A Global Plan to Permanently Eliminate Poverty
Just a few months ago, the U.S. stock market had dipped to its lowest point for the year, the war between Israel and Lebanon was escalating, and the price of oil was skyrocketing. Then in mid-July His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Global Country of World Peace, announced a course to gather 2,000 experts in the Transcendental Meditation® and TM Sidhi® programs in two locations—the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., and the nation’s heartland at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.
Maharishi called it the Invincible America Assembly and said, “Positivity is like light, and negativity is like darkness. Just as a few candles will light a big hall, a few invincible, peaceful countries with groups of Yogic Flyers will create within the coming weeks an invincible, peaceful world.” He challenged the world press to monitor the good news daily and to “watch what happens tomorrow.”
In the first days of the assembly, which began on July 23, the news flashed around the world: the U.S. stock market stopped its downward descent and suddenly rose three percent and continued to rise in the following weeks—a key indicator of rising national mood and growing confidence. Then just three weeks after the start of the assembly came the most significant news of all: the U.S., which had originally supported Israel’s fight against Hezbollah, suddenly changed its policy and crafted a U.N. ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Unexpectedly, the ceasefire held. For the first time in months, the people of the region could sleep without fear, and the entire world breathed a collective sigh of relief. And then the price of oil and gas started to fall.
Today the good news continues. The stock market sustains its upward trajectory, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting all-time highs almost weekly. The peace seems stable between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and there are signs that the U.S. government is adopting a more diplomatic, consensus-based approach to tensions with Iran and North Korea. And quite remarkably, despite dire predictions of a highly destructive hurricane season, no hurricanes struck U.S. land this year.
How did this technology produce such complete transformation? Can this approach be applied to other countries around the world? And can it be sustained?
A Coherent Collective Consciousness
“This upsurge of positivity and peace in the nation is due to the coherent influence generated by the Yogic Flyers on the collective consciousness of the nation,” said Dr. John Hagelin, Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at Maharishi University of Management, who is leading the Invincible America Assembly.
According to Dr. Hagelin, Yogic Flying enlivens pure consciousness—the Unified Field, the field of perfect order—which is at the basis of mind and matter. When practiced in groups, the group of Yogic Flyers create a powerful influence of harmony and coherence in the whole of collective consciousness.
According to extensive published research, the number of Yogic Flyers required to produce the “Maharishi Effect” is as little as square root of one percent of the nation’s population. For example, in the U.S., with a population of just over 300 million people, the required number of Yogic Flyers is 1,730.
“Maharishi’s approach to invincibility and peace has become the most widely published, most rigorously researched phenomenon in the history of social sciences, demonstrating its power to prevent crime and even warfare in war-torn areas,” said Dr. Hagelin. “This has inspired Maharishi to offer to every government invincible peace based on internal peace, indomitable strength and national coherence.”
National Invincibility Is Based on Individual Invincibility
According to Dr. Hagelin, national invincibility is based on individual invincibility. In other words, the participants are developing individual enlightenment and, as a side-benefit, the world also is becoming a better place.
There are now more than 1500 Yogic Flyers participating in the Invincible America Assembly—with another 500 more expected to join in the coming weeks. According to Dr. Hagelin, the dominant experience of the participants is one of bliss, inner peace and happiness.
“I felt like I was flying in pure bliss,” said one participant. “And then after a few minutes I had a big upsurge of unbelievable inner happiness and joy—it just kept welling up inside of me as I kept flying and enjoying with everyone around me.”
Others are noticing that the happiness and energy experienced in meditation continues throughout the day. “My original intention for coming to this assembly was my great desire to help bring world peace,” said one young mother. “I’ve realized, however, that I am reaping the tremendous benefits as well. For the first time in seven years, I feel like the effects of sleep deprivation that comes with motherhood are finally being plowed away! I feel deeply rested and the world feels glorious. I am being nurtured in the way I dream of nurturing my children.”
According to research studies, these extraordinary results are not merely subjective. The benefits of improved health, mental acuity, happiness and improved relationships as a result of regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs have been verified in over 600 scientific research studies conducted at more than 200 universities and research institutes in 30 different countries.
“EEG research reveals that practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique develops total brain functioning, including the all-important prefrontal cortex, which governs the higher functions of the brain, such as judgment, decision-making, planning, ethical reasoning, and sense of Self,” noted Dr. Hagelin. “This holistic brain development—along with the increased coherence between all the areas of the brain—correlates with higher intelligence, increased creativity, improved emotional maturity, and improved memory and learning ability.”
For students, practicing the technique is enough to develop the total brain and to bring fulfillment in life, Dr. Hagelin said.
“We’re at the threshold of a revolution in education,” he said. “We need wise, new leadership—leaders of society who know how to live their own lives without problems and can guide their nations in problem-free living.”
Already, thousands of schools throughout the world are organizing to provide their students with Consciousness-BasedSM education, he said.
Not Wishful Thinking
“Today’s world is being renewed — quietly transformed into a new world of peace and positivity, where every nation enjoys true freedom and invincibility. Soon, all conflict and negativity that has gripped the world for centuries is going to disappear — just as the darkness disappears with the dawning sun.” —Maharishi
Dr. Hagelin emphasized that, as significant as the economic developments of the past 100 days have been, the momentum for national transformation is about to accelerate, with another 500 Yogic Flyers soon to join the group of 1500 experts at Maharishi University of Management and Maharishi Vedic City to produce an even more powerful influence of coherence in collective consciousness.
“This is not wishful thinking,” Dr. Hagelin said. “This is hard science that has been field tested for over 50 years and documented through more than 600 studies conducted at over 250 independent universities and research institutes throughout the world.”
Any Nation Can Rise to Invincibility
The launch of the Invincible America Assembly followed the success of the historic first Invincibility Assembly in Holland, which began on April 12, 2006, with 400 Yogic Flyers (the number required for the national population of 16 million people). Immediately after its launch, the Dutch press began to report on remarkable number of positive changes in the government and the economy.
For example, Holland’s economic growth for 2006 was projected to be a low 2%. During the Invincible Holland Assembly, it was revised significantly upwards. This improved economic growth rate contrasts markedly with the financial prognosis two years earlier, when Holland was considered one of the weaker countries in the European Union, approaching a deficit of -3%.
Consumer confidence and ability to purchase goods also soared. In fact, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) noted that nowhere in Europe was consumer confidence rising as quickly as in Holland. While the average growth in Europe from June 2005 to June 2006 was 4.6 percent, consumer confidence in the Netherlands grew by an astonishing 21.3 percent.
Due to unexpected increases in income, the government was able to reduce taxes, improve education initiatives, and double the environmental protection budget. These are just a few of the many dramatic changes for the better that have occurred in The Netherlands since the beginning of the Invincible Holland Assembly.
Dr. Paul Gelderloos, Prime Minister of the Peace Government of Holland said, “All nations are invited to create their own groups of Yogic Flyers on a permanent basis, so that life on earth can be transformed to happiness, purity and real freedom, with the whole family of nations enjoying sovereignty, invincibility, and peace.”
Right now, similar groups of Yogic Flyers are being established in 40 countries around the world to create, as Maharishi has said, “a ring of invincibility so that the whole world enjoys permanent peace and prosperity now and for all time to come.”
For more information on the remarkable results of the Invincible America Assembly, go to www.demonstrationproject.org and www.InvincibleAmerica.org.