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Goodman et al., 1997

Goodman, Rachel S.; Orme-Johnson, David W.; Rainforth, Maxwell V.; and Goodman, David H. Transforming political institutions through individual and collective consciousness: The Maharishi Effect and government. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 1997. See also Dissertation Abstracts International 58(6): 2385A, 1997.

Also: Dissertation Abstracts International 58(6): 2385A, 1997.

Presidential approval ratings, media positivity towards the president, and five District of Columbia quality of life variables all showed significant improvement beginning during the period of a large assembly of experts in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program in Washington, D.C. in June and July of 1993.

Year
1997
Publication type
Doctoral Dissertation
Paper type
Empirical
Collected Papers
Vol. 7, pp. 5031–5048
Section
Productivity and Quality of Life

Findings (3)

Sociological—Improved Quality of Life

  • Improved Quality of Life in National Capital: Decreased Emergency Psychiatric Calls, Decreased Hospital Trauma Cases, Decreased Complaints Against Police, Decreased Accidental Deaths, Reduction of Social Stress Index (Washington, DC, July 1993)

    TM-Sidhi program · Time Series Analysis · TM-Sidhi · Maharishi Effect

  • Improved Quality of National Government: Increased Approval Ratings of Head of State (USA, 1993)

    TM-Sidhi program · Time Series Analysis · TM-Sidhi · Maharishi Effect

  • Increased Media Positivity Toward the Head of State (USA, 1993)

    TM-Sidhi program · Time Series Analysis · TM-Sidhi · Maharishi Effect

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