Papers

This will be the index to a collection of papers written over the years, mostly by me, but some by other people. They're gathered here as a resource and indexed by date and by category. Right now (12 September 2001) it's being put up in haste to cover a few of the papers, and it will be extended over time.

Zero Conflict - A Technology of World Peace.

11 September 2001. On the day of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, I was moved to write something of a brief account of my experiences of meditation and group meditation as a way of establishing peace for any society or culture. All I could think of is that there are proven, tested technologies that can create and guarantee peace, and we're so dumb that we're not using them.

Written in something of a state of shock, it describes how I learned TM and gradually got involved with meditation as a technology for creating peace, as an innocent side effect of building enlightenment, creativity, wealth, health and improved relationships. I was involved in a "World Peace Project" in Syria and Iran in 1978/79, when Beirut waqs the hot spot. later in 1988 I was part of a group of 1,600 in the USA meditating to create coherence and World Peace at the time the Berlin Wall came down. The results were outstanding, and are urgently needed today -- perhaps the only viable working solution to "prevent the danger that has not yet arisen."

While writing this I received an email invite for a press conference in Washington on this exact topic, uncannily timed for 15 minutes after the attack on the pentagon. Titled "Army Generals offer President Bush alternative to Missile Defence Shield -- Top-Ranking Military Leader from India Proposes 'Vedic Defence Shield' for Prevention of War." This contrasts American and Indian technologies for preventing war. Is this timing an uncanny coincidence, or did Maharishi knew something was going to happen? The least likely scenario is he was behind the attack -- but for sure he knows how to build the defence...