Permanent World Peace
through the
TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION and
TM-SIDHI Programme

chart: Improved Quality of Life (21224 bytes)

This study indicates that group practice of the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programmes improved the quality of life in Israel as measured by improvement on an index consisting of reduced crime rate, reduced traffic accidents, reduced fires, the reduced number of war deaths in Lebanon, increases in the national stock market, and improvements in national mood. The chart above shows the strong correspondence between the number of Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi Programme participants in the group in Jerusalem and a composite index of all the above variables.

References: Journal of Conflict Resolution 32 (1988): 776–812. Dissertation Abstracts International 4 (1988): 2381A.

 

chart: Increased Positivity (25314 bytes)

In the winter of 1983–84, a group of 7,000 TM-Sidhi Programme Yogic Flyers assembled at Maharishi University of Management in Iowa to create world peace (the Taste of Utopia Assembly). During the assembly a content analysis of articles reporting international conflict showed a significant shift towards greater positivity and reduced conflict compared to before the assembly. After the assembly, international events reverted to their prior level of conflict.

Reference: Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Programme: Collected Papers, Volume 4 (1989).

Conclusion

World peace is a cherished aspiration of people in all nations. Now permanent world peace can become a reality beginning in our generation through the Maharishi Effect—increased coherence in collective consciousness created by large groups practising the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programmes.