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Canadian Council of Learning
University of Victoria |
Invincibility to Canada through beautiful British Columbia
From Victoria, the capital of British Columbia on the West Coast of Canada, we have beautiful news that affects not only the country, but also the world. Students and educators in this area have become very interested in Maharishi’s Consciousness-Based Education which brings enlightenment to the individual, and peace and invincibility to the nation. Dr Guy-Paul Gagne, Minister of Health of the Canada Peace Government; and Dr Ashley Deans, Director of the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Fairfield, Iowa visited Victoria last month to give presentations to students, educators, and a national organization that funds innovative learning programmes. On 17 January, Dr Deans and Dr Gagne spoke to the students and faculty of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific. The college is named after one of Canada’s most respected Prime Ministers. In 1957, PM Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in averting a war with the Suez Crisis. The college that bears his name is one of 12 United World Colleges located on 5 continents. The stated mission of these schools is ‘to make education a force to unite people, nations, and cultures for peace and a sustainable future’. Lester B. Pearson College accepts 200 students each year, based solely on their merit and potential. The college is located in a beautiful and remote forested area in a secluded bay on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. If there was ever a college ripe for the introduction of Maharishi’s Consciousness-Based Education, Lester B. Pearson College is the one. The director of the college, Mr David Hawley had met with Dr Clarence Cormier, Minister of Education for the Canada Peace Government, as well as with Dr Deans and Dr Gagne, three months earlier. He was enthusiastic about the possibility of marking 2007, the 50th anniversary of Lester B. Pearson’s Nobel Peace Prize, with the implementation of Maharishi’s programmes for bringing Invincibility to Canada and establishing permanent world peace. The presentation to the students and faculty of the college began at 3 PM and was slated to last 2 hours. But after the initial presentation, there was such a flurry of questions from the students, that Dr Deans and Dr Gagne were invited to join the students and faculty for dinner. The lively conversation continued until 9 PM. Based on this tremendous response to the presentation there is great hope that Lester B. Pearson College will soon become an Invincibility School, radiating peace and harmony not only to British Columbia and Canada, but also acting as a beacon for the eleven additional United World Colleges around the globe to follow its lead. The day after the presentation to Lester B. Pearson College, Dr Deans and Dr Gagne gave two more presentations. The first was to the directors of the Canadian Council of Learning, a national non-profit corporation whose mission is ‘to improve life-long learning across the country’. The council has five key areas on which it focuses its resources, and the directors in Victoria were specifically concerned with the role of health in learning. Just as it had the day before, the presentation prompted such lively discussion that the meeting lasted 4 hours. At the end of the meeting, the directors expressed an interest in conducting a research programme in conjunction with an Invincibility School, as a first step to introduce Consciousness-Based Education to schools across the country. The next presentation was given at the University of Victoria, which has an enrolment of 20,000 students. The university had recently formed a chapter of the Students International Meditation Society (SIMS), which sponsored the presentation entitled, ‘World Peace is in Your Hands’. Once again, Dr Deans and Dr Gagne received a very enthusiastic response from the audience, and about half of the students signed up to join the university’s SIMS club. Now, they are raising funds so that more students can be instructed in Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programmes, including Yogic Flying.
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