Daily Telegraph Thursday, April 8, 1999

Yogic flyers 'are cheap way to stop the war'

By Hugo Gurdon In Washington

THE Natural Law Party's presidential candidate has suggested that President Clinton should send 7,000 yogic flyers to the Balkans to stop the war with brain waves.

John Hagelin, a quantum physicist and scholar of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a tract written 3,000 years ago, said: "For the cost of a tail fin on the stealth fighter, the war could be stopped instantly." He has written to Mr Clinton, Vice-President Al Gore and Sandy Berger, the National Security Adviser, urging them to consider the possibility that hordes of transcendental meditators flipping about cross-legged in selected Balkan hotel rooms would provide the "exit strategy" everyone is looking for.

Mr Hagelin organised a mass yogic flying session in Washington in and claims it was responsible for a 25 per cent reduction in local violent crime. Strategically sited in Bosnia and Albania for a month or two, with America paying their bills, he says the flyers could calm the region. He has not yet heard back from the President.

Hagelin's four point plan for Kosovo


What leading scientists have said about the effectiveness of the Yogic Flying programme
Appeal to people of Wessex to support proposals
Meditation Course for NATO troops - Reuters report - April 99