Mind-power manifesto to cut crime
Birmingham Post, Birmingham
21 August 2002
Birmingham Post, Wednesday, 21 August, 2002
Mind-power manifesto to cut crime
The power of the mind is to be tried as the latest weapon against violence and crime with the launch of a new £3 million "peace palace" in Birmingham.
The initiated seek to use the ancient art of Transcendental Meditation to combat "negative acts and trends" in society.
Details of the project were explained yesterday during a conference at the Heart of England Transcendental Meditation Centre, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The conference highlight was a live satellite television link-up with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the man responsible for popularising Transcendental Meditation to the world 45 years ago.
Since then, it is claimed, more than five million people around the world, including almost 200,000 in Britain, have learned the technique.
The "peace palace" is intended to house a permanent group of more than 100 experts in the Vedic form of Transcendental Meditation.
Huw Meads, a spokesman for the Stratford centre, said: "Local business leaders are also being invited to participate in the project"