[lbo-talk] David Lynch: world peace through transcendental meditation

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 22 13:54:13 PDT 2005


This is from physicist Robert Park's weekly "What's New" column, which I've plugged here several times before. http://www.bobpark.org

-B.

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WORLD PEACE: THE INFLATION RATE EXCEEDS THAT OF REAL ESTATE.

Avant-garde film director David Lynch ("Mulholland Dr.") wants to raise $7B to create world peace through a massive Transcendental Meditation program. A corps of 8,000, trained in TM, would create a coherent unified field over Earth. I don't mean to be a cynic, but in the 1993 Demonstration Project to reduce violence John Hagelin had 5,000 meditating over an 8 week period for only $1M. He offered to end the war in Kosovo with 7,000 Yogic flyers (flyers are better trained). After 9/11, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi himself, in a full-page ad in the NY Times, turned to "the world's wealthiest." He proposed to create world peace with a corps of 40,000 flyers for $1B. "There must be a few peace-loving billionaires who can raise the money in one day," he said. We see from Iraq that not one cheapskate billionaire came through.



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