Bevan H. Morris is the president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa and a founder of the Natural Law Party.
Education
He earned a master"s degree and a Doctor of Philosophy in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in Vlodrop, Netherlands. During his tenure, there was expansion of the university campus, and accreditation through the Doctor of Philosophy level
Career
Morris received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in psychology and philosophy from Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University, England. Morris also holds a Doctorate of World Peace from MERU in Switzerland. Educator
In September, 1980 Morris was appointed President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Maharishi International University, which was renamed Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in 1995.
In the 1994, he was reported to be the lowest-paid college president in Iowa, receiving an annual salary of $9,000.
He is also on the board of trustees of the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment. Morris became the Emeritus Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MUM in 2009 after having served as chairman for 30 years.
He continues to serve as its president Morris is the International President of Maharishi Vedic Universities, a network of institutions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.
In March 2012, Morris toured 14 African countries, including Kenya, to promote Consciousness Based Education.
Politician
He took a leave of absence from MUM to oversee John Hagelin"s first campaign for United States. President, in 1992 and praised Hagelin"s "highly coherent brain". Morris was described, in 1992, as the party"s spokesman on education. He was listed in 1993 as a candidate in the Commonwealth of Australia legislative election and Morris was reported to be the leader of the Australian Neuro-linguistic programming in 1997.
Other
From 1975 to 1979, Morris was the international coordinator for MERU. In 1984, Morris toured the United States seeking practitioners of the TM-Sidhi program to form a group in Fairfield, Iowa.
Morris was appointed Chairman of the Maharishi Council of Supreme Intelligence of Age of Enlightenment in 1987. In July, he was part of a team that demonstrated Yogic Flying to a group of 125 in a House office building in Washington District of Columbia and called on Congress to "seriously" examine its potential for creating peace.
In 1990 he published an open letter to President George H. West. Bush in the Washington Post asking for a $90 million annual expenditure to fund a group of 10,000 professional meditators as a further peace creation effort. As of 2009, Morris was living in Adelaide, Australia.