"Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Has a Plan to Achieve World Peace"
(The Maharishi is the founder of the Transcendental Meditation Movement)
As reprinted from The Arizona Republic Newspaper
WASHINGTON-- In his first press conference in seven years, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi presented his own peace plan based on the wisdom of the Vedic tradition to eliminate terrorism and create permanent world peace.
Maharishi spoke live via satellite from Holland to a packed audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., with many thousands more connected by teleconference, live Webcast, and satellite television.
Maharishi proposed the establishment in India of a group of 40,000 experts trained in proven Vedic technologies of defense, including Transcendental Meditation and related techniques, to neutralize the acute tensions and fears gripping the world today.
Maharishi called for the creation of a World Peace Endowment Fund of $1 billion to sustain the 40,000 professional "peace-creators" on a permanent basis. The interest from the fund would pay for housing facilities and living costs at about $200 per expert per month. Maharishi urged government leaders and the most prominent and successful individuals of America to support the implementation of this proven, preventive approach and avert the imminent threat of war.
"We have the solution to the age-old problem of crime and negativity," Maharishi said. "Crime has been coming up in every generation, and every government has implemented punishments; but crime and punishment continue, generation after generation.
"Now we want to take recourse to that intelligence of Natural Law which in our scientific age is being realized as the most fundamental level of everyone's awareness. This is the time for us in this scientific age to make use of this most fundamental level of life, which is Transcendental Consciousness, and thereby all our thoughts and actions will be fully in accordance with the evolutionary direction of Natural Law."
Maharishi said it was "insane" to pursue a military course of action to root out terrorism. "I have all that is needed to stop, completely stop, all the wild gestures of the most important country," he said. "I am convinced by now that this President is not an educated man-he doesn't know science. Who is this man who can say, 'I can stop crime'? He is following those procedures where crime continues, generation after generation.
"The value of science and technology is to prevent all the mistakes that past generations have been committing," he said. "Prevention is the answer. Vedic performances can create a very strong level of harmony and integrity in all the countries, and that is the only way the tradition of culprits can be stopped. When these 40,000 people will generate coherence in world consciousness, then that coherent world consciousness will not allow negative tendencies to sprout. It is possible to create very strong coherence in the world, and this I am going to do."
Note: The "Understanding Peace Project" came as a result of our involvement in Landmark Education's "Curriculum For Living" course. The third and final part of of the course is called, "S.E.L.P. - Self Expression & Leadership Program." In this course, you are invited to design and implement of a not-for-profit social program or event. As we were pondering what our projects might be, I happened to turn on the Larry King Show on CNN. I don't usually watch the Larry King Show because I'm usually involved in one project or another (nothing against Larry). But this evening, I "just happened" (a coincidence) to turn on the program and there was Maharishi in his first television interview in 20 years! As a student of the Celestine Prophecy Insights, I'm keenly aware the coincidences are the Universe's way of getting out attention, "HEY, YO! OVER HERE!" I was already aware of Maharishi's Invincible Defense System for Peace and knew that we had to include his efforts with our project. Here are the addresses of the Maharishi's school in Iowa, as well as John Hagelin's Global Peace Meditation Project.-A note from Scott.
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