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HISTORIC NEWS CONFERENCE 10 JULY 2002 (see details below)
MAHARISHI'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD PRESS: "I WILL CREATE PEACE"
Will establish "lighthouses of coherence" around the world to eliminate acute stress and promote peace
Immediate results will be less crime, less killing, less fear
(JULY 9) In a bold and unprecedented pronouncement, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will declare on Wednesday that he will create peace in the world - and he will do it without the participation of governments, whom Maharishi has been trying to persuade to help for 20 years. Maharishi will make his announcement during a news conference on 10 July to be broadcast live via satellite, Internet webcast, and teleconference at 4.00 p.m. UK time.
"I am done trying to convince governments - it's a waste of time. I have decided to produce the effect," Maharishi says. "The world has a bright future."
Maharishi's announcement comes at a time of rising global violence, seemingly intractable conflict in the Middle East, and the pervasive threat of terrorism, against which even the mightiest nations have no effective defence.
Maharishi says his confidence is based on nearly 50 years' experience teaching his Vedic technologies of consciousness, including Transcendental Meditation, to millions of people, and hundreds of research studies published in top scientific journals showing that Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques, including Yogic Flying, create peace in the individual and, when practised in large groups, can bring peace to a nation and the world.
Maharishi will establish large groups of Vedic Pandits - "lighthouses of coherence" - throughout the world. Vedic Pandits are experts from India who are specially trained by Maharishi in advanced Vedic technologies of peace to eliminate acute social stress - the underlying cause of crime and terrorism - and radiate coherence in world consciousness.
Maharishi is inviting philanthropists to join his efforts. Last year, a special world peace fund, announced in major US newspapers following the 11 September attacks, called on governments and philanthropists to create a US $1 billion fund to permanently sustain a group of 40,000 Vedic Pandits in India. However, the fund failed to garner the necessary donations. So now, Maharishi says, loans will be accepted from philanthropic investors who would like a return on their investments as they contribute to world peace.
Once the groups are created, the impact will be clear: "There will be less crime, killing, war, and fear," Maharishi says. "Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light."
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His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's HISTORIC NEWS CONFERENCE
Live via satellite, Internet webcast, and teleconference
Maharishi's message to the world press: "I will create peace"
Wednesday, 10 July 2002 4.00 p.m. BST (British Summer Time)
How to participate in Maharishi's news conference:
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