Nice letter -- lots of information! The clearest explanation I've seen yet of the plans.
"Announcement For All Governors of the Age of Enlightenment The Starting Date for the Next Governor Recertification Course Has Been Rescheduled to June 22 to Allow More People to Attend Please send your e-mail to xxxxxxx to apply for the course The starting date for the next Governor Recertification Course has been changed to the full moon of June Wednesday, June 22, 2005. Maharishi would again like to give his full attention to the course, and it is being rescheduled so that the maximum number of participants will be able to attend and enjoy this precious opportunity to gain the latest knowledge and interact with Maharishi via live videoconference. As all the Governors who attended the last course will confirm, this is an incredible opportunity. To attend the next course it will be necessary to apply before June 7th. Maharishi would like to know how many will be attending 15 days before the course begins. There have been questions regarding the Governor Recertification Course and the activities of the newly recertified Governors. The information below is provided to answer those questions. What are the requirements for attending the next Governor Recertification course? This course is for Governors who will take responsibility for the Movements activities in a particular city. This means establishing a Maharishi Peace Palace or Maharishi Enlightenment Center and organizing to offer a full ranges of programs and services including education, health, global reconstruction, Vedic agriculture, and Vedic administration. The course is available to those who will be full-time in this important activity. Each applicant for the course must specify the city they will be taking. The course is no longer available to those who plan to return to positions with other Movement organizations including our universities and schools. What cities are available? To attend the course, you should indicate your five Peace Palace city preferences. Do I need special skills in advertising, finance, construction, and other fields to be the Director for a City? No special skills are needed. What you do need is the knowledge you will gain on the Governor Recertification Course. And you need to be committed to a city and to carry out the activities there. Everything for the Maharishi Enlightenment Centers and Peace Palaces is being organized centrally all the advertising, exhibitions, materials, financing, policies, etc. Even all the accounting is being done at a national level. What are the activities of the Director? The first is to do a long program and you will gain that instruction on the course. That is the basis for everything else you will be doing. The other activities are to lease space where programs and services will be offered, make arrangements with a secretarial service to answer the telephone, enter into an agreement with a major newspaper to carry advertisements twice a week, and to hire assistants to help you in each of the 5 program areas and licensed massage therapists to deliver the day spa programs. Then you will oversee these activities and provide the instruction in the Transcendental Meditation¨ program. What type of space will I rent and who will pay for the space? You will rent space where programs can be delivered immediately a Maharishi Enlightenment Center before the Peace Palace is built. This space may be in a mall, shopping center, office building, or hotel. It will include 10-12 rooms and be about 3,000 square feet. The costs of the secretarial service, leased space, and advertisements are paid for by the Global Country of World Peace. What responsibilities will I have for building the Peace Palace? The first thing is to find the land and get that approved. The land will be owned by Global Country of World Peace. Advertising will be prepared nationally for fundraising. You need to place the ads in the same way you place advertising for your programs. You may be asked to meet with a local bank about financing. Your Raja will give you information you need to do this. In the future, memberships, loans, or bonds may be offered. All the planning, materials, and legalities of this will be worked out at a national level. On the construction issue, all the Peace Palaces are standard designs and components will be ordered centrally and shipped to each Peace Palace location. You may be asked to submit the plans to the local government agency that issues building permits or to do other activities. But you will not be responsible for designing the Peace Palace or planning the construction. What is the compensation for a Director? The two directors for each city (one for ladies and one for men) who are graduates of the Governor Recertification Course and work full-time will receive each a salary of $4,000. This will be paid monthly, with the first payment at the end of the first month of activities. Payroll is handled on the national level through a payroll service. How does a Director become a Raja? The goal is that over time every city will have a Raja. Once one half the cost ($1.5 million) of the Maharishi Peace Palace has been raised through sources other than bank loans, the Peace Palace Director will be eligible to go on Raja Training, a course that normally costs $1 million. The Director will break ground for the Peace Palace and his/her staff will oversee the building being completed. If I do not go on the Recertification Course, is there any teaching activity I can still do? This is the new structure for the Movement. All teachers of the Transcendental Meditation program will need to be recertified every three to five years. If someone is not recertified, then they do not retain the title Governor, and they are not allowed to teach TM, to give introductory lectures, advanced lectures, teach SCI, or to give checking. The only exception is that a former Governor may check a person he or she initiated in the past. The structure of the organization now is that anyone who is a Governor must be full-time in charge of a Maharishi Peace Palace location assigned by one of the Rajas. These Directors are paid a monthly salary and have the benefits and activities mentioned above. If I take the Recertification Course and take a city, can my spouse also take the course even if he or she will not be full-time? That was possible for the first course, but it is now no longer the policy. Each person who takes this course must be full-time. Maharishi is offering this opportunity to all former Governors to become full-time again. If there are not enough former Governors who come forward now, then Citizen Sidhas and meditators will be trained, and teachers from other countries will be brought into this country to cover all the 40 Peace Palace locations in Canada. The results from the first Governor Recertification Course were spectacular as expected. Maharishi connected for several hours twice a day by live video-conference to the three locations in North America and to seven locations in Europe. Since going out to their Maharishi Peace Palace locations the Governors have been meeting with great fulfillment and success. They are riding the wave of support of Total Natural Law. There is an old saying, The proof of the pudding is in the eating. If you have any remaining doubts about whether you should attend this next Governor Recertification course, talk with one of those fortunate Governors who have just been recertified, and then decide. We invite you to take advantage of this offer to rejoin full-time. Please apply by June 7th. to xxxxxxx. Jai Guru Dev Global Country of World Peace Canada" To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
