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.