El efecto ‘Maharishi’

La idea de la paz mundial puede parecer utópica o inalcanzable en un mundo donde los conflictos y las tensiones parecen ser la norma. Sin embargo, no debemos subestimar el poder de la meditación y el yoga para transformar tanto a los individuos como a la sociedad en su conjunto.

No se trata solo de prácticas espirituales o filosóficas abstractas. Son técnicas que han sido estudiadas y respaldadas científicamente por sus efectos en la mente y el cuerpo. La meditación, por ejemplo, se ha relacionado con la reducción del estrés, la ansiedad y la depresión, así como con el aumento de la claridad mental y la empatía. El yoga, por su parte, no solo mejora la flexibilidad y la fuerza física, sino que también promueve la atención plena y la relajación.

Lo hemos podido comprobar en innumerables ocasiones: la práctica del yoga y la meditación aleja los elementos negativos del ser humano. El individuo conecta con su inteligencia natural, con su creatividad y con una cierta paz o fluidez que cada uno puede explicar más o menos a su manera. Su influencia positiva comienza a extenderse a su alrededor, aunque sea simplemente en pequeños detalles y frecuentemente esa persona queda apegada a una práctica que no solo le beneficia a así mismo a muchos niveles sino también a su entorno.

Cuando una persona se compromete a practicar regularmente la meditación o el yoga, comienza un proceso de autodescubrimiento y transformación. A través de la meditación, pueden aprender a controlar sus pensamientos y emociones, lo que les permite tomar decisiones más conscientes y estar en armonía consigo mismos. El yoga, por otro lado, les ayuda a desarrollar un cuerpo fuerte y saludable, lo que a su vez influye en su bienestar general.

Lo que es aún más interesante es cómo esta transformación individual puede extenderse a la sociedad en su conjunto. Cuando una persona encuentra la paz interior a través de la meditación y el yoga, emana una energía positiva que puede influir en su familia, amigos y comunidad. Aunque estos cambios pueden comenzar con pequeños gestos y actitudes más compasivas, pueden tener un efecto dominó que se propaga a través de las relaciones y comunidades.

La idea de que un grupo de personas meditando en conjunto pueda tener un impacto aún mayor es poderosa. Las investigaciones sugieren que cuando un número significativo de personas medita simultáneamente, la energía colectiva que se genera puede tener un impacto mucho más grande en la conciencia global. Este concepto es conocido como el "efecto del Maharishi" y se ha estudiado en numerosas ocasiones. Se ha encontrado que el 1% de la población meditando en grupo puede tener un efecto positivo en la reducción de la violencia y el conflicto en una región.

Tenemos herramientas para encontrar la paz interior y extenderla a los demás. A medida que más personas adoptan estas prácticas, existe la posibilidad real de que podamos cambiar nuestra percepción del mundo y, al final, contribuir a un mundo más pacífico.

La paz puede no ser un sueño inalcanzable, sino tal vez una meta en manos de cada uno de nosotros.

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An investigation into field effects of consciousness from the perspectives of Maharishi's Vedic Science and physics

A long-range field effect of consciousness has been reported repeatedly in the scientific literature over the past twenty years. This phenomenon is called the Maharishi Effect, after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the first to predict it. The Maharishi Effect is the phenomenon of improved societal trends resulting from the practice of the Transcendental Meditationoler program or group practice of the TM-Sidhioler program by a small fraction of a population. The Maharishi Effect is fundamentally a phenomenon of radiation of evolutionary influence arising from the enlivenment of pure consciousness, the unified field of natural law, in the perspective of Maharishi's Vedic Science. This perspective is corroborated by forty-three published or presented papers reporting on results of Maharishi Effect interventions world-wide at city, national, international, and global scales. Present day standard- model physics and physiology do not account for the outcomes of the research on the Maharishi Effect. Because the observed societal impact of the Maharishi Effect influence must be based in an impact on the individual, and investigators report detection of the effect in individual physiological measurements, a simple robust indicator for the effect might aid physiologists and physicists in the effort to extend their sciences to include such field effects of consciousness. Thus, this dissertation reports on two experiments investigating simple, robust, objective indicators for the effect. The dissertation concludes on a practical note with a description of the promise, available through concerted utilization of the knowledge and technologies of consciousness in Maharishi's Vedic Science, for enhanced national and global security in the face of unprecedented nuclear, biological, and genetic threats for which the modern sciences offer few sensible solutions. ftnolerTranscendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi are service marks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, licensed to Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation, and used under sublicense.

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An investigation into field effects of consciousness from the perspectives of Maharishi's Vedic Science and physics

Maharishi Effect: A Model for Social Improvement. Time Series Analysis of a Phase Transition to Reduced Crime in Merseyside Metropolitan Area | Office of Justice Programs

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Global impact of the Maharishi Effect from 1974 to 2017: theory and research

World peace is the urgent goal of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s revival of the consciousness-based technologies of ancient Vedic India. Towards this end, Maharishi created a worldwide organisation, founded universities in several countries, and trained over 20,000 teachers of the Transcendental Meditation technique who in turn have taught it to approximately ten million people, which for five decades has increasingly created an influence of harmony in the world. Maharishi’s approach to peace is through creating coherence in collective consciousness, which he holds to be the fundamental force governing the quality of life in society. The individual is the unit of collective consciousness, with each individual contributing to all collective levels—family, city, state, national, and world. Reciprocally, each level of collective consciousness influences every individual’s mind and behaviour. Therefore, the quality of consciousness of the individuals in society is the grass roots cause of the quality of collective consciousness. Stressed and sleepy individuals not only have poor judgement, make mistakes, and cause suffering for themselves and family, friends, and associates, they also propagate an influence of stress into collective consciousness that affects everyone in society, inclusive of the entire world. Through Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation technique, the individual mind effortlessly transcends through increasingly subtle levels of thinking to arrive at the completely silent state of pure consciousness at the deepest level of the mind, which is unbounded awareness and infinite peace. Pure consciousness is held to be the direct experience of the transcendental unified field of Natural Law governing all forms and phenomena in the universe. Extensive research shows that regular experience of it through Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation technique and his advanced Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, creates an influence of harmony, not only throughout all levels of the individual’s physiology, mind, and social behaviour, but also throughout all levels of collective consciousness with which the individual is associated. The influence of the meditator on his or her family, community, nation, and world enhances lively, creative, and dynamic interactions among the different groups in society. Collective behaviour on every level becomes harmonious and mutually supportive, unifying society into one orderly, evolutionary, balanced structure of natural law. This is called coherence in collective consciousness. Maharishi identifies the basis of war and terrorism as stress in collective consciousness, which is the opposite of coherence. In this view, mistakes, problems, and difficulties within individual lives accumulate as collective stress. When stress in collective consciousness is left to increase unabated, it reaches a phase transition threshold at which point violence breaks out in society, such as in violent crimes, strikes, riots, terrorism, and war. The way to reduce stress in the individual and society and ultimately to end war is to transcend, which is to bring pure consciousness to the awareness of the individual mind and hence into collective consciousness. Not everyone in society needs to meditate to have this effect. A general principle in science is that the coherent elements of a system have a more powerful effect than the incoherent elements. Extensive, well-controlled empirical research demonstrates that when 1% of a local or national population experiences pure consciousness through the practice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation technique or when a group of the square root of 1% of a population experiences it through his Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, greater coherence in collective consciousness is propagated, thereby resolving conflict and improving the quality of life of the city, nation, or world. The phenomenon of 1% of the population practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique improving the quality of life in the larger society is called the Maharishi Effect, whereas the effect created by a group of the square root of 1% of the population practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program is called the Extended Maharishi Effect. Research carried out internationally by multiple research teams to investigate the theory and research on the Maharishi Effect began in the early 1970s and continues to the present day. Of the 700 studies on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, more than 50 have investigated its effects on society. These studies have shown such changes as reductions in crime, accidents, mortality, war, and terrorism and improvements in economic indicators and the general quality of life. Moreover, this body of studies is the only truly experimental research in the history of the social sciences to show such holistic improvements in society on the scales of entire cities, states, nations, and the world. Included in these studies are ones that have experimentally created groups practicing the Transcendental Meditation and Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi program in large populations with the predicted outcomes on specific social indicators, lodged in advance with independent project review boards. This research has used state-of-the-art statistical methodologies to control for trends and cycles in the data, indicating that the observed changes were new and unpredicted. These studies have controlled for a wide range of demographic, political, environmental, and other variables, ruling out alternative hypotheses. Some studies have used causal analyses, which indicate the causal role of the Transcendental Meditation and Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi programs in causing the measured improvements in society. These findings have been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented and published in the proceedings of professional conferences. The current paper has been written to overview the theory and research on this historic phenomenon that is now improving the destiny of humanity.

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