Multiple studies report observing reductions in societal conflict and improvements in positive trends when large groups practice TM and associated advanced techniques.
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- An Antidote to Violence: Evaluating the Evidence
Published June 26, 2020, An Antidote to Violence: Evaluating the Evidence provides evidence that the level of collective anxiety and tension in society, or incoherence in collective consciousness, is the key element, which determines the success or failure of a government in tackling crime, violence, social unrest and ill-health. Barry Spivack and Patricia Saunders describe how a rise in collective tensions spills over into increased social unrest, crime, violence, accidental deaths and hospital emergencies, and examine 20 peer-reviewed studies from over four decades indicating that it is possible to neutralize or reduce stress in collective consciousness.
- David Orme-Johnson discussion of studies on societal effects of TM
Is there scientific evidence for the Maharishi Effect: Does the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program improve the quality of life in society?
- Defusing Acute Societal Stress and Associated Conflict
David Orme-Johnson presentation at the conference on Science and Peace: Proven Solutions to Violence and Global Conflict, held in Kiev, Ukraine, June 14, 2017. The conference was hosted by the Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP).
- HuffPost Live - What's Working: Using Meditation Against Terrorism
"The Global Union of Scientists for Peace asked Presidents Obama, Hollande and Putin to use a scientific alternative to violence against terrorism: transcendental meditation. John Hagelin, Bob Roth and Col. Brian Rees join us to discuss the benefits." Originally aired on December 16, 2015" Guests: Bob Roth @meditationbob (New York , NY) Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation John Hagelin (New York, NY) President of the Global Union of Scientists for Peace Col. Brian Rees, M.D. (San Luis Obispo, CA) Physician; Retired Army Veteran Host: Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani
- Joachim Chissano and Mozambique's civil war
- Proven Solutions to Terrorism and Conflict (31 min)
Tony Nader MD, PhD For more information, visit this website: http://www.gusp.org
- The best weapon of all? Using meditation to stop war and terrorism
On December 16, 2015 the HuffPost Live reporter Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani hosted a discussion with Bob Roth, John Hagelin and Colonel Brian Rees on how the Transcendental Meditation practice can be used as a tool for increasing peace not only on the level of each individual but also on that of the society. What spurred the interest towards this topic was an open letter published in International New York Times (December 3, 2015) by the Global Union of Scientists for Peace in which presidents Obama, Hollande and Putin were called to use meditation as a way to deal with the threat of terrorism.
- Washington DC Group TM-Sidhis Demonstration Course Lowered Crime (11 min)
Long-time Sidhas Ciella Kollander and Jim Mayhew discuss a demonstration course in Washington DC they attended where the crime rate in DC was lowered by 23% through a large group practicing the advanced TM-Sidhis Program together. (See Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Preventing Violent Crime in Washington, D.C.: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June--July 1993. Social Indicators Research. June 1999, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp 153–201.)