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What leading scientists have said about the programmes of the Natural Law Party
(Ken Pease, Home Office adviser and Professor of Criminology explaining the Maharishi Effect on BBC Five Live)
"Problems cannot be solved at
the same level of awareness that created them."
Albert
Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"I regard consciousness as
fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from
consciousness."
Max
Planck (1858 -1947)
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The single most important policy of the Natural Law Party is its commitment to creating coherence in the collective consciousness of every country by establishing a large national group practising Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying on a daily basis.
Over 40 published studies spanning 20 years in a wide variety of political and social contexts have conclusively demonstrated that creating national coherence in this way (known as the Maharishi Effect) rapidly dissolves stress across the whole community leading to substantial reductions in negative social indicators such as crime, accidents and sickness. By contrast positive indicators such as political and economic stability, and international co-operation start to improve at the same time.
A number of governments in developing countries are now applying this approach because of its demonstrated reliability and cost effectiveness.
(A Methodological Review of Maharishi Effect Research)
A large amount of this research has been published in some of the world's most prestigious social and political science journals. A growing number of independent scientists are starting to speak out in support of the implementation of these discoveries, closely related to evolving 'Unified Field' theory as brought to light by modern quantum physics, as tools to reverse major negative trends in society. Here is what some of those scientists have said:
" I was initially sceptical, but having studied the research completed to date, I have concluded that these studies on the Maharishi Effect have subjected theory to proper empirical tests. They have shown sound results which demand serious interest."
Ken Pease, Professor of Criminology at the University of Huddersfield, Chairman of the Belfast based Centre for the Independent Research and Analysis of Crime, and Home Office adviser
"I think the claim can be plausibly made that the potential impact of this research exceeds that of any other on-going social or psychological research programme. The research has survived a broader array of statististical tests than most research in the field of conflict resolution; I think this work and the theory that informs it deserve the most serious consideration by academics and policy makers alike."
David Edwards, Ph.D, Professor of Government, University of Texas, Austin, USA.
"Home Office figures show that crime-related costs such as insured and uninsured losses, prison, courts and police expenditures, fraud, etc. amount to £5,000 per crime. Analysis of the effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation demonstrates that a 15% reduction in crime can be achieved within a short period. A 15% reduction in the current annual crime rate of 5.1 million crimes would save £3.8 billion each year. This contrasts with the present, costly largely ineffective government policies, including a prison construction programme which hasn't delivered any long term reductions in crime."
"I have been following the research on the Maharishi Effect as it has developed over the last twenty years. There is now a strong and coherent body of evidence showing that the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme provide a simple cost-effective solution to many of the social problems we face today. This research and its conclusions are so strong that it demands action from those responsible for government policy."
Huw Dixon, Professor of Economics at the University of York and Associate Editor of the prestigious Economic Journal
"This research is of the highest methodological quality, and has added to a large body of published research undertaken in many different countries using a wide variety of research designs over the last 20 years. The point is rapidly being reached at which these findings, and their far-reaching implications for how we deal with social problems, can no longer be ignored by policy makers."
Dr Jim Kemeny, Reader in Social Policy at the University of Plymouth
"In the studies that I have examined on the impact of the Maharishi Effect on conflict, I can find no methodological flaws, and the findings have been consistent across a large number of replications in many different geographical and conflictual situations. As unlikely as the premise may sound I think we have to take these studies seriously."
Ted Robert Gurr PhD, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland.
"The peer-reviewed literature provides statistically highly significant support for the claim that a marked, socially beneficial influence can result from large gatherings practising the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programmes. Moreover, the speed at which it is experienced would seem to rule out the explanations based on personal contacts."
James Lawton, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College; and former Research Director, CEGB, UK.
"The hypothesis definitely raised some eyebrows among our reviewers, but the statistical work was sound. The numbers were there ..... When you can statistically control for as many variables as these studies do, it makes the results much more convincing."
Raymond Russ, Professor of Psychology, University of Maine, USA; Editor of Journal of Mind and Behaviour.
"This research shows a great deal of promise. It is a non-traditional approach, but the methodology of these studies is sound and the statistical significance is high. In a world as unstable and dangerous as ours, I believe that any approach with such consistent objective support deserves careful attention."
Ved Nanda, PhD, President World Association of Law Professors, Director International Legal Studies Programme, University of Denver College of Law, Colorado.
"I want to express my support for this research. What we are really looking at here I think is a new paradigm of viewing crime and violence, and the new paradigm says, look to the individual acting in concert with other individuals to reduce crime constructively.... Having worked extensively on social problems in the District of Columbia for some 24 years at the University of the District of Columbia ..... I'd like to encourage taking this new idea very seriously ... I would like to recommend that this new model that is being offered and advanced here, after a number of exhaustive and very carefully controlled studies, be considered, and that we think about ways that it might be implemented in the inner city with youth and community people who live here."
Anne Hughes, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Government, University of the District of Columbia.
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(Bruno Darcy demonstrating Yogic Flying for the press on the south bank of the Thames during the 1994 European Elections)
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