24 October 2002
- For Immediate Release -
POLITICAL NEWS
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says Dr John Hagelin should be US president to lead the world to affluence and peace
Recommends Bush either appoint the world-renowned physicist as advisor or "abandon the throne and let Dr Hagelin preside over the country now" (24 October 2002) His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who has termed US President George W. Bush "a rash, uneducated man who is leading the world to destruction," yesterday said that the world would be affluent and peaceful if Dr John Hagelin, world-renowned quantum physicist, were to lead the country. Maharishi recommended that Bush either invite Dr Hagelin to serve as a close scientific advisor or "abandon the throne of the presidency and let Dr Hagelin preside over the country."
Dr Hagelin is a world-renowned quantum physicist; science and public policy expert; and the US presidential nominee of the Natural Law Party in the 2000 election. He is also Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace. The Global Country of World Peace was founded by Maharishi two years ago "as a nation without borders and a global home for peace-loving people everywhere". The Global Country of World Peace offers to governments prevention-oriented solutions to national and global problems.
Maharishi has said that President Bush lacks the scientific training to administer the world's most powerful country. Dr Hagelin, on the other hand, "has the most advanced scientific knowledge of the deepest level of Nature's functioning - the Unified Field of Natural Law - which administers the infinite diversity of the universe with perfect order. Dr Hagelin has the capability to apply this knowledge to create prevention-oriented, problem-free administration."
"The world needs a president like Dr Hagelin," Maharishi said.
Maharishi made his comments about Dr Hagelin on Wednesday, 23 October, during a weekly global news conference on Maharishi's program to create world peace that was broadcast live to media on all continents via satellite, Internet webcast and telephone conference call. Maharishi will be available to take questions during his next press conferences on Wednesday, 30 October, and Thursday, 31 October.