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improving national economy—alliance with nature’s governmentMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs by only a small fraction of thenational population will be sufficient to purify national consciousnessand thereby bring the government of the nation into alliance with thegovernment of nature. This approach to enlivening the evolutionarypower of natural law in national consciousness offers to every governmenta practical and effective means to prevent and reduce problems insociety and enhance governmental achievements.Alliance with Nature’s Government through the Maharishi EffectIn this section we summarize the principles of Maharishi Vedic Sciencewhich explain how the practice of the Transcendental Meditationtechnique, or the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programstogether, by even a small fraction of the national population, can neutralizecollective stress, purify national consciousness, and thereby bringthought and action of the entire population into alliance with naturallaw, nature’s government. We also describe how this positive, evolutionaryinfluence of the Maharishi Effect will benefit society, improvethe functioning of government, and enhance economic progress.A small number of individuals practicing Maharishi’s TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi program can positively influencethe entire society because, as we have seen, according to MaharishiVedic Science, consciousness is a field which, at its most basic level—pure consciousness—is the unified field of natural law. Because pureconsciousness is the common basis of both individual and collectiveconsciousness, enlivenment of the omnipresent field of pure consciousnessin individual awareness through the Transcendental Meditationtechnique simultaneously enlivens pure consciousness throughout thecollective consciousness of society. This enlivenment of pure consciousness,the unified field of natural law, by a sufficient number of individualspracticing the Transcendental Meditation technique brings thethought and action of everyone in society spontaneously into greateraccord with natural law (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1975, p. 59).This predicted effect on the whole of society of a few individuals practicingthe Transcendental Meditation technique provides an illustrationin social systems of a characteristic property of fields in physics, “action ata distance.” In physics, phenomena involving action at a distance such asthe gravitational effect of the earth on the moon, are typically explained403