by Judi Mcleod
March 15, 2004
Forget the broom, Toronto Mayor David Miller, Toronto-Danforth Liberal MP Dennis Mills and his "flying yogics" are coming soon to a waterfront near you.
With UN Secretary-General Kofi annan addressing a special joint parliamentary session in Ottawa, Prime Minister Paul Martin gave Mills the go ahead for his plans to bring the University Of Peace to Toronto. Upeace has been operating from sun-blessed Costa Rica since 1980.
Mills, who wanted to move the United Nations bureaucracy kit and caboodle to Toronto last august, seems content having to make do with only the Upeace.
In fact, Mills, the man who brought the Rolling Stones to the city for last summer’s SaRS concert, says bringing the UN to T.O. is his "last goal" as an elected Member of Parliament.
Kofi must be pleased, because according to media reports as recently as 1997 the UN was thinking of folding the University of Peace. a Canadian connection saved the university when Maurice Strong, fresh from a stint as Ontario Hydro Chairman, took over.
In terms of timing, Mills couldn’t be more in sync with the Global Peace agenda.
Oscar-nominated film director David Lynch and award-winning choreographer Robert La Fosse joined influential business leaders during a Dec. 10 news conference that launched a $1 billion drive to build 100 "Peace Palaces" and a University of Peace in the U.S.
Then there’s Maharishi Mahesi Yogi, the bearded 92-year-old guru, and spiritual advisor to Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, who inaugurated 2004 as the Year of Peace.
To that end, the Maharashi is building some 3,000 Peace Palaces world wide, including nine in Canada. a 2,000-square-metre Peace Palace will be constructed in Ontario in 2004.
The Peace Palace mission is "to create an influence of peace so powerful and pervasive that warfare and terrorism simply cease to exist."
Indeed the maharashi took his inspiration for the Peace Palaces from 9/11.
Peace Palaces will also serve as "oases of peace" for america’s stress-ridden cities. Each palace will provide a centre for 100 "peace-creating meditation experts" who will reduce social stress and promote coherence nationwide. The Peace Palaces will offer prevention-oriented community outreach programs in business schools, hospitals and prisons.
Who’s paying the freight?
You, if you cash in through the maharashi’s "country", called the Global Country of World Peace.
The "country" will issue bonds. People can purchase the bonds and pay 6 to 7 percent interest–aiding world peace in the bargain.
Investing in Peace Palaces can also save the environment. according to the blueprint, each palace will be surrounded by an organic farm that will produce food that will generate the profits that will pay the bondholders.
a Peace Palace is earmarked for British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island, touted as "the organic gardening capital of Canada",
"In a world torn apart by terrorism, in a world descending into a war between civilizations, it seems not just sensible, but morally responsible, to support the only peace-creating program that has been thoroughly verified scientifically, says the Salt Spring Consciousness on its website.
Number one in "three ways you can contribute is "Donate to protect B.C. and Canada–help bring a group of 130 peace-creating experts to Salt Spring Island."
Like the maharishi, Salt Spring has its own currency.
The maharishi, the founding father of Transcendental Meditation, needs houses with huge rooms where "yogic flyers" can "take off together".
The flyers are bound to zoom higher than the broom; Toronto Mayor David Miller used as a campaign logo last November.
Yogic flying, a meditation exercise is supposed to elevate its practitioners into the air. Once the flyers are elevated, they send out some kind of positive vibrations, which influence the environment. Hence, the population as a whole becomes more peaceful, more intelligent, healthier.
To the untrained eye, it may look like cross-legged hopping, but at advanced stages it feels like flying, advocates say.
National leaders have been very interested in this idea, stresses U.S. ambassador to France Dominique Lemoine.
The maharashi may be 92, but he’s still spry, if not passionate when it comes to politics. "He’s rash," the guru described President George W. Bush to Washington Post scribe Peter Carlson. "He’s a destroyer of the world. When we create higher consciousness, he’ll be out."
Like the one world government-advocating UN, the guru is lukewarm to democracies, saying that the democratic system is "so cruel."
"It divides the nations into many, many small groups and makes them fight…Democracy. I call it `damn-ocracy’."
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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