Posted on 08/07/2002 1:34:23 PM PDT by ZinGirl
New Weapon In The War On Terrorism: Transcendental Meditation Transcendental Meditation Group Seeks $1 Billion Endowment
By Matt Mientka
WASHINGTON-As the world prepared for the American-led war on terrorism last month, supporters of the transcendental meditation movement returned here to ask for a $1 billion endowment to fund a permanent garrison of transcendental meditators in India to promote peace via the unified field of quantum mechanics theory.
To date, the group has raised $40 million in its effort to establish the endowment, the interest of which would support approximately 8,000 permanent transcendental meditators in India-the square root of one per cent of the world's population, which is enough to make a substantial difference, the group said.
The group first launched its fund-raising effort in a pre-planned press conference here on September 11, which was cut short by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian scientist who more than 40 years ago revived the ancient Vedic technology, joined his colleagues here Sept. 28 via satellite from Vlodrop, Holland to promote the project.
Dressed in a purple gown, Maharishi criticized America's nascent war on terrorism as both "sinful" and ineffective, calling President Bush a "wild man." "I know many Americans are saying, 'take revenge,' but take revenge against whom?" he said. Instead, Maharishi implored Americans to consider transcendental meditation as a means to influence others through the unified field, which is said by quantum physicists to connect everything in the universe, including human consciousness on a collective level.
Transcendental meditation is said to be a natural application of the unified field theory. According to Dr. Hagelin, 212 institutions in more than 30 nations have conducted approximately 600 research studies that have supported the efficacy of transcendental meditation on reducing collective and individual stress on human beings. Approximately 50 studies on transcendental meditation, supporting the technology's efficacy, have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Science and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, he said.
According to Dr. Hagelin, a group of humans as large as the square root of one per cent of the world's population-8,000 today-would be able to positively influence world populations like a radio transmitter broadcasting via the electromagnetic field. "These technologies of consciousness go far beyond the power of positive thinking or prayer, in the mainstream sense of that term, to access and stimulate the most powerful level of mind and matter-the so-called unified field of natural law," he said. "This has become the object of intensive scientific investigation over the past two decades."
The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Bethesda, Md., in 1999 awarded four major grants to study the hypothesized individual health benefits of transcendental meditation. The awards included a $7.5 million grant to the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa to conduct research over a five-year period as well as a $1.4 million grant to the Johns Hopkins Center for Cancer Complimentary Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Though the United States government funds transcendental meditation research to explore individual health benefits, TM movement spokesman Sam Katz told U.S. MEDICINE last month that the U.S. government, which is less enthusiastic about the hypothesized collective benefits of the technology, has not contributed to the endowment fund. Katz said that private individuals and corporations in America and worldwide account for most of the money raised thus far, though the movement is still pursuing government sponsorship. "We're still trying to get the larger donations and, once we do, then we're going to get this group together right away because we know that it's quite urgent," he said.
Regarding America's present war against terrorism, Dr. Hagelin said last month that Americans should support the administration and Congress but should also strive to "plug some of the loopholes, the gaping holes in our defense strategy." A so-called Vedic defense, built upon transcendental meditation, would ease global tensions that are the root cause of terrorism, he said.
Source: U.S. Medicine
Check out that clown's Natural Law Party.
SHEEEESH...MUD
yet.
Uh, "yet" does not equal "well, at least our tax dollars are being put to good use..." - try to stick to facts, please...
No.
Prayer is more effective and less dangerous to the individual.If one believes in spiritual matters, and accepts the concept of good and evil, purposely disengaging your controll over conscious thought is a risky proposition.
While reflective meditation can be calming and worthwhile, meditation with a specific outward based objective carries a price.Whether the intention is for good or ill.
The physical world is often a dangerous place.So too, can be the spiritual world.
I can't imagine anyone who is a master of spiritual controll demanding financial compensation prior to acting on an urgent perceived need for humanity.But I can easily envision snake-oil salesmen doing so.LOL!
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi chsrges for everything and so do his followers, from whom you can purchase your own personal mantra.
A couple here teaches a weekend of meditation for $250 a head...at their own home, so no overhead to pay. He traveled around India with Maharishi learning temple architecture, and I think he's a sincere guy, but his wife is anything but spiritual and exploits everything for the money. A lot of people in the many branches of hindu/guru spirituality are like this couple, some sincere, others motivated by greed.
hmmm....OK...here's a fact: you need to chill.
Imagine a person who no longer loses self-control.
Imagine a person who is able to concentrate without interruption.
Imagine a person who is able to have clear insight into his deepest desires.
Imagine a person who is able to use that self-control and his perfected perfected powers of concentration to realize his clearly-perceived deepest desires to a degree hitherto impossible for him.
Now imagine that person is a criminal.
Is it such a good thing to enhance his abilities without having changed the ends to which he will put them? It's a mistake to believe that yoga will make everything better because it assumes that the root of criminality is ignorance of one's self. In reality, the essence of criminality is putting one's self above anyone and anything else. Yoga's not going to fix this.
shall I send you the $1 billion in cash or check?....I think I'd rather give it to you than Uncle Sam.
...not to mention a criminal who can potentially contort himself into a pretzel and beyond...try to get cuffs on him when he commits another crime after the Yoga Renewal Program doesn't work.
I think we should "dangle" some fake secret documents declaring that NSA has developed the system of flying without any apparatus..."You see Flying is simply the KNACK to Throw yourself at the Ground and MISS! The difficulty with LEARNING this knack is that those who FAIL to miss the ground tend to do so with great force!"Shamelessly stolen from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...I just love the thought of filming a bunch of ski mask wearing jihadjis jumping off cliffs reciting the Koran and expecting to MISS Terra Firma! LOL!!! Maybe its just me...Don't answer that!
Composition Four or RDX works just fine also! Don't forget the nuts and bolts in the sapper bag! Shipyard Confetti! ALLAH HERE THEY COME!!! Bomb Voyage, Death Culters!
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