Social change - for a forest to be green

Creating world peace is not the reason that most people give for why they want to learn to meditate. Yet this was Maharishi's goal when he first introduced Transcendental Meditation in 1958, emphasising that individual peace is the basic unit of world peace. He used the analogy that just as there cannot be a green forest without green trees, there cannot be a peaceful world without peaceful individuals....more

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Peace from the Quantum Level - Dr John Hagelin, Quantum Physicist (5 mins)

Increasing coherence in collective consciousness

Extensive research published in leading scientific journals demonstrates that the powerful, stress-reducing effect of Transcendental Meditation has a calming "spill-over" effect in the surrounding population. When individuals practise Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques together in...more

This work deserves the most serious consideration.

The claim can be plausibly made that the potential impact of this research exceeds that of any other on-going social or psychological research program. The research has survived a broader array of statistical tests than most research in the field of conflict resolution. I think this work, and the theory that informs it, deserve the most serious consideration by academics and policy makers alike.

- David Edwards, PhD, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin

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Huw Dixon, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Cardiff Business School:

"I have been following the research on the Maharishi Effect as it has developed over the last twenty years. There is now a strong and coherent body of evidence showing that [this approach] provides a simple and cost-effective solution to many of the social problems we face today. This research and its conclusions are so strong, that it demands action from those responsible for government policy. "

Ugandan school introduces TM

Ugandan school introduces Transcendental Meditation.

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