in the early 1970s, maharishi began to establish one transcendental meditation teaching center for each million of the people in the world, which at that time would have meant 3,600 transcendental meditation centers throughout the world. in 1990, maharishi moved to the town of vlodrop, in the netherlands, where he began an organization he called the global country of world peace that takes care of all of the teaching of the transcendental meditation technique around the world. the global country of world peace says there are more than 6 million people worldwide who have learned the transcendental meditation technique.