Maharishi on Wall Street

Maria Aspen writes today in the THE NEW YORK TIMES about Maharishi's new financial organisation on Wall Street:

In March, Maharishi’s Global Financial Capital of New York quietly opened a headquarters at 70 Broad Street, close to the New York Stock Exchange. The organization had purchased the five-story, 20,000-square-foot building in May 2004 from Goldman Properties for $5.5 million.

The group was drawn to the building, the former home of the American Bank Note Company and its first Manhattan property, for reasons both spiritual and practical.

“It’s one of the very few buildings in all of New York City that’s oriented due east,” said Paul Potter, the director of Global Financial Capital, referring to the Maharishi’s principles of “Vedic architecture” that hold that east-facing buildings are spiritually healthy.

But, Mr. Potter added, the other incentive was the financial district location and access to the world’s moneymakers.

“We’ve been offering our programs for 50 years,” he said, “and now is the time that we want to create financial support for these programs. We want to offer a chance for the investment bankers to steer the finances of the world in this positive direction.”

Learn more on the seven programs of the Global Financial Capital of New York on the following web site: www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org