SUBJECT: Global Country of World Peace offers new Administrative Training Programme; details of this week's press conferences

(6 August 2003) His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi announced that his Global Country of World Peace is making preparations to offer a new Administrative Training Programme that "will make responsible people in every government competent to successfully administer millions of people through the scientific knowledge of total Natural Law."

Such competency, Maharishi said, will allow leaders to fulfil their natural parental role for the nation and create prevention-oriented, problem-free, ideal administration.

Maharishi’s announcement came during his weekly global news conference, which was held on 30 July at the Capital of the Global Country of World Peace in Meru, Holland – and broadcast live via satellite, Internet webcast, and teleconference call. Maharishi’s next news conferences will be held on 6 and 7 August.

Maharishi said that the announcement comes at a time when every system of administration – democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, etc. – has failed. "We should learn a lesson from history. Administration should not be based on individuals – it should be based on principles. Administration should be based on the underlying unity of life – the Unified Field of Natural Law – the Constitution of the Universe. Administration should be in the hands of those who have understood and experienced the Unified Field – and who are competent to make use of it," Maharishi said. "Then total Natural Law will rule and not the individual – then unity will flow through the individual to his people."

Maharishi said that the model of ideal government is the administration of the universe. "The most stable and evolutionary government is the administration of the universe, which silently governs year after year, century after century, age after age," Maharishi said. "That is the competence of administration that we want to bring to every nation so that every individual will be blessed with a rapid pace of evolution."

Dr John Hagelin, world-renowned quantum physicist and Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace, said that the Administrative Training Programme will promote a new generation of leadership. "There is no other leadership training that equips responsible people in government to successfully manage the lives of millions of citizens of diverse trends and tendencies," said Dr Hagelin, who is also founder of the US Peace Government. "Maharishi is offering a complete, authentic science of administration that will promote rule by the competent and create prevention-oriented, problem-free administration in every country."

Maharishi emphasized that the knowledge of total Natural Law is simple and not complicated to understand because it is within the Self of everyone. "Everyone will learn how to engage total knowledge within their own Self so that spontaneously all thought, speech, and action will be in the evolutionary direction – always supportive and never harmful to anyone," Maharishi said. "Administration that is based on total Natural Law – and not manmade laws – will go on generation after generation. The light of God will prevail in the administrative policies of every nation. That is what we want to create."