[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: new Maharishi Effect article published

[yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

That's the problem: There's zero "controlled testing".  Just another feeble 
attempt to prove the ME (The Maharishi - Effect, now called the Meissner-like 
effect.. I'm not saying there's no ME.  It's simply beyond the capacity of 
modern science to measure it objectively. Correlation is not causation.  How 
many times to people need to repeat that? 
 From Wikipedia on the Maharishi Effect::
 

 According to Hagelin, the analysis was examined by an "independent review 
board", although all members of the board were TM practitioners. Robert L. Park 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Park, research professor and former 
chair of the Physics Department at the University of Maryland, called the study 
a "clinic in data distortion".[14] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-Park2000pp29-31-14 In 1994 
a science satire magazine, Annals of Improbable Research 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Improbable_Research, "awarded" Hagelin 
the Ig Nobel Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize for Peace, "for 
his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent 
decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C."[34] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-34[35] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-35
 In 1999 Hagelin held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to announce that 
the TM movement could end the Kosovo War 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War with yogic flying. He suggested that 
NATO set up an elite corps of 7,000 yogic flyers at a cost of $33 million.[15] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-Fox2005-15[36] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-36
 

 SHALOM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: new Maharishi Effect article published

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Yes, more controlled study is certainly needed to to drill down into 
understanding the Meissner-like effect mechanism of meditation.  Healthy 
skepticism of the correlation hardly negates the certainty of the published 
research. 
 Good independent observation though. Heroin use possibly may have more to do 
with the coming on of Mexican criminal production of new powerful synthetics 
then than meditation practice itself.  The increase in heroin use/addiction 
during the test period may well show how incredibly corrosive drug use is in 
its countervalence of spirituality.. 
 More controlled hypothesis testing of assertions needed. 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "The study found that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and 
TM-Sidhi® program by participants in the Invincible America Assembly at 
Maharishi University of Management (MUM) was associated with a 20.6% reduction 
of US motor vehicle fatalities over the four-year period 2007–2010…
 From 2007–2010 the size of the group was above or near 1,725 participants, the 
size predicted to have a positive influence on the US quality of life…"
  
  
 Well, as far as initiation of heroin is concerned, it appears that during the 
years 2007 to 2010 (the years claimed that TM/Sidhi program was associated with 
a 20.6% reduction of vehicle fatalities), Total initiation of  heroin by 
individuals peaked at its all-time highest over the period of 2002 to 2013.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_1943/ShortReport-1943.pdf
 
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_1943/ShortReport-1943.pdf

 See Figure 2. Past year initiation of heroin among individuals aged 12 or 
older, by age group: 2002 to 2013
  
  Source: SAMHSA, CBHSQ, National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs), 
2002 to 2005, 2006 to 2010 (revised March 2012), and 2011 to 2013.
  
  upfronter asserts:
 The Maharishi Effect between 2007 to 2010 increases heroin initiation (hence 
possible death by heroin) – but it also decreases death by vehicle accident?
  
 By the logic used in the TM report, an increase in heroin initiates is "a 
positive influence on the US quality of life". Hardly!
  
 I believe that some stronger coffee is required.




 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Attached is a summary of a new Maharishi Effect article, just published in the 
Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. 
Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. Please feel free to share widely.


"The study found that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and 
TM-Sidhi® program by participants in the Invincible America Assembly at 
Maharishi University of Management (MUM) was associated with a 20.6% reduction 
of US motor vehicle fatalities over the four-year period 2007–2010. The rate of 
all other accidental deaths was also reduced by a total of 13.5% over the same 
period.
 
The study estimates that 19,435 motor vehicle fatalities and 16,759 other 
accidental deaths were averted by the significantly reduced trends in accident 
rates.
From 2007–2010 the size of the group was above or near 1,725 participants, the 
size predicted to have a positive influence on the US quality of life. This 
predicted threshold represents the square root of 1% of the US population."
A new Maharishi Effect paper has just been published in the Journal of 
Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh 
and Dr. Michael Dillbeck.
 
The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: new Maharishi Effect article published

[upfron...@ymail.com [FairfieldLife]]

"The study found that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and 
TM-Sidhi® program by participants in the Invincible America Assembly at 
Maharishi University of Management (MUM) was associated with a 20.6% reduction 
of US motor vehicle fatalities over the four-year period 2007–2010…
 From 2007–2010 the size of the group was above or near 1,725 participants, the 
size predicted to have a positive influence on the US quality of life…"
  
  
 Well, as far as initiation of heroin is concerned, it appears that during the 
years 2007 to 2010 (the years claimed that TM/Sidhi program was associated with 
a 20.6% reduction of vehicle fatalities), Total initiation of  heroin by 
individuals peaked at its all-time highest over the period of 2002 to 2013.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_1943/ShortReport-1943.pdf
 
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_1943/ShortReport-1943.pdf

 See Figure 2. Past year initiation of heroin among individuals aged 12 or 
older, by age group: 2002 to 2013
  
  Source: SAMHSA, CBHSQ, National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs), 
2002 to 2005, 2006 to 2010 (revised March 2012), and 2011 to 2013.
  
  
 The Maharishi Effect between 2007 to 2010 increases heroin initiation (hence 
possible death by heroin) – but it also decreases death by vehicle accident? 
  
 By the logic used in the TM report, an increase in heroin initiates is "a 
positive influence on the US quality of life". Hardly!
  
 I believe that some stronger coffee is required.
 



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Attached is a summary of a new Maharishi Effect article, just published in the 
Journal of Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. 
Kenneth Cavanaugh and Dr. Michael Dillbeck. Please feel free to share widely.


"The study found that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and 
TM-Sidhi® program by participants in the Invincible America Assembly at 
Maharishi University of Management (MUM) was associated with a 20.6% reduction 
of US motor vehicle fatalities over the four-year period 2007–2010. The rate of 
all other accidental deaths was also reduced by a total of 13.5% over the same 
period.
 
The study estimates that 19,435 motor vehicle fatalities and 16,759 other 
accidental deaths were averted by the significantly reduced trends in accident 
rates.
From 2007–2010 the size of the group was above or near 1,725 participants, the 
size predicted to have a positive influence on the US quality of life. This 
predicted threshold represents the square root of 1% of the US population."
A new Maharishi Effect paper has just been published in the Journal of 
Consciousness Studies, January-February 2017, authored by Dr. Kenneth Cavanaugh 
and Dr. Michael Dillbeck.
 
The Contribution of Proposed Field Effects of Consciousness to th...: Ingenta 
Connect 
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ingentaconnect.com%2Fcontentone%2Fimp%2Fjcs%2F2017%2F0024%2FF0020001%2Fart3=ATMWcpm049VWbqCpjQi1Jgw-I0AGt298WhXqUr7UbPSxyFwyhEarV9tSSK3jdPy2k49kqF7ky2-ITXa2nhi8I1nVKaOa42AXjB1Pe6Vi6cmAtXDDi-xkGzMnP7smwkIYljxjz1M=AZMTKbsNeiUBlGkt9xAGv4-eEwg3pdyPKnpc1-nPQtSfQRlAjbiJS7JuKUJGqwwi01sLxxkOVEna2Pj2OPe9nAC_A-oF0r9uIAwBJhuTePrTTqqplJcXFfR9wi8DLM1JzuveMmLoJx8gIAz9mtYoM2YR7DQQbCAJQVNMXsTaUy-839v17GBNtNLVQJRV-_LXHbsG0iXrN8ndsiNf48DquYTR=1
Keywords: TM-Sidhi programme; accidental fatality prevention; consciousness and 
collective behaviour; intervention analysis; motor vehicle fatality prevention; 
time series regression models
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