Maharishi's Oklahoma Palace of Peace

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Camelot Owner Hopes for `Peace Palace'

Third in a Multi-Part Series

By NANCY K. OWENS

Associate Editor

 

PITIFUL UPKEEP: What was the Camelot Hotel continues to rot at I-44

and Peroria Avenue in Tulsa.

Editor's Note: This is the third of a multi-part series

investigating the demise and possible future of the Camelot Hotel.

Once one of the most popular gathering places in Tulsa's history,

and the host one time to President Richard Nixon, the building has

become an eyesore and health menace.

 

The present owner of what was the Camelot Hotel is Maharishi Ayur-

ved University, a school for teaching transcendental meditation and

the teaching of the founder of TM, the Maharishi Mahesh Yoga.

 

The building or parts of the property may be turned into a "Peace

Palace," described on www.MaharishiPeacePalace.org, as "a beautiful

modular building that is covered in white marble. The Peace Palace

will include exhibition and lecture halls, offices, residential

rooms and a dining hall." According to a TM practitioner who

recently relocated to Tulsa, "We will be building a Peace Palace on

part of the land where The Camelot is located."

 

Until the Peace Palace comes to fruition, a Maharishi Enlightenment

Center will be opened at 5800 S. Lewis Ave., according to a

Maharishi Ayur-ved spokeperson. The Center will teach TM, sell

Maharishi Ayurveda herbal products (also available at www.mapi.com)

and have a Maharishi Spa for Ladies, whose sister facility can be

seen on www.theraj.com.

 

"Peace Palaces," similar to the one planned for Tulsa, are an

integral part of the Maharishi's global philosophy.

 

According to the Peace Palace website, "Each Peace Palace will offer

to everyone the knowledge and practical programs for peace and

enlightenment, for a healthy, happy, more creative, more fulfilling

and successful life through the Transcendental Meditation program.

Its benefits in the fields of education, health, social behavior and

world peace have been amply documented during the past half-century

all over the world."

 

The five to ten most prominent families of every city are invited

to "join us in becoming founders of the Peace Palace." Peace Palace

construction in the USA is being undertaken by The Global Country of

World Peace, a tax-exempt 501©(3) organization.

 

The Global Country of World Peace is a "virtual" country (not

physical) and was established on October 7, 2000. It was created by

Maharishi to "establish global world peace by unifying all nations

in happiness, prosperity, invincibility, and perfect health, while

supporting the rich diversity of our world family." Its stated

mission is to establish Heaven on Earth by raising the quality of

life of every individual to complete fulfillment and affluence in

enlightenment. It will establish a Global Administration through

Natural Law by enlivening the nourishing evolutionary power of

Natural Law in the life of every individual and in the collective

consciousness of the whole world.

 

The Capital of The Global Country of World Peace is Maharishi Vedic

City, IA, known simply as "Vedic City."

 

Maharishi's goal is to replace what he refers to as "damn democracy"

with the peace inspiring politics of The Global Country of World

Peace, according to their literature.

 

His thoughts concerning this issue were published in a TM Bulletin.

His opinions are clear from some of his quotes: "Damn the democracy,

which is based on the popular will, vote. It is not based on

knowledge, it is based on number.

 

"The man-made constitution, that system of self rule called

democracy. They say the Minister is in the cabinet, he has no time

to meditate. What does he do in the cabinet? He does

opposition.If your religion tells you to be a devil, then I would

advise you to be a devil, but enjoy life, enjoy life. All those

countries who are earning their livelihood by selling arms, Natural

Law will take care of all that. Time is different now, they will not

be able to save themselves from the fury about the sin they are

committing."

 

The same TM Bulletin offers Maharishi's solution to society's

problems, "So, this is what we'll do, it is the rise of unifying

principles through education, this will motivate the creation of

leaders in each country, of an ideal character and quality, not like

the monsters or dragons of destruction who dominate in nations

today."

 

For those who aren't familiar with Maharishi, www.tm.org offers a

glimpse of his global achievements during the last 40 years. To list

a few:

 

1957- founded the worldwide Spiritual Regeneration Movement.

 

1972- inaugurated his World Plan and created a new science, the

Science of Consciousness.

 

1975- discovered the Constitution of the Universe.

 

1978- created the World Peace Project, sending teams of Yogic Flyers

to the most troubled areas of the world, to calm the violence

through TM.

 

1984- sent the first group of 7,000 Yogic Flyers to Fairfield, Iowa.

(According to the website, scientific research on this assembly

validated Maharishi's prediction that when the square root of one

percent of the world's population practices the TM-Sidhi program,

including Yogic Flying, together in one place, positive trends

increase and negative tendencies decrease throughout the whole

world.)

 

1988- formulated his Master Plan to Create Heaven on Earth for the

reconstruction of the whole world, inner and outer.

 

1994- introduced programs for prevention in the fields of health and

security creating a Prevention Wing of Yogic Flyers in the military

of every country.

 

1998- The Maharishi Open University was founded offering Total

Knowledge of Natural Law to everyone accessible via a network of

eight satellites broadcasting to every country on earth.

 

2003- developed The Global Country of World Peace currency,

the "raam."

 

The "raam" is currently used in The Netherlands, the base of

Maharishi's empire, and in Vedic City, Iowa. It comes in

denominations of one, five and 10. The exchange rate is one raam to

ten USD, and one raam to ten Euros. More than 100 Dutch shops, some

of them part of big department store chains, in 30 villages and

cities have accepted the notes. Shopkeepers can exchange their raam

notes at the Fortis Bank branch in Roermond. According to

information provided by The Dutch Central Bank, it is keeping a

close eye on the raam and allows the raam to be used as long as the

notes are not used as legal tender and it stays within a closed-off

circuit of users.

 

Next Issue: A deeper look into the teachings and plans of the

Maharishi Mahesh Yoga.

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