13 November 2010

Many new developments in Nepal—including two recent conferences in education and agriculture, establishment of coherence-creating groups of Maharishi Vedic Pandits, and opening of Maharishi Invincibility Centres—demonstrate the increasing momentum to adopt programmes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Vedic Science and technologies of consciousness, for the enlightenment, health, and good fortune of the nation.

At the international Agriculture Conference in Kathmandu on 24 September 2010, experts including Dr John Konhaus, of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute, spoke to a large delegation of governmental officials and representatives of organic agriculture companies. The conference established a strong feeling of cooperation between leaders in Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture and directors of agriculture in Nepal.

A prominent farmer in Janakpur, Nepal, who practises the Transcendental Meditation Programme, recently invited a group of experts in Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture to visit his land. The warm, humid climate and flat landscape of the region are ideal for vigorous plant growth, and projects for Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture are taking shape for this area.

The International Conference on Consciousness-Based Education, held two days earlier on 22 September in Kathmandu, also inspired an enthusiastic response among guests. The event included presentations by Dr Susie Dillbeck, President of the International Foundation of Consciousness-Based Education, on Vedic technologies, including Transcendental Meditation and the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme, which have been researched in the West and shown to help the student assimilate knowledge without stress, improve grade point average and health, and directly experience the source of wakefulness and bliss. (read more)