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improving national economy—alliance with nature’s governmentsciousness, which is the omnipresent reality. This pulsating consciousnessof the individual creates impulses of life all over, and because this isthe very fundamental level of everyone, everyone’s thinking, everyone’sconsciousness is influenced by that. It is very easy to understand, (p. 59).As a result of the enlivenment of pure consciousness and the neutralizationof stress in collective consciousness through the practice of theTranscendental Meditation technique by one percent of the population,individuals throughout society become more positive in their thinking,and the trends of life become more positive, more evolutionary:The whole society becomes more positive in its trends, more positivein its thinking. The awareness of the whole population is influencedtremendously. That is why the criminals change; negativity changes. Aman thinking like that today, he thinks in a different way tomorrow.So all the non-evolutionary procedures of thinking get transformed.Non-evolutionary thinking becomes evolutionary thinking. That meansthinking becomes spontaneously in accord with the laws of nature.(Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1975, p. 59)In other words, society becomes more positive because with the enlivenmentof the unified field of natural law by Transcendental Meditationpractitioners, the thinking and behavior of everyone in society becomemore in tune with natural law (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, p. 198).In 1975, after introducing the more powerful TM-Sidhi program,Maharishi predicted that the same beneficial effects on society wouldbe produced through the practice of the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs by a single group comprising as few as thesquare root of one percent of the population (Maharishi EuropeanResearch University, 1979, p. 160). While the Transcendental Meditationtechnique enables the conscious mind to contact the field of pureconsciousness, the TM-Sidhi program trains the individual to thinkand act on the lively ground of pure consciousness and amplifies thepositive effects enjoyed through the Transcendental Meditation practice(see Gelderloos & Berg, 1989).Creating coherence in individual and collective consciousness.According to Maharishi Vedic Science, the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs produces increased coherence in individualconsciousness, as reflected, for example, in increased coherence of brain405