Vedic City, Iowa - near the
Physical & Population Brahmasthan of the USA
Castle Rock, South Dakota & Montgomery City, Missouri

The Physical Brahmasthan of the United States is 17 miles west of Castle Rock, South Dakota, the Geographical Center of all 50 states - the total unified country of the USA - since 1959

Former geographic centers of the United States

In July 1790, Washington DC was founded as a planned city near the geographic center of the original 13 colonies of the United States.  Until 1958, over 48 years ago, the Geographical Center of lower 48 states only was near Lebanon Kansas.  Smith County is angered by the TM organization's land purchase indicating lack of support of Nature.  The town lost its significance, and a tourist shop went out of business, when Alaska, the largest state, pulled the previous Brahmasthan significantly North West from Kansas, when President Eisenhower signed it as the 49th state on January 3, 1959.  The center of the USA moved again, when Hawaii became the 50th state on August 21, 1959.
 

The Center of the American Mind

The Population Brahmasthan of the United States is between Edgar Springs, Missouri according to 2000 census or Montgomery City, Missouri according to Dr. David Recheson, who used a computerized calculus method in 2004. 
This is about 176 miles south from Vedic City, Iowa - the Consciousness Center of the USA

Fairfield Iowa is near the Center of the American People
- the Consciousness Brahmasthan of the United States

Why is the Brahmasthan important?
The optimal point for spreading coherence to Americans

Fairfield Iowa does not gain as much from being the Brahmasthan of the American people, such much as it is an optimal point for giving.  Brain Wave Coherence (BWC) spreads outwards from the Brahmasthan, and is somewhat influenced by the surroundings.  So the coherence creating group can most evenly distribute coherence to the collective consciousness of the population of the United States. 

For example, if the group moves westward that would decrease the coherence in Maine and Florida while the coherence would increase in Alaska and Hawaii.   The significance of the Brahmasthan is the support of nature that a coherence creating group gives to it, by practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhis Program from that point.
 


Physical (land) Center of the USA - Castle Rock, South Dakota
Population (people) Center of the USA - Montgomery City, Missouri

How Can The Locations Be Computed?

Research results reference:
The Center of the United States and other Applications of Calculus to Geography  (PDF)
by David Recheson, PhD
Associate Professor
Mathematics and Computer Science
Dickinson University  Carlisle, PA  17013


Dr. Recheson

The center of mass (x, y) for a set of n points in the plan, the ith of which has mass mi at (xi, yi) satisfies

 
Using the centroid formula, the population center would be located  in Montgomery City, Missouri, approximately 70 miles west-northwest of St. Louis.


Montgomery City, Missouri is just 176 miles south of Fairfield & Vedic City, Iowa.
Edgar Springs, Missouri was named by the Census Bureau as the population center in 2001.

If we consider the population of Alaska and Hawaii, although relatively small, this would move the centroid north west, and nearer to Fairfield, Iowa.

students arriving on campus in 1974 University Founder His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Newspaper articles announcing MIU's arrival in Iowa
Maharishi International University moved its campus from California to Iowa in 1974.
Maharishi chose the location by spontaneous cognition, confirmed by mathematics.
Nature provided the perfect location, near the Brahmasthan of the USA population.

 

 

 


At 591,000 square miles, Alaska is as wide as the lower 48 states
and larger than Texas, California and Montana combined.


References:
 

The controversy: THE Geographic Center of the 50 States
 
Finding the Geographic Center of the USA
 
The Center for Land Use Interpretation Newsletter

The Center of the United States and other Applications of Calculus to Geography   PDF

Where is the Geographic Center of the United States?

Where is the geographical center of the United States?

 
As we learned while reading an archived newsletter from the Center for Land Use Interpretation, there are several answers to your question:
  • The geographical center of the lower 48 states lies outside of Lebanon, Kansas, in the middle of a hog farm.
  • The geographical center of all 50 states is located 17 miles west of Castle Rock, South Dakota.
  • The geodetic center of the U.S. is found approximately 42 miles south of Lebanon, Kansas. (Note: A geodetic survey makes corrections to account for the curvature of the Earth.)

The article is quick to point out, however, that none of the designated "centers" are truly precise or objectively determined:

Many variables exist when calculating the center of a land mass as large as the United States, and selective criteria and methods can be used, from the selection of different map projections, to defining the periphery of the shape with varying degrees of accuracy.

In fact, scientists at the Geodetic Survey have stopped calculating "centers" due to the imprecise nature of the task. Oscar S. Adams, Senior Mathematician for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, even wrote, "Since there is no definite way to locate such a point, it would be best to ignore it entirely...."


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