The Maharishi Effect

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The Maharishi Effect

Does Transcendental Meditation neutralize negative tendencies and

promote positive trends throughout populations?

 

SOURCE: Maharishi's Programmes

 

In 1975, Maharishi inaugurated the dawn of a new era, proclaiming

that 'through the window of science we see the dawn of the Age of

Enlightenment'.

 

Scientific research found that in cities and towns all over the world

where as little as one per cent of the population practises the

Transcendental Meditation Technique, the trend of rising crime rate

is reversed, indicating increasing order and harmony. Research

scientists named this phenomenon of rising coherence in the

collective consciousness of the whole society the Maharishi Effect,

because this was the realization of Maharishi's promise to society

made in the very early days of Maharishi's Movement (started in

Madras, India in 1957).

 

The Maharishi Effect establishes the principle that individual

consciousness affects collective consciousness. Nearly 50 scientific

research studies conducted over the past 25 years verify the unique

effect and wide-ranging benefits to the nation produced by the

Maharishi Effect. These studies have used the most rigorous research

methods and evaluation procedures available in the social sciences,

including time series analysis, which controls for weekly and

seasonal cycles or trends in social data.

 

Research shows that the influence of coherence created by the

Maharishi Effect can be measured on both national and international

levels. Increased coherence within the nation expresses itself in

improved national harmony and well-being. In addition, this internal

coherence and harmony generates an influence that extends beyond the

nation's borders, expressing itself in improved international

relations and reduced international conflicts.

 

In 1976, with the introduction of the more advanced TM-Sidhi

Programme including Yogic Flying, a more powerful effect of coherence

in collective consciousness was expected. The first major test of

this prediction took place in 1978 during Maharishi's Global Ideal

Society Campaign in 108 countries: crime rate was reduced everywhere.

 

This global research demonstrated a new formula: the square root of

one per cent of a population practising Transcendental Meditation and

the TM-Sidhi Programme, morning and evening together in one place, is

sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and promote positive

trends throughout the whole population.

 

Research has shown that groups of individuals practising Yogic Flying—

all enjoying very high brainwave coherence—create coherence in

collective consciousness, and generate a unifying and integrating

effect in the life of society. This results in a decrease of negative

trends throughout society—such as crime, accidents, and sickness —and

an increase in positive social, economic, and political trends.

Scientific studies on this phenomenon have demonstrated that a group

of at least 7,000 individuals practising Yogic Flying can produce

this coherence-creating effect on a global scale, reducing violent

and negative trends worldwide.

 

Research studies have repeatedly confirmed the Maharishi Effect on a

global scale. For example, during assemblies of ten days to three

weeks in which the number of individuals practising the TM-Sidhi

Programme of Yogic Flying approached or exceeded the square root of

one per cent of the world's population—about 7,000 people—global

social trends improved immediately, including improved international

relations as measured by reduced international conflict and reduced

incidence of terrorism.

 

The secret of the Global Maharishi Effect is the phenomenon known to

Physics as the 'Field Effect', the effect of coherence and positivity

produced from the field of infinite correlation—the self-referral

field of least excitation of consciousness—the field of

Transcendental Consciousness, which is basic to creation and

permeates all life everywhere.

 

Through the Maharishi Effect, Extended Maharishi Effect, and Global

Maharishi Effect, with positive trends and harmony rising in

individual and national life, the problems of the nation will

disappear, as darkness disappears with the onset of light.