Robert Stowe, PhD, and Rosalind Brooks Stowe discuss their personal and professional journeys, the experiences that shaped them, and the role consciousness has played in helping them to build meaningful lives of achievement, creativity, and service.
Dr. Stowe has spent decades working in climate policy and international environmental affairs, while Mrs. Stowe has devoted her life to music, teaching the TM technique, and caring for her family and community. Their distinct professional paths are grounded in a shared dedication to the Transcendental Meditation program and the development of consciousness.
Robert and Rosalind Stowe discuss their personal and professional journeys, the experiences that shaped them, and the role consciousness has played in helping them to build meaningful lives of achievement, creativity, and service.
Dr. Stowe is Co-Director of the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions and Co-Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements at Harvard University. A leading expert on climate policy, he has participated in 15 United Nations climate conferences, contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, and has taught climate and energy policy through Harvard Kennedy School programs.
Dr. Stowe earned a PhD in political science from MIT and a BA in physics from Harvard College. A teacher of the TM technique, he served on the faculty of Maharishi International University (MIU) from 1990 to 1995 and is currently an adjunct instructor in management at MIU, where he teaches climate change and business to doctoral students.
Rosalind Brooks Stowe has practiced the TM technique since 1971 and has been a TM teacher since 1976. She earned a BA in English literature from Brown University and a master’s degree in early music performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, specializing in the viola da gamba.
From 2010 to 2022, Mrs. Stowe taught TM full-time in Lincoln, Massachusetts, performed music, raised a family, and cared for her parents. In 2022, she and her husband returned to Fairfield, where she remains active in both musical and TM projects within the local and MIU communities.
Christine Albers, host of TM Talks, interviewed Robert Stowe and Rosalind Brooks Stowe. This interview was aired on June 21, 2026.
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