Ashley Deans

Ashley Deans
Ashley Deans
Nationality	Canadian American
Occupation	Educator, physicist, researcher, author, politician
Title	Dr.

Ashley Deans is a Canadian physicist, educator, researcher, author and politician. He is Professor of Education and Physics at Maharishi University of Management, Executive Director of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment (MSAE) and former president of the Natural Law Party of Ontario. Deans is Director of International Programs and a member of the Board of Advisors of the David Lynch Foundation.

Deans graduated with a B.Sc. and an ARCS from the Imperial College London in 1969 and has a Ph.D in Upper Atmospheric Physics from York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he was a National Research Council of Canada Graduate Fellow. He was awarded a Doctorate of World Peace from Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in 2005.

Deans served as Headmaster of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment (MSAE) in Fairfield, Iowa for 15 years. He later became its Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors. Deans undertook a worldwide speaking tour to promote MSAE's style of "consciousness-based education" and the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique (TM) for schools. He gave presentations in six cities in Canada in 2006. Deans is a member of the advisory board for the David Lynch Foundation.

In 1976, while at the Centre for Research in Experimental Space Science, York University, in Ontario, Deans published a paper on aurora emissions (in Journal of Geophysical Research, 1976). Deans co-authored a paper on supersymmetry theory (in Physics Letters B, 1993) with John Hagelin at Maharishi University of Management in 1993. As the Associate Professor of Physics at Maharishi University of Management in 1996, he co-authored a paper on the Maharishi Effect that was published in Psychology, Crime, and Law.

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