From Roger Gurr

An event on that trip I will never forget was the time we were racing to catch the ferry in Port Angeles to take us over to Victoria on Vancouver Island. We were running late and had to make the ferry in order for Maharishi to keep an important speaking engagement.

We were still a distance out of town and I figured that we would have to drive a hundred miles an hour or more to make the ferry. I told Maharishi.

“Then why not drive that fast,” he said matter-of-factly.

I said to myself if the master thinks it will be okay then it must be. So I stepped on the gas. Soon, we were racing along at about 103 miles per hour down a long, long grade through the mist and a beautiful pine forest. I could see an intersection down the road and I started to slow for it.

“Why go slower?” Maharishi wanted to know.

I explained what was up ahead.

He then closed his eyes for a moment or two and said, “The road is clear, so you keep driving fast.”

And so whoosh, I went right through there. It was clear. A little ways further on we came to a section of the highway over looking the city and the docks. I could see the ferry down below. I checked my watch. The boat was scheduled to leave in a couple of minutes and it would take us at least fifteen to get there, I told Maharishi.

“Don’t worry, you just go fast,” he said, calm as ever. Down and down we went and drove right up on the dock and up onto the boat. I no sooner got on than the back gate went up and off we went. The purser came down and said, “Today’s your lucky day, mister.”

“What do you mean?” I said.

“Well, the captain has been doing this run for about eighteen years and in all that time he never has failed to leave the dock on the minute. Today he has been standing on the bridge like he was in a trance.”

I said something like, “How about that,” and gave him a count-your-lucky-stars smile. Maharishi in the seat next to me never said a word. We got out, sat up on the deck and enjoyed the boat ride.

Maharishi, of course, has abilities that are extraordinary by our normal standards. But he never makes a show out of them and it is only rare that he manifests these powers. He certainly hasn't been given to wholesale displays of psychic or physical feats such as other yogis do.....

200 Marines of the US Navy have the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme as a part of their training and the Chief Commander of these marines also practises the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme. GCWP Dec 2007 - A. Calcraft

The Government of Peru has given official academic recognition to Yogic Flying and Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence being taught in state schools in Peru. Three schools started the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme this year, and 1,000 students have become Yogic Flyers in the last three months. (picture of a students in a school in Peru)

25 December 2007, Dr Jose Luis Alvarez, Raja (Administrator) of Latin America for the Global Country of World Peace, A. Calcraft.

Maharishi Ayurveda. After many hundreds of years of occupation, India lost much of the ancient art and science of Ayurveda. (Ayurveda means Knowledge of Life or SCIENCE of LIFE. Of this, TM is part). Continued next page

Continued from front page. Maharishi revived Ayurveda to its original thousands of years old completeness and made it’s health benefits available to the west. He employed three of the most highly regarded Ayurveda doctors in India to pass on their knowledge and skills for diagnosis and remedies for use around the world.

Intelligence and Perfect Health
‘When the total intelligence of Natural Law—Veda—is lively in the individual physiology, there is perfect synchrony between the functioning of every individual cell and the holistic functioning of the body as a whole; and between individual intelligence and Cosmic Intelligence. In this state of complete integration, all thought and action are spontaneously in harmony with Natural Law and the individual enjoys perfect health.’ —Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Dr. Ted Wallace, Managing Director, Maharishi Ayurveda Products International (USA) said, “The importance of good health cannot be overemphasized, as good health is the foundation for our ability to fulfil our goals in life. In Sanskrit, the word for health is Swasthya—from Swa, the Self and Sthya, established. So the Vedic definition of a healthy individual is one who is established in the Self, in wholeness, which is the natural result of a pure, healthy and vital mind and body.”

Being established in the Self, is being established in the Transcendence, or established in Being, as Maharishi used to say, or being established in the Unified Field (quantumn physics) or as Maharishi later called it ‘that Infinite Field of Creativity and Intelligence’. RG

Ayurvedic Cooking Advice from Maharishi Ayurveda Products- Dal -for vegetarians, beans, dals and lentils constitute an important source of nutrition - they provide protein, complex carbohydrates, fibre and Vitamins. Versatile and tasty, dals and lentils lend themselves to being used to make salads, appetizers, soups, main dishes, sides and even dessert. They work well with other foods such as grains, vegetables, herbs and spices.

Mung beans, split, with skins removed are held to be excellent for all three doshas. Easier to digest than most other beans and dals, mung dal can be eaten everyday. When cooked, mung dal takes on the consistency of porridge. This dal is praised in Ayurvedic texts for its nutritional value and ease of digestion.

Eight useful tips for cooking with dals and lentils:

1. Store dry beans and dals in dry, airtight containers at room temperature.

2. Try and use dals and lentils within six months -- the older they get, the longer they take to soak and cook because of lost moisture.

3. Rinse several times before you cook.

4. Some beans need soaking to aid the cooking process.

5. Do not add salt or acidic ingredients like tomatoes or lemon juice until the beans or dals are cooked.

6. Ayurveda recommends eating beans, dals and lentils that are well cooked for easy digestion.

7. Adding spices such as cumin, black pepper and ginger to dals and beans helps the process of digestion.

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I was overseas in Africa

Twas very dark and damp.

When I came across a witchdoctor

Who said his name was Frank.

He said he had some pills to sell

That gave a youthful glow,

Just one of these would make you look

Like twenty years ago.

The doctor said, “Just listen Paul”

After the deal was done.

“These pills are very powerful,

So only take the one!”

Next day I sent a letter home.

I posted it that morning.

With it went those ten small pills

But not the added warning.

One year later, I came home

On shore leave from the Navy

And saw on our front door step

A young lady with a baby.

The young lady was my mother

So youthful looking she.

I gazed at her in disbelief

And she gazed back at me.

I asked about the pills I sent.

She said, “Just one was mine,

But the baby is your father,

He took the other nine. © Roy Kewley

SUFFERING, 1957 to 2007 by Maharishi In India circa 1957

1) “The devotee of the Almighty cannot suffer. If he is found to suffer, he cannot be said to be a devotee of God.

It pains me when I find people suffering in the name of God and devotion. I offer an open invitation to such aspirants and seekers of God. I invite them to come out of their miserable devotion, and step into the peaceful blissful chambers of Sadhana, blessed and illumined by my Master, the divine radiance of Shri Guru Deva.

I invite them to put an end to their sufferings and peacelessness and crown their day-to-day life with success, peace and joy. Do not waste time and life. Life is to enjoy. So come on to the field of all joy. The gates of all glories of life are open for you. "Make hay when the sun shines". Avail the opportunity in hand and enjoy life to the fullest.”

2) Somewhere, sometime between 1957 and 2007, “The Creator who created us did not want us to suffer”.

3) Press conference in Holland 2007, "Jesus did not suffer.”

Ed. note, ‘Research shows that when consciousness is high, (from continued regular practice of TM), pain and suffering is low but tolerance increases and brain chemicals associated with happiness increase.

’The thing is to regularly shed more stress than we gain from our daily / weekly activity. We do this with regular meditation and avoid stress and fatigue as much as possible

Be established in the Self, that field of Infinite Creativity and Intelligence, as much as we are able to, (ie saturate the mind with the transcendence.)

The thousands of years old Vedic Literature, widely scattered and believed for many years by many scholars to be a collection of ancient man made philosophies was revealed to be so much more by Maharishi’s Master, Guru Dev.

One of Maharishi’s greatest achievements was to bring out this knowledge for the practical use of everyone around the world.

It is the knowledge of the most fundamental level of Nature’s intelligence. It is the knowledge of the Unified Field[1] of quantumn physics, that modern psychology calls the Self.

Maharishi has identified Universal Consciousness as comprising everyone’s individual consciousness and so much more.

This Unified field, this Universal Consciousness, this Self, is a field of infinite creativity and infinite pure intelligence. He described it as an “ocean of consciousness in motion, moving within its self, creating a dynamic structure within its eternal silence”.

It is intelligence in the form of vibrating energy that manifests the universe. It does this by manifesting time and space from the absolute level of the intelligent laws of nature that administer all of creation.

That this dynamic universitality is within everyone is the most significant discovery of our time.

Maharishi has pointed out that through the proper use of the vibrations, of the Veda and Vedic Literature, e.g. using correct mantras, the total potential of human life is available to us through the laws of nature.

The practical side of this science includes TM to bring life in harmony with all the laws of nature and therefore bringing perfection to every area of life. We do this by daily contacting this absolute level.

TM is the most direct way for the fulfilment of this knowledge to the individual. As a philosophy of life, it is supreme. TM enables the awareness to effortlessly and naturally settle down to its least excited state which is the transcendental field underlying all creation. It therefore actualises the highest ideals of life.

SNIPS

A new study verifies giving is better than getting. GCWP
Copyright © The Associated Press, 21 March 2008 - http://www.nature.com/nature Researchers found people who made gifts to others or to charities reported they were happier than those who didn't share, according to a report in Friday's issue of the journal ‘Science’.

The Bible counsels that it is better to give than to receive. Science now agrees. People who made gifts to others or to charities reported they were happier than folks who did not. While previous studies have shown that having more money can increase happiness, the researchers at the University of British Columbia and Harvard University found that doing something for others made one more happy and the effect is big even with small acts of giving. Giving, they found can make a big difference in our happiness. Research found giving could involve money, time or special skills to help other people. .

It Pays to Play Nice another Harvard Research study finds. ``It is a very positive message,'' said study author David Rand. In general, the thing that is most, sort of, rational and best for your own self-interest is to be nice.''

The study involved 100 Boston-area college students playing the same game repeatedly.

It found that those who use punishments are losers and those who escalate conflict very often wound up doomed.

The players who punished their opponents the least, or not at all, made the most money. Those who punished the most made the least money. When faced with a nasty opponent, turning the other cheek and continuing to cooperate—or at least not handing out punishment—paid off more in the long run, the study found. GCWP, http://www.nature.com/nature, The Associated Press.

Women made 24 per cent more shopping trips than men during 2006 and over 55 per cent more escort trips (such as taking a child to school). National Statistics from www.Statistics.gov.uk

Britain Beat Germany for the first time in years at the world marble championships. BBC 23 March 2008

The Woodland Trust aims over the next 50 years to protect and restore UK woods that have been spoilt, create new woods for the future and make the countryside friendlier for people and wildlife. Broadleaf spring 2008.

The Turin Shroud is now linked to 400 AD or even earlier to St John’s Gospel and the 1st Century. Strong new evidence challenges radio carbon dating of 20 years ago that thought the shroud to be 14^th century. BBC2 22-3-08.

“Mind Over Markets,” April 19, 2004, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The American Heart Association disclosed that obesity, a major cause of heart disease, is growing fastest among people earning over $60,000 a year.

Another study showed a possible antidote to the high blood pressure that afflicts many, is Transcendental Meditation.

According to a study published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Cardiology, people with high blood pressure who learnt TM had a 23% lower death rate from all causes, and 30% lower from heart disease, than those who learned other relaxation techniques or used drugs.

The study, largely funded by the National Institutes of Health and led by Robert Schneider, director of the Centre for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management in Iowa, examined death rates of participants in two studies an average of eight years later.

TM is already being employed to treat patients with cardiovascular disease. “The American Journal of Cardiology study is consistent with what we have observed in our research,” says Noel Bairey Merz, medical director of the Preventive Cardiac Centre at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in L.A. “We came to meditation as a last resort,” she says, but it is “something that certainly can be considered complementary to other good health-care therapies”. Moreover, as Barron has observed last year (“Mind Over Markets,” April 19, 2004), the technique may have other fringe benefits, including helping some traders improve their performance. GCWP April 2008