Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

improving national economy—alliance with nature’s governmentFigure 6. 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.The plot for Canada also exhibits a possible downward shift in themean level of the index during 1983 when the average size of the SuperRadiance group began to frequently exceed the critical threshold for allof North America. For the period April 1979 to April 1988 the simplecontemporaneous correlation between the Canadian misery index andthe size of the Super Radiance group is –.319, somewhat smaller thanthe comparable correlation of –.501 for the U.S.The weaker relationship between the average size of the SuperRadiance group and the misery index for Canada is consistent withMaharishi’s analysis of collective consciousness. Since the theoreticalSuper Radiance threshold for influencing both Canada and the U.S. islarger than the critical threshold for the U.S. alone, this higher thresholdfor influencing all of North America was reached fewer times overthe period 1979 to 1988 than the lower threshold for the U.S. Similarreasoning may also help to explain why the rising trend of the Canadianindex was reversed at a later date than for the U.S. index, and whythe proportionate decline of the Canadian index was also less than thatof her neighbor to the south.425