The Journal of Mind and Behavior 8: 67–104, 1987. Consciousness as a field: The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program and changes in social indicators.
The effect was also independent of time of year it was not found at the same time in prior years.ĭillbeck, M. A secondary analysis of violent crimes against persons found the effect of the TM-Sidhi program group could not be attributed to changes in police staffing. The effect for the same period for violent crimes overall (against both persons and property) was a reduction of 15.6% (p =. The maximum effect, when the group was largest in the final week, was for violent crimes against persons a reduction of 23.3% (p < 2 x 10-9) for 1993 data, or 24.6% for 1988– 1993 data. Social Indicators Research 47: 153–201, 1999.įindings: There was a highly significant decrease in violent crime associated with increases in the size of the group of TM-Sidhi program Yogic Flyers. Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program on preventing violent crime in Washing-ton, DC: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June–July, 1993. Psychology, Crime, and Law 2: 165–174, 1996.įindings: Metropolitan Merseyside, England, showed decreased crime when the number of group participants in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program in an adjacent community reached the square root of one per cent of the metropolitan area.
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Time series analysis of a phase transition to reduced crime in Merseyside metropolitan area. The Maharishi Effect: A model for social improvement. Journal of Conflict Resolution 32: 776–812, 1988.įindings at the City Level: The quality of life in Jerusalem, as assessed by an index measuring reduced crime, reduced automobile accidents, and reduced fires, improved immediately during periods when a large group was participating in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program in the city. International peace project in the Middle East: The effect of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field. metropolitan areas.įindings of Study 3: In the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., during periods when the size of a group of participants in the TM-Sidhi program of Yogic Flying exceeded the square root of one per cent of the metropolitan population, there was a significant decrease in violent crime, with the size of the decrease in proportion to the size of the group of Yogic Flyers. This paper reported the results of three studies at the city level.įindings of Study 1: In a random sample of 160 cities in the United States, causal analysis statistical procedures found that the proportion of the population instructed in the Transcendental Meditation technique had a leading influence in reduction of crime rate over the subsequent years.įindings of Study 2: The findings of Study 1 were replicated in a sample of 80 U.S. The Journal of Mind and Behavior 9: 457–486, 1988. Test of a field model of consciousness and social change: The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program and decreased urban crime. They also showed decreased trend of crime rate over the following five years in contrast to the control cities.ĭillbeck, M. Journal of Crime and Justice 4: 25–45, 1981.įindings: Cities in which one per cent of the population were instructed in the Transcendental Meditation program showed decreased crime rate the following year in contrast to matched control cities. The Transcendental Meditation program and crime rate change in a sample of forty eight cities.
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