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World Peace by 2015

category international | miscellaneous | press release author Tuesday July 17, 2007 12:07author by Frank Muldowney - Believing in Harveyauthor email fmuldowney at yahoo dot comauthor address noneauthor phone 0061407435196

Irishman Mr Frank Muldowney believes we will have world peace in 8 years, speaking on behalf for ‘Harvey’ the imaginary peace maker.

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World Peace by 2015 – according to Harvey?

Irishman Mr Frank Muldowney believes we will have world peace in 8 years, speaking on behalf for ‘Harvey’ the imaginary peace maker.

Mr. Muldowney’s story is miraculous. At 19 years old, he suffered a brain haemorrhage, reported with intensive brain damage after 8 hours of brain surgery. He lived in his own world for close to a year unable to speak or comprehend correctly, but he believed it was temporary, just like medical knowledge.

While improving his reading, Mr. Muldowney read a quote from Albert Einstein that confirmed his own belief of the power of the human mind – “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the entire world”

Mr. Muldowney then applied the philosophical strength of that quotation to his own recovery. Despite having no prior medical knowledge, he decided to ignore medical diagnosis and treatment and took charge of his own health, through physical training, travelling, walking and thinking of the future rather to the past. To 2003 Mr. Muldowney still suffers from epilepsy, visual, speech and comprehension problems, but rarely can anyone find anything wrong with him. Mr. Muldowney knew he must continue his journey by believing in his own self healing.

From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Muldowney completed 16 long distant walks for charity in several countries to improve himself and learn from the wisdom of others. These walks are pilgrimages where Mr. Muldowney learned that peace spreads from these walks. He then knew his journey of self healing can also work side by side with peace from one person to another. It came to be his belief that world peace will come from these historical paths.

The practice of being an advocate for world peace has accelerated vast improvements in Mr. Muldowney’s speech, comprehension and thinking skills over the last 2 years. In 2006 he used the same Einstein-inspired approach when he embarked on his 6,000km walk for peace across Australia carrying ‘Harvey’ the imaginary peace maker, the catalyst who can join peoples dream for peace together.

“The truly important things of life are invisible, love, respect and morality, just like Harvey. When I talk about Harvey to people, you can feel the presence of peace, mentioning Mother Theresa, Gandhi or Martin Luther King. The dream for peace is in everyone’s heart, that dream cannot die, herein Harvey, and for once we all have something in common, of all races and creeds, we all want the same desire for peace, and be free”

“The wheelchair is a symbol for a world disabled by fear, racism and injustice,” said Mr. Muldowney.

Mr. Muldowney has now a simple but effective solution to end fear and war. When he walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain and the trail to Macchu Piccu in Peru, he felt the power of peace, that violence has no place on these pilgrimages. He now aims to ask the councils, citizens and governments to acknowledge this walk for peace as an official pilgrimage and promote it as part of history of this country. If all the peace walkers across the world could be united to ask for the same request, this will replace areas of violence into pilgrimages of peace, and rid the world of the ignorance or hate and war.

Mr. Muldowney also saw the impact of tourism on these pilgrimages, for example, over 20,000 pilgrims walk across Spain each year, and that wave of peace spreads from nation to nation. Mr. Muldowney feels confident this idea of creating pilgrimages of peace is the path to world peace.

Symbols of tyranny, dictators and power encourages fear and war, but it never lasts, it is time to create symbols of peace, which will empower the people to participate in creating a peaceful future. Peace is the first thought, while thoughts of fear and war will become part of history.

“Living one’s own dream, one’s own imagination, being prepared to work hard for it, is the way to happiness, and happiness is the way to peace” Frank Muldowney

For full details - www.believinginharvey.com
Mr Frank Muldowney’s email - fmuldowney@yahoo.com

Related Link: http://www.believinginharvey.com


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