Maharishi’s Initiatives for World Peace
For more than 50 years, peace has been an enduring theme of Maharishi’s message to the world. Maharishi has continuously revived and restored ancient Vedic technologies for creating inner and outer peace and has offered this transforming knowledge to the citizens and governments of every nation.
Maharishi’s vision for mankind has always been that every person born on earth should experience peace deep within themselves in their own Transcendental Consciousness—and then radiate that peace to their family, community and nation, contributing their share to creating permanent peace on earth.
Even a brief summary of Maharishi’s activities and achievements reveals his one-pointed focus on bringing peace to a “peaceless” humanity.
1944: Maharishi helps organize a 10-day Global Yagya performance by 2000 Vedic Pandits with the intention to bring an end to World War II.
1957: Maharishi states that if one percent of the world’s population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique, there would be no more war.
1963: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Maharishi asks Meditators attending a course on Catalina Island, California, to extend their periods of meditation, helping avert the danger to America and the world.
1974: The “one-percent effect” or Maharishi Effect, predicted by Maharishi in 1957, is verified by significant crime reductions in cities where one percent of the population has learned the Transcendental Meditation technique.
1978: Maharishi’s World Peace Project sends 1400 Yogic Flyers to the five most troubled areas of the world to calm the violence through their group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi® programs.
1980: More than 3000 Yogic Flyers assemble in India for the International Vedic Science Course, creating a timely influence of coherence for India and it’s neighbors.
1988: 7000 students from the Vedic families of India are assembled at Maharishi Nagar near New Delhi to practice Yogic Flying and perform Vedic Yagyas for peace. During this time, the Berlin Wall falls and the Cold War ends. But when the group cannot be maintained financially, new tensions arise in the world.
1983: During a two-month period, 2000 Yogic Flyers gather in the Middle East, reducing war intensity and fatalities in the region.
1984: During the Taste of Utopia conference in Fairfield, Iowa, 7000 Yogic Flyers create the Global Maharishi Effect, producing a wide range of positive effects worldwide. These positive trends were reversed when the assembly ended.
1993: 4000 Yogic Flyers dramatically reduce violent crime in Washington, D.C., during a demonstration project monitored by an independent review board.
1999: Maharishi Universities of World Peace are founded for every time zone to maintain a wave of coherence circling the globe.
2000: Maharishi establishes the Global Country of World Peace to open the world of Unity Consciousness to people of every nation.
2001: Maharishi warns the U.S. government against taking the “path of failure” by responding to terrorism with violence, and offers permanent world peace to every nation through 40,000 Yogic Flying Vedic Pandits in India.
