If there was a perfect year in which to
discover transcendental meditation,
it might just have been 1968.
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That was the year that Bob Roth was a freshman at UC Berkeley —
a campus considered Ground Zero for the anti-war movement and
the cultural changes sweeping through the country at the time. He
remembers living surrounded by helicopters spewing tear gas over
student war protesters and Army tanks parked outside his front
door. Demonstrations. Riots. Chaos. ¶ And against this backdrop,
Roth did what many college students do: He took a part-time job.
He sold scoops of ice cream at Swenson’s ice cream parlor, never
expecting that amid the rush of pending social changes engulfing
him, it would be at the ice cream shop where he would meet a guy
who would ultimately alter the course of his life forever.
Bob Roth speaks
about the benefits
of Transcendental
Meditation (TM) at a
health conference in
Los Angeles in 2011.