Bogus science. Flying smart bombs would be more effective.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <dickm...@...> wrote:
>
> The following article summarizes findings of the
> TM-Sidhi Program's beneficial societal influence
> from 50 studies. The article also describes new
> findings that this peace-giving influence is two
> to five times as powerful as conventional
> military and political factors. Very encouraging!
> Jai Guru Dev.
>
>
> From: Ken Chawkin <kchaw...@...>
>
> <http://www.thecolombotimes.com/>
>
> <http://thecolombotimes.com/international/10354-president-obama-peace-in-the-middle-east-scientific-solution-to-your-political-problem.html>President
>
> Obama, Peace in the Middle East: Scientific
> solution to your political problem?
>
> Wednesday, 02 December 2009 17:52
>
> Peace in the Middle East is easily within our
> grasp, as indicated by a new scientific paper
> recently published in the "Journal of Scientific
> Exploration."
>
> The study addresses the possibility that a
> relatively small group of people practising the
> Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi
> programme®, as founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
> twice daily together in a group can create peace
> in the Middle East.
>
> The hypothesis is not new. Fifty studies have
> found that when 1% of the population practises
> Transcendental Meditation, or sufficiently large
> groups practise the TM-Sidhi programme together
> twice daily, it can have a positive influence on
> society as a whole. The studies show, for
> example, decreased violence, crime, car
> accidents, and suicides, and improved quality of
> life in a society. Critics had questioned the
> credibility of the evidence in light of the
> unconventional nature of the proposition.
>
> Reduced conflict and improved quality of life in the Middle East:
>
> August-September 1983
>
> A composite sociological index closely tracks the
> size of a group practising the Transcendental
> Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. (See details
> in text below.)
>
> The new analysis addresses this question more
> thoroughly than previously. It presents new
> statistical evidence that all credible
> conventional explanations - such as military and
> political events, public holidays, and the
> weather - could not explain the observed
> statistically significant changes in sociological
> variables shown in an earlier study on the
> influence of groups practising the TM-Sidhi
> programme (Orme-Johnson DW, Alexander CN, Davies
> JL, Chandler HM, & Larimore WE. International
> peace project in the Middle East: The effect of
> the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field.
> Journal of Conflict Resolution 1988 32:776-812,
> findings illustrated above). The observed changes
> in the Middle East included reductions in war
> deaths of 75%, war intensity of 45%, in crime of
> 12%, in fires of 30%, plus there were
> improvements in national mood of 27% and the
> stock market of 7% during the experimental period.
>
> Although conventional factors did have a
> measureable influence on the level of violence
> and other sociological variables, the effect of
> the Transcendental Meditation group was,
> according to the researchers, both independent of
> these other factors and approximately two to five
> times stronger.
>
> Brain research has found that Transcendental
> Meditation increases coherence in brain
> functioning. Lead author of the new study David
> Orme-Johnson, former Chairman of the Psychology
> Department at Maharishi University of Management,
> suggests that: "Given the assumption of
> Maharishi's theory that individuals are the units
> of collective consciousness, increased coherence
> at the individual level could be expected to have
> a positive effect on the population level".
>
> According to a number of earlier studies, this
> effect is magnified when, in addition to
> Transcendental Meditation, the more advanced
> TM-Sidhi programme, which includes Yogic Flying,
> is practised in a group. In this case, the square
> root of 1% of a population practising Yogic
> Flying in a group is the threshold at which
> changes in social trends begin to be observed.
> Interestingly, this effect appears to be
> irrespective of national borders and different
> cultures. According to the theory, a group of
> 10,000 generating such an influence of coherence
> would be sufficient to noticeably influence the
> collective consciousness of the whole world.
>
> If the science is so watertight, and the
> potential benefits so great, the obvious
> question, then, is: Why has no one yet
> established such a group anywhere in the world?
> One reason why policy makers have been reluctant
> to do so is that they take the view that
> conventional military and political factors must
> have more influence than Transcendental
> Meditation and Yogic Flying. However, the new
> research has shown that this assumption is quite
> incorrect.
>
> A coherence-creating group of 10,000 people could
> be established for less than 0.2% of the world's
> military expenditure, and yet, according to the
> research, could ensure a stable state of world
> peace.
>
> The David Lynch Foundation for
> Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace,
> founded by the award-winning filmmaker, joined
> with Paul McCartney in April to raise funds to
> teach Transcendental Meditation to one million
> at-risk children. The benefit concert in New York
> is said to have raised £2m on ticket sales and
> fund raising continues. The philanthropic
> Foundation is already involved in teaching
> Transcendental Meditation in schools in the
> Middle East with the explicit aim of creating
> permanent peace in the region.
>
> Dr. Orme-Johnson is available for interview: Tel
> 850-231-2866 See his website:
> <http://www.truthabouttm.org>www.truthabouttm.org
> Dr. David Leffler is available for interview and
> to set up interviews with other military-related
> people. See this website:
> <http://www.StrongMilitary.org>http://www.StrongMilitary.org
> Tel 845-489-8653
>
