Ashley Deans

Ashley Deans, a quantum physicist, author, and educator. Deans is Professor of Consciousness-Based Education at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Deans was the president of the NATURAL Law Party of Ontario between 1993 and 2000, and ran in provincial and federal elections in Ontario, Canada. Deans has a Ph.D in Upper Atmospheric Physics from York University, Toronto, Canada, where he was a National Research Council of Canada Graduate Fellow.

Career

Deans is Executive Director of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment (MSAE) in Fairfield, Iowa and a member of the advisory board for the David Lynch Foundation. Under Dean's direction, the majority of the MSAE's students scored in the top one per cent on national standardized tests. During this time, MSAE students also won a series of awards at state and global, problem-solving, competitions.

Deans undertook a world-wide speaking tour to promote consciousness-based education. Deans holds advisory or director positions in educational associations in over 20 countries.

Research and publications

Deans has published several articles in scholarly scientific journals on The Effects of groups practicing Transcendental Meditation on crime rate (in Psychology, Crime, and Law), supersymmetry theory (in Physics Letters B), aurora emissions (in Journal of Geophysical Research), and others. Deans is the author the book: A Record of Excellence: The Remarkable Success of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment.

Natural Law Party

Deans was the founding president of the Natural Law Party of Ontario, established by a group of educators, business leaders, and other professionals who practiced Transcendental Meditation. Deans also ran in the Trinity Spadina riding for the federal Natural Law Party of Canada in 1993, 1997, and 2000. During the 2000 federal election campaign, Deans asserted that "more than 600 scientific studies backed up our claims that meditation activities reduce crime, disease and stress while improving the economy in areas where it is practised".

Awards and recognition

Deans received the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award for educators "who have made a distinctive difference in such areas as classroom teaching, campus leadership, pioneering teaching methodology, creative course development, or instructional support". Deans is an Associate of the Royal College of Science, UK, and, in 2005, received the Doctor of World Peace recognition from Maharishi European Research University.