How To Access Materials at
Maharishi Global Archives & Collections
Becoming Familiar With SOMA
Maharishi Global Archives & Collections was created to preserve and share the unique heritage of Maharishi's work and the history of the TM movement. This Getting Started page will help explain:
Getting Started | What is SOMA?
You can think of SOMA as a search engine for Maharishi's body of knowledge. The name stands for Searchable Online Maharishi Archive, and it's what we call the online content management system we've tailored for organizing and searching through our collections.
Our physical archive contains hundreds of thousands of items, artifacts, and original materials, which we are in the process of digitizing and adding to SOMA. As part of our agreement with our donors, some objects and their data aren't recorded in our public database. If you have any questions or would like help finding something something specific, feel free to ask an archivist. Otherwise, read on to learn about how to search SOMA.
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How to refining your search results
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How to contact an archivist
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Our digital archive, SOMA
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How to search the archive
How to Search the Archive
You can access SOMA by clicking the Search the Archive button on the top-right corner of every page on our website. It looks like this:
You will then be taken to SOMA's Archive Portal, but you can to return to our main webpage at any time :
From here can be as specific or general as you wish in your searches with SOMA.
For example, suppose you search the word, "Catalina", where Maharishi conducted two Meditation Guide courses in the early 1960s. Your "Catalina" search will bring up videos, photographs, application letters, pamphlets, and other records from both courses.
For some users, this kind of abundance is what they're looking for. Others might prefer narrower search results. The graphics below illustrate how you can filter your search results by media type, year, author, date, keywords, and a number of other possibilities.
see https://guides.library.harvard.edu/hollishelp/refinemyresults
