Maharishi's Press Conferences (excerpt)
Washington Post, Washington
10 July 2002
By Ken Ringle
…Not so you'd notice, says His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who's had it with waiting for governments to clean up the world situation and has decided to do the job himself.
This morning at 11, the Maharishi will hold a news conference to announce the establishment of "lighthouses of coherence" around the world to eliminate acute stress and promote peace. The immediate results, he says, will be less crime, less killing and less fear. This would be a good thing.
"Problems will simply disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light," the Maharishi says.
As you might expect, this is a high-tech solution, however simple it may sound. The Maharishi intends to plant large groups of Vedic Pandits throughout the globe -- Indian experts skilled in such advanced Vedic technologies as meditation and yogic flying, which, when practiced in large groups, are believed by the Maharishi and his followers to bliss-out the world and melt conflict away.
The announcement from the Maharishi's headquarters in the Netherlands did not say how Pakistan might react to large groups of Vedic Pandits yoga-flying into Kashmir. That might be a good question to ask him, and fortunately we can.
Thanks to the wonders of global technology (like WorldPeace@Maharishi.net) his Holiness will be online (www.mou.org) and live via satellite for questions. Just beam your dish to Telstar 5 at 97 degrees west, Transponder 27, frequency 12,177 MHz, polarity vertical, symbol rate 23000, FEC 2/3.
Or, his spokesmen say, you can call him the old-fashioned way at 641-470-1344 to ask questions.
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