Doug Henning promotes the Natural Law Party of Canada

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Doug Henning retired from Magic in favour of studying Transcendental Meditation which, he claimed, enabled him to levitate. He also ran in the 1993 federal election in Canada as a candidate for the Natural Law Party, which proposed yogic flying as a solution to the problems of the nation. As the party’s most famous candidate, he was so prominently featured in their television ads that many voters mistakenly thought he was the party’s leader. The party was in fact led by Dr. Neil Paterson. One of Henning’s greatest ambitions was never realized in his lifetime. In the 1990s Henning joined forces with Transcendental Meditation founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to draft plans for a fantastical billion-dollar project called Maharishi Veda Land that was to be situated near Niagara Falls, Ontario and would “combine astonishing, unique visual and sensory effects, state-of-the-art 3D imagery, and ultra high-tech entertainment technology with his best and most original magic illusion secrets”. Maharishi Veda Land was conceived as a magical Himalayan setting where visitors would be wowed with theatrical presentations of ancient Vedic stories and the deepest secrets of the universe”, while ingesting organic vegetarian burgers and snacks. Attractions would have included a building seemingly suspended above water without supports, a “magic flying chariot” that took riders inside the molecular structure of a rose, and robots that would fly through the air, performing magic tricks.
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