This blog post is thanks to Ellen Metropole for telling me that Markus K, a busker I follow on YouTube, attended the 10,000 course in Hyderabad, India! I didn’t know he was a TM-er. He wrote a song about the course while he was there and premiered it when he went to Morocco. It’s a catchy tune and tells the story of why everyone from so many countries attended. He performed the song on Feb 21, 2024 in Casablanca at his first Moroccan busking session.
Enjoy ‘Consciousness is All there Is’ written by Markus Koehorst, aka, Markus K, during an international Peace Project in Hyderabad, India called Ten Thousand For World Peace.
In his notes, Markus mentioned a great article about the Peace Project in Hyderabad, India published in Pressenza India: Ten thousand people meditating for world peace. I posted more articles listed below.
He also mentions 10 000 For World Peace – Transcendental Meditation, a beautiful video with images from the course, to the music of ‘Across the Universe’ by John Lennon. Unfortunately, the video was later taken down.
John Lennon wrote the song in England before the Beatles left for India. He had had a disagreement with Cynthia and couldn’t sleep. So he went downstairs and wrote down the words as they came to him. Of all the songs he had ever written he said Across The Universe was his best. It wrote itself. I remember reading somewhere that John had sung it to Maharishi in India, especially the chorus, “nothing’s gonna change my world.” Maharishi had suggested that he sing, “meditation’s gonna change my world,” but he didn’t change it. The Beatles Bible describes a complete history of Across The Universe in two parts 1 & 2.
David Lynch gave his own take on John’s expression in the song, “Nothing’s gonna change my world.” He explained that “nothing” as “no-thing”, i.e., the transcendent, which Maharishi was discussing, would change his world. John must’ve loved the double entendre, and contradictory meaning of that word in the repeating expression of his song. David mentioned that as part of his message to a DLF event via Zoom. He concluded his call with his short prayer for peace. You can listen to it here.
Born in Holland, Markus K spent 30 years in England based in Liverpool, UK and now travels the world playing on the street and connecting with people. Main instruments: guitar, vocal, percussion. Looper Master. Mostly originals; some drastic reworks of classics. Main influences: blues and anything with real soul, warts and all. Passionate about inner peace and conscious living. We Are All In This Together. In this video, Markus K – blues fusionist (presentation) Dec 31, 2017, Markus talks about his music, his busking and his travels.
To find out more about Markus Koehorst and his Looper, visit http://www.markus-k.com, https://markus-k.bandcamp.com, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and more on https://linktr.ee/Markus_K.
Other articles about the course: Newsday reported on the Trinidadian participants at the 10,000 for World Peace Assembly in India and Indian media respond to Dr Tony Nader and over 10,000 TM meditators from 139 countries who convened near Hyderabad to create world peace. MIU News: Striking public demonstration of link between brain functioning and the Maharishi Effect (video) by Craig Pearson.
On December 7, 2024, I came across a new and very cool variation of Markus K’s song, when, on May 24, 2024, he posted MAGIC on the street in HAMBURG – Consciousness Is All There Is. He wrote: “This is why I love to jam with Dominic Dobernowsky. He always brings magic to the mix, like that opening theme of his from where the whole thing evolves. Magic happens on the street!” Enjoy this new version. He also posted it a year later On This Day 24 May 2024 on TikTok.
On March 7, 2025 Markus posted: 1st Time Busking in Mainland China – Shenzhen – 4 songs! The second song, Consciousness Is All There Is, starts at 4:07. This 5-minute version really rocks! Three days later Markus did what I hoped he would do. He had Marcela Wilschova, who made the video, isolate and post this great song on his YouTube channel. Originally recorded March 3, 2025, Consciousness Is All There Is appears on his new digital album, LIVE with LOOPER No.3 by Markus K. It’s embedded here for you to enjoy.
Here’s another video of the song posted on September 18, 2025: ‘Consciousness is All there Is’ – busking in Burgos Spain.
— Written and compiled (citing sources) by Ken Chawkin for The Uncarved Blog.
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