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Perpetual World Peace Project
Raymond McInerney—05/2002 |
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In a series of press announcements in the
major US newspapers, and in the European edition
of International Herald Tribune, His Holiness Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi has presented a proven plan to eliminate
terrorism without the need for conflict and further
bloodshed. |
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 AHARISHI
IS APPEALING to the wise and the wealthy of the world
to create a $1 billion Endowment
Fund. This fund will support a group of 40,000
experts in the Vedic technologies of consciousness
to create world peace. The experts are already training
at Maharishi's Vedic Schools throughout India, and,
as soon as sufficient funds are available, they will
come together in groups of 8,000. These groups will
collectively perform ancient Vedic technologies of
peace which have been revived by Maharishi over the
past 50 years. Extensive research has clearly established
that these technologies, practised collectively by
such groups, will create an indomitable influence of
peace and harmony in world consciousness. |
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| MAHARISHI PRESENTS PROPOSAL FOR PERMANENT WORLD
PEACE, DURING INTERNATIONAL NEWS CONFERENCE |
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| (WASHINGTON, D.C.) In his first press conference
in seven years, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
on Friday 28 September 2001, presented a field-tested,
peaceful approach based on Vedic technologies of defence
to eliminate terrorism and create permanent world peace.
Maharishi spoke live via satellite from Holland to
a well-attended press conference at the National Press
Club in Washington, D.C., with many thousands more
connected by teleconference, live webcast, and satellite
television. |
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| Maharishi's proposal |
| Maharishi proposed the establishment in India of
a group of 40,000 experts trained in proven Vedic technologies
of defence, including Transcendental Meditation and
related techniques, to neutralise the acute tensions
and fears gripping the world today. These experts would
generate an indomitable influence of peace and positivity
in world consciousness, which will eliminate the enmity
and hostility of people everywhere, including terrorists. |
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| "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 realised 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." |
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| 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
and other countries to support the implementation of
this proven, preventive approach and avert the imminent
threat of war. Pursuing a military course of action
is "insane". Maharishi said it was "insane" to
pursue a military course of action to try and root
out terrorism. "I have all that is needed to stop,
completely stop, all the wild gestures of America and
its allies," 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 says, 'I can stop
crime'? He is following the same procedures whereby
crime has continued, generation after generation." |
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| "The value of science and technology is to prevent
all the mistakes that past generations have been committing," Maharishi
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." |
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| In this context, Maharishi has subsequently expressed
grave concern for the direction world events are now
taking, where there is a very precarious balance between
supportive power and destructive power. Maharishi has
made his offer to create peace in the world, but points
out that it will be possible to engage the 40,000 Vedic
peace-creators and ensure world peace only when the
Endowment Fund has reached its target of $1 billion. |
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| Research physicist presents scientific validation |
| John Hagelin, PhD, Harvard-trained quantum physicist
and the Natural Law Party's 2000 presidential candidate,
chaired the news conference in Washington and outlined
the theory and research supporting this peaceful approach.
He said Maharishi's approach has been rigorously tested
and scientifically shown, in extensive published research,
to prevent violence and terrorism-and even to stop
open warfare in war-torn areas, such as the Middle
East. The dramatic results have appeared in leading
scientific journals, such as Social Indicators Research
and Yale's Journal of Conflict Resolution. |
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| "These technologies of consciousness diffuse
social stress and negativity and generate positive
waves of harmony and unity in the collective consciousness
of the world," he said. "They access and stimulate
the most powerful level of mind and matter, identified
by modern science as the Unified Field, the fundamental
level of nature's intelligence that connects us all.
We now have available a technology of peace, a truly
defensive technology that attacks the problems of violence
and negativity at their source. Research shows this
works." |
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| Responding to a question about the World Peace Endowment
Fund, Dr Hagelin commented, "One billion dollars
sounds like a lot, and philanthropically it is. But
in the big picture, it's less than the price of one
B-2 bomber-less than the Defence Department spends
in one day." Dr Hagelin said that a few families
in America and Europe have already contributed $40
million to begin the training of Vedic experts in India,
and facilities to house 16,000 experts are under construction
and will be completed in the next few months if sufficient
funds become available. |
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| Military expert in anti-terrorism offers support |
| Major General Kulwant Singh, a highly decorated 35-year
military veteran in India and an expert in anti-terrorism,
also spoke at the news conference via telephone from
India. "Today, the world is looking for a solution
to violence and terrorism," he said. "But bombs
will never bring peace. Violence begets violence. I
can speak this with the conviction of 35 years experience
of fighting terrorism." |
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| "America went to Vietnam, India went to Sri Lanka,
all for peace. We bombed and bombed. Now we are watching
NATO bomb for peace; how ironic! If you bomb a country
looking for peace, you'll never get it. If you want
to bring peace, you must reduce the cause of violence,
and that is stress in society," General Singh said.
Summarizing his years of anti-terrorism efforts, General
Singh said, "A military response is no response
at all, because it does not get at the root cause of
terrorism. Terrorism is a human problem, and it requires
a human solution. Any retaliation will only make the
terrorists harder. We cannot kill terrorism by any
means other than prevention." |
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| Maharishi's closing message to the press |
| Maharishi closed the news conference with an appeal
to the national and world press, charging them "to
proclaim the coming on of a very good time where no
country will face problems and negativity. We have
the solution and now we are determined to do all our
best to really eliminate the basis of all negativity
in our world, and we'll have the blossoming of a very
good fortune for the people and government of every
nation. Give my best to all your leaders, and express
to them that this is a real thing, and really effective,
and we will succeed in creating a truly happy, peaceful,
affluent world." |
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| $100 Million Raised to Help Create World Peace |
| Maharishi closed the news conference with an appeal
to the national and world press, charging them "to
proclaim the coming on of a very good time where no
country will face problems and negativity. We have
the solution and now we are determined to do all our
best to really eliminate the basis of all negativity
in our world, and we'll have the blossoming of a very
good fortune for the people and government of every
nation. Give my best to all your leaders, and express
to them that this is a real thing, and really effective,
and we will succeed in creating a truly happy, peaceful,
affluent world." |
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| UPDATE / Feb 2003: Over $71 Billion US Dollars
Raised in Firm Pledges |
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| As from the 21st April 2002, $71,422,000 has been
firmly pledged to initiate the first 10,000 Vedic Pandits
on the banks of the Granges in India. |
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| In October last year, Maharishi had invited the wealthy
and philanthropic citizens of the USA and all other
countries to contribute to a one billion dollar Endowment
Fund for World Peace that would support permanently
a group of 40,000 Vedic Pandits professionally engaged
in the performance of the Vedic technologies of peace.
Unfortunately, the wealthy of the world lacked the
vision to contribute to the Fund, so Maharishi announced
in January this year a new formula to get the project
under way. This time, Maharishi called for at least
100 wealthy Meditators from around the world to contribute
one million dollars each to the Fund. This time Maharishi
was appealing to all those who already knew and understood,
from their experience of Transcendental Meditation,
the importance of the project. |
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| These crucial resources will allow Maharishi to move
ahead aggressively with the Vedic Pandits in India.
This effort will begin immediately, by using already-existing
sites and accommodations in the Brahmasthan (centre
of) of India and elsewhere. |
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| As the numbers grow in India, we will soon start
to feel relief from global violence and war, as waves
of peace and happiness begin to fill the world. |
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| In the late 1980s, Maharishi had set up a group of
over 7,000 Vedic Pandits at Maharishi Nagar in North
India, and soon afterwards the dangerous rivalry of
the Superpowers evaporated and the Cold War came to
an end. The world gave a collective sigh of relief.
But the contributions pledged to support the group
did not continue, and it had to be disbanded. The soothing
influence to remove the stress from world consciousness
was lost. Soon after, the Gulf War started and the
world was plunged into a new cycle of violence that
continues unabated. Maharishi does not want history
to repeat itself. |
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Maharishi said: "The pendulum of time has swung
to its extreme, and now it has begun its return swing..
The enlightened of the world have intuition, and we
are all in agreement that there is a golden horizon
of the world today. There is just one word to describe
it: Heaven on Earth."  |
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| For more information please ontact
Raymond McInerney at raymond.mcinerney@ul.ie |
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During
the month of February over 100 people stepped
forward to pledge $1 million toward establishing
a $250 million peace fund. The purpose of this
fund is to permanently endow 40,000 Vedic Pandits
in India and thereby ensure lasting world peace.
At this new Global Capital of World Peace in
India, 40,000 Vedic Pandits will maintain purity
in world consciousness and lasting peace through
their group practice of the Transcendental
Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® programs,
including Yogic Flying. Work is already under
way for creating an initial group of 10,000
Yogic Flying Vedic Pandits on the banks of
the Ganges in India. The $100 million sought
today provides a crucial START-an amount sufficient
to dynamically move forward with the creation
of the first 10,000 group. This group will
in turn act as a powerful magnet to draw the
additional funds needed for the larger group
of 40,000. |
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| For more information:
Contact Raymond McInerney at raymond.mcinerney@ul.ie |
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