Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and governmentQuality of Life Change Index and Maharishi IndesFigure 1; The Annual Percentage Change in the U.S. Quality of Life Indexand the Maharishi Effect Index.* The drop in the Maharishi Index in 1981 was caused by many participantsin the collective practice of the TM-Sidhi program at MIU going overseasto do fieldwork.A Quality of Life Cumulative Index was computed over the differentyears by setting the 1960 level at 100 and successively adding each annualchange in the Quality of Life Index to the cumulative total for the previousyear. These values are represented in the fourth column of Table 1 and aredisplayed in Figure 2.546