Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and govermentexperimental studies documenting the sociological improvementsresulting from the group practice of the TM-Sidhi program. Basedon these results Maharishi asserts that the collective practice of theTM-Sidhi program in groups of 8000 (the square root of one percentof the world’s population) would produce coherence in the collectiveconsciousness of the entire world. Statistically significant reductions incrime, accidents, fatalities, and disease, and other positive benefits on aglobal scale observed during experimental periods have established thisas an effective means of changing collective consciousness and therebychanging the quality of life in the world—simply by enlivening thesource of order and coherence at the basis of nature, from the level ofthe unified field.Maharishi’s Program to Create World PeaceThe most dramatic application of the Transcendental Meditation andTM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, is Maharishi’s programto create world peace through the creation of a permanent group of8000 collectively practicing Maharishi’s technologies of consciousness.These technologies are a basis for eliminating negativity and destructivetendencies throughout the world. Large groups of experts in theTM-Sidhi program, creating coherence, during experimental periods,have provided ample opportunity for scientific research. Duringthese experimental periods, conflict and violence have been reducedin war‐torn areas and negative trends have been reversed. Over thirtystudies have established the efficacy of this technology to eliminateconflict and promote life-supporting, positive trends throughout theworld.Maharishi clearly lays out the basis of his program to create worldpeace. Stress, he holds, is the basic cause of all negativity, violence,terrorism, and national and international conflicts. Stress generated bythe violation of natural law causes strained trends and tendencies in theenvironment. Through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhiprograms, including Yogic Flying, human intelligence can be identifiedwith the unified field, and violations of natural law will cease. “Reinforcementof evolutionary power in world consciousness is the onlyeffective way,” Maharishi holds, “to neutralize all kinds of negative596