Nancy Cooke De Herrera -- Beyond Gurus

Circa 1993 interview with Nancy Cooke de Herrera, author, speaker, TM Teacher, and publicist for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi discusses her book, “Beyond” Gurus with Bruce Stephen Holms host, Timeless Voyager Radio. She worked as a publicist for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 1960s and traveled with him on a trip to South America and in 2003, published a follow-up book called, All You Need Is Love: An Eyewitness Account of When Spirituality Spread from the East to the West.

She was the liaison Maharishi and The Beatles during their widely publicized visit to Rishikesh in India. During her dozens of trips to India and Tibet she is reported to have had meetings with the Dalai Lama, the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Sir Edmund Hillary, the Shah of Iran, King Hussein of Jordan, and Satya Sai Baba. 

Over the years she is reported to have taught TM to several celebrities, including Madonna, Greta Garbo, Rosie O'Donnell, Lenny Kravitz, Santigold, and Sheryl Crow. She has been called one of the pioneers of the spiritual movement in the West. In 2008, she published the novel, Never Tango with a Stranger: Love in Peron's Argentina. According to de Herrera, with the help of some friends, she built two hospitals for abused children in Los Angeles.