In the 1960’s Maharishi Yogi predicted that a small amount of people experiencing a coherent meditative state would create a significant measurable influence on coherence and orderliness throughout the surrounding society. This became known as the Maharishi Effect and studies have shown that if the amount of people practicing meditation is larger than 1% of the square root of the population in which it is based, it will have a significant effect on the coherence of that society.
In the first of many studies published in peer-reviewed journals 24 cities in the US that had the transcendental meditation technique being practiced by more than 1% of the square root of its population had a drop in total crime by 16% as compared to control cities 0.27
Washington, DC, has one of the highest murder rates of any city in the world. In 1991 there were over 14,000 violent crimes, averaging about 40 per day. A meditation study was carried out there between 1981 and 1986 when between 350 to 500 experienced meditators meditated twice a day. During the five-year study when the ‘coherence-creating’ groups were meditating in the city, the violent crime rates were reduced by almost 50%! The data showed that other factors such as weather, police coverage and population changes did not account for the changes.
What can you do with the power of your mind?
