Throughout the physical and biological sciences, we can locate principles that give rise to permanence, or invincibility, where a system is strengthened to such an extent that its integrity remains virtually unaffected by outside influences that act upon it. In these cases, indestructibility seems always to depend on the coherence of collective functioning of the individual components of the system.
In Physics, principles of invincibility are those that protect the structural integrity of a system or its ability to maintain order. This may include many aspects, including, the strength of the material, its hardness, the strength of the structure, its resistance to outside penetrations, etc.
One example is the MEISSNER EFFECT! If we take an ordinary metal at ordinary temperatures—such as an iron bar at room temperature—and bring a magnet near the bar, the magnetic field will penetrate inside the iron. The electrons, which are already flowing around in a disorderly and confused state, will become even more disorderly and confused, because their paths are distorted by the presence of the magnetic field. In a superconductor, (any material that conducts electricity without any resistance to the flow of the electric current), however, something quite different takes place. In a superconductor, the electrons within are already moving in a coherent collective state, and because of their coherence, the invading magnetic field is repelled, and must flow around the outside of the superconductor. In this case, it is the coherence of the collective functioning of the electrons that causes it to maintain its invincible state.
In an ordinary electrical conductor, incoherent, disordered electrons allow penetration by an external magnetic field.
In a superconductor, coherent collective functioning of the electrons spontaneously excludes an external magnetic field, and maintains its impenetrable status.
The principle through which the Maharishi Effect resolves and prevents military conflicts is parallel to this principle of the Meissner Effect. Just as the process of introducing greater coherence among the iron molecules makes the bar invincible, a group of Yogic Flyers—experts in the practice of Maharishi’s TM-Sidhi Program—practicing this Vedic Technology introduces greater coherence and harmony in the collective consciousness of the nation, rendering the nation impervious to negative, hostile influences. This invincible armor is called a Kavach in the Vedic Language. When the nation is surrounded by a Kavach, it has no enemies, and therefore achieves victory before war, where even an enemy cannot be born.
This example of invincibility beautifully demonstrates the general principle of how inner coherent collective functioning of a system results in the ability to defend against external disturbing forces.
The results of the collective practice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program have been documented on every level of society by over 50 research studies, which have used the most sophisticated tools available to the social sciences. The following is a brief summary of some of the research on the Maharishi Effect.
Effects on City Life
Using Box-Jenkins time series impact assessment analysis of predicted threshold, scientists in 1984 found a 22% reduction in homicide when the group of Yogic Flyers exceeded the predicted threshold. Researchers in 1987 used Box-Jenkins time series impact assessment analysis of a 5-month intervention period compared to pre- and post-intervention baselines, and found that when the creating coherence group (Yogic Flyers) surpassed the square root of one per cent of the population of Metro Manila in the Philippines, there was a significant (p < .005) decrease in crime.
Effects on State and Provincial Life
Another researcher found in 1990 that a significant decline in crime rate, traffic fatality rate, and unemployment (also combined in an index) in the state of Iowa, USA, as a result of the coherence creating group at Maharishi International University (p’s < .05 for each variable). This researcher employed Box-Jenkins time series transfer function analysis of the effect of group size on quality of life.
Effects on National Life
A number of studies have demonstrated significant effects on the quality of life in an entire nation from a coherence creating group. These include decreased crime and accident rates in Holland during three intervention periods (all p’s < .025); increase in the British stock market index (1983); using Box-Jenkins time series impact assessment analysis, researchers in the U.S.A. found a decrease (p = .005) in traffic fatalities when a coherence creating group in Iowa exceeded the square root of one per cent of the nation’s population (1984).
Effects on Neighboring Countries
Employing Box-Jenkins time series impact assessment analysis of the effect of the TM-Sidhi group, a researcher found that the influence of a creating coherence group in the United States not only reduced Okun’s Misery Index (the sum of monthly inflation and unemployment rates) in the United States, but also in its neighboring country Canada. However, he noted that the effect was larger in the United States than in Canada, underscoring the need for every nation to maintain its own group.
Other researchers found that as the size of a creating coherence group increased in Jerusalem, it began to first influence the city, then the nation of Israel, and then its neighboring country Lebanon. This study measured a composite index including war intensity and war deaths in Lebanon, Israeli national mood and national stock index, auto accident rates, number of fires, and crime rates for both Jerusalem and Israeli; it employed Box-Jenkins time series analysis using impact assessment, cross correlation, and transfer function analyses of the creating coherence group size on all variables and indices.
Effects on International Conflict and Quality of Life
Studies have found that the Maharishi Effect creates a profound effect on International conflicts. A study of U.S. relations with the former Soviet Union between 1985 and 1987 found that when the size of the coherence-creating group at Maharishi International University exceeded the square root of one per cent of the U.S. population, there was in the following weeks a significant improvement in the actions of the United States toward the U.S.S.R.; in addition, studies have found decreased conflict in troubled areas of the world, and decreased war deaths and injuries and significant progress toward peace in Lebanon.
The Global Maharishi Effect
One of the most significant areas of research on the Maharishi Effect is the effect of a creating-coherence group of Yogic Flyers on the entire world. In December of 1983, Maharishi International University hosted a three-week assembly for participants in Maharishi’s TM-Sidhi program. Participants attended from all parts of the world, creating the first group in excess of 7,000 (the square root of one per cent of the world’s population). Using a variety of statistical techniques appropriate to the different data sets (including chi-square contingency table analysis and Box-Jenkins time series impact assessment analysis), researchers found a number of positive changes in the quality of life throughout the world, including increased positivity in trouble-spot areas (p < .002), increased progress towards peace in Lebanon (p < .006), and increase in the World Index of stock prices (p < .00004).
These studies clearly indicate the powerful influence available through the collective practice of Maharishi’s TM and TM-Sidhi Program. With the creation of groups in all the nation’s of the world, there will be a phase transition of world consciousness leading to Heaven on Earth for all mankind. In this way, Heaven on Earth is being created through the complete scientific knowledge of Natural Law that is now available to everyone through the programs of Maharishi’s Vedic Science and Technology.
The most powerful way to create invincibility is through groups of Yogic Flyers, for it is through the group practice of Maharishi’s TM-Sidhi Program, including Yogic Flying, that the quality of a nation’s collective consciousness can be most effectively improved. By creating enough groups throughout the world, every nation can enjoy invincibility, and the entire world will enjoy Heaven on Earth—life filled with happiness and success, free of problems and suffering, where every individual spontaneously lives in accord with Natural Law.