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improving national economy—alliance with nature’s governmentSuper Radiance group for the daily afternoon session is shown in Figure3. for the period April 1979 to April 1988. 5Figure 3. Time series plot of the average daily size of the TM-Sidhi group atMaharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A. The dashed lineindicates the predicted critical threshold of 1500 for the size of the group,approximately the square root of one percent of the U.S. population.Maharishi Vedic Science predicts that a significant improvementin economic performance, and the overall quality of life, will occurwhen the TM-Sidhi group reaches a critical size approximately equalto the the square root of one percent of the population. For the U.S.,the critical √1% threshold for the Super Radiance group during thisperiod ranged from approximately 1500 in 1979 to 1569 in 1988, basedon mid-year population estimates (United Nations, 1989). The correspondingtheoretical threshold for the effect of the U.S. group onboth Canada and the U.S. is the √1% of the total population of NorthAmerica. This threshold for North America as a whole ranged from1577 in 1979 to 1650 in 1988. Since the calculation of the theoreticalthreshold for the size of the TM-Sidhi group ignores the possible influenceof several other Super Radiance groups of smaller size in NorthAmerica as well as the effect generated by the more than one millionindividual practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique orTM-Sidhi program in the U.S. and Canada, the predicted results of421