A flying start for peace campaign
The Citizen, Gloucester
13 August 2002
A Yogic flyer from Gloucestershire joined an impressive levitation session for peace. Henry Brighouse, of Stroud a follower of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, bounced above a king-sized bed of foam in a state of Transcendental Meditation.
Mr Brighouse, 54, was joined by fellow Yogi follower Neil Phillips, 52, in the unusual attempt to create a field of coherence.
The idea, said Mr Brighouse, was to form something like a magnetic field which would eliminate crime locally and prevent terrorism and wars worldwide.
A touch difficult, perhaps, for the unenlightened, to grasp. His wife Sally, however, watched and explained. "You feel totally light and it just happens," she said.
"You don't propel yourself. It's not a muscular thing. You are completely weightless and feel wonderful."
Mrs Brighouse said pure consciousness was achieved and made devotees fly "That's why they won't be breathing heavily or be tired or look like they have done exercise," she said.
Indeed, Messrs Brighouse and Phillips, who offered their demonstration to the press at Mr Phillips' cottage near Bristol, didn't seem noticeably puffed.
Mr Brighouse said: "The next stage is to hover and then people actually fly through the air. It has been scientifically proven that meditation and flying cut crime."
That, therefore, is just what followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from around the world intend to do.
They want to recruit at least 150 yogic flyers at each one of 3,000 "peace palaces" around the world - including the one near Bristol and 49 more in the UK.
"It has been scientifically proven that meditation and flying cut crime."
Copyright 2002, Gloucester Citizen