His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is proclaiming a bright new fortune is dawning but didnt we hear that a dozen years ago with the harmonic convergence?Over the years, I have grown more and more skeptical, and even cynical, by upbeat religionists saying good times for humankind are just about here, that there is a transformation in human events at hand
It reminds me of my days almost four decades ago as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. We P.C. volunteers naively believed we Americans in foreign lands were on the march to bring democracy through teaching the natives new ways of making a living. We “superior” Americans who had shown the world what success was all about were there to help them replicate our rosy world in the U.S.
Back there in the 1960s, I never grasped the sheer inertia that world politics have on cultures and countries. In my assignment in Paraguay, which was under a dictator at the time, we were not privy to all the machinations of governments. Aid for International Development, or AID, was pouring billions into development and construction, but now years later we learn how much American money was making both the wealthy “haves” in such countries wealthier and the American companies even filthier rich. John Perkins tells about that so eloquently in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions.
But back to the Maharishi. He says a coherence-creating group of 400 Yogic Flyers were established in Holland and are raising the nation to invincibility. More European nations will follow.
The darkness of the night is coming to an end, and a bright new sun is rising, Maharishi said. Its not going to be the same old problem-ridden world anymore. The world is awake. We are ringing the Bell of Invincibility for every nation.
He spoke at one of his satellite news conferences on Wednesday and shared the message. The Maharishi once answered a question I posed to him while I sat in Phoenix in on one of his organization’s global news conferences. Those sessions are so structured, stiff and labored.
The Maharishi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, believes Holland is already reporting concrete signs of decreasing negativity and problems and the good news of rising harmony, positivity and invincibility in the life of the nation.
What does that mean? Sounds like blue sky. How can that be measured? And it is supposedly enhanced by yogic flyers.
The “yogic flyers” are said to rise off the floor in meditation, but media observers say they only see “awkward hopping” from a cross-legged position, sort of odd lunging.
The yogi, however, insists yogic flying enlivens bliss in individual consciousness and creates coherence in collective consciousness.”
He insists the “global transformation” taking place can be credited to the “glorious tradition of Vedic masers” and the custodians of the constitution of the universe.
What does that mean?
Let me know if you can spot this new harmony, bliss and “bright fortune dawning.”
I’ll be watching keenly for it myself.
The best is to experiment and practice !