[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect from Invincible America Assembly

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Thanks.  From Wikipedia: in a nutshell the ME lacks a causal explanation and 
cherry picks the data.  In other words, correlation is not causation; and 
beyond correlation, (something like: During period A in which people gathered 
in the Dome, there were (fill in......; such as fewer automobile deaths.).
 Apart from such putative correlations, the MUM Profs have offered no 
reasonable causal explanation supported by tangible evidence.  For one thing, 
there is no machine that can measure the ME, and thus it's up to some 
individual (without giving his reasons), as to why the ME is a certain 
strength, and that it can influence physical events.
 It's cherry picking, since the MUM Profs claim to be able to isolate one 
effect among countless other effects, and also haven't eliminated other causes 
as potential agents for the results. It could be due to Christian prayers, or 
countless Pundits in India doing their pujas and yagyas, as had occurred for 
thousands of years.  Nothing new here!  And yet the Profs claim that history 
has changed merely because a small group of people bounce on their butts in 
Fairfield
 But don't get me wrong.  I'm saying that the Shakti effect is quite real and 
valuable; but NOT that it can be measured scientificially.and that individual 
effects  can be identified.  To do so would counter the statement in the Gita 
that Karma is unfathomable.
 Wikipedia:
 Maharishi Effect[edit 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transcendental_Meditation&action=edit&section=5]
 In the 1960s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi described a paranormal 
effect that he claimed a significant number of individuals (1% of the people in 
a given area) practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique (TM) could 
have on the local environment.[95] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#cite_note-95 This 
hypothetical influence was later termed the Maharishi Effect. With the 
introduction of the TM-Sidhi program in 1976, Maharishi proposed that the 
square root of one percent of the population practicing the TM-Sidhi program, 
together at the same time and in the same place, would increase 
"life-supporting trends". This was referred to as the "Extended Maharishi 
Effect".[96] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#cite_note-Karam-96[97] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#cite_note-97 Evidence, 
which TM practitioners[98] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#cite_note-Park-98 
believe supports the existence of the effect, has been said to lack a causal 
basis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality.[99] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#cite_note-Fales-99 The 
evidence was said to result from cherry-picked data 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)[100] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation#cite_note-Schrodt-100 
and the credulity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credulity of believers