The Settles are exemplary in their incorporation of Maharishi's technologies in their professional activities and personal lives.

Howard and Alice Settle receive
honorary Doctorates
by Maharishi University of Management, Iowa, USA, Good News email
7 July 2008

The mood was festive at Commencement 2008, with the largest graduating class in 20 years receiving their degrees: 243 students from 34 countries. There were 188 graduate students and 55 undergrads. The youngest was 20 and the most senior graduate was 88 years old.

A highlight of the event was the awarding of honorary Doctorates of World Peace to Howard and Alice Settle, who have committed to donate $1 million per month to fund a permanent peace-creating group for an Invincible America in the Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City community. The Settles are also supporting groups of Vedic Pandits in India. They are also exemplary in their incorporation of Maharishi's technologies in their professional activities and personal lives.

Dr. Settle is President and Chief Executive Officer of RAAM Global Energy Company and has interests in oil production and exploration in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. He has constructed two Maharishi Peace Palaces in Kentucky and Texas where his corporate offices are housed.

He learned the Transcendental Meditation program in 1972 and, with Alice, enrolled in the first TM-Sidhi program course offered at their local center. They studied with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 2002 in The Netherlands where they participated in two Enlightenment Conferences.

Dr. Alice (Mickey) Settle currently works part time at RAAM Global Energy Company and is Vice President and Treasurer of the Howard and Alice Settle Foundation for an Invincible America. She enjoyed a 30-year career as an English teacher and speech team coach and also achieved success as a musician, touring the nation with several bands as a vocalist.

Dr. Howard Settle presented an inspiring Commencement address, telling the graduates that they are the "most fortunate graduating class in the history of the world."

They are fortunate, he said, because they've received the knowledge of the Transcendental Meditation technique, which allows them to manage eternal silence — their own simplest state of awareness — as well as the knowledge of other technologies that help them manage the full range of creation, including the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health, Maharishi Vedic Architecture, Maharishi Jyotish, and Maharishi Yagya. And in addition, they are graduating at a time when they enjoy the worldwide influence of the Invincible America Assembly, allowing them to begin their careers propelled by an extraordinary wave of coherence.

He then gave the students some parting advice: be really good at your chosen field, persevere, avoid the two most dangerous words in English — "I can't" — and instead ask, "How can I?" Also, he said, "Think big thoughts and have big dreams. And most important, use all of the programs that Maharishi has offered."

He ended by telling the graduates that peace and prosperity for all mankind, invincibility for every nation, and Heaven on Earth are within their grasp.

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