Followers of the Maharishi are building a peace palace in Parma

By Pete Kotz on Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:43 am

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Followers of this recently deceased hippie are building a peace palace in Parma. City officials hope that they'll have really good weed.

Two weeks ago, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the man who taught yoga to the Beatles and brought transcendental meditation to the masses, died at his home in the Netherlands. Before his death, the Maharishi claimed that he alone held the secrets of the world. But if one percent of the world would start practicing yoga, then the universe would experience peace and tranquility. But as he got older and realized that one percent of the world wouldn’t become his followers, he decided to lower the bar a bit. If “the square root of one percent” became adherents, then there’d be world peace…