LETTERS: TRY TRANSENDENTAL MEDICATION

To the editor:

The logic used by our political leaders to justify NATO's attack on Serbia is the same rationale that has been used to justify every war. Concerns for security, liberation and peace lie at the basis of every aggressor's justification for fighting. Trying to create peace through war is a strange and contradictory logic.

Our political leaders have claimed that the international community did its best to find a diplomatic solution to the year of fighting in Kosovo. However, there is an alternative which the United States and NATO nations have repeatedly ignored, but which has been prove through rigorous scientific research to effectively bring about a peaceful resolution to conflict situations.

President Chissano of Mozambique utilized this scientific approach to bring an end to 20 years of civil war in his country and to maintain peace and stability in his nation over the past six years, while in many other African nations conflict and instability continue.

The U.N. charter declares that war begins in the minds of men. Therefore, it stands to reason that peace also begins in the minds of men.

It is a well-established fact, experienced by millions of people all over the world, that the practice of the transcendental meditation program restores a peaceful state of mind in the individual. More than 40 independent research studies have demonstrated that when a relatively small group of individuals in a nation practice transcendental meditation and advanced yogic flying program together in a group, greater peace and harmony are created in the collective mind or collective consciousness of the nation, resulting in dramatic increases in negative trends throughout society such as crime, violence and even war.

Group practice of these technologies of consciousness dissolves the collective stress and tension built up throughout the nation, restoring peacefulness in the collective mind of the nation, resulting in more balance, tolerance and understanding in the thinking of the people, including aggressive leaders of a nation like Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic.

With a few exceptions, most political leaders may not be able to comprehend how this phenomenon is possible. However, it is based upon a profound scientific principle referred to in physics as a field effect. Furthermore, it has been repeatedly demonstrated to work.

To ensure that world peace is permanent, the political leaders of today must recognize and apply this formula for peace by establishing permanent groups of individuals practicing transcendental meditation and yogic flying program in every country.

I invite and encourage those who are wealthy in the United States to contribute toward an endowment fund to support a group of professional yogic flyers whose morning and evening practice will generate an influence of peace throughout the country and the world.

As the United States is a leader among nations, it behooves us to seek every means to create peace other than fighting. Group practice of transcendental meditation and yogic flying programs is the one option that research has demonstrated effective in resolving conflict. It is the one option that will help us avoid going to war in our efforts to create peace.

GARRY TODT

Oran