Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

16 papers found

• 1987· The Journal of Mind and Behavior· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Dillbeck, M. C.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; Glenn, T.; Orme-Johnson, D. W.; and Mittlefehldt, V. Consciousness as a field: The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program and changes in social indicators. The Journal of Mind and Behavior 8: 67–104, 1987.

  Five time series studies conducted in different parts of the world consistently showed measurable improvements in society during periods in which the square root of one percent of the population was participating in the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. This is known as the Maharishi Effect.

  • Sociological—Reduced Crime: Decreased Crime (Union Territory of Delhi, India, 1980–1981; Metro Manila, Philippines, 1984–1985; Puerto Rico, 1984)
  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: Improvements on Monthly Quality of Life Index Including Crime, Fetal Deaths, and Other Deaths (Metro Manila Region, Philippines, 1979–1981)
  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: Improvements on Monthly Quality of Life Index Including Crime Rate, Motor Vehicle Fatality Rate, Mortality Rate for Other Causes, Auto Accident Rate, Unemployment Rate, Pollution, Beer Consumption Rate, and Cigarette Consumption Rate (State of Rhode Island, USA, 1978)
• 1987· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Cavanaugh, K. L. Time series analysis of US and Canadian inflation and unemployment: A test of a field-theoretic hypothesis. Revised and updated version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, San Francisco, California, USA, August 17–20, 1987, and published in Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section, pp. 799–804. Alexandria, Virginia, USA: American Statistical Association, 1987.

  Time series analysis of an index of inflation and unemployment showed that following periods of high participation in the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program by a single large group in North America, economic conditions improved in both the U.S. and Canada.

  • Sociological—Improved Economy: Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment (USA and Canada, 1979–1988)
• 1988· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Cavanaugh, K. L.; and King, K. D. Simultaneous transfer function analysis of Okun’s misery index: Improvements in the economic quality of life through Maharishi’s Vedic Science and Technology of Consciousness. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, August 22–25, 1988. An abridged version of this paper appeared in Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section, pp. 491–496. Alexandria, Virginia, USA: American Statistical Association, 1988.

  Time series analysis of an economic "misery index" of U.S. inflation and unemployment rates demonstrated reduction in this index following periods of high numbers of participants in the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program at Maharishi International University, controlling for changes in key U.S. economic variables.

  • Sociological—Improved Economy: Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment (USA, 1979–1988), Controlling for Monetary Growth and the Rate of Change of Crude Materials Prices
• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 4
  Dillbeck, M. C.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; and Berg, W. P. van den. The effect of the group dynamics of consciousness on society: Reduced crime in the Union Territory of Delhi, India. Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; and Maharishi European Research University, Seelisberg, Switzerland, 1983.

  A reduction in crime was found in the Union Territory of Delhi, India over a five-month period as a result of the collective practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program.

  • Sociological—Reduced Crime: Decreased Crime (Union Territory of Delhi, India, 1980–1981)
• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 4
  Alexander, C. N.; Abou Nader, T. M.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; Davies, J. L.; Dillbeck, M. C.; Kfoury, R. J.; and Orme-Johnson, D. W. The effect of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field on the war in Lebanon: A time series analysis of the influence of International and national coherence creating Assemblies. Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1984.

  On three separate occasions during a six-month period, substantial progress towards peaceful resolution of the Lebanese conflict was found to result from the collective practice of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field.

  • Sociological—Reduced Violent Conflict: Increased Progress towards Peaceful Resolution of Conflict and Decreased War Intensity (Lebanon, 1983–1984)
  • Sociological—Reduced Violent Conflict: Decreased War Deaths and War Injuries (Lebanon, 1983–1984)
  • Sociological—Improved Economy: Improved Foreign Exchange Rate (Lebanon, 1984)
• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 4
  Cavanaugh, K. L.; Orme-Johnson, D. W.; and Gelderloos, P. The effect of the Taste of Utopia Assembly on the World index of international stock prices. Department of Management and Public Affairs and Department of Psychology, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, 1984.

  The collective practice of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field by 7,000 experts-the square root of one percent of the world's population-assembled at Maharishi International University, U.S.A. was found to create coherence in the entire world consciousness, as reflected by a substantial increase in the World index, an international index of stock prices in 19 countries.

  • Sociological—Improved Economy: Rise of the World Index of Stock Prices and Simultaneous Increases in the World’s Major Stock Market Indices (Worldwide, 1983–1984)
• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 4
  Orme-Johnson, D. W.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; Alexander, C. N.; Gelderloos, P.; Dillbeck, M.; Lanford, A. G.; and Abou Nader, T. M. The influence of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field on world events and global social indicators: The effects of the Taste of Utopia Assembly. Department of Psychology and Department of Management and Public Affairs, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, and Department of Nutrition and Food Service, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1984.

  The collective practice of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field by one group of 7,000 experts-the square root of one percent of the world's population-assembled at Maharishi International University, U.S.A., was found to create coherence in the entire world consciousness, leading to an improved quality of life throughout the world. This was reflected in increased progress by heads of state in reversing negative trends and accelerating positive trends; increased harmony in international affairs; increased worldwide economic prosperity, as expressed in the simultaneous rise of stock markets in many different countries; decreased traffic fatalities; decreased air traffic fatalities; increased creativity, as measured by increased numbers of patent applications; decreased incidence of infectious diseases; and decreased crime.

  • Sociological—Reduced Violent Conflict: Increased Harmony in International Affairs—Increased Progress towards Peaceful Resolution of Conflict (Worldwide, 1983–1984)
  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: More Positive, Progressive Statements and Actions of Heads of State and Greater National and International Support for Their Policies and Leadership (Worldwide, 1983–1984)
  • Sociological—Improved Economy: Rise of the World Index of Stock Prices and Simultaneous Increases in the World’s Major Stock Market Indices (Worldwide, 1983–1984)
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• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Cavanaugh, K. L.; King, K. D.; and Ertuna, C. A multiple-input transfer function model of Okun’s misery index: An empirical test of the Maharishi Effect. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Washington, DC, USA, August 6–10, 1989. An abridged version of this paper appears in Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section, pp. 565–570. Alexandria, Virginia, USA: American Statistical Association, 1989.

  Periods with large numbers in the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program led to a marked reduction in an index of inflation and unemployment in the U.S., controlling for the effect of business cycle fluctuations as well as short- and long-term effects of other major economic variables.

  • Sociological—Improved Economy: Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment (USA, 1979–1988), Controlling for the Rate of Change of Industrial Production, Crude Materials Prices, and a Measure of the Money Supply
• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Cavanaugh, K. L.; King, K. D.; and Titus, B. D. Consciousness and the quality of economic life: Empirical research on the macroeconomic effects of the collective practice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Management Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 1989, and published in Proceedings of the Midwest Management Society, ed. R.G. Greenwood, pp. 183–190. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Midwest Management Society, 1989.

  Using another method of analysis, this study replicates previous research by showing that increased numbers of participants in the group practice of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program were followed by substantial declines in an index of inflation and unemployment, controlling for changes in other major economic variables.

  • Sociological—Improved Economy: Improved Quality of National Life as Measured by a Monthly Index of Inflation and Unemployment (USA, 1979–1988), Controlling for Changes in Major Economic Variables
• 1990· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Gelderloos, P.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; and Davies, J. L. The dynamics of US-Soviet relations, 1979–1986: Effects of reducing social stress through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section, pp. 297–302. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 1990.

  This time series study of an independent data bank found that when the size of a group of participants in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program in the United States was larger than the square root of one per cent of the U.S. population (a little over 1500 at the time—from 1979 to 1986), there was a significant increase in the positivity of actions of the United States towards the Soviet Union compared to periods when the size of the group was below 1500. When the group of participants in the TM-Sidhi program was larger than 1700, creating the strongest influence of the Maharishi Effect in the United States, there was also an independent significant increase of positivity of actions of the Soviet Union towards the United States.

  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: Improved USA Statements and Actions Towards the USSR and Improved USSR Statements and Actions Towards the USA (USA and USSR, 1979–1986)
• 1990· Modern Science and Vedic Science· Research Review· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Cavanaugh, K. L.; King, K. D.; and Titus, B. D. Improving the national economy through alliance with nature’s government: Effects of the group practice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. Modern Science Vedic Science 4: 3–41, 1990.

  This paper reviews a series of studies that document improvements in the national economies of the U.S. and Canada, as indicated by an index of decreased inflation and decreased unemployment, when the number of participants in Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program exceeded the square root of one per cent of their national populations.

  • Review Paper—Society: Review Paper—Economy
• 1991· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Cavanaugh, K. L.; and Gelderloos, P. U.S.–Soviet relations and the Maharishi Effect: A time series analysis. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1991.

  This study, using time series transfer function analysis of an independent data source on U.S.-Soviet relations from 1979 to 1986, found that during and immediately after the months in which were held assemblies of TM-Sidhi program participants large enough to predict an international influence, there was a statistically significant and substantial increase in the peaceful quality of actions of the Soviet Union toward the United States, controlling for the preceding behavior of the United States toward the Soviet Union. Supplementary analyses indicated that this effect was independent of any outlying data points, independent of seasonal behavior of the Soviet Union toward the United States, and independent of changes associated with the Gorbachev administration.

  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: Improved USSR Statements and Actions Towards the USA, Controlling for Behavior of USA, Seasonality, and Gorbachov Administration (USSR, 1979–1986)
• 1996· Psychology, Crime, and Law· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Hatchard, G. D.; Deans, A. J.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; and Orme-Johnson, D. W. The Maharishi Effect: A model for social improvement. Time series analysis of a phase transition to reduced crime in Merseyside metropolitan area. Psychology, Crime, and Law 2: 165–174, 1996.

  This study found decreased crime rate in Merseyside, England, from 1988 to 1991, after the establishment of a permanent group of participants in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, which exceeded in size the square root of one per cent of the population of the metropolitan area.

  • Sociological—Reduced Crime: Decreased Crime Rate (Merseyside, England, 1988–1991)
• 1999· Social Indicators Research· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 7
  Hagelin, John S.; Rainforth, Maxwell V.; Orme-Johnson, David W.; Cavanaugh, Kenneth L.; Alexander, Charles N.; Shatkin, Susan F.; Davies, John L.; Hughes, Anne O.; and Ross, Emanuel. Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program on preventing violent crime in Washington, DC: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June–July, 1993. Social Indicators Research 47: 153–201, 1999.

  During the period of a large assembly of experts in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, in Washington, D.C. in June and July of 1993, there was a significant decrease in violent crime (homicides, rapes, assaults) as indicated by time series analysis, with results independent of temperature and police staffing.

  • Sociological—Reduced Crime: Decreased Violent Crime (Washington, D.C., June–July 1993)
• 2003· Journal of Offender Rehabilitation· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 7
  Rainforth, Maxwell V.; Alexander, Charles N.; and Cavanaugh, Kenneth L. Effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on recidivism among former inmates of Folsom Prison: Survival analysis of 15-year follow-up data. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 36: 181–203, 2003.

  Maximum security prison inmates in California, USA, who learned the Transcendental Meditation program while incarcerated showed significantly less recidivism, as defined by new arrest leading to felony conviction, in contrast to control groups from the same prison and controlling for many demographic and background variables.

  • Rehabilitation of Offenders: Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Decreased Recidivism
  • Rehabilitation of Offenders: Rehabilitation of Prisoners: Reduced Severity of Re-offence
• 2011· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Hagelin, John S.; Rainforth, Maxwell V.; Orme-Johnson, David W.; Cavanaugh, Kenneth L.; Alexander, Charles N.; Shatkin, Susan F.; Davies, John L.; Hughes, Anne O.; and Ross, Emanuel. Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program on preventing violent crime in Washington, DC: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June–July 1993. Summary.

  This study found that during a two-month period in which an increasingly large group of participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program assembled in Washington, DC, there was a significant decrease in violent crime in the District of Columbia; violent crime decreased as the size of the group increased.

  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: Improved Quality of City Life as Measured by Decreased Violent Crime Rate in the National Capital (Washington, DC, USA, June and July, 1993)