Transcendental Meditation - Sidhi® Program, including Yogic Flying®
Total Brain Functioning for Permanent World Peace

Benefits for the Surrounding Society: A means to improve quality of life

By enlivening the unified field of all the laws of nature — known in quantum physics as the basis of all order in the universe, the basis of all the laws of nature — it is possible to establish order, health, progress, and happiness on all levels of society.

Group practice of Yogic Flying enhances its benefits for the individual participants, and, at the same time, enlivens the unified field in the whole society, with the effect becoming greater as the size of the group increases.

More than 50 scientific studies have demonstrated that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, creates a powerful influence of peace, order, and harmony, which has been measured statistically in reduced homicides, reduced crime rate, reduced accident rate, reduced war-related deaths and injuries, and improvement in social and economic measures.

This effect was termed the "Maharishi Effect" in honor of Maharishi, who predicted it.

How large does the group need to be?

This effect is created when the size of the Yogic Flying group reaches the square root of one percent of a population. Then the enlivenment of the unified field becomes profound enough to affect the whole society.

Then, Maharishi explains that an “invincible border” begins to be created for that society, which prevents all negativity from entering from outside, and strengthens cultural integrity and all positive values within that population.

Now every nation can take advantage of this scientifically tested technology to create an increasingly invincible society, through Yogic Flying groups in schools, universities, in the military, and other sectors of society.

Benefits for the Individual

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What does the latest research show?

Between 2007 and 2010 a group of 1,792 Yogic Flyers (approximately the square root of 1 per cent of the population of the US) was assembled at Maharishi International University, in Fairfield, Iowa, USA.

When the group reached the required size, there was a marked improvement in quality of life in the entire country, as measured by violent crime, homicides, traffic fatalities, other accidental deaths, drug-related deaths, and infant mortality.

Based on these findings, the researchers estimate that 71,768 deaths and 186,774 violent crimes were averted during those four years.

These findings demonstrate that collective practice of Yogic Flying enlivens the total order at the basis of life — the total intelligence of natural law, dissolving societal stress and promoting healthier trends in society.

What happens as the group becomes larger?

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Social Indicators Research 1999 47(2):153-201.

The likelihood that the result of the Washington study could be due to chance variation in crime rate was found to be less than 2 parts per billion.
(Social Indicators Research 1999 47(2):153-201.)

This chart shows decrease in violent crime in Washington DC through group Yogic Flying in the summer of 1993.

As we see from this chart, the size of the group directly influences the size of the effect of improved quality of life. As the group becomes larger, negative tendencies in society decrease.

Generally, it has been found that this effect is created when the size of the Yogic Flying group reaches at least the square root of one percent of a population.

The likelihood that the result of the Washington study could be due to chance variation in crime rate was found to be less than 2 parts per billion.
(Social Indicators Research 1999 47(2):153-201.)

David Orme-Johnson, Phd,

Leading Researcher
in the Field of Meditation

“The many replications of the Maharishi Effect on the city, state, national, and global scales in several different cultures, using a variety of major social indicators, controlling for many demographic variables, and utilizing conservative time series and causal analyses, provide more extensive evidence than has ever before been available in the social sciences that we now have in hand a truly effective means of achieving world peace.”

Preventing Open Warfare

In this chart we see the reduction of war deaths in Lebanon in 1983, during a two-month assembly of Yogic Flyers, which took place at the peak of the Lebanon war, in the neighboring Israel.

In the chart we see the fluctuations in the numbers of Yogic Flyers attending the group practise, and the fluctuations in a composite index of quality of life in the area, which included war deaths, war injuries, and progress towards Peace in Lebanon, and also crime, traffic accidents, fires, the stock market, and other indicators of quality of life in Israel.

In the chart we see that when the number of Yogic Flyers increased, the quality of life increased in Israel, and war deaths decreased in Lebanon, and each time the number of Yogic Flyers decreased, the quality of life decreased, and there was a rise in warfare.

When these results were subject to mathematical analysis, the likelihood that these results occured simply due to chance was found to be less than 1 part in 10,000. This degree of certainty is extraordinary in the social sciences.

During the same war in Lebanon, over the next two and a quarter years, there were seven periods in which groups of Yogic Flyers were assembled at various locations — mostly at distant locations — but large enough, in principle, to create this effect in Lebanon.

During the specific times of these assemblies, there was a large reduction in the degree of conflict, the number of war fatalities and the number of war injuries.





This chart shows reduction in international conflict during three periods when the size of a temporary assembly of Yogic Flyers reached the square root of one percent of the whole world's population.

Global Reduction of Terrorism







This chart shows a 72% reduction in fatalities and injuries due to international terrorism during the same large assemblies of Yogic Flyers, compared to all other times during a three-year period.

A picture of the "Taste of Utopia" Assembly, a gathering of 7,000 Yogic Flyers (the square root of one percent of the world's population at the time), which Maharishi organized to give a Taste of Utopia to the world, creating the global Maharishi Effect for the first time in history.

The assembly took place in 1984, lasted three weeks, and its effects in reducing international conflict, and improving international social and economic indicators were demonstrated scientifically.

A Rigorously Established Phenomenon of Peace

All the studies on the Maharishi Effect used the most rigorous statistical procedures available in the social sciences. What remains to be done is to apply this technology of the unified field to prevent all suffering and secure the well-being, progress, and happiness of everyone everywhere.

A Closer Look at the Maharishi Effect

Why does the size of the effect depend on the number of Yogic Flyers?

Because the more the Yogic Flyers, the more the physiologies that can reflect the Unified Field, and therefore the more the peaceful and blissful influence they can create.

Why do the Yogic Flyers have to be in a group?

According to physics, if two loudspeakers are in close proximity to each other and produce the same sound simultaneously, then the volume of the sound produced will be 4 times the volume of one loudspeaker. If three loudspeakers are in close proximity and produce the same sound, then the volume of sound generated will be nine times the volume of one loudspeaker. The volume is equal to the square root of the number of loudspeakers.

Research shows that a similar phenomenon occurs in group Yogic Flying. The influence of group Yogic Flying is roughly equal to the square of the number of people practicing it together.

Scientific Research
David Orme-Johnson, PhD,

Leading Researcher
in the Field of
Meditation

“The many replications of the Maharishi Effect on the city, state, national, and global scales in several different cultures, using a variety of major social indicators, controlling for many demographic variables, and utilizing conservative time series and causal analyses, provide more extensive evidence than has ever before been available in the social sciences that we now have in hand a truly effective means of achieving world peace.”

Leading Scholars on the Maharishi Effect

David Edwards, PhD

Professor of Government,
University of Texas, Austin

“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 ongoing 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.”

Ted Robert Gurr, PhD

Emeritus Professor of Government and Politics, University of Mariland

“We have to take these studies seriously.”

“In the studies that I have examined on the impact of the Maharishi Effect on conflict, I can find no methodological flaws, and the findings have been consistent across a large number of replications in many different geographical and conflictual situations. As unlikely as the premise may sound, I think we have to take these studies seriously.”

Raymond Russ, PhD

Research Associate
in  Psychology,
University of Maine; Editor,
Journal of Mind and Behavior

“The work is sound.”

“The hypothesis definitely raised some eyebrows among our reviewers. But the statistical work is sound. The numbers are there. When you can statistically control for as many variables as these studies do, it makes the results much more convincing. This evidence indicates that we now have a new technology to generate peace in the world.”

Huw Dixon, PhD

Professorof Economics, York University, England

“This research… demands action.”

“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.”

“This has been the quest, the search, of all the wise throughout the ages: something for everyone, so that no one gets into the channel of suffering in any way. No one suffers; no one is without perfect health. Administration, the government as a whole, will be prevention-oriented, problem free government. This is our proclamation today: every government to rise to invincibility.”

Maharishi,
June 28, 2006

Dimitrios Karasis

Student

"During the practice of Yogic Flying in a large group, I feel my body being connected with the fundamental bliss and intelligence that is the essence of life and administers all life. "During group Yogic Flying, I experience this influence of peace, bliss, and intelligence  that we are creating radiating out to society."

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“…people will be practicing Yogic Flying together—together underlined! Yogic Flying practice, together. And the result will be an atmosphere of positivity—all positivity, no negativity, no conflicts, no confusions, not so much of sickness, no failures of intentions, no failures of efforts—no. Everywhere there will be positivity, peace, bliss continuum on the level of integrated national consciousness, which is the level of invincibility. Our clarion call is invincibility for every nation, and permanent world peace based on the integrated national consciousness of every nation. It's unimaginable what a fortune the world is going to witness from this week, from next week, from these few days, from the next few days. Just instead of flying at home, they have to find a common place for flying together..”

Maharishi,
Global Press Conference
September 20, 2006

David Orme-Johnson,
Phd,

Leading Researcher
in the Field of
Meditation

“The many replications of the Maharishi Effect on the city, state, national, and global scales in several different cultures, using a variety of major social indicators, controlling for many demographic variables, and utilizing conservative time series and causal analyses, provide more extensive evidence than has ever before been available in the social sciences that we now have in hand a truly effective means of achieving world peace.”

Dimitrios Karasis

Student

"During the practice of Yogic Flying in a large group, I feel my body being connected with the fundamental bliss and intelligence that is the essence of life and administers all life. "During group Yogic Flying, I experience this influence of peace, bliss, and intelligence  that we are creating radiating out to society."

"The TM-Sidhi program is the key to heavenly life on earth. This is because it trains the conscious mind to function from bliss consciousness, the self-referral state of pure consciousness, which is the total potential of Natural Law. It trains the awareness to function in the same self-interracting style as the intelligence of Nature. Functioning from this level the individual gains mastery over Natural Law. With this perfect science and technology of Natural Law, we are in a position to accomplish anything — we are in a position to create Heaven on Earth."

Maharishi