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How can we begin to understand this remarkable phenomenon? A group of people meditating together can lower crime? Dr. Tony Nader and scientists David Orme-Johnson and Ken Cavanaugh discuss the findings that every individual in the population contributes to national consciousness and, reciprocally, national consciousness influences everyone. The research is focused on the advanced techniques of Transcendental Meditation and shows how large groups of people practicing this technique have a large positive effect on society, with significant decreases in the national homicide rate, motor vehicle fatality rate, drug-related death rate, violent crime rate, infant mortality rate, and fatality rate for other accidents. Listen in as they discuss the results and what this could mean for lowering the overall stress of our society and our world. Stay tuned for Part 3! Links: Orme-Johnson, D. W., Cavanaugh, K. L., Dillbeck, M. C., & Goodman, R. S. (2022). Field-effects of consciousness: A seventeen-year study of the effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs on reducing national stress in the United States. World Journal of Social Science, 9(2). Dillbeck, M. C., & Cavanaugh, K. L. (2016). Societal violence and collective consciousness: Reduction of U.S. homicide and urban violent crime rates. SAGE Open, April-June, 1-16. Cavanaugh, K. L., & Dillbeck, M. C. (2017). The contribution of proposed field effects of consciousness to the prevention of U.S. accidental fatalities: Theory and empirical tests. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 24(1-2), 53–86. Dillbeck, M. C., & Cavanaugh, K. L. (2017). Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® Program and Reductions in Infant Mortality and Drug-Related Death: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis. SAGE Open, January-March, 1-15. Cavanaugh, K. L., & Dillbeck, M. C. (2017). Field Effects of Consciousness and Reduction in U.S. Urban Murder Rates: Evaluation of a Prospective Quasi-Experiment. Journal of Health and Environmental Research, 3(3-1), 32-43. Dillbeck, M.C. & Cavanaugh, K.L. (2023). Empirical evaluation of the possible contribution of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program to reduction in drug-related mortality. Medicina, 59(2), 1–32. Cavanaugh, K. L., Dillbeck, M. C., & Orme-Johnson, D. W. (2022). Evaluating a field theory of consciousness and social change: Group practice of Transcendental Meditation and homicide trends. Studies in Asian Social Science, 8(1), 1–32. Dr Tony Nader | Instagram Dr Tony Nader | Twitter Dr Tony Nader | LinkedIn Dr Tony Nader | Website Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: Effects of Coming Together With Advanced Techniques 02:00 Rate of Change 02:45 What Would Happen if You Suddenly Had a Big Flash of Coherence? 03:22 Quality of Life Indicator as a Positive Variable 11:00 How Technologies of Consciousness Can Make a Difference 18:50 Dr. Cavanaugh 20:20 The Positive Effect of Group Practice 26:00 The Bhagavad-Gita 27:00 Medical Journal Results - Data From CDC 29:06 Methods of Program Evaluation 32:17 Highlight Review by Dr. Nader 35:00 86,300 Lives Saved 36:15 Anonymous Independent Reviewers 40:00 Maharishi on the 1% Effect 43:45 Monthly Average Daily Size (Graphic) 46:15 Monthly US Drug Related Fatality Rate (Graphic) 50:10 Dr. Nader “Cooling Effect” 53:39 ITS Treatment Effects (Bar Graph) 58:14 Overview of Data 59:52 Alternative Explanations Are Not Plausible
