Kommentare
zu wissenschaftlichen Studien
über den Maharishi Effekt

 International Peace Project in the Middle East
Journal of Conflict Resolution 32: 776-812, 1988
http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/32/4/776.abstract

The Effects of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field
David W. Orme-Johnson Department of Psychology, Maharishi International University
Charles N. Alexander Department of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University
John L. Davies
Howard M. Chandler Department of Psychology, Maharishi International University
Wallace E. Larimore Computational Engineering, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts

Abstract 
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-Jenkins 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, derived 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.

Kommentar von Univ. Prof. em. Dr. Anton Amann, Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien (30. März 1995)
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A Field-Theoretic View of Consciousness: Reply to Critics
David W. Orme-Johnson and Robert M. Oates, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfi eld, IA 52557, USA
Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume 22, Number 3, 2008
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Research on the Maharishi Effect
David Edwards Ph.D., Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
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