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improving national economy—alliance with nature’s governmentcise predictions of the effect of a planned gathering of experts in TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs were publicly lodgedwith independent bodies and the press prior to assembling the SuperRadiance group. The latter two studies, based on daily data, also featuredmany separate experimental periods which were randomly distributedthrough time, further strengthening the evidence for a causal effect.Finally, a causal interpretation of these findings is supported by the factthat the time series methodology used in all of the studies of the miseryindex described above, Liu’s linear transfer function method, has beenfound through simulation studies to be very effective in detecting the lackof relationship between variables which are, in fact, unrelated (Liu, 1985).This property of the LTF method, by contrast with several other influentialtime series methods, minimizes the chance of spurious findings.Taken together, the findings of these studies of the influence of thegroup practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programson Okun’s misery index of inflation and unemployment, therefore,provide strong support for the conclusion that Maharishi VedicScience and Technology offers economic policy makers an effective newinstrument of economic policy. The empirical results discussed in thispaper suggest that by promoting coherence in national consciousnessand bringing collective consciousness in alliance with the full potentialof natural law, nature’s government, the practice of the TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs by a single group comprising the√1% of the national population provides the foundation for the successof governmental efforts to improve national economic performance.The weight of existing evidence clearly supports the conclusion that anygovernment seeking to improve the national economy and simultaneouslylower inflation and unemployment would be prudent to makesupport for the group practice of this technology of consciousness anintegral part of its national economic policy.AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Wallace E. Larimore for statistical consultationand Gwendolyn Cavanaugh, Michael Dillbeck, Kenneth Chandler,and Geoffrey Wells for helpful comments. We would also like toexpress our thanks to John Dey, Scott Herriott, Ron Chase, and KenSewall for their interest and support.433