International Peace Palace,

The real International Peace Palace,( the one known to the world as The Vredespaleis, not the fictional Peace Palace of this story,) was built a century ago in Den Haag, Netherlands. It was financed by American industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, who, being a man of vision, is said to have seen the need for an international justice system. The International Peace Palace is home to the International Court of Justice, which as a branch of the United Nations, hears and helps to settle disputes between member countries. Here on American soil, we have “Peace Palaces” too, they are just a little more non-traditional than Carnegie's.

Incorporated on July 21, 2001, another Peace Palace is located in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, right in the heartland of America. It's built and actively promoted by anIndian guru, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, (best known for having personally tutored the Beatles Rock Group.)Promotions for the vedic city say that it was “founded to become a lighthouse of peace” for America and the world.

Unorthodox? Maybe, but the city is an actual, yes, real, incorporated “city” in America!

The webpage for the Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa says that they are working to “establish a permanent group of peace-creating experts whose daily practice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation™ and Yogic Flying techniques.” They say that they believe that this endeavor will promote “coherent national and world consciousness, and thereby prevent any negativity from arising in America or in the family of nations.”

Vedic City Iowa is not the only place in modern America you will find these peace palaces, you will find them in Columbia Missouri, Lexington, Kentucky; Bethesda, Maryland; Houston Texas; and Austin, Texas too. Centers for peace, like these, are being planned in other US cities as well, and maybe to community near you.

Around each peace palace is what is called a Vedic community where the buildings are constructed using what is called, Sthapatya Vedic principles, an ancient Indian architectural system that focuses on the orientation of buildings in what Vedics believe are the natural laws of harmony and order. It's a bit of Feng Shui, you might say. Peace palace promoters believe that these Vedic principles are the key to harmony and a permanent peace on earth.

“Vedics” espouse the belief that everything throughout the universe is the expression of Veda, meaning “natural law,” and therefore everything, every aspect of life, should be labeled Vedic, the food we eat, should be vedic, the buildings that we live and work in should be vedic, and the activities that we perform throughout our lives should be vedict too; and politics... you guess it, Vedic.

Politics in America is no stranger to this thinking, in fact during the 2008 presidential campaign, Barak Obama, campaigning for the presidency, visited Vedic City. Ben Smith, reporting for Politico, said that Obama, adhering to the teachings of the Maharishi faced East when he address the crowds that gathered and even “positioned himself in alignment with the rotation of the earth, in accordance with the teachings of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,”

It's respectful, no doubt, but it's even more amazing the lengths that a presidential candidate, will go for votes, even to the point of making it a point to face east, not to avoid the sun, but simply because it's the religious law of the Maharishi who teaches his followers that when life is founded on Vedic Principles, every aspect will be supported by the same infinite organizing powe which he calls and refers to as Natural Law. However, natural law does not always refer to the laws of nature, as one might think. Rather it refers to moral standards derived from the nature of human beings. If maharishi and friends had their way, this would no longer be America. We would all be citizens in a new country, lead by him of course, the Global Country of World Peace.

You might be interested to know that his Majesty Raja Raam, the First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace, is “establishing universities, colleges, and schools in Peace Palaces in every country to provide the whole population with the knowledge of total Natural Law in eight areas: education, health care, economics, political science, administration, defense, agriculture, and architecture and city planning.” This, it is believed, will “promote mistake-free life for every individual and prevention-oriented, problem-free administration for every nation.” You might also be interested to know that here in the USA, where people might not be so quick to be part of that country, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of Iowa work hard to help implement a US Peace Government based on Vedic principles of peace.

The US Peace Government was officially announced into action July 2, 2003 by the current president, John Hagelin, who is dubbed, at the US peace Government website as a, “world-renowned quantum physicist, educator, author, public policy expert, and the 2000 presidential candidate of the Natural Law Party.” The US Peace Government website informs readers, “The concept of a US Peace Government is that of a complimentary government. The new government will not take over America, it will only “govern the country in the crucial area of national consciousness, by addressing and alleviating the acute social stress that fuels violence and conflict.”

While you are contemplating your navel on that matter, and emptying your mind about the US constitution and the beliefs of consciousness on which this country stands, consider also that we have citizens of this country thinking seriously about enforcing a particular religious para-government organization for America. Also you might consider the connection between Carnegie’s Peace Palace and the Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Peace Palaces. One main connection is the location, Iowa.

Andrew Carnegie, a rags to riches kind of guy, made his fortune in steel. HE believed that every wealthy industrialist should work to gather and accumulate great wealth and upon achieving it, work to distribute this wealth to benevolent causes. He published this concept of how philanthropy made for a worthwhile life in an article called Wealth, in the June issue of the North American Review. His philosophy was threefold: 1) spend the first third of your life gaining education, the second third, gaining wealth and the third third, giving the wealth you have accumulated away to worthwhile causes. Money was his reason for living and it's purpose. some say it was his religion, at least until the First World War broke out.

As a philanthropist himself, Carnegie was extremely instrumental in financing the building of Parson’s College in Fairfield Iowa, which closed doors in 1973, incidentally, is the same piece of property that is today the home of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Peace Palace.

It is anotable that The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching lists the Maharishi University of Management (MUM) as one of their “Master’s Colleges and Universities.” The University also boasts that they are listed by the Carnegie Foundation as one of the “Best US Colleges.”

The Maharishi University of Management endorsed by the foundation just so happens to use and promote “consciousness-based” learning. It's taught through the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) which is a required class for every student. In more recent years, the university has been renamed, the University of Management, (they dropped the Maharishi part, probably because it was a big clue as to the Maharishi connection at the college. They claim it's been renamed simply to emphasize the management aspect of the school.

As the Maharishi says, "The human brain is the hardware of the cosmic computer which, through proper programming, can compute anything." At UM, (ummm, that means, University of Management,) they proudly believe “that gaining deep knowledge and experience has a powerful practical value — it enables every student to fully manage his or her life.”

Goals of the school are:

The founding principles of the university are:

  1. To develop the full potential of the individual
  2. To realize the highest ideal of education
  3. To improve governmental achievements
  4. To solve the age-old problem of crime and all behavior that brings unhappiness to our world family
  5. To bring fulfillment to the economic aspirations of individuals and society
  6. To maximize the intelligent use of the environment
  7. To achieve the spiritual goals of humanity in this generation

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