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Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology Foundation

Dr. Tony Nader Institute for Research on Consciousness at MIU

Raja Howard Settle


Update for Founders of World Peace

January 29, 2026

Dear ,

With the achievement of the first 10,000 Super-Radiance group in Hyderabad, some have been asking: Where is the good news? The answer is: What you are witnessing in recent days and months is what the Phase Transition looks like. When the last vestiges of an old paradigm are in direct opposition to the beginning of a new paradigm, significant confusion and chaos can occur. Maharishi gave us guidance for this predicted transformation. It’s essential not to despair but rather to understand that this is the moment we’ve been waiting for, even if it doesn’t look or feel like what we might have imagined. Here, again, is Maharishi’s instruction—it’s worth reading and re-reading:

"It’s a big, huge phase transition. In that, OUR responsibility is to not feel shaken because on the surface the whole transition is so violent. It’s so violent. 

    Two things are happening. In order to stabilize order, the disorder is being shaken with great turmoil, with great dynamism. And that will remain under control as long as we, who are the basis to bring about this whole enormous change on the surface, will remain on the level of para [the Transcendent]. We have to be really PARA. 'Para' means 'unreachable by all', by anything that is maybe on the surface. 

     We have to be completely unreachable by the surface turmoil, maintain our para level of awareness and then in that integrated state, all this fast-moving transformation and change from chaos to order will pass away in a very steady manner. So we have to be very, very, very, very steady.

     So we have to be careful. So this morning, when I called you, this was the thought. At this time, we have to be a little alert and not get upset for little or any big reason anywhere, anywhere. It’s very, very necessary because in our getting upset, this shaking that is to establish the order in evolution, that will lose its basis. The result will be: it’ll take a long time. It’ll come around—only it will take a long time—long shaking, long shaking. But we just hold onto our enormous dignity of an elephant just like that, like that--nothing matters, like an ocean, just like an ocean in ourselves. 

    And that should be without trying because this has been our profession. We are used to it. Only at this time we are alerting ourselves to be a little cautious that we are in our own state, we’re always in steady, self-referral consciousness. Nothing happens. We don’t give importance to things that may upset us. Just don’t give importance to it. That's the technique. Just don’t give importance to it.” 

Maharishi warned us that the big, huge phase transition:

• Would be violent
• That we should remain on the level of Para (Transcendent)
• That we should be very, very, very, very, steady
• That we should not get upset for any little or any big reason, and
• That we don’t give importance to things that may upset us
• That’s the technique. Just don’t give importance to it

 
During this phase transition thousands of years of deep-seated stress must come to the surface and mountains of Karma must be resolved in order to clear the path for the Age of Enlightenment. How this will unfold and how long it will take is unknown, but Maharishi was clear that the collective consciousness will govern the duration and severity.

This is why the Founders of World Peace and the Global Super Radiance Project are so critically important.

Maharishi stated without equivocation that an elevated world consciousness is the only way and he provided us the most efficient technology to create this worldwide effect. It is our great good fortune to have the honor to implement this world-saving technology to change the destiny of man.

Given the obvious potential for explosive events throughout the world, we're working to expand and consolidate as many groups as possible as quickly as possible. The announcement of our first permanent group of 10,000 cannot be confused as “Mission Accomplished.” At best this announcement can only be considered as a good beginning. Maharishi on many occasions emphasized the need for a safety factor. Our collective mission as Founders of World Peace is to continue the expansion of the groups until we observe without doubt the full sunshine of the New Age. 

OUR URGENT PRIORITY is to continue providing financial support for the TM teachers and TM Sidhi administrators, for the foam for thousands of Sidhas, and for large halls for group Super-Radiance programs.

In the words of David Lynch, who was also a Founder of World Peace: “We all know if we don’t do this the world is in big trouble. As Maharishi said, this is the program that brings peace—nothing else will do it!”

The importance of this endeavor is best expressed by Maharishi:

“ . . . I do want to emphasize the need for group program very much, because the situation in the world is such that it needs urgent purification of the whole atmosphere . . . Nobody may remind you of the importance of group meditation . . . It is enough that I have brought this to your attention once in a lifetime. Follow it through your life. You will be doing such a great service to the whole world which cannot be rendered in any other way. This knowledge alone will save the world. If you knew how important it was you would do nothing else.”

I will be sending each Founder of World Peace an outreach letter that you can read and share with your friends to inspire the financial support for our five additional groups so necessary to keep the phase transition as comfortable as we all want it to be. Steady ahead!  If we persevere and use our collective will to implement Maharishi’s Super-Radiance technologies then, as Maharishi stated:

“A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will belong to every man, love will dominate human society, truth and virtue will reign in the world, peace on earth will be permanent and all will live in fulfillment."

Together, it’s our great good fortune and honor to implement Maharishi’s world-saving technology that will change the destiny of humanity.

With deepest appreciation for your continued dedication to this great endeavor,

Jai Guru Dev,

Howard

Raja Howard Settle

Raja of Global Super Radiance

www.foundersofworldpeace.org

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