This study indicates that group practice
of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program improved the quality
of life in Israel as measured by improvement on an index comprising crime
rate, traffic accidents, fires, and the number of war deaths in Lebanon,
and by increases in the national stock market and improvements in national
mood. The chart above shows the strong correspondence between the number
of Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi program participants in the group in
Jerusalem and a composite index of all the above variables.
International peace project
in the Middle East: Effects of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field, Journal of Conflict
Resolution 32: 776–812, 1988.
