Ground Breaking Ceremony October 1, 1979
Dr. Robert Keith Wallace, Dr. Lawrence Domash
& Dr. Bevan Morris, Presidents of MIU
Ground Breaking Ceremony October 1, 1979
Dr. Robert Keith Wallace, Dr. Lawrence Domash
& Dr. Bevan Morris, Presidents of MIU
Dr.
Lawrence Domash"Speaking on behalf of Maharishi International University, we feel just overwhelmed with blessedness that somehow this opportunity, because that's really what this represents. It is an opportunity for further research into a field that just no one else has even known about. And Maharishi and his beautiful ancient tradition have kept alive that little spark of infinity, of pure knowledge, of the embodiment of pure knowledge. And now we have it opening to us day by day. And our lives will never be the same. And mankind will never again be able to fall into incoherence.
This great symbol of coherence, and the great and very real mechanics of coherence that we will generate from here, will fully establish and perpetuate the Age of Enlightenment for all mankind for all time to come. It's today that we mark this completion, based on the very great dedication and devotion and single mindedness and energy and liveliness and intelligence of all of those who put their heart and minds and hands to build it here. Because they're all the pioneers of the Age of Enlightenment. And we all are the pioneers of the Age of Enlightenment who have that great fortune and that great intuition that has placed us here in the very center of our own life, in the center of life, in the very center of creation, in the very center of the universe, in the very center of world history."
Dr.
Bevan Morris
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"Pure knowledge, the Absolute knowing itself has infinite organizing power. From the very beginning of our construction project, the infinite power of pure knowledge organized nature to allow us to raise our Golden Dome in the winter season when no one said it could be done. On five occasions in the depths of winter the temperature rose 40 to 50 degrees in a day when we needed warmth to pour and dry the cement. The cement dried in one day on each occasion. "
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"On January 10th 22,000 square feet to floor was poured. The previous day, January 9th, the temperature was 5 degrees Fahrenheit. At 11:00 PM on January 10th it was 52 ° F and crystal clear. The weather bureau had predicted snow and temperatures in the 20s. "It was a strange thing", they said. Only 15 miles away it was more than 20° colder. And only 150 miles away, the worst blizzard of the year was raging. The last time that the first snow came as late as January 6th here in Fairfield was 1880, one hundred years ago. The infinite creativity of nature gave us all we needed and more to raise in Iowa a Golden Dome to be a concrete foundation of pure knowledge to the whole world."
"It is truly a great honor and great fulfillment to have been the instrument of the knowledge that has flown through us all building this dome, Golden Dome. Because it seems that every step of the way from, it seems that was exactly three months ago that we began to build this Dome. Every step of the way, from the workers who were on the scaffolding and digging the earth about, they all have shared in the experience, that it wasn't them building it. That it wasn't only the Maharishi's attention and energy that they felt building it. They also felt the flow of knowledge coming from Guru Dev who we felt to be the great architect of the whole Dome."
Golden Dome Inauguration
12 January 1980
Inaugural Ceremony
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"Early in the morning before I went to work the construction crew meditated here starting about 6:00 o' clock and for those of you who don't have that experience yet, meditating and doing your program in this Dome, it will be a really a great joy. Because it is a complete feeling of being at home, at home on every level, because you can feel within every part of this building, all reinforcing us in the concrete all the little rocks in the concrete, all the nails and the wood were put in by sidhas, by enlightened individuals and it was all the whole focus of all individuals was on one thing and that was to construct this building for enlightenment."
Golden Dome Inauguration
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"Jai Guru Dev. I got here about two months ago, and I am a little nervous. I haven't seen this many people around in a while.
I couldn't believe that we got done by the 12th. It was amazing. The crew I am totally astounded with. I am a professional at this. so I go through a lot people during the summers where I worked. These guys stuck it out like…real construction workers. I should say saints of the construction Veda. It is really amazing to work all day, just for instance we started pouring concrete that day at 9:30am in the morning and at 12:30 that night our last truck was backing in and everybody still was going strong, and the comraderie between us all was just amazing.
And then, we had to finish the concrete and from 12:00 until 5:30 in the morning we sat here on our knees trowelling the concrete and the carpenters were finishing the doors and I walked up to one person. They were finishing the door right over there. Hey you guys know what time it is? And they said no. Do you want to know? And they go no. It is 3:30 in the morning and we have a couple of more hours work left. We had to punch out on the time clock. It was really amazing working with MIU students that run work-study the last couple of weeks. They really helped this out. They are the ones who really were ace in the hole to get a lot of things done so I want to really thank them. Just one more thing I hope everybody starts floating real soon in our Golden Dome. Jai Guru Dev."
Henry
Ogden ClarkGolden Dome Inauguration
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"It took 108 days to build this Dome.
It is funny how it seems to work out like that. About 108 days ago, we decided to build two domes instead of one and decided what size they were, and every one told us that this normally would take at least two and half years to construct. Maybe six months to decide what dome company to find, eight months to do the drawings, and about a year and half worth of construction. So, about 95 days ago we went shopping for domes. We had done some before, and we found the dome company we liked. We went out, talked to them for about three hours, reviewed their structural analysis techniques, and told them we wanted to buy two domes, and we wanted them delivered in two months. And we would have all the foundations and all the columns ready for them to erect their dome. When we left, the structural engineer and president of the company sat in their office and laughed for two hours. And that is the truth.
It is about 93 days ago in an October 11th we had a contract and in October 12th, George Todt got me my first pencil. It was less than 90 days ago the first back hoe arrived. It is amazingly enough and it wasn't until November 3rd that we started our structured engineering. We found a Governor was structural engineering in Hawaii and that seems to be close for us since we started the structural calculation in November 3rd and we started pouring concrete in November 9th which is only 64 days ago, about two months. And we poured concrete until December 14th and we poured our last part of the exterior basement of the wall. And then, December 13th we started setting the ceiling beams for the basement which is the final structured members to go in.
About December 13th the structure started to arrive that was less than a month ago. The Dome started to arrive, the pieces of the Dome. Meanwhile, the Dome Company told us that even fabricate two Domes like these it will take several months. But amazingly enough the Dome started to arrive in less than a month ago. The 19th of December we started to set these columns up and put the tension rings on. We had a supervisor here from the company who had 20 years of experience in building Domes and it took him five days to get these pieces of steel on the tension rings which you see underneath of these apron rings. And then, he went home for Christmas and in nine days we put up the beams and put all the rest of the Dome up. Normally it takes about two weeks to put up the beams And another six weeks to put the roof on. So we did two months work in nine days."
Maharishi
Inaugurates December 30, 1979 3:00pm
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"All the Ministers of the world of the Government of the Age of Enlightenment now you have got this beautiful place to fly high and take the influence of coherence very high in the atmosphere. So that from the center of pure knowledge in this most creative country of the world radiates coherence and harmony to purify the whole world consciousness. It is very fortunate the progress this University has made in evolving the package of pure knowledge year after year and now its physically expression of success we have this Golden Dome to fly high. It is very good. "
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"I deeply appreciate the structure of this beautiful Dome raised by Governors of the Age of Enlightenment with great love and dedication and the fruits of this tree that they have been planting day and night I have seen these three days. All the hard and devoted labor will bear great, great fruits for the whole mankind to purify world consciousness. "
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"It is a very beautiful situation that the structure of pure knowledge in MIU will be creating from this Dome. Thousands of Governors of the Age of Enlightenment flying together will radiate such a powerful influence of harmony and coherence that it will purify the whole world consciousness. And we'll hear the purify influence all the world over. We'll hear in this city of Fairfield. And I congratulate the citizens of Fairfield, that they have successfully cooperated in this beautiful platform of worldwide coherence to come up these corn fields of Fairfield. "
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"And we must feel obligated to whosoever is controlling the weather (laughter). And this is what the collective desire of the Governors of the Age of Enlightenment creates -- support from nature. A very beautiful demonstration of the spontaneous support from Nature for what the Governors of the Age of Enlightenment desire to do.
Those in that Field House, the flying field house, have also contributed a great deal to the success of this Dome."
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"And this is the first dome, which will create a very powerful influence of coherence in the world consciousness. We'll continue to purify world consciousness, day after day, and week after week, and month after month, and year after year, generation after generation. It is going to prove blessing for the whole mankind. And this will be the pride of Fairfield. Good. You will soon start flying here. Jai Guru Dev"
Leonard A. Goldman, J.D.
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"When the evaluation team of the Accreditation board came to MIU to visit. And they saw the Dome construction they asked us when are we going to complete it. We told them January 12th. They told us that it was impossible. They were administrators of colleges and universities around the country and they had much experience in construction and yet here we are in the impossible. And that came about as we know the through the foundation and organizing power of pure knowledge, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness works through all of us. And there were hounded of people who cooperating in every level and making this impossible thing possible. They are individuals contributed their time, their money, and most importantly there are individuals who literally worked day and night in constructing the Golden Dome, please stand so we may express our appreciation."
Our deepest appreciation and gratitude to his holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who inspired the building of the first Golden Dome of the Age of Enlightenment and to all of those who have worked so joyfully and tirelessly to complete this project.