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Former Japan Prime Minister Addresses Maharishi University of Management graduates
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Dr Hatoyama speaks about the importance of peace and happiness in the world On May 23, Dr. Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister of Japan in 2009–2010, presented MUM’s 2015 commencement address to a record 391 graduating students. The graduates represented 61 different countries and included 96 undergraduates and 252 graduate students. Also receiving degrees were…
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Goodbye to one of the best years in history
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It might not feel like it, but we are safer, richer and healthier than at any time on record [The Telegraph, UK, Thursday 08 January 2015] We are living longer, healthier lives than ever before Photo: Alamy By Fraser Nelson Newspapers can seem like a rude intrusion into the Christmas holidays. We celebrate peace,…
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Believe it or not, this is the best time to be alive
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Though fixated on threats, humans have never been better off, writes Scott Gilmore Scott Gilmore, December 31, 2014. Published in www.macleans.ca Tim Graham/Getty Images By almost every objective measure, 2014 was the safest, healthiest, happiest year in human history. But you probably refuse to believe that, don’t you? And that is actually a problem. First,…
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The world is not falling apart: The trend lines reveal an increasingly peaceful period in history.
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Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times. By Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack. Published in www.state.com. An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobane during a reported suicide car bombing by the Islamic State, as seen from the Turkey-Syria border, on Oct. 20, 2014. The small picture is very bad, but the…
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Interview With David Lynch: His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation
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Interview by Marianne Schnall, published in Huffington Post I can remember being absolutely hooked and engrossed into the surreal world of the cutting-edge television series Twin Peaks back in the ’90s. That was when series creator and director David Lynch became a household name and the show developed a massive and passionate cult following (which…
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Bombing for Peace? –it’s time to rethink war strategy
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The US initiative to gather nations in an attempt to crush ISIS is, in a sense, an understandable reaction to the brutality conveyed by the media. But like all other similar initiatives in the Middle East, the methods of bombing and other military approaches are doomed to failure. It will only make the volatility…
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Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a zone of peace
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The second Summit of the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Community, known by its Spanish acronym CELAC, is focused on regional integration, the purpose behind its creation in 2011. And on its last morning, the heads of state or government signed a “zone of peace” accord, vowing to reject the use of arms and…
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5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History
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[Source: Think Progress Website] BY ZACK BEAUCHAMP ON DECEMBER 11, 2013 AT 3:34 PM Between the brutal civil war in Syria, the government shutdown and all of the deadly dysfunction it represents, the NSA spying revelations, and massive inequality, it’d be easy to for you to enter 2014 thinking the last year has been…
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Ramayana & world peace
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The general perception amongst the general populace of what world peace means is mostly in the context of the absence of conflict, either within or between nations. Maharishi has said that an invincible nation will be characterized by ‘all good everywhere and non-good nowhere.’ This expands the concept of world peace fundamentally to the elimination of all…
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World peace could be closer than you think — Wall Street Journal
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[Comment by editor: a great article from Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago, still current within the context of the research done on it. A clear indication of collective consciousness changing, and the programs Maharishi has put in place to create lasting world peace.] BY JOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN “The World Is a More Violent Place Than…