GLOBAL NEWS CONFERENCE

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday June 24, 2002 22:05 by Raymond McInerney - Global Country of World Peace raymond.mcinerney at ul dot ie 122 Vale Avenue, Carew Park, Limerick

New Nation to Adopt Maharishi’s Vedic System of Defence, New Global Development Currency

Maharishi Calls “Rika Shanti Rashtra” in the Mountains of Costa Rica a “Model Nation” Declares the Military of Every Country a “Fraud” and Urges Prevention PRESS CONTACT Station 24, 6063 NP Meru, The Netherlands U.S. Office: Tel: +1-641-470-1344 Email: [email protected]

MAHARISHI’S NEWS CONFERENCE
Wed., June 26, 4.00 p.m. UK time - including press
invitation
Live Via Satellite, Webcast, and Telephone Conference Call

“I am alerting every government that their military and destructive weapons
are absolutely useless to save their nations. Only peaceful measures to prevent
the birth of an enemy will work.”—His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi today declared the military in every country to be “useless against an enemy that does not show its face,” and urged government leaders to adopt a new defence policy based on “peaceful measures of prevention.” Maharishi also announced that the world’s newest nation, the “Country of Peace”—Rika Shanti Rashtra—in the mountains of Costa Rica—would be adopting his Vedic System of Defense and utilizing the global development currency of Maharishi’s Global Country of World Peace.

Maharishi’s comments came during the historic Coronation ceremony of the new king of Rika Shanti Rashtra, Epe de Awapa Lesandro, which was broadcast live over global satellite network and via Internet webcast. Rika Shanti Rashtra has established a special “brotherhood of friendship” with the Global Country of World Peace, which is offering its organizational and economic support to the new country.

Acknowledging that the military “may have had a role in the past,” Maharishi said that in the twenty-first century, “prevention is the only means of protection. If a nation does not know how to prevent the birth of an enemy, that nation—no matter how large a military, no matter how many destructive weapons, no matter how many alliances it has with other nations—will be turned to ashes when the missiles fall on it.”

Maharishi described Rika Shanti Rashtra as a “model nation.” He said that the new country will soon have a group of “Vedic Scientists”—specially trained experts in the science and technology of reducing social stress and creating coherence and peace in national consciousness. He said that these experts will “perform their Vedic procedures, including Transcendental Meditation, Yogic Flying, and Yagyas, and very naturally they will create indomitable coherence and a shield of invincibility for the whole region.”

Maharishi said that the key to permanent peace is ideal administration through education—his Vedic approach to education which develops an individual’s full potential. “Education must enliven the total field of Intelligence in human awareness—the cosmic potential within the individual. We will soon have a world inhabited by such cosmic individuals. They will create coherent national consciousness, eliminate negative trends throughout society, and facilitate the success of the government. Then laws will improve and there will be a better system of justice—there will be peace and prosperity for all to enjoy.”

Maharishi will discuss the founding of Rika Shanti Rashtra and will answer questions about his Vedic System of Defense during a global address and press conference from Meru (Vlodrop), the Netherlands, on Wednesday, June 26, to be broadcast live via satellite, streaming video and audio on the Internet, and telephone conference call. (See details below.)

He will be joined by His Excellency Dr. John Hagelin, Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace and world-renowned quantum physicist; His Excellency Dr. Bevan Morris, Minister of Enlightenment of the Global Country of World Peace, who will provide an enlightened commentary on world events and report live from Rika Shanti Rashtra; and His Excellency Dr. Benjamin Feldman, Minister of Finance and Planning of the Global Country of World Peace, who will discuss the “Raam,” the global development currency of the Global Country of World Peace.

How to Participate in Maharishi’s News Conference
Live via Satellite in the USA and Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean
n Telstar 5 at 97 degrees W n Transponder 27 n Frequency 12177 MHz
n Polarity vertical n Symbol rate 23000 n FEC 2/3
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan
n Europe*Star at 45 degrees E n Frequency 11550 MHz n Polarity Vertical
n Symbol Rate 13244 n FEC 1/2
Western Asia, North Africa, and Europe
n Hot Bird 3 at 13 degrees E n Transponder 89 n Channel MOU.2 n Frequency 12475 MHz
n Polarity Horizontal n Symbol rate 27500 n FEC 3/4
Live via Internet: Maharishi’s address will be webcast live around the world in both streaming video and streaming audio on http://www.globalcountry.org and at http://www.mou.org.
Live via Telephone: To connect to the conference call that is originating in the U.S., dial +1-512-305-4600 and then enter the code 55689, followed by the # key (the cost is the same as a regular long-distance phone call to this U.S. number). You can connect up to 15 minutes before the call begins.
Replays: All of Maharishi’s press conferences will be available online at any time at http://www.globalcountry.org and http://www.mou.org/wp/index.html#calls. You can hear a telephone replay of Maharishi’s most recent address by dialing the U.S. number +1-512-404-1289, 24 hours a day.