--- In [email protected], "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yogi's group chooses 3 Cuyahoga sites for 'Peace Palaces' > > Friday, November 17, 2006 > Joan Mazzolini, Plain Dealer Reporter > > The movement founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi plans to build what it > calls Peace Palaces in Parma, Strongsville and Mayfield Heights, hoping > to further its goal of world peace by "unifying all nations in > happiness, prosperity, invincibility and perfect health." > > The group, Global Country of World Peace, plans 3,000 such peace palaces > worldwide but chooses sites carefully, based on "harmony with Natural > Law." The sites can't be near graveyards or high-tension electric lines. > They can't be on hills that block the sunrise. > > The nearly identical 12,000-square-foot palaces became fodder on > Thursday for an unusual discussion by Cuyahoga County commissioners, > whose approval was needed for the group to get a loan. > > The group wants to borrow $51 million to build peace palaces, through > the sale of bonds by the Colorado Health Facilities Authority. > > Cuyahoga County is not responsible for the tax-exempt financing. Global > Country of World Peace has already bought four to five acres each in > Parma and Mayfield Heights and is arranging for a site in Strongsville. > > The group is headquartered in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, which was > incorporated in 2001 and is near Maharishi University of Management in > Fairfield, Iowa. > > Both the town and school were developed as centers for transcendental > meditation, which gained renown when the Beatles became students of the > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. > > The peace palaces are expected to cost $13 million. > > The rest of the $51 million might be used to build palaces elsewhere. In > an advertisement about the bond sale, the group mentioned 13 other > locations, including Arlington, Texas, and St. Paul, Minn., according to > bond attorney Susan Price of Peck, Shaffer & Williams in Columbus. > > It's not clear how many of the palaces have opened. > > Fifteen people likely would work at each of the centers, which would > focus on helping people with chronic disorders and stress relief. > > "The natural health facilities will offer a broad range of 52 programs," > Richard Quinn, Global Country representative, said. > > Transcendental meditation and other programs would be available, as > would day spa activities. Quinn told the commissioners, who had numerous > questions, that the group isn't a religion and follows ayurveda, an > ancient Indian healing system. > > The group bought land on Huffman Road in Parma earlier this year for > $1.025 million, according the Cuyahoga County Auditor's Web site. It > also bought land on Lander Road in Mayfield Heights for $1.3 million. > > No Strongsville property is listed. Price said she did not know if the > sale there had been completed. > > © 2006 The Plain Dealer © 2006 cleveland.com All Rights > Reserved. > > > source: Cleveland Plain Dealer > > http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/11637\ \ > 56854188080.xml&coll=2 > <http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1163\ \ > 756854188080.xml&coll=2>
Amazing. Can't teach TM? No problem, just buy land, issue bonds. Call it a spa.
