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TM news media coverage summary
by US Peace Government Media Team
http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=112352265718398159
Global Country of World Peace 9 August 2005
On 9 August 2005 Global Country of World Peace reported: Positive, in-depth
world
press coverage of Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology has exploded as never
before in the 50 years of Maharishi's movement ever since he began holding
Weekly
Global News Conferences more than three years ago. It is a joy for Global Good
News
service to feature this news, which indicates the success of the life-supporting
programmes Maharishi has designed to bring fulfilment to the field of
world-peace.
In fact, there is so much interest in all the programmes that when a single
individual boldly steps forward with the public announcement of the intention to
utilize one of Maharishi's Vedic programmes it can garner enormous press
coverage
all over the world.
A few weeks ago Washington developer Jeffrey Abramson announced plans to build
the
world's largest office building according to Maharishi Vedic Architecture. Even
though Mr Abramson's building will not be completed for two years, the news of
Mr
Abramson's plans to utilize Maharishi Vedic Architecture went around the world.
An article on Mr Abramson's Tower II building appeared on the front page of the
Business section in Washington Post. A week later a second article was
published on
the deep principles and practices of Vedic architecture on the front page of the
Home section of the Washington Post.
This Washington Post article on Vedic architecture was reprinted in scores of
newspapers around the United States, large and small, including in the San
Francisco
Chronicle and the Ft Wayne Journal Gazette.
Now, this week, news of the establishment of a private foundation in the United
States to raise billions of dollars to support all of Maharishi's programmes of
Consciousness-Based Education and to create permanent world peace has gone
around
the world many times over.
Award-winning filmmaker David Lynch, who has practised Transcendental
Meditation for
32 years, is a Yogic Flyer, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Maharishi
University of Management, announced on 21 July, Guru Purnima Day, the formation
of a
new foundation, called the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based
Education
and World Peace. Its purpose is to raise $7 billion initially, to fund and bring
Maharishi's Consciousness-Based, Vedic Education to children throughout
America.
The foundation will also establish and permanently endow seven large campuses of
Maharishi International University of World Peace, each with 8,000 Yogic Flying
students. There will be universities on all seven continents. Mr Lynch says he
will
raise the money from peace-loving philanthropists within the entertainment
industry
and throughout the business community.
The announcement of this intention by David Lynch has created a huge wave of
global
press coverage and received tremendous positive support by the global press.
Here
are just a few examples:
Newsweek featured a story entitled The Magic of Meditation in which Director
David
Lynch discusses how to find inner peace and change the world 'to a good one'.
This
is a completely positive, extensive, in-depth feature article about the profound
benefits of Maharishi's Consciousness-Based Education for enlightenment and
world
peace. This article was read by more than 10 million people all over the world.
Another article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (the premier education
newsmagazine read by all university and college presidents and other top
administrators) begins: Filmmaker Starts Foundation to Help Students Chill Out
with
Transcendental Meditation.
The article says: 'Filmmaker David Lynch will announce today the establishment
of
the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, an
organization that will promote the mental and physical benefits of
Transcendental
Meditation.
'Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced Transcendental Meditation for ''diving
within'' a
half-century ago. Researchers have found that it can reduce high blood pressure
and
improve brain function, among other health benefits. Meditating also improves
students' academic performance and fosters their creativity.
'Lynch's foundation intends to bring Transcendental Meditation to students
across
the country. Even more ambitious is the foundation's plan to raise $7-billion to
help establish seven affiliated Universities of World Peace that would train
students to become ''professional peacemakers''.'
An article in the International Herald Tribune was titled: US filmmaker promotes
Transcendental Meditation for world peace Film director David Lynch wants to
raise
$7 billion to bring about world peace through a massive Transcendental
Meditation
program. 'This is a way to bring real peace to earth. Real peace isn't just the
absence of war. It is the absence of all negativity,' Lynch said.
Agence France Presse featured an article with the headline Director David Lynch
seeks 7 billion dollars for Transcendental Meditation, world peace. 'I want to
raise
seven billion dollars. Some people may laugh about that. But the real joke is
that
we don't laugh when the US government spends billions of dollars on military
projects to kill people and people don't bat an eyelid. That is the pathetic
joke,'
said Lynch, who has practised Transcendental Meditation for 32 years.
Lynch bases his beliefs on the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who developed
Transcendental Meditation 50 years ago to develop the 'full creative potential'
of a
person and to 'promote a peaceful world'.
With a corps of 8,000 people dedicated to meditating and pumping out positive
waves,
peace will gradually settle on earth, Lynch explained, citing the discovery by
quantum physics of the 'unified field'. 'This is real, it works,' Lynch said of
the
power of meditation. 'It's abstract, but it's very real.'
Here are a few more of the hundreds, even thousands, of publications worldwide
that
featured stories on the launch of Mr. Lynch's foundation:
TIME magazine
Washington Post (the 15th article in the Washington Post on Maharishi's
programmes
in less than two years)
Boston Globe
New York Post
Times (UK)
Liberation (France)
Nouvel Observateur (France)
Sydney Morning Herald
New Zealand Herald
CRI (China)
Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
Turkish Daily News
We thank Mr Lynch for his bold stand in bringing Maharishi's knowledge to the
world
press and we urge all others to do the same.
Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life
dawning in
the world and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law basedTotal
Knowledge
basedprogrammes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the
quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace.
Copyright © 2005 Global Good News(sm) Service.
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