Whoever wrote that never truly did their research. I mean when they did the Washington DC study, they had a whole bunch of skeptics in with them making sure the study was conducted correctly. When they did the study not only did all the skeptics agree to all the ways the study was conducted, but also they agreed to the findings of the study. The Maharishi people weren't the only one's directing and analyzing the study. The findings of just this one study are overwhelming in presenting that the Maharishi Effect is true. Now they've done the studies over 90 times and they've found the same thing happen everytime - the crime rate goes down.\
________________________________ From: Yifu <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 5:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Consciousness and Quantum Gibberish from Skeptic.com, by Dr. Heinz Pagels, physicist.: ... " The claim that the fields of modern physics have anything to do with the "field of consciousness" is false. The notion that what physicists call "the vacuum state" has anything to do with consciousness is nonsense. The claim that large numbers of people meditating helps reduce crime and war by creating a unified field of consciousness is foolishness of a high order. The presentation of the ideas of modern physics side by side, and apparently supportive of, the ideas of the Maharishi about pure consciousness can only be intended to deceive those who might not know any better. Reading these materials authorized by the Maharishi causes me distress because I am a man who values the truth. To see the beautiful and profound ideas of modern physics, the labor of generations of scientists, so willfully perverted provokes a feeling of compassion for those who might be taken in by these distortions. I would like to be generous to the Maharishi and his movement because it supports world peace and other high ideals. But none of these ideals could possibly be realized within the framework of a philosophy that so willfully distorts scientific truth (Pagels). What Chopra is peddling is quantum gibberish."
