Plan C
By Matt Carter, Tuesday, October 14, 2008.Bookmarking Sites
Many alternatives to the Paulson rescue plan have been floated in the last few weeks, but this one has to beat them all.
John Hagelin, a self-described "world-renowned quantum physicist," says large groups of experts practicing advanced transcendental meditation techniques of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi can be mobilized in New York City and other global financial centers to defuse stress and fear.
Hagelin claims nearly 2,000 people at the "Maharishi University of Management" in Fairfield, Iowa, are already "helping to calm the nation in the midst of the global crisis."
But he advises that "a larger, more powerful group of 8,000 experts (the square root of one percent of the world's population) is needed to neutralize worldwide fears and re-establish confidence in the global markets."
The cost to establish this group on a permanent basis, Hagelin said, "would be negligible compared to what has been lost in a single hour during the current financial crisis."
My first thought was this was a complete fabrication with no basis in reality, but the Associated Press recently documented Hagelin's role in the transcendental meditation movement in the aftermath of the death of its founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
So if today's new plan to recapitalize banks doesn't work, I'm thinking Congress has probably already given Treasury the authority it would need to back an expansion of the Maharishi University of Management under The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
It's comforting to know we haven't tried everything yet.
Isn't it?
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Submitted by Dave Dugdale on October 14, 2008 - 8:11pm.
I love Plan C - that had me laughing! You are right, we have not tried everything yet.
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Submitted by Martin Zucker on October 15, 2008 - 11:38am.
Real smart people got us into this abyss. Maybe besides all the stress and $$$ being expended to get us out of the mess, we should try something new that might infuse the marketplace with some sorely needed wisdom, coherence, and morality, whatever the source. Otherwise the smart people will surely lead us down another greedy rut and into the same abyss.
Submitted by Anonymous on October 16, 2008 - 12:07am.
Have a look here:
http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html
I tried a quick copy/paste into Excel.
The diagramm which was created out of this table is quite interesting: Exactly in the moment both meditation groups – evening AND morning – reached the treshold of 1.748* the so called »crisis«** reached its new peaks.
* There is a formula: Take the whole population of a country. Take 1%. Take the square root of this 1%. For the U.S.A.: 304.000.000 people. 1%: 3.040.000. Square root of 3.040.000: 1.743.
** There is NO »crisis« at all. »Crisis« is if something worthwhile is in danger. There is NOTHING worthwhile in danger. Yet the modern system of civilisation is going down. A system, which can’t offer a water-closet to a third of mankind, and which is creating hunger for almost one billion people (People! Not machines!). Something about 35 (thirty five) billion US-$ would be necessary yearly to stop hunger worldwide. Compare it t well known figures of the »financial ceisis«.
Fortunately the political world aligned now itself with the financial world: so that BOTH will collapse and thereby clearing the line for the only existing model of a sustaining civilisation: Consciousnes Based Civilisation as it was laid out by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Jochen Uebel, Germany
Submitted by Anonymous on October 16, 2008 - 12:27am.
Correction:
... Compare it WITH well known figures of the »financial crisis ...
Thanks.
Submitted by (Fort Worth Real Estate Guy) on October 19, 2008 - 5:21pm.
Plan C is great
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Submitted by Ki Gray on October 21, 2008 - 10:35pm.
I am totally confused. Mediation, financial crisis and water closets.
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Submitted by Anne Hensel on October 24, 2008 - 6:57am.
Donh.t they say, the market has changed, same old does not work anymore, you have to be creative. . . . . .?
Anne Hensel broker
Submitted by James Boyer on October 24, 2008 - 10:58am.
No to plan C, last thing we need is more nut jobs.
Jim
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Submitted by Ken Dailey on November 19, 2008 - 3:20pm.
I feel that there are so many things that we throw money at and they don't work. Aside from the $700 billion bailout, there's the $600 million wasted on government sponsored construction contracts in Iraq just to name a few. This new technology I admit is far fetched. But there is a growing body of scientific evidence to back it up. All new things that are ground breaking and revolutionary are said to be ridiculous and impossible at their inception then years later it is accepted as common place. There is more to life than what we see on the surface. In the 21st century its time we opened our eyes to new frontiers. Disclaimer: I am a Wall Street investor and I also practice TM. www.doctorsonTM.org