After NYC tragedy: It's Time for VEDIC Solutions

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It's Time for Solutions

 

By John Hagelin, Ph.D.

Quantum Physicist, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa

 

Let us not waste precious time lamenting what should have been done to

prevent last week's barbaric acts. Let us instead do what must be done now

to prevent further carnage.

 

For next time, the devastation could be worse. This week's attack was partly

symbolic: targeting the icons of U.S. military and commercial power. It

would have been easier, analysts say, for the terrorists to unleash a

biological weapon, or to detonate a crude nuclear device, than to execute

their highly coordinated, pinpoint attack, involving the simultaneous breach

of multiple airport security systems.

 

While a narrowly targeted response against the perpetrators of the atrocity

is clearly mandated, we must resist any impulse to retaliate militarily

against entire nations or even communities. Such indiscriminate retaliation

would be as barbarous as the very acts we are condemning, and would only

cause an escalation of bloodshed on all sides.

 

Even as we pursue such justice, we must also recognize the impotence of this

pursuit. First, because the damage is done; reactive steps cannot change

this fact. A proactive, preventive strategy is needed. Second, suicide

bombers and the bin Laden's of this world will only welcome the perpetuation

and escalation of violence. It fuels their cause, expands their support

base, enflames their followers, and feeds their own blood lust.

 

What do we do? It is abundantly clear that conventional strategies of

defense provide no effective defense against terrorism. And despite the cry

for a dramatic escalation of our intelligence services, nothing short of a

totalitarian police state, entailing a massive invasion of our privacy and

individual liberties, could have prevented last week's horrific acts. Even

with the government's ultra-high-tech eavesdropping technologies, Echelon

and Carnivore, already prying into the lives of American citizens, our

intelligence agencies had no clue of the impending, massive attack.

 

Clearly, we need a new approach, one that targets the underlying causes of

fanatical, violent behavior. Setting aside, for now, recent U.S. foreign

policies that foster international resentment and invite retaliation, such

causes include:

 

1. Mounting tensions among rival factions in critical hotspots throughout

the world; and

 

2. Deep-seated ignorance and underdevelopment of the brain caused by

outdated education.

 

Education must expand comprehension, and it must develop the brain fully. It

should incorporate the most profound scientific knowledge, including the

discovery of the unified field, which establishes the ultimate unity of life

and of humanity. This knowledge can be effectively conveyed even at primary

levels of education. Research shows that the assimilation of such knowledge,

and the associated balanced brain development, virtually precludes narrowly

self-centered, violent and destructive behavior. Highly successful examples

of this "unified-field based" education can be found throughout the world,

including at my university in Iowa.

 

But it may take years to modernize education and "enlighten" the world. In

the meantime, we must halt terrorism now. And we can, according to research

published in leading scientific journals. We can diffuse acute ethnic and

religious tensions that underlie regional conflicts and terrorism, using

field-tested approaches that have demonstrated their ability to quell

violence and warfare. Novel as it may seem, these approaches include the

practice of stress-reducing meditation techniques by strategically located

groups, an approach that was scientifically shown to produce an 80% drop in

war deaths and war-related injuries during the Lebanon war.

 

Right now, Major General Kulwant Singh, a highly decorated 35-year career

veteran, is in Washington, D.C. urging President Bush to quickly implement a

"prevention wing" in the military, 10,000 - 20,000 troops trained in the

powerful peace-promoting technologies of Transcendental Meditation and

related techniques. This approach is being supported by a growing number of

military leaders throughout the world.

 

Unfortunately, rather than look seriously at something new that might work,

something with extensive research behind it, the Bush Administration is

pushing costly, outmoded and invasive strategies that we know don't work.

 

Now is not the time for hollow assurances, nor the hasty abridgement of our

hard-won freedoms. Now is the time for a new approach, an approach with a

demonstrated ability to prevent social violence and stop terrorism.

 

John Hagelin, Ph.D., a Harvard-trained quantum physicist, is Director of the

Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at Maharishi University

of Management, and was the Natural Law Party presidential candidate in 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

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