Yogic flying guru floats idea of peace
Press and Journal, Aberdeen
8 August 2002
by Melissa Watson
Members of the press gathered around television sets in Aberdeen and other
locations around the world yesterday to hear the leader of the
Transcendental Meditation (TM) organisation speak of his plans for world
peace.
Representatives from the British, German, Spanish, Irish and Indian press
asked Maharishi Mahesh Yogi questions via e-mail and heard the answers
during his latest satellite-linked press conference.
Maharishi aims to reduce urban crime and create world peace through group
practice of his TM and ygoic flying techniques in 3000 cities throughout the
world, including Aberdeen.
In Aberdeen yesterday, TM teacher Anna Edwards, 57, invited the local press
to the city's Maharishi Vedic Centre in Tillydrone to watch the broadcat
from Meru, Holland.
During the conference he said all destroyers had an open gate to hell and
proclaimed that his global efforts to create world peace through his
technologies of consciousness would win out in the end.
Maharishi said: "Bush and Blair have the knowledge to destroy and they are
sharing their knowledge with the world. But I have the knowledge to protect
life and I will share my knowledge with my dear world family. You race to
destroy the world and I will create peace and we will see who wins the race.
"We are going to create heavenly life on Earth and heaven will continue and
continue and these destructive forces will simply vanish."
Mrs. Edwards said the TM organisation was currently in negotiations with
Aberdeen City Council for the first purpose-built meditation centre in the
UK to be built on Hayton Road, Tillydrone.
The members believe that by using meditation techniques the community will
become a more tranquil place to live.
Mrs. Edwards said yesterday that £150,000 was needed to complete the
project. She said: "So far we only have a couple of thousand and that is
really all that is stopping us.
"This is something that is going to be of great benefit to the people of
Tillydrone. Even if they can't afford to go on the course themselves."
She said all the research showed that if a group of yogic flyers were
gathered in an area and they were equal or more than 1% of the area's
population, all negative tendencies dropped very suddenly from the immediate
area.
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