Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and governmentCoherence-Creating PropertiesAs was previously mentioned, Maharishi predicted that only a smallnumber of individuals practicing the Transcendental Meditation andTM-Sidhi programs in a group would create the coherence necessaryto alleviate disorderliness in society.Research has indicated that this number is only the square root of1% of a population. There are examples in physical systems parallelto the Maharishi Effect, such as the functioning of lasers, superconductors,and superfluids. For example, in the case of a wave travelingthrough a field, the intensity of the wave is proportional to the squareof the number of components emitting coherent radiation into the field.In another example, when a group of atoms is oscillating in coherence(synchrony of frequency and phase) enlivening an electromagnetic field,the intensity of the radiation is proportional to the square of the numberof atoms. Moreover, in the functioning of a laser beam, a small subsetof atoms is able to align the remainder of atoms to create a powerfulbeam of coherent light, in contrast to regular light, which is producedby random and incoherent photons.Among the characteristics of the Maharishi Effect of interest to theissue of human security are those that promote invincible defense. KofiAnnan stated in an address to the General Assembly of the UnitedNations: “A tragic irony of many of the crises that continue to gounnoticed and unchallenged today is that they could be dealt with byfar less perilous acts of intervention then the one we witnessed recentlyin Yugoslavia . . . any armed intervention is itself a result of the failureof prevention.” 37As was discussed in the introductory section, security cannot beachieved through weaponry or through vigilance alone, whether inthe school, the gated community, or the sovereign nation. Throughoutnature, analogous situations occur which describe deterrence to invasion.In physical systems, if there is any weakness, foreign elementscan enter the system. In contrast, if the system is coherent in relationto its own nature, it can repel entry by a foreign substance. A dramaticexample is the Meissner Effect, drawn from superconductivity.In an ordinary conductor, the electrons flow in a disorderly manner.When a magnet is applied, the magnetic influence creates even greater66