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Response to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This is a vision I can get behind.
This is a good start down the road to peace. Here are some of the comments the Maharishi said in his press conference:
However, I feel that this solution is a too simplistic because of his primary reasoning for war - he is placing the reason for war on the people and their differing world views, when it is their leaders that steer the people to war. Thus the Vedic technologies are best used as weapons by the people against those leaders wanting and guiding wars. In history, these weapons or tools were used to back up strategies of mass consciousness.
In the near term the people must wrench control of their governments away from the war-mongers and gain control of their censored opinion shaping propaganda machine. This can only be done I believe through orchestrating actions by the masses on a global scale. Mohatma Gandhi's call to action of massive protests are the best historical examples of how to do this. The Vedic technologies of peace would be at the core of these actions and guide the strategies for waging peace and justice just as they did for Gandhi. Satyagraha, Ahimsa, truth, non-violence, were his weapons. By themselves alone they lost power but coordinated into strategies on a scale of mass consciouness they became unstoppable.
It is time for the UN in tandem with the world court to get involved and step onto the world stage in new and creative ways to establish and maintain peace in the world. It is entirely possible for the UN to be the delivery mechanisms for the strategies of peace and the Vedic technologies alongside the guidance of the Maharishi.
Let the house cleaning of evil-doers begin with the US. I totally agree with Bush when he says that we must rid the world of evil-doers. But history tells us that he must include himself and his gang on that list.
Another point on the topic that the US must do its own house cleaning is the fact that worldwide extreme religious fundamentalism has become a threat to the world's evolution. People in the US despise the Taliban for their oppression of women, their hatred for homosexuals, their rigid fundamental religious practices, their contempt for anyone different, their mission for totalitarian rule, their mix of politics and government, their religious fervor backing a military war.
IS this any different than defining our own fundamental problem? The fact that the born again Christians are defined as the Religious Right Wing in our political arena depicts the problem. Our religious zealots are the principle backers for war, and this speaks volumes about a group of people that have mixed their politics and war mongering with a religious zeal. The fact that they herd their tribe with indecent jabs against: feminism, homos, and people of different religions exposes their evil traits.
The higher view comes from the spiritual world view. This is the collective mass conscience of the people. To support war and all evil thoughts will only get more war and evil deeds. To support and foster thoughts that generate peace and good will, only begets more peace. There is an old Sufi saying that explains life quite simply, "As you are in the moment, so shall you be in the future".
May PEACE be yours in this moment, E_mail: the Tribal Messenger
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