(25 June 2003) His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi delivered a bold message of hope to today’s problem-ridden world, heralding a bright new future for all mankind. The future is bright, Maharishi declared, because the innermost nature of everyone’s life is a field of all possibilities, harmony, and bliss. And every individual and every government can now enliven this transcendental field through Transcendental Meditation to create a peaceful world today ─ and a beautiful civilisation for thousands of years to come.

Maharishi’s pronouncement came on Wednesday, 18 June 2003 ─ the one-year anniversary of his historic weekly global news conferences. For 52 consecutive weeks Maharishi has addressed world leaders and answered questions from the international press via satellite, Internet webcast, and teleconference call. Maharishi’s next news conferences will be held on 25 and 26 June.

Maharishi emphasised that his promise of a better world is based on more than 600 scientific studies on the benefits of Transcendental Meditation for the individual and society. Maharishi also presented his formula to create coherent world consciousness ─ the basis of permanent world peace:

1. one classroom period a day for Transcendental Meditation in all schools, colleges, and universities to develop the total brain physiology and full creative potential of every student ─ and to create coherent national consciousness in every country;
2. groups of 8,000 peace-creating experts practising Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying on every continent, including a larger group of 40,000 experts in India, to create coherent world consciousness; and
3. 3,000 Peace Palaces in the world’s largest 3,000 cities, including 51 in the UK ─ each Peace Palace with a group of 100 to 200 experts ─ to bring relief to the stressed population of every city and create coherent collective consciousness.

In response to a reporter’s question about the current state of world affairs, Maharishi offered a frank assessment: "I am ashamed of the world. It is bloody, beastly, and barbaric ─ it is like animals without intelligence." Maharishi also marvelled at the hypocrisy of US President George Bush who ignored a near-unanimous consensus of world opinion against his invasion of Iraq, but who is now pushing democracy in developing nations. "America should be ashamed of its President," Maharishi said. "He is ready to disrupt or destroy the administration of any country he chooses."

Maharishi said that the only hope to save the dignity of America is the second, "complementary" government ─ the US Peace Government ─ now being established by Dr John Hagelin. Dr Hagelin is a world-renowned physicist, presidential candidate of the Natural Law Party in 2000, and Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace.

"The US Peace Government is like the rising sun that dispels the darkness of the night," Maharishi said. "This second government is, in reality, the first, eternal government of Natural Law ─ the light of God ─ which governs the infinite diversity of the universe with perfect order. It will have a parental role in the nation. It will engage total Natural Law in national consciousness and raise the existing government to be on a par with the government of the universe. It will achieve prevention-oriented, problem-free administration in every country ─ the basis of a perfect civilisation."

Dr Hagelin will launch the new US Peace Government during an international news conference on Wednesday, 2 July, 10 a.m. (EDT) at the historic Hay-Adams Hotel, one block from the White House in Washington, D.C. The news conference will be held one hour prior to Maharishi’s weekly global news conference on July 2 at 11 a.m. (EDT), 4 p.m. (BST) ─ and will also be broadcast live via satellite, Internet webcast, and teleconference call. For more information, the press is invited to call, in the United States, +1-641-470-1344.