A study by a private Iowa university finds acts of international terrorism decrease when large groups of people practice transcendental meditation. Dr. David Orme-Johnson of Maharshi University in Fairfield says T-M helps promote peace and quells global conflicts, even those that have lasted for centuries.Dr. Orme-Johnson says the warfare “keeps perpetuating itself generation after generation and the only way to really deal with it effectively is to dissolve those stresses and that’s what these large coherence-creating groups do. They begin to dissolve that stress and people begin to see things differently, they’re much more free from the grip of history and can begin to live a more harmonious life.” The study finds there was a 72-percent reduction in terrorist acts following three large gatherings of people who practiced transcendental meditation between 1983 and 1995. Orme-Johnson says one of the sessions involved several hundred people in Fairfield and seven-thousand globally. He says the size of the group you influence is determined by the square root of one-percent of that group, so for the world, eight-thousand people are now needed, all practicing T-M, to have a worldwide impact. The sessions lasted between eight and 11 days. The study found that five days after the sessions began, terrorist activities around the world calmed down, while warfare due to national and international conflicts decreased by about 30-percent. Orme-Johnson says they’d like to hire a group of “peace keepers” who would practice T-M together for several hours a day, every day, to calm the planet. He says “What we’d like to do is have professional peace keeping groups in the world and that’s our effort right now. We’re trying to create a group in Fairfield, Iowa, of 18-hundred which would be sufficient to create coherence for the United States which would produce quite a bit of protection.” Ideally, Orme-Johnson says they’d like to see eight-thousand such T-M-practicing peace keepers working full-time in “peace palaces” to keep the world in better harmony and “to replace crime, hostility and fighting with mutual respect and cooperation.”
