Quantum Physics Fights Terrorism in a Vedic Way by Dr. John Hagelin

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20-May-2002

Administration Open to Hagelin's Out of the Box Terrorism Thinking

 

Renowned quantum physicist John Hagelin was the Natural Law Party candidate for

the presidency in 2000. He has taken a fascinating and innovative peace proposal

to congress and the White House, and reports open-minded interest from the

administration.

 

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IN THE US GOVERNMENT? Dr. John Hagelin

 

John Hagelin is a world authority in unified quantum field theories. His

articles on electroweak unification, grand unification, supersymmetry, and

cosmology include some of the most cited references in the physical sciences.

 

I am John Hagelin, and I am the director of Maharishi University of Management's

Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy. I am calling to report on

what I think is some quite surprising progress, I think, here in the capital

city of Washington, DC, in our efforts to find support - both public support and

private support - for our critical program to bring peace to the world, to

defuse the acute ethnic and religious and political tensions that are fueling

terrorism and threatening to spread this conflict further to different

countries.

 

The U.S. is contemplating where to take the war next. It's these sorts of

tensions, fueling our response to terrorism and fueling terrorism itself, that

we can defuse and undercut easily through the approach of reducing societal

stress and tension and creating indomitable coherence and unity in the

collective consciousness in the world.

 

I have had the great honor and really wonderful joy of presenting this practical

- certainly innovative, but practical - scientifically- proven proposal, this

very cost-effective proposal, to take the pressure off our nation's defenses

against terrorism and global defenses against terrorism, and to diffuse the

ethnic conflicts and social conflicts that have really plagued humankind for

generations.

 

I was dispatched to Washington, DC, to see whether the U.S. government would be

responsive to an entirely different approach to safeguarding our country against

terrorism. And I have found during the course of this month, in meeting after

meeting with the top levels of government - the White House, the National

Security Council, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Army,

the House, the Senate - I have found an absolutely unprecedented response that I

certainly would not have expected based upon the years I have spent in

Washington, DC, promoting innovative solutions.

 

People recognize here that our nation's defenses against terrorism, and the

world's defenses, are remarkably porous. Nothing, for example, that has ever

been conceived - including the hundred-billion-dollar missile defense shield -

would have provided any security, any safety, against the attacks of September

11, or against the anthrax threat that has come since.

 

So our defenses against terrorism are absolutely porous. And the government is

expending, as you know, tens of billions of dollars in this global effort to

stamp out terrorism, and doing it in a way that is at best very inefficient.

 

In talking in the White House, for example, when I was invited back for a

further presentation recently, I asked the Special Assistant to the President

for Homeland Defense, "Even if we succeed in martyring bin Laden, will that

really prevent new people, new recruits, from taking up this fanatical cause?"

 

And he said that he did not believe that it would. Nobody I talked to thought

that martyring bin Laden was going to put a stop to, or even decrease, the

number of people who were swept up in this conflagration, this disease of

terrorism.

 

So our defenses are thin, and the approach is wanting. And I have never seen the

government, frankly, so humble, or so open to innovative solutions.

 

The Defense Department has published a public call to Hollywood and to the

general public for ideas on how we can outsmart and somehow defend ourselves

against terrorism. But ideas that are practical and effective and scientifically

proven have not been forthcoming.

 

Our effort, even though it is certainly "outside the box" of what has been

considered in the past, is the only approach that has really been backed by

scientific research. And it has received a tremendous audience and tremendous

response.

 

Following my presidential candidacy, I founded the Institute of Science,

Technology and Public Policy to put forth forward-looking, scientifically

proven, prevention-oriented solutions in harmony with Natural Law.

 

Since then, we have been working with the government. One idea we have put

forth, for example, is to support preventive medicine. Preventive medicine is

verifiably cost effective. It is an idea which, you would think, is simply

common sense. It is undeniably effective. Nevertheless, the idea once enraged

certain Congressmen - members of the Republican Party and the House, for

example.

 

So times have changed, for what we are finding now is absolutely, completely

different.

 

And what we are presenting, certainly, is far more avant garde, far more cutting

edge, than preventive medicine. Because really, the approach we are talking

about is a technology of consciousness - harnessing, accessing, stimulating, and

applying - for the first time in history - the most powerful field of Natural

Law, the Unified Field.

 

We are talking about harnessing this Unified Field that is at the foundation of

the universe, and using it to generate indomitable waves of unity and

positivity, spreading that influence into the collective consciousness of the

world.

 

We propose doing this through a group of professionals - 40,000 experts created

and cost-effectively sustained in India, thousands of miles from the United

States.

 

This is the proposal, scientifically founded, but certainly far beyond the realm

of what has been considered in the context of our defense and foreign ministry

before. This is the policy - 40,000 experts, stimulating and enlivening unity in

the collective consciousness of the world, defusing acute social, religious,

ethnic, and political tensions.

 

We have made this proposal based upon fifty previous studies that have appeared

in the world's top scientific journals.

 

And this is the proposal that has been met with such remarkable response!

 

Starting from Ground Zero

 

So, for example, we have spoken to members of Congress. And typically, our

proposal has had enough merit on the surface that we have gotten through the

appointment secretaries and scheduled the appointments. But generally speaking,

by the time we sit down across from them, the congressmen, the senators, have

not really had an opportunity to be briefed on the nature of the solution we are

proposing. And that means we are usually starting from ground zero.

 

By "we," I am referring to others who have helped. For example, sometimes I have

had the good fortune to bring with me in these meetings Dr. Peter Salk, son of

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk vaccine. Also, Dr. Jonas Salk himself has

helped, and Dr. David Edwards, a very esteemed professor of political science at

the University of Texas in Austin who has written ten textbooks on the subject

of politics, foreign policy, and conflict mediation. Also there are a large

number of non-meditating scientists who in the past have been in a position to

review our research for publication and who have conducted research in the

context of our Washington, DC, crime reduction study and other studies.

 

These experts who come to the meetings with me represent a large and growing

number of scientists who will absolutely attest to the scientific reality and

the effectiveness of the approach that we are promoting.

 

A Preventive Approach

 

So, armed in many cases with this very powerful, credentialed scientific team,

we go into offices of senators and congressmen. We are starting at ground zero,

sitting across from an often surprised and even stunned member of Congress, who

may sit poker-faced for five or ten minutes.

 

And then, gradually, we see him visibly soften as he is exposed to the logic -

the very simple and compelling logic - that Maharishi himself, in conversations

I have had with him, has suggested is so common sense and undeniable.

 

For example, crime and violence have been with us in every generation. And yet

in every generation there has been a penal code, meting out punishments in

response to crime. So this approach has been ineffective, and violence has

persisted, generation after generation. What we need, and what everybody

recognizes that we need today, is an effective preventive approach. Because the

punishment of crime is not preventive. It punishes people once the crimes have

been committed. And obviously the penal code's small component of deterrence is

not enough.

 

And punishment is of course absolutely meaningless when it comes to suicide

bombers who are ready to give their lives in order to claim the lives of others.

What possible use could the threat of punishment be to perpetrators of these

desperate fanatical acts of terrorism? Obviously, none.

 

Something that is truly preventive in nature is obviously what is needed. So

that logic is extremely compelling. And it's compelling to remind the members of

Congress that they actually have nothing new to offer this new situation. That

the mightiest countries in the world, with their $300 billion defense budgets,

have absolutely no capability of defending ourselves effectively against this.

 

Quantum Physics and Societal Coherence: A Recent Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery

 

Recent scientific discoveries are with us. The Nobel Prize that was awarded

three weeks ago now for physics is a direct experimental confirmation of the

principles of societal coherence that we are implementing in our collective

meditation approach.

 

For those who haven't been following the science news, I'll quickly remind you

of what this Nobel prize-winning discovery was. It's quite remarkable and

directly applicable. It demonstrates the exact principles of collective

consciousness that we are applying in our proposals to prevent violence and

terrorism.

 

The Nobel Prize was awarded to a very, very remarkable experiment confirming

something that Einstein and the Indian physicist Bose predicted back in the

1920s.

 

And today's scientists did was to take atoms - rubidium atoms - and slow them

down using sophisticated laser techniques.

 

Simply by slowing the atom downs, the quantum mechanical nature of the atom

began to become more and more evident, because the wave function of the atom

began to spread.

 

These wave functions are ordinarily so small that the atoms appear effectively

to be particulate in nature. But when the particles are slowed down - as the

momentum goes toward zero - the wave function goes toward infinity. Practically

speaking, the wave function reaches a few millimeters in size, which is large

for an atom. And when that happens, you begin to see that these are not atoms at

all. These are just waves of some purely abstract "field of rubidiumness."

 

That's all an atom is. A rubidium atom is just a wave in an abstract ocean of

existence - in this case, a "field of rubidiumness."

 

So when these rubidium wave functions become so big, you start to see these

so-called particles bending around corners and behaving like waves - refracting,

defracting, interfering with each other.

 

And when the waves get so big that they start to overlap one another, then

something even more remarkable happens. The wave functions lose their individual

identities totally, and the whole assemblage of atoms becomes one giant wave of

intelligence. One giant wave of flowing intelligence. One wave, one macroscopic

wave of this absolutely abstract field of rubidiumness. So a rubidium atom is no

more an elementary particle than I am, or than you are.

 

These are not elementary particles. These are big, fat atoms with hundreds of

particles in them. And what this shows is that even big systems, even

complicated systems like you and me - we slow down when we are systematically

de-excited. And when we slow down, we lose that individual existence and we all

become what we are anyway - waves of a common field, a universal field of

intelligence.

 

So in this collective practice of Transcendental Meditation and its advanced

techniques from the Vedic tradition of India, specific mantras are compiled to

produce a particular resonance of unity and peace. And when these waves, these

vibrations, are emitted ensemble by a group, an influence is created that is

truly global. Individual consciousness, as it transcends, loses that individual

smallness and becomes one flowing impulse of wholeness.

 

The Maharishi Effect

 

Anyway, at these meetings, in describing the mechanics of what is called the

Maharishi Effect, we use some very obvious examples. For example, there is the

fact that two loudspeakers, moved close together, produce four times the sound

of a single loudspeaker, because the coherent superposition of sound - the

intensity of that sound, the power of the sound - grows as N-squared: the number

of the loudspeakers squared. Three loudspeakers close together produce the sound

of nine individual loudspeakers. That's a very universal, elementary principle

of constructive interference.

 

But we are adding to that, now, a uniquely quantum mechanical mechanism such as

this rubidium example, which shows us two things: From the experiment, we know

that when a rubidium atom is in the vicinity of other rubidium atoms, each of

those atoms displays an increased tendency to transcend, to go global or

unmanifest, to become universal in the presence of others. That's called Bose

Statistics. The experiment also illustrates the disappearance of individuality -

the expansion of individuality to become universality.

 

These mechanisms are identical to the mechanism of individual consciousnesses

displaying an increased inherent tendency to become global, to transcend as a

group.

 

These scientific tests show that an individual mind, fully expanded, is global.

And so this trained group of experts will have an influence, as a whole, far

more than the sum of the individual parts.

 

Science is with us, in both theory and experiment.

 

In these last few months, remarkably, some of the greatest studies verifying

empirically this phenomenon of collective consciousness have appeared in

peer-reviewed scientific journals - top journals. These include the Lebanon

study by Professor John Davies, Professor Skip Alexander, and others, where the

collective application of Maharishi's TM and TM-Sidhi program was used seven

times to reduce war deaths by an average of 71 percent.

 

These seven consecutive replications lowered war related injuries and increased

progress toward peace with a statistical confidence that was absolutely

unprecedented in the history of social science.

 

Unprecedented Understanding and Acceptance

 

Now, talking to congressmen, talking to people in the White House, in the

National Security Council, in the Secretary of State's office, the Department of

Defense, and the Army - people who have promised, collectively, to provide for

the security of our country and yet have been absolutely unable to deliver on

that promise - it took these people only ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes -

thirty minutes sometimes - to comprehend the gravity, the importance, the

significance of this scientific breakthrough, and see that it is really an

answer to their prayers.

 

So these were very, very interesting meetings, very sobering. In almost every

case, the individual said, "I am surprised at the degree to which I get what you

are saying and the degree to which I find myself fully in support of your

proposal. I probably would not have acted this way, responded this way, prior to

the 11th of September."

 

But everything has changed. And the collective consciousness in the country

significantly, profoundly, has changed since that time - there is more humility,

and more need to recognize the shortcomings of our outmoded technology of

defense-based-upon-offense.

 

Stories of Individual Responses

 

In the Congress, there was this one Democratic Congressman who is a member of

the science committee. And he was a very thoughtful man, and absolutely, sternly

silent at the beginning of our presentation. And he began to offer comments

indicating that he understood.

 

By the end of this thirty-minute or forty-minute meeting, he was on the phone.

He called three billionaires from his constituency on our behalf. He was calling

other members of Congress, members of the terrorism committee of Congress, and

the science committee of Congress, and setting up more meetings for us,

including some very top people - including Nancy Pulosi [D-San Francisco], the

newly elected minority whip.

 

And everybody - everybody - responded in the same way. Republicans and

Democrats. Representative Wayne Gilcrest [R-MD] not only phoned some very

important billionaires, but he also formed a committee, a group of congressmen

with whom we have already met to implement support of our effort.

 

Congressman Kucinich - widely beloved, and known for his legislation to create a

Department of Peace within the U.S. government - drafted an amendment to the

Defense Appropriations Bill. That is a $300- plus billion bill to defend the

country, and his amendment actually proposes to fund a group of 40,000 experts

of these Vedic technologies of consciousness in India. And it has powerful

support from both Republican and Democratic members of the House of

Representatives - a tremendously unprecedented thing.

 

The Republican-led Congress needed to fuel the war machine and so it had cut

down discussion of further amendment. So this amendment didn't receive a full

hearing in the Congress. But two to three weeks after our arrival and the

commencement of this project, the support was such that there was in fact an

amendment to our Defense Appropriations Bill to cover this approach. And members

in the White House, the National Security Council, and the State Department also

received tremendous support and confidence from Congress for their own efforts

to implement what we were talking about.

 

I remember our meeting with Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT), because he was

one of the only members of congress, the Administration, the Army, the National

Security Council, the State Department, or the White House who didn't seem to be

aware of my previous presidential candidacy. He didn't recognize me.

 

After a few moments of our discussion, he interrupted and said, "This sounds a

lot like the Natural Law Party."

 

I looked at him, and then I looked at my watch and realized that I didn't have a

lot of time. So I just said, "Yeah, the Natural Law Party supported this

approach because it is proven and prevention-oriented and in harmony with

Natural Law."

 

And then I went on, but Shays interrupted me again. "You know, I'm surprised by

the fact that I get this," he said. "I totally get this. But nobody else will.

Politically, you're not going to make any progress. I get this, but others

won't."

 

And I said, "Just wait and see. Because everybody has been telling me they get

this but other people aren't going to get this. Everybody has said exactly the

same thing."

 

And indeed, this is what we found.

 

Congressmen Reading the Vedas

 

Now, fortunately, there is a coordination of these people who thought they were

loners, but are not.

 

Gilcrest, for example, thought he was a loner; he was reading books on physics

and consciousness. He was fascinated. He didn't care about the empirical

practicalities, he wanted to go deep into the knowledge of the Veda and of the

Unified Field, and of Consciousness. And he thought he was completely a loner in

the Congress.

 

But now these people are getting networked to the point where an amendment was

drafted and ready to be supported by both parties.

 

Deflating the Influence of Terrorism

 

In the White House, in our second meeting, we were invited back for a wonderful

meeting with the Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security - a

very intelligent person who brought also with her another member of the

president's staff. And the questions were absolutely brilliant.

 

And I know one of the questions was, "Well, you know, I recognize that you can

substantially reduce the incidence of terrorism by diffusing societal stress and

religious and ethnic tensions through your technology. But can you also somehow

reduce the disproportionate influence of a terrorist act?

 

He cited the example of anthrax - five letters sent by one person, and the whole

Senate is practically shut down. People are afraid to go out and shop. A hugely

disproportionate effect. And he said, "Can you inoculate the country against

these excessive psychological vulnerabilities and mood swings?"

 

And I cited, of course, the research on the stock market and the national mood,

and the instability becoming a great stability, with growth of optimism and

confidence, and so forth. And he was very, very excited about that.

 

He said, "But can you possibly consider this for for us? Not just in India? What

about creating a group here, for us, in the United States, maybe five or ten

thousand - to create more of a coherent influence in this country?" [This

question causes great hilarity on the part of those listening to the conference

call.]

 

And I said, "Well, I normally don't grant such favors [pause for extended

laughter], but you know, if the government pays for it and it's within the

military, I could conceive of a prevention wing of the military in this country

as well. It wouldn't be as cost-effective. But, you know, anything is possible."

[More laughter. The listeners know that the National Law Party has been offering

this plan to every president since Reagan.]

 

The "Red Line Process": Intimations for the Future

 

And so the questions were really good. And right now, someone very high in the

state department - a name that you probably know, but I need to be a little bit

quiet about this - anyway, someone very high is preparing briefing papers. What

this means is that a careful, scientific review of our proposal will be

circulated in the White House and the Department of State in what's called the

"red line" process.

 

The red line process is very different from "red tape." Nothing ever happens

with red tape, but "red line" means that this proposal will not stop, will not

rest, until it is either implemented or - for one reason or another - rejected.

So hopefully within a day or two that brief will be circulating in the White

House.

 

Also, an even more remarkable response is anticipated within a few weeks from

the Department of State, and I won't go a great deal into that right now either.

 

But anyway, the Department of Defense and the advanced research programs there

are having tremendous meetings and further meetings and follow-up meetings.

These people are incredibly busy.

 

The Difference: Now and Then

 

Maharishi himself found it extremely auspicious - "significant" was his word -

that we were being received and invited with such dignity into the White House

at higher level meetings than we have ever, ever experienced before.

 

In the past, we have had the kind of meetings where somebody who plays golf with

the President says something, or where we are playing chess or bridge and

something gets said, all very indirect. We have never before had the sort of

access to the White House or the departments of state and defense or the

congress that we have had in these last few weeks.

 

Whether something practical comes out of it or not in terms of funding - and I

think it will - what is happening is that this thinking is permeating the

highest levels of government to the point where it is easier and easier in every

meeting for the people we are talking to to deeply comprehend what we are

saying.

 

It is as though a critical mass has been met. We are bumping into congressmen

now who are running around with our proposal in their hands

 

Response from the Private Sector

 

Some of these calls from Congress and some of the calls are resulting in

meetings with billionaires and multimillionaires. And some of these people are

really, really responding.

 

I'll just mention one. Michael Milken is a very interesting, very wonderful

person. He is the person who is rather notorious (served time) for introducing

the concept of high-yield (junk) bonds as an effective investment instrument.

That created a bit of a frenzy, and he ended up - that whole industry ended up -

in some difficulty. But he's a brilliant man. I'd say he's a genius. And he's

very philanthropic, very compassionate. And he is thinking deeply and contacting

people within his circle of influence, which is a huge circle of influence.

 

I still suspect that it will be the private sector that responds first. That the

government will be more comfortable in year two or year three.

 

We need these innovators, these early innovators, as a startup venture to get

this process moving.

 

To view the proposal that so many congressman are "running around with in their

hands" and that is opening so many doors in the private sector, please visit

Permanentpeace.org.

 

John Hagelin is a world authority in unified quantum field theories. His

articles on electroweak unification, grand unification, supersymmetry, and

cosmology include some of the most cited references in the physical sciences.

 

Dr. Hagelin has conducted pioneering work at the forefront of theoretical

physics at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics) and SLAC (the

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), and is responsible for the development of a

highly successful grand unified field theory based on the superstring.

 

 

 

 

 

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