Maharishi pulls out

[PsychoDad]

All you need is love and peace - but not in destructive Britain, so maharishi pulls out

Followers split as 95-year-old guru ends meditation teaching in 'scorpion nation'

Mark Honigsbaum
Monday August 15, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1549269,00.html

You can do it in peace-loving nations such as Ireland and Holland. And, despite its record in Vietnam and Iraq, you can still do it in the United States. But try meditating for a more enlightened Britain and you could find yourself accused of feeding "the destroyer of the world."

Nearly 40 years after he first turned the Beatles on to transcendental meditation at his Indian ashram - sparking an upsurge of interest in his philosophy across the world - the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has ordered his followers to stop teaching his advanced meditation and levitation techniques in Britain.

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"The good effects of transcendental meditation - increased creativity and long life - should not be given to a dangerous country that is constantly busy destroying the world," said the maharishi, speaking at one his regular press conferences in the Netherlands. "TM is a gift from me to those who want to create peace and harmony in the world."
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But other followers say they are astonished by the maharishi's decison not to reject the US, particularly as last year he initiated a similar thought experiment there with the aim of defeating George Bush in a protest at his leading role in fomenting the Iraq war.

[FourStarDemocrat]

1. Too many wealthy American followers here in US... business would suffer.

[msongs]

2. give me love, give me love, give me... peace on earth. that's NOT

the english way at the moment(despite the george harrison lyric).

Msongs
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