I was talking to a friend who is very well connected in the TMO and the subject of why the Maharishi Effect doesn't seem to be all that effective (if at all) came up. Turns out I was wrong about everything but I'd never heard the particular set of excuses, erm sorry "reasons" before.
One thing of interest was the floods this year near Vedic city. Contrary to Bobs idea that they were purging the world of sinners and those unfit to join in the wonderful AofE, it turns out they were caused be nature destroying the crops of non-organic farmers! The fools, they'll pay for their crimes against nature. That was according to Bevan anyway. Also MMY had asked him how the IA course was going and Bevan was embarrassed to say that they couldn't seem to ever get the numbers right, MMY apparently laughed and said that this was the protective hand of Mother Nature. If we had gone straight to maximum coherence and maintained it it would have shook America too much, it would have been dramatic and dangerous. So there you go, it's all for a reason. The numbers go up and the resulting chaos from all that power has to be stabilised before the next onslaught. Everything negative in society has to go and Nature will only let it happen gradually. It all makes sense now, yes?