International Peace Project in the Middle East THE EFFECTS OF THE MAHARISHI TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD: STRESS IN COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: THE SOURCE OF VIOLENT CONFLICT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS AND QUANTUM FIELDS METHODS INDENDENT VARIABLE DEPENDENT VARIABLES Individual Variables Composite Indices TIME SERIES ANALYSES Impaet Assessment Analysis Cross-Correlations and Transfer Functions RESULTS AND DISCUSSION IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND TRANSFER FUNCTIONS .individual Variables Composite Indices EVIDENCE OF CAUSALITY A FIELD-THEORETIC VIEW OF COLLECTIVE CON

This prospective social experiment tests a new theory and technology for alleviating violent conflict through reducing societal stress in an underlying field of "collective consciousness." It was predicted that group practice of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field (the Transcende...

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Published in:The Journal of conflict resolution 1988-01, Vol.32 (4), p.776
Main Authors: DAVID W ORME-JOHNSONCHARLES N ALEXANDERJOHN L DAVIES, Chandler, Howard M, Larimore, Wallace E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomy
Conflict resolution
Consciousness
Content analysis
Departments
Effect Size
Meditation
Meta Analysis
Metacognition
Nervous system
Peace
Quality of life
Resistance (Psychology)
Social Organizations
Society
Stress
Violence
War
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Summary:This prospective social experiment tests a new theory and technology for alleviating violent conflict through reducing societal stress in an underlying field of "collective consciousness." It was predicted that group practice of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field (the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program) during August and September, 1983, in Jerusalem, would reduce stress in the collective consciousness and behavior of Israel and Lebanon. Box-Jerkins ARIMA impact assessment, cross-correlation, and transfer function analyses were used to study the effects of changes in the size of the group on several variables and composite indices reflecting (a) the quality of life in Jerusalem (automobile accidents, fires, and crime), (b) the quality of life in Israel (crime, stock market, and national mood, derived from news content analysis), and (c) the war in Lebanon (war deaths of all factions and war intensity, delved from news content analysis). Increases in the size of the group had a statistically significant effect in the predicted direction on the individual variables and on all composite quality-of-life indices. The effects of holidays, temperature, weekends, and other forms of seasonality were explicitly controlled and could not account for these results. Cross-correlations and transfer functions indicated that the group had a leading relationship to change on the quality-of life indicators, supporting a causal interpretation.
ISSN:0022-0027
1552-8766