In this episode of Stillness In Success, host Mustafa Nuristani sits down with longtime Transcendental Meditation teacher Michael Dickenss to explore a lifetime journey from youthful searching to inner stillness. Michael shares how, as a 14‑year‑old fascinated by comparative religion and Buddhism, he first encountered the idea of enlightenment—and how that early spark went dormant amid the turbulence of adolescence and early adulthood. In his mid‑20s, a powerful LSD experience opened him to a deeper reality, leading him to abandon drugs and alcohol completely and devote himself to finding a natural, sustainable way to access higher states of consciousness through meditation.

Michael describes discovering Transcendental Meditation through a friend whose life transformed—from disheveled student to grounded, radiant meditator—and how his own  ...