Theoretical and Review Papers
on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme
Sociology
Conflict Resolution and World Peace
Title: Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology: The only
means to create world peace.
Summary: This paper analyses the mechanics through
which the experience of transcendental consciousness creates
peace in both individual and collective consciousness. The
paper also emphasises the urgency of establishing groups of
world peace professionals to create peace for the world.
MORRIS, B. Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology: The only
means to create world peace. Modern Science and Vedic Science
5(1-2): 199-207, 1992.
Recent Research 508.
Title: Theory and research on conflict resolution through
the Maharishi Effect.
Summary: This paper presents the Maharishi Effect as
the basis for a practical programme to create world peace and
describes scientific research demonstrating the effectiveness
of this programme in generating coherence and peace on all
levels of collective life.
ORME-JOHNSON, D. W. Theory and research on conflict
resolution through the Maharishi Effect. Modern Science and
Vedic Science 5(1-2): 76-98, 1992.
Recent Research 507.
Title: Peaceful body, peaceful mind, peaceful world.
Summary: This paper outlines the development of peace
within the individual and explains how this development forms
the basis of creating peace in the world.
ALEXANDER, C. N. Peaceful body, peaceful mind, peaceful
world. Modern Science and Vedic Science 5(1-2): 150-164,
1992.
Recent Research 506.
Title: Achieving world peace through a new science and
technology.
Summary: This paper examines scientific evidence for a
new technology of world peace based on the unified field of
natural law and considers its practical utilisation through
extended field effects of consciousness.
HAGELIN, J. S. Achieving world peace through a new science
and technology. Modern Science and Vedic Science 5(1-2):
48-75, 1992.
Recent Research 505.
Title: Introduction to the proceedings of the conference on
approaches to creating a stable world peace.
Summary: This paper is an introduction to a peace
conference held at MIU, which summarises the presentations of
the conference participants and presents an overview of
Maharishi's approach to world peace.
ORME-JOHNSON, D. W. Introduction to the proceedings of the
conference on approaches to creating a stable world peace.
Modern Science and Vedic Science 5(1-2): 1-30, 1992.
Recent Research 504.
Title: Maharishi's programme to create world peace: theory
and research.
Summary: This paper reviews Maharishi's theoretical
principles of collective consciousness and the empirical
research demonstrating improved quality of life at the city,
state, national, and international levels. The research
indicates that an influence of peace is created world-wide
through the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation
and TM-Sidhi Programme by at least 7000 individuals—the
square root of one percent of the world's population.
ORME-JOHNSON, D. W., and DILLBECK, M. C. Maharishi's
Programme to create world peace: theory and research. Modern
Science and Vedic Science 1(2): 207-259, 1987.
Collected Papers v5.422.
Title: A proposal to establish a U.S. Academy of Peace.
Summary: This proposal presents the group practice of
the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme as the
practical technology for creating coherence in national and
world consciousness, thereby establishing a permanent state of
social harmony and world peace.
ORME-JOHNSON, D. W., and DILLBECK, M. C. A proposal to
establish a U.S. Academy of Peace. In Proceedings of the
hearing before the Subcommittees on International Security and
Scientific Affairs and on International Operations of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Subcommittee on
Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor,
House of Representatives, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second
Session, on bills H.R. 5088 and H.R. 6182, 21 July 1982, pp.
241-250. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1982.
Collected Papers v4.355.
National Life
Title: Improving the national economy through alliance with
nature's government: Effects of the group practice of
Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program.
Summary: Improved National Economy: Decreased Index of
Inflation and Unemployment.
CAVANAUGH, K. L.; KING, K. D.; and TITUS, B. D. Improving the
national economy through alliance with nature's government:
Effects of the group practice of Maharishi's Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. Modern Science and Vedic
Science 4(1): 3-41, 1990.
Recent Research 503.
Title: Transcendental Meditation in the youth authority.
Summary: Benefits experienced by Meditating Wards of
the Youth Authority in California.
KIMBLE, C. J. Transcendental Meditation in the youth
authority. Youth Authority Quarterly 28, 1975.
Recent Research 502.
Title: The theoretical foundations and practical validation
of Maharishi's integrated system of rehabilitation.
Summary: This paper outlines the theoretical
foundations of Maharishi's Integrated System of
Rehabilitation. It shows how this theory of rehabilitation is
validated by extensive scientific research and by personal
experience of meditating offenders. The author suggests that
this system of rehabilitation offers a solution to key
problems within the field of rehabilitation, including
recidivism, the measurement of rehabilitation, and the means
of rehabilitation.
KING, M. S. The theoretical foundations and practical
validation of Maharishi's integrated system of rehabilitation.
In Scientific Research on Maharishi's Integrated System of
Rehabilitation, eds. F. Anklesaria and M. S. King.
Fairfield, IA: MIU Press, 1993.
Recent Research 501.
Title: Transcendental Meditation as an epidemiological
approach to drug and alcohol abuse: Theory, research, and
financial impact evaluation.
Summary: The author focuses on the contributions of the
Transcendental Meditation Programme to resolving broader
social problems associated with addiction. He proposes that
drug and alcohol abuse are symptoms of a general
stress-addiction-crime epidemic in society. He then reviews
impressive sociological research findings showing how societal
disorder—experienced as crime, drug abuse, political
conflict, and economic instability—can be substantially
reduced through the cost effective programs of Transcendental
Meditation and Maharishi Ayur-Veda.
ORME-JOHNSON, D. W. Transcendental Meditation as an
epidemiological approach to drug and alcohol abuse: Theory,
research, and financial impact evaluation. Alcoholism
Treatment Quarterly 11: 119-168, 1994.
Recent Research 500.
Business and Community
Title: Developing consciousness in organisations: The
Transcendental Meditation Programme in business.
Summary: A review of research on the application of
Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Programme in the
workplace indicates: improved employee health, increased job
and life satisfaction, improved job performance and
productivity, increased job stability, and improved
interpersonal relations. These results are discussed from a
model of developing consciousness of the individual and
developing corporate consciousness.
SCHMIDT-WILK, J. Developing consciousness in organisations:
The Transcendental Meditation Programme in business. Journal
of Business and Psychology 10 (4): 1995 (in press).
Recent Research 498.
Title: Organisational learning based on transforming
collective consciousness.
Summary: The authors suggest that the level of
development of consciousness is primary in determining
continuous learning of an individual and the organisation.
GUSTAVSSON, B., and HARUNG, H. S. Organisational learning
based on transforming collective consciousness. The Learning
Organization 1: 33-40, 1994.
Recent Research 497.
Title: Promoting adult psychological development:
Implications for management education.
Summary: Promotion of Psychological Development (Ego
Development, Field Independence and Intelligence).
ALEXANDER, C. N.; HEATON, D. P.; and CHANDLER, H. M.
Promoting adult psychological development: Implications for
management education. Proceedings of the Association of
Management, Human Resource Management 2, 133-137, Orlando,
Florida, August 1990.
Recent Research 496.
Title: The Transcendental Meditation Programme for building
family strengths: Blueprint for invincibility.
Summary: This paper presents the Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme as a means to strengthen
family life by developing higher states of consciousness for
the individual and creating an influence of coherence and
harmony in the social environment.
ARON, A., and ARON, E. N. The Transcendental Meditation
Programme for building family strengths: Blueprint for
invincibility. Department of Psychology, Maharishi University of
Management, Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A. Paper presented at the
National Symposium on Building Family Strengths, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A., 4 May 1978.
Collected Papers v4.354.
Title: Neurophysiologische Integration als Grundlage für
Lernen und Arbeiten in der Ökologie.
Summary: The integrated functioning of the nervous
system, developed through Transcendental Meditation, is
discussed as the basis of a holistic and all encompassing view
of the environment and of life in accord with natural law.
BAUMANN, E. Neurophysiologische Integration als Grundlage
für Lernen und Arbeiten in der Ökologie. Verhandlungen der
Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Kiel 1977, 6: 557-560, 1978.
Collected Papers v2.189.
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