite web| url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-trumps-gurus-say-their-techniques-can-end-war-and-make-you-fly| title = Ivanka Trump's Gurus Say Their Techniques Can End War and Make You Fly| last = Rohrlich| first = Justin| date = October 14, 2018| website = thedailybeast.com| publisher = The Daily Beast Company LLC| access-date = May 21, 2024| quote = TM has its own set of scientists, viewed with skepticism by the mainstream scientific community.| archive-date = May 22, 2024| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240522012419/https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-trumps-gurus-say-their-techniques-can-end-war-and-make-you-fly| url-status = live}} In 1994, Hagelin was award the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for his experiment of yogic flyers and crime rate as the "silliest scientific studies of the year".

In a 1992 news article for Nature about Hagelin's first presidential campaign, Chris Anderson wrote that Hagelin was "by all accounts a gifted scientist, well-known and respected by his colleagues", but that his effort to link the flipped SU(5) unified field theory to TM "infuriates his former collaborators", who feared it might taint their own work and requests for funding. John Ellis, then director of CERN's department of theoretical physics—who worked with Hagelin on SU(5)—reportedly asked Hagelin to stop comparing it to TM. Anderson wrote that two-page advertisements containing rows of partial differential equations had been appearing in the U.S. media, purporting to show how TM affected distant events. In his book, Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and The Search for Unity In Physical Law (2007), the physicist Peter Woit wrote that identification of a unified field of consciousness with a unified field of superstring theory was wishful thinking, and that "[v]irtually every theoretical physicist in the world rejects all of this as nonsense and the work of a crackpot".

Philosopher Evan Fales and sociologist Barry Markovsky remarked that, because no such phenomena have been validated, Hagelin's "far-fetched explanation lacks purpose". They went on to say that the parallels Hagelin highlighted rest on ambiguity, obscurity and vague analogy, supported by the construction of arbitrary similarities.{{cite journal |last1=Fales |first1=Evan |last2=Markovsky |first2=Barry |title=Evaluating Heterodox Theories |journal=Social Forces |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=511–525 |date=December 1997|doi=10.2307/2580722| jstor=580722}}

Hagelin was featured in the movies What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004) and The Secret (2006).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/16/g2.science|title=The minds boggle|work=The Guardian|date=May 16, 2005|ref={{sfnRef|Boggle|2005}}|access-date=December 14, 2016|archive-date=August 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822093430/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/16/g2.science|url-status=live}}Lampman, Jane (March 28, 2007). [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0328/p13s01-lire.html "'The Secret,' a phenomenon, is no mystery to many"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204131538/http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0328/p13s01-lire.html |date=December 4, 2016 }}, Christian Science Monitor, 28 March 2007. João Magueijo, professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, described What the Bleep Do We Know!? as "horrendously tedious", consisting of deliberate misrepresention of science and "ludicrous extrapolations".Also see {{Cite journal |title=Quantum Quackery |first=Michael |last=Shermer |journal= Scientific American |volume=292 |issue=1 |page=234 |year=2005|bibcode=2005SciAm.292a..34S |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0105-34}}

Hagelin's first marriage, to Margaret Hagelin, ended in divorce. He married Kara Anastasio, the former vice-chair of the Natural Law Party of Ohio, in 2010.{{cite news |title=It's Lights Out for the Natural Law Party |first=Connie |last=Jones |work=Dayton Daily News|date=June 21, 2001 |page=Z.4.1}}{{cite journal |journal=The Iowa Source |date=November 2010 |page=F-4 |title=Marriage |quote=On August 9 Dr. John Hagelin married Kara Anastasio in Manchester, VT. The couple lives in Fairfield, Iowa.|ref={{sfnRef|Marriage |page= F4|2010}}}}

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• (1998) John S. Hagelin. Manual for a Perfect Government: How to harness the laws of nature to bring maximum success to governmental administration, Fairfield: Maharishi University of Management Press.
• (1994) John S. Hagelin, S. Kelley, Toshiaki Tanaka. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0550321394901139 "Supersymmetric flavor-changing neutral currents: exact amplitudes and phenomenological analysis"], Nuclear Physics B, 415(2), 7 March, 293–331.
• (1993) Lawrence Connors, Ashley J. Deans, and John S. Hagelin. [https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.20.2893 "Supersymmetry mechanism for naturally small density perturbations and baryogenesis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309040307/https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.20.2893 |date=March 9, 2021 }}, Physical Review Letters D, 71, 27 December, 4291.
• (1992) Alon E. Faraggi, John S. Hagelin, et al. [https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3272 "Sparticle spectroscopy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308145238/https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3272 |date=March 8, 2021 }}, Physical Review D, 45(9), 1 May, 3272.
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• (1989) John S. Hagelin. [https://www.mum.edu/pdf_msvs/v03/hagelin.pdf "Restructuring Physics from its Foundation in Light of Maharishi's Vedic Science"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505121815/http://www.mum.edu/pdf_msvs/v03/hagelin.pdf |date=May 5, 2017 }}, Modern Science and Vedic Science, 3(1), 3–72.
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• (1987) John S. Hagelin. [https://www.mum.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hagelin.pdf "Is Consciousness the Unified Field? A Field Theorist's Perspective"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830052448/https://www.mum.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hagelin.pdf |date=August 30, 2017 }}, Modern Science and Vedic Science, 1, 29–87.
• (1986) John S. Hagelin, Gordon L. Kane. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0550321386901239 "Cosmic ray antimatter from supersymmetric dark matter"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103071028/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0550321386901239 |date=November 3, 2017 }}, Nuclear Physics B, 263(2), 20 January, 399–412.
• (1985) John Ellis, John S. Hagelin. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269385901133 "Cosmological constraints on supergravity models"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103151120/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269385901133 |date=November 3, 2017 }}, Physics Letters B, 159(1), 12 September, 26–31.
• (1984) John Ellis, John S. Hagelin, et al. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0550321384900531 "Search for violations of quantum mechanics"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712101317/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0550321384900531 |date=July 12, 2015 }}, Nuclear Physics B, 241(2), 23 July, 381–405.
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• (1983) John Ellis, John S. Hagelin. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269383912832 "Weak symmetry breaking by radiative corrections in broken supergravity"], Physics Letters B, 125(4), 2 June, 275–281.
• (1982) John Ellis, John Hagelin, D. V. Nanopoulos. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269382903434 "Spin-zero leptons and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon"], Physics Letters B, 116(4), 14 October, 283–286.
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