Odd People And Parties Who Never Should Have Run For Political Office

John Hagelin Is At Peace With The World

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John Hagelin has run for President multiple times a member of the Natural Law Party. The party, founded in 1992 on the principle of Transcendental Meditation, believes that the laws of nature should apply to every level of government. Hagelin, a physicist at the University of Iowa, is the most notable candidate the party has had run for President.

A transcendentalist himself, Paul Hagelin is open in his beliefs that through the Maharishi effect, the entire nation can reach peace if only the square root of one percent of the population meditates. Hagelin and the group never made believers out of the voting public and Hagelin, despite running for President multiple times, has never made it out of the primaries.