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consciousness-based education and governmentsocial conflict will decrease, the economy will improve, and the nation’sinfluence in international affairs will increase:The tensions and disharmonies will be less, the flowering of businesswill be there, trade and industry will be increasing, people will behappy. . .the economy will be better, the nation’s influence in the familyof nations will be greater and more appreciated. (p. 66)Maharishi (1978) further explains that balance in nature increasesand “all of nature begins to support the nation’s well-being. The seasonscome on time, crops are abundant, and there are no calamities” (p.128). By calamities, Maharishi refers not only to natural catastrophesbut to “such disasters as poverty, disease, earthquakes, floods, droughts,famine, the economic or political collapse of the nation, and other collectivecalamities” (pp. 124–125).The influence is spontaneously a total influence, which affects all aspectsof life. Alliance with natural law [nature’s government] means alliancewith the total power of nature. All things will be enriched at one time.This is employing nature to work for us. All aspects of human societywill grow in balance. Everything is going to be better and better asthe light of knowledge grows with the purity of world consciousness.(Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986, pp. 161–162)According to Maharishi, among other specific improvements in thequality of life produced by the Maharishi Effect are decreased socialunrest, turbulence, and terrorism (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986, p. 162;Maharishi European Research University, 1982a, p. 2); increased harmonyand peace in international relations (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978,p. 105; 1977, p. 5); enhanced cultural integrity (1977, p. 5); more sociallyresponsible thinking and behavior by the individuals in society, and theadoption of more positive social values (1978, p. 163; 1985, p. 206); andenhanced governmental achievements (1985, p. 206; 1977, p. 5).Using the skilled hand of nature to administer society This holisticimprovement in the quality of national life is available to every governmentthrough alliance with the government of nature, natural law.According to Maharishi Vedic Science (“Maharishi Offers,” 1990), thebasic problem facing every government is how to successfully integrateand harmonize the innumerable trends and tendencies in society. Only bycreating coherence in the collective consciousness of the nation through408