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Peace Palaces
As part of a global effort that has spanned the past 50 years, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has announced a program to build Peace Palaces all over the globe in order to make his programs of knowledge and personal enlightenment available to everybody.
The thinking behind this is both grand and practical. It's grand because each Peace Palace will serve a population of 100,000 people, which means that we need 64,461 Peace Palaces. It's practical because peace, world peace, needs a home.
We already have an enormously established, built out, entrenched war ("defense") infrastructure in almost every country in the world. But where are the institutions, the economies, and the buildings dedicated to peace? They don't exist, not in significant numbers.
And why is that? Because peace is considered wishful thinking, while war is thought to be one of the most practical pursuits possible.
And yet war causes nothing but destruction of families and societies, protecting, perhaps, short-term interests and assets of one culture while destroying another's. But, over all, war does not create anything positive, least of all peace. It is a self-perpetuating, impractical solution to societal and international problems, that has never, ever, eliminated the need for more war (see the new book Victory Before War ).
To a war-based culture, peace is simply the absence of war. But peace cannot be defined in war terms. Peace, it turns out, is now optimizable. And the method of optimizing peace is practical, within reach, and scientifically documented.
The demonstrated ability of the Transcendental Meditation Program® to reduce war and terror incidents has been verified by intensive, repeated, statistically significant, juried, published research. We now have a scientifically verified peace technology. That changes the idea of peace-creation from wishful thinking to a dynamic, powerful, essential component of any practical society.
Through building Maharishi Peace Palaces, we provide a home for teaching the TM program® and other peace and enlightenment creating technologies that will systematically move ourselves, our families, communities, nations, and the entire world into a state of peace that is so profound that war cannot occur anywhere ever again.
The role of a Maharishi Peace Palace is to offer all of the peace creating programs described on this site to help create peaceful, enlightened citizens in every community who, collectively, will guarantee a permanent state of world peace.
Please join us in building Maharishi Peace Palaces in our community. |
