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The Maharishi effect and world peace

February 8, 2009

As I mentioned on this page, back in 2001, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

(But the whole situation was in fact a setup, the doctors all conspired against me and there was a global conspiracy against me involving the FBI, the CIA, and at least one major chain of movie theaters, to make me look bad. I also believe the doctors used to insert microscopic GPS devices into the medications I used to take, to enable them to track my whereabouts in-between my appointments.)

OK. That last paragraph was a JOKE. I'm only KIDDING!
See? I do have a good Sense of Rumor!

I give credit for my current state of well being to the methods I discuss on this page, including Transcendental Meditation, herbs and nutrients for the brain.

You know who else was rumored to have schizophrenia? Philip K. Dick. Who is Philip K. Dick?

PKD happens to be the BRILLIANT writer who wrote short stories on which the movies "Total Recall", "Paycheck" and "Minority Report" were based.

PKD lived in poverty his entire life, and since his death in 1982 more than $700 million dollars worth of movie tickets have been sold based on his brilliant stories.

PKD's "Minority Report"

Don't worry, I'm going somewhere with this. The "Maharishi Effect" part comes later.

In PKD's "Minority Report", a city has been without murder for the past 6 years, thanks to 3 PRE-COGNITIVES who have the ability to predict murders which will be committed in the near future. The brains of the PRE-COGNITIVES are scanned using sophisticated equipment, and the visions that the PRE-COGNITIVES experience are saved in video format on the "Pre-Crime" police unit's computer systems.

The "Pre-Crime" police unit uses those video recordings to figure out the location where the murder is about to take place, sometimes less than an hour into the future, and their job is to rush to the crime scene BEFORE the murder takes place, and arrest the soon-to-be-murderer before a life is lost.

The PRE-COGNITIVES have never been wrong in 6 years, but sometimes they DO disagree, and 1 of the precogs will have a precognition which is slightly different from the other 2, and that precognition which is slightly different from the other 2 is saved as a separate report, hence the name "minority report".

Isn't that a fascinating notion? Thank you Philip K. Dick!

You can see the trailer for Steven Spielberg's movie based on PKD's short story here. It's a fascinating movie:

Why am I rambling on about this? Let's leave the world of science fiction behind for a moment. Did you know that there exists, in our world, originating from the ancient Vedic tradition, a somewhat similar method for reducing crime rates throughout society?

THE MAHARISHI EFFECT

Collective stress is the sum total of individual stresses. The individual is the basic unit of society. When stress, fear and tensions build up in the individual, society as a whole is degraded as well.

The Maharishi Effect is based on the fundamental notion that individual consciousness affects collective consciousness.

The first study of the Maharishi Effect began in 1974 when psychologists Borland and Landrith (1) reported decreases in crime rate in cities where 1% of the population had learned the Transcendental Meditation technique.

Since that first study, 49 other studies (2) have replicated and extended the original findings. The investigators used a wide variety of populations, variables and experimental designs to evaluate the Effect.

Nearly 50 scientific studies have been conducted over the past three decades, verifying the validity of the Maharishi Effect and the wide-ranging benefits it produces for the nation. These research studies have employed 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. (3)

The Effect was documented at the following scales (4): on cities (13 papers or presentations), on states (4 published or presented papers), nationally (19 published or presented papers), a Maharishi Effect group in one nation affecting trends in other nations (13 published or presented papers), and globally (3 published or presented papers).

A summary of 47 studies on the Maharishi Effect is available here:
http://www.davidleffler.com/sapratableii.html

During the period 1979–1986, the number of participants in Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme in the United States . exceeded the number needed to create the Maharishi Effect. U.S. actions towards the Soviet Union became more positive. When the number of TM-Sidhi participants was at its highest level, the Soviet actions towards the U.S. also improved.

Reference: Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section (1990): 297–302.

This page is only meant as a brief introduction to the Maharishi Effect.

Now there are some important differences between the "Maharishi Effect" and what goes on in PKD's story: the "Maharishi Effect" is much more powerful for a few reasons:

- the Maharishi effect harnesses the power of PREVENTION. It helps PREVENT THE BIRTH OF AN ENEMY. "heyam dukham anagatam" - "Avert the danger that has not yet come". The criminal intent is never born in the first place, which is much more powerful than having to combat criminal intent once that intent has been born in an individual.

In PKD's story, by contrast, the actual work of physically preventing the murder from taking place has to be done by the police officers using weapons, helicopters, etc. And the PRE-COGNITIVES only see murders, no other types of crime. Why? Hey, give PKD a break. Let me see YOU write a story like that.

- the Maharishi Effect is not confined to the boundaries of a city. It's effects are found nationwide and even in neighboring nations.

- the Maharishi Effect can be created by ANYONE, of any intellect, simply anyone who has been trained in Maharishi's techniques and is willing to practice daily in a large enough group.

A message to Meditators and Sidhas

If you are reading this and you are a meditator, I urge you to do YOURSELF the favor of a lifetime and learn the TM-SIDHI technique. I learned the TM-SIDHI technique a little over a year ago and I cannot begin to tell you how much I have changed since. My life is better at every level.

Learning the TM-SIDHI technique requires first attending a Transcendental Meditation Weekend Residence Course, which usually costs a few hundred dollars.

That Transcendental Meditation Weekend Residence Course was a turning point for me. I had been a meditator for many years, but being able to spend 3 days submerged in bliss, eating ayurvedic meals and watching knowledge tapes by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, now that's what I call a REAL VACATION.

For 1/5 the cost of a "vacation cruise" that will leave you exhausted at the end of the week, you can book a Transcendental Meditation Weekend Residence Course and CHANGE YOUR LIFE. And you know what happens when you change your life? IT CHANGES THE LIVES OF THOSE YOU LOVE!

If you already are a Sidha, come and join us in Fairfield. We need you to help us create coherence in the country's consciousness. I moved here over a year ago, brought my children here, and it was the best decision I made in my life.

I discuss my experience with Transcendental Meditation here.

The official Transcendental Meditation website is http://www.tm.org

Jai Guru Dev.

References

1- http://www.davidleffler.com/sapratableii.html#b8

2- http://www.davidleffler.com/sapratablei.html

3- Scientific Research on Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Programme—Collected Papers 98, 166, 317-320, 331, and 402.

4- http://www.davidleffler.com/sapraalternative.html#Review_of_Maharishi_Effect_Research

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