A Natural View Of Health Government
The Age
Thursday February 25, 1993
The leaders of the Natural Law Party sound more like committed priests than committed politicians.
They claim to be committed scientists _ scientists in the sense that their policies, they say, are ``scientifically proven".
The leader, Dr Bevan Morris, is described variously as the prime minister of the forthcoming Natural Law Party government and the ``greatest genius of Australia".
Launching their federal campaign, the party that began just before the October state election says it is already the third-largest party in terms of membership. It claims 4000 members in Victoria.
Last week, it announced that it would contest more than 100 of the 147 electorates and field Senate candidates in each state. It expects to win at least one Senate seat.
Its promises are breathtaking: virtually eliminating unemployment; eschewing party rivalry; slashing taxes by eliminating national problems such as crime and bad health; making Australia pollution- free; removing poisons from agriculture; and eliminating stress to free people's creativity to allow them to create wealth.
In the words of Dr Morris, the party aspires to a ``perfect government". His doctorate in ``creative intelligence" is from the Maharishi European University in Switzerland. He is also president of the Maharishi International University in Iowa, USA, and chairman of its trustees.
The key to achieving the perfect government seems to be transcendental meditation, a practice shared by many party members.
Dr Morris's view is that our social ills are principally symptoms of a civilisation not living in harmony with natural law.
Natural law is the scientific, mathematical and physical laws that govern all things from DNA development to the use of the human brain and the universe.
Mass transcendental meditation is a principal way to redress the imbalance of natural law. Dr Morris says it is a scientifically proven method. He says there has been a successful effort by about 500 people to reduce the crime rate in Liverpool by meditating and creating positive energy.
A Natural Law government would break down party rivalry, which transgresses the harmony of natural law.
The best brains from any party or group would be recruited to solve problems of health, unemployment and the trade defecit.
Health problems would be fought by natural and Western medicines, but the emphasis would be on preventive strategies: stopping pollution, eliminating chemicals from food, reducing stress, stopping people smoking.
The crime rate, too, would benefit. By educating people to be healthy and develop their full creativity and intelligence in accordance with natural law, ``the very cause of crime" can be eliminated, the party's policy says.
© 1993 The Age
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