Beyond Miracles The Discovery Of The Uni

Keynote Address BEYOND MIRACLES: THE DISCOVERY OF THE UNIFIED FIELD AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS TO PREVENT CRIME, TERRORISM, AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT! by John Hagelin, Ph.D. ABSTRACT The lawst, most profound discoveries of quantum physics provide deep insight into ultimate reality, and how we create our own day-to-day reality. \'('e must now harness this cuning-edge knowledge to create a peaceful, harmoniolls, more enlightened world. For this purpose, intellectual discllssion is not enough. Only direct, repeatahle experience of ultimate reality can create the deep, lasting transformations in the individual and sockty so urgently needed today. Recent breakthroughs in quantum physics reveal the ultimate reality: the "unified field"-the field of universal intelligence at the hasis of mind and matter. The unified field is the fountainhead of all the laws of nature-the source of all the order displayed throughout the vast cosmos. Human awareness can directly experience and access this field of universal intelligence using advanced meditation techniques derived from the ancient Vedic wisdom. This fundamental experience of "pure consciousness" represents a fourth major state of consciousness, distinct from waking. dreaming and deep sleep. In this higher state of consciousness, human awareness becomes aligned with cosmic intelligence: thoughts and actions become powerfully dfective-life supporting and globally enriching. Such "enlight ened" individuals are peacemakers by nawre. radiating peace and harmony throughout their environment. New research reveals that enlighrenment, the full developmcnr of human potential. is our birthright-a spontaneous byproduct of integrated brain functioning. New research also reveals the existence of long range "field effects" of

consciollsness generated through collective meditation. More than 50 studies have shown that such field effects of consciousness have a profound impact on society as a whole, defusing acute socieral stress. violence and conflict, and providing a practical fi)undation for pt'rmanent world peace. \'(,'e are thus on the threshold of a global transfilrmation to a post-dual, unified field-bast-d civilization of affluence and peace based on the knowledge, and direct experience, of the core unity of lite in higher states of consciousness. KEYWORDS: Consciousness. physics, unified field. meditation. peac<: Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 39 T oday I would like to address several issues: What is consciousness? And what are higher states of consciousness? What are the limits of hum an potential? What is enlightenment? What are field effects of consciousness from a scientific perspective and their potential application to world peace? In this co ntext, we're also going to talk a little bit about space-time wormholes and superstring theory. And during the question-and-answer period, if not before, I will be happy also to go into the phenomenon known as subtle bodies, or thought bodies- what they're made of and what their purpose is. And if we have a lot of extra time, which I doubt we will , we can also talk about ze ro-point motion, a wel1 understood scientific phenomenon that tod ay has new significance, more than ever before, because this zero-point motion of the unified field is actually fueling the

exponentially accelerating expansion of the unIverse. These are the points I'll cover in the context of this talk. And to understand conscious ness in a scientific way, we have to refresh ourselves a bit about the modern scientific understanding of the world-particularly fIgure I. The Di.rcoveiJ' of fhi' Unified Field (It the Foundation of Modem Physic., "TO II PRY regarding the discovery of the unified field. This first chart (Figure 1) attempts to summarize, in a single glance, three hundred years of modern scientific research. And even if you aren't able to read every single detail on the chan, what I'd like you to see is the overall structure of the universe represented here-the hierarchical structure of natural law. W hat you see at the foundation of this chart is the discovery of the unified field, which is the unified source of the diversified universe, the source of all the laws of nature governing life at every level of the universe. And by "every level" I mean that the structure of the universe is superfi cially diverse, as shown at the top of this chart-at the macroscopic, observable, classical level of physics-and fundamen tally unified at the core foundation of physics of the universe. Modern science for the last fifty years has been all about exploring deeper levels of nature's functioning-from the macroscopic to the microscopic, from the diversified to the progressively more unified. It began with the exploration of the molecular level and the development of chemistry, and then

the atomic nucleus and nuclear physics, and then the discovery of the subnuclear levels of nature's functioning-the quark and lepton-leading to the Nobel Prize-winning electromagnetic unified theory. This theory revealed that the superficially diverse electromagnetic and radioactive forces are fundamentally one, when examined at a level of nature's functioning about 100 times smaller than the nuclear dimension. And similarly, if you go down this chart near the bottom, you can see that perhaps three of the four fundamental forces of nature-the strong, weak, and electromag netic forces-are ultimately united as one unified force field. That was my own early contribution to this unifying effort. And then, over the last ten or twelve years, we have seen the superunification of all the fundamental forces of nature and the particles on which they act-the so-called bosons or force fields, and the fermions or matter fields. These fields today are ultimately understood unified components of one indivisible wholeness of the unified field, revealing the unified source of the diversified universe at the subnuclear scale-actually a million, million, million times smaller than the atomic nucleus-thereby fulfilling Einstein's lifelong quest to discover the unified source of the diversified universe. And this discovery is the crowning achievement of fifty years of advanced research in quantum gravity theory. as I want to emphasize with the next chart (Figure 2) that this discovery is not a philosophical development; it's really a rigorous mathematical development. The rigorous mathematical equation governing this unified field has been revealed in the context

of superstring theory and so-called M theory. And that one compact superfor mula is shown at the top of this chart, which is really a very concise compact mathematical equation from which unfolds the increasing diversifIed structure of the laws of nature-the grand unified, and the Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 41 -21T 1 (21,) VI'ij Xl' .,.1'1,) .1,P "'<"I, -t 1--'0'1. -""1.-:rL -.r/.-Yly-IIL-U·L'-U'1 -lb'.lOre String Field Theory >l j'J j I i I 1,)' ­ t i;1t) -Ignor.. Massive String Mod... + 21,)_ X J"""l. V • Replace "1th Point Partie!" Field Operator. - Maintain onl\- non-renonnalizable <c'Ouplings (generated by th" u ehange of massi,'" string modes) ",,,,,d,,.! for N.l S + R .. ~ RI' f £(2) = Jd"flE{ ¢l{S. 8('21') + R - ~ = c{ ­ ! RI" .:r' ""),," + r!II;" J(t,,3 I" 'J 4./,.F<'H < + r!"'D ',[JI' ,OJ '1 p-' + ("9(3 + r!1f",II"I"r!I/) _ !;;2ReJ-1(t".ti T"J,<)(r!I"T!I.) ,,-I 2" . <>;1 • ' +4'lnJO!IIWI"'-g'I1lJa;jC pC,I\')'51" ,., 1 'I ' ­lD (T'" I' \.1) 1. I ' F'" f-,·1 Figure 2. The La[!'nngiall (Fom!1lia) of rhl' Vilified Field. or "Supersrring" electroweak unified, and nuclear, and atomic, and molecular, and macroscopic, and astrophysical and cosmological scales. The whole thing unfolds progressively and sequentially through the process we saw just a moment ago in the physics unified field chart-a sequential emergence of the increasingly diversified laws of nature from their unified source in the unified field. And if

we look at the equation at the top of this chan, you'll see that it is really not bad, when you consider that all of scientific knowledge-certainly the whole of physics, the whole of chemistry, the whole of nuclear, electromagnetism, astronomy, cosmology-can be unfolded from this one superformula. If alJ physics libraries burned to the ground tomorrow, the whole thing could be fe-derived from this one superfor mula. So there's a tremendous amount of power in this concentrated knowledge of unity interacting with itself. Universal intelligence is the basics of all matter in the Universe. N ow this next chart (Figure .3)' elaborating on the earlier unified field chart, reveals something that is extremely important bur is largely overlooked by the community of materials scientists, physicists, and engineers. It shows that the deeper you go into the structure of nature, the less material, the less inert, nature becomes. The deeper you go into the molecular, nuclear, atomic, and subnuclear scales, the more vitality, the more light, the more intelli gence, the more consciousness is available- until you get to the level of this unified field, which is the unified source of the diversified universe, and which is a wholly nonmaterial field of pure, self-aware consciousness. Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Pilge 42 ~ i L X ~ T , ~ 8 + u p " q : r a , . j t ~ e [ ~ g ( S ) l (

' [ ~ f a { ~ ( S ) W : t ' o h w t J } ~ R ~ , ' , , ) 5 1 . , D p ~ ' p ( P V I " " ( ' - 1 " i # F ! : " f ~ " " , , \ ~ ~ ' ' ' ~ I ~ ~ ~ J Figllre 3. The Unified Field Li('s at the Basis of COl1Sciollme.<.< (/nd M(/tter It's very important. I'm going to try and justify this statement very briefly for you . lt's a fact that this field is the ultimate origin of consciousness. The basic real it)' of consciousness is extremel), important in the understanding of what consciousness is and what all the different phenomena of conSCIOllsness are. So why don't we call the unified field a field of consciousness? We know it's a nonmate rial field . We learned this fact at the beginning of quantum mechanics, learned it again in quantum field theory, and learned it from experiments that confirmed what's called the "non-local nature of reality"-that there is no material reality, no localized material existence, at the subnuclear level. So just from the qualities of the unified field, we also can easily see it's a field of intelligence. Why intelligence? Because it's the source of all the laws of nature. And what are the laws of nature? The principles of order and intelligence that govern the universe.

is a field of intelli So this unified field gence, because it's the fountainhead of all the laws of nature, which are the princi ples of intelligence governing the universe. Subtle Energie.r 6- Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number I • Page 43 And because it's the fountainhead of all these intelligent principles maintaining order throughout the universe, it must be the concentrated field of intelligence in nature. Bur it's not inert intelligence, it's not static intelligence, it's not lifeless intelli gence. It's dynamic intelligence. The quantum principle or "uncertainty principle," which I'm sure you've heard of, guarantees increasing dynamism at fundamental scales. What does that mean? It means that nuclear power is more powerful than chemical energy only because the nucleus is a million times smaller, and hence a million times more fundamental and a million times more powerful, than the chemical level, the molecular leveL So when you move from molecular to nuclear to su bn uclear levels, the characteristic dynamism of nature increase. And we'll see later that the dynamism at this level of the unified field is so intense that even space time itself begins to boil. This boiling of space-time geometry is just a symptom of the incredible energy densiry of the unified field. So it's not static intelligence: it's dynamic intelligence. And it's self aware. A very important properry of consciousness that I'm going to spend a moment explaining is how the unified field is self:' aware-and how the electromagnetic field, for example,

isn't. Light doesn't interact with light. Light isn't aware of itself. Two flashlight beams-you can do this experi ment safely at home-two flashlight beams will pass right through each other with no interaction, no scattering, no awareness of each other's presence. Light is not aware of light. But the unified field, as you can see at the basis of our unified field chart, is It interacts with purely self-interacting. itself alone. Why? Because there is nothing else down there for the unified field to interact with. And it's a good thing that the unified field interacts with itself, is aware of itself, responds dynamically to its own presence-because this dynamic self interaction of the unified field is responsible for the emergence of the universe, which is a good thing. so, what are the properties of the unified field? We could be much more rigorous about it, but I think this summary is good enough: it's an infinitely dynamic, nonmate rial field of self-aware, self-interacting intelligence. Hint: dynamic self-aware intelligence is consciousness. So this is the origin of consciousness. Any conscious phenomenon in the universe ultimately is conscious because of this conscious founda tion to nature. And this idea is very foreign to a materials scientist, because after all, physicists spent 300 years studying billiard balls. Prior to the microscope, and the electron microscope, and the particle accelerators, all we could see was the classical world of matter around us. Well, after 300 years of billiard-ball mechanics and celestial mechanics, it's

easy to see why you would consider the universe as dead as inert matter. And since this idea is completely ingrained in the education of scientists-that the universe is composed of dead matter, and that life, if it exists at all, and consciousness, if it exists at all, is something that is purely interior to the brain of the physicist or mathematician or the human being-then it's surprising to tell Subtle Energies & Energy /I'fedicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 44 such a person, "No, the universe is awake; in fact, it's pure wakefulness-pure consciousness at its source." And the deeper you go-if you scratch beneath the surface of existence, and you just keep scratching to the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear levels-the more the qualities of consciousness come alive. And eventually, at these deeper levels of elementary particle physics and beyond, it's just a pure play and display of infinitely dynamic intelligence. And the unified field is absolutely pure intelligence, pure consciousness. So in the old days, consciousness was considered to be a fluke of the universe we were somehow just a fluke in an overwhelmingly dead universe. And now the situation has really changed: matter is the fluke in an overwhelmingly conscious universe. Matter, the world of classical physics, is just the tip, the observable tip, of an immense unseen quantum mechanical iceberg of the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear levels of creation. So If consciousness is fundamental in nature. you don't see it, it's

because you're not scratching deeply enough beneath the surface inertia of life. atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear levels. And human awareness is so amazingly flexible that, with a little bit of training, it can probe, can explore, and can experience deeper levels of human nature, finer levels of thought, finer levels of consciousness, culminating in the direct experience of the unified field at the basis of the mind-the unified field of pure, self-aware conscious ness, unbounded universal consciousness, at the basis of mind and matter. W hat's amazing about this timeless experience is that it has now become the intensive focus of modern experimental research. For example, this experience is now understood or believed to be a fourth state of consciousness, different from waking, dreaming, or sleeping. Let me point out first that this experience of the fourth state of consciousness is obviously a very special feature of the human brain-that it can experience the unified field. As far as I can tell, gerbils, dogs, and cats don't have it-not quite. This ability of the human brain to fathom such fundamental levels of existence has to do with the detailed architecture of the human brain and nervous system. Now meditation throughout the ages-if properly understood and properly practiced-is a technique, as shown in this chart, to explore deeper levels of mind, deeper levels of human existence, finer levels of human intelligence. And those levels correspond to deeper levels of intelligence in nature. In other words, we are part of nature. Human

beings have a structure at the macroscopic, microscopic, cellular, 1 won't go into this understanding in great detail here, bur the structure of the human brain mirrors the structure of the unified field. The structure of the unified field in modern scientific terms is a set of reverber ations-the unity of diversified fluctuations. Let me explain that statement. The elementary particles and forces that fill the universe today-quarks, electrons, photons, gravitons-these are just the vibrational Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 45 states of the unified field. Think of it if you wish as little rubber bands and superstrings , like rubber superstrings- bands, can vibrate in differem ways. Some can vibrate to the left, maybe some to the right; some may be vibrating like this , and others may be vibrating like thar. You can mathematicall y enumerate the vibrational St a tes of the superstring-and 10 and behold, those states correspond to the different elememary particles: the photon, the electron, the quark. just the differenr vibrational frequencies of the unified field. And there are 192 of these fundamemal frequencies of the unified field: the so-called left-moving and right-moving vibra tional degree s of freedom of the heterotic string-the vibrational states of the unified field . The elememary particles and the forces of nature are simply those vibrational modes in the field-nothing more. They are nonm aterial-just sound, just vibration . So all the particles in the universe, which are the components

of the unified field, are Well , the human brain is de s igned to reverberate in exactly the same way. (Figure 4) The brain and central nervous system Figure 4. The Stmcrun· o/the Brain flnd Nfl"lJ01lJ System MilTlJlJ thl' Stl1u:mre 0/ the Unified Field Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number I • Page 46 Figure 5. Global Bmiml't/l!e (EEG) Coherence During Fxperimce of the Ullified Field in the MeditluirJe ";tate consist of 192 nerve endings-192 ascending and descending reticular formations-the gateways to consciousness. And this 192-fold structure of the brain and central nervous system is designed, in a sense, to resonate in the 192-fold structure or reverberant frequencies of the unified field. So the human brain is not an accident. It's as if we have been engineered by the creator, if you wish, to experience this universal consciousness, this unified source of the diversified universe. Enough on that. But this experience, this state of consciousness, is now considered to be a fourth major state of consciousness, distinct from waking, dreaming. or deep It has its own physiological charac sleep. teristics and subjective characteristics. Subjectively, It S a pure, unbounded, abstract, silent ocean of consciousness awareness wide awake within its own nature, not experiencing anything: no object, no thought, no mood, no emotion, just abstract, absolute, universal contentment. When the brain is having this experience of unbounded awareness, the electrical functioning of the brain, the firing of the neurons, is distinctly changed. (Figure 5) In this

next chart, what you see in the representations of brains on the left and right are, firstly, dots that simply indicate the location of electrodes on the scalp. These electrodes have been positioned to measure the electrical activity of the brain, the firing of the neurons. On the left is the electrical brainwave activity of a person Subtle Energies 6- Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number I • Page 47 in normal waking consciousness-agitated, waking, stressed consciousness-and the connections among these dots, across the brain, are minimal. On the right is the electrical brainwave activity of an individual experiencing this pure consciousness state the unified field-and what you see are bars connecting all these dots. Those bars indicate correlation between the electrical activities in different regions in the brain, meaning that the brain is functioning coheren tly, synchrono usly-integra ted functioning of the brain. The right hemisphere of the brain, the left hemisphere of the brain, the frontal and occipital lobes of the brain and the temporal and parietal lobes of the brain: the whole brain is functioning in concert, in a highly integrated way. The very isolated and fragmented mental activity of localized thought and localized perception, as indicated on the left, involves only a small sliver of the brain. But during the experi ence of unbounded awareness, as shown on the right, the whole brain is functioning as a whole. And integrated brain functioning means expansion of awareness, expansion of comprehension, to be global, to be universal,

to be cosmic. So human awareness can directly experience the unified field. And let me just pause here to say that this finding has more than philosophical interest. It's an extraordinary breakthrough in the field of human potential-the discovery that this medita tive state. which has been with us throughout the ages, is of tremendous significance to the development of the brain. Why? (Figure 6) Because this so- called "global EEG coherence," this integra tive functioning of the brain, correlates scientifically with increased intelligence, rising IQ, increased creativity, improved memory, concept learning, improved academic performance, enhanced moral reasoning, increased psychological stability and emotional maturity, increased alertness, faster reaction time. Everything good about its orderly the brain depends on functioning. And today, orderly brain functioning can be developed systematically in anyone of any age. IQ, for example, as this next chart shows (Figure 7), can go up longitudinally in adults, as has now been shown in many published studies in refereed scientific journals. And this finding is amazing, really, because the whole story of human potential has been an extremely bleak one. T he common understanding today is that intelligence peaks in late adoles cence and then begins to decline, certainly by the age of thirty. There's a precipitous decline in raw intelligence, with a simulta neous shrinking of the gray matter of the brain. And we tell our children that we make up for this loss in raw intelligence as adults with our experience, our maturity, and our better judgment.

so that our children will listen to us. But this whole concept of the deteriorating brain is obsolete, and it's frankly barbaric. And it is fortu1lately obsolete, because now we know that the brain is so plastic, so malleable, that it is capable of forging new connections and learning new things throughout life. But the story with the Subtle Energies 6- Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 48 OPI'IMIZATION OF RAIN FUNCI10NING COR.R.El.AD8 OF KBG COHERENCE Figure 6. Global FEG Coherence Correlatfs with Optimal Brain Functioning &. : II J1"" if .. 1 Tran nden on I S -Controls 2 ,..,. , . .5 1"' Figure 7. /. ongitlldinal [ncretTse in intelligence with /?('f!,I1 I(/r Meditfltion ~ ~ M e d l t a L - ~ = = = = = = = = ~ ~ _ brain is: use ir or lose it. And when you're nor engaging rhe roral brain, rhen basically, lr jusr doesn'r in a sense, ir arrophies. develop in all rhe ways ir could. This nexr charr shows a srriking flnding rhelack of inregrarive brain funcrioning. This is very common among mosr people in sociery roday. (Figure 8) These are SPECT images rhar show blood flow in rhe brain. On rhe lefr is a normal brain, and on rhe righr is rhe brain of a violenr offender. Norice rhar in rhe image on rhe righr, rhere appear to be holes in rhe brain. These aren'r acrual holes in rhe gray

marrer, bur rhey are funcrional holes-areas of rhe brain rhar jusr aren'r firing, rhar are nor acrively parric iparing In our momenr-by-momenr experi ence. This style of funcrioning leads ro an exrremely fragmenred experience of life, nor holisric, and ir leads to narrowly cramped comprehension and narrowly self-cenrered, narrowly shorrsighred behavior-primirive and aggressive and compulsive, violenr behavior. And frankly, rhis ourcome is all a resulr of rhe underurilizarion of rhe brain. Mosr of rhe brain is simply never exercised. When you're srudying physics, or marhemarics, or lirerarure, or rhe arrs or music, rhese each engage differenr areas of rhe brain, bur only small slivers of rhe brain. Mosr of rhe brain remains unused in convenrional educarion. As a resulr, as we age, rhe funcrioning of rhe brain-rhe Figllrr 8. SPECT Brain Image Showing FunctionaL HoLes in the PrefrontaL Cortex Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • VoLume 18 • Number 1 • Page 50 blood flow in the brain, the metabolism of the brain-looks like the image on the right of this chart. W ell, fortunately, balanced brain functioning can easily be restored today, even in criminal offenders. Even in maximum security prisons, just exposing the individual mind to the experience of its own unbounded nature, the universal nature of consciousness, engages the total brain and develops the brain hoI istically, leading to integrated brain functioning. This is extraordinary, because functional holes in the brain typically cluster in the critical prefrontal cortex, as shown at the top of the image on

the right. This area, the prefrontal cortex, corresponds to the so called higher brain, the CEO of the brain. The higher brain is responsible for all of our higher human functions: planning, judgment, moral reasoning, leadership. When the higher brain is underdeveloped, we are left with our more primitive, impulsive, aggressive, violent behaviors. So the prefrontal cortex is a critical rational filter against primitive, impulsive, violent behavior. When the higher brain is underdeveloped, as it is today throughout society, we find ourselves living in a preado lescent society. If you have any doubts that we are living in an preadolescent society, where violence and impulsive, shortsighted behavior are the norm, take a look around you-particularly in the areas of society that are most stressed. Because under stress, the prefrontal cortex shuts down-and under chronic stress, it shurs down chronically, and fails to develop normally. So it's amazing that we have today the possibility now, through meditation, of a simple solution-absolurely simple, blissful, universally applicable, and easily practiced. There are meditation techniques like Transcendental Meditation that are so easy and so effective that within a couple of months, even among maximum security felons, restoration of normal brai n functioning quickly results. And when these inmates are released from jail, research shows that they do not return to jail. So we're talking about a very important developmental tool here, which has been completely overlooked in education today-until now. I 'll talk more about this point later, but right now I want to

go into field effects of consciousness-an idea that would probably be surprising for most people but probably not for this group--and how we can use the field effects of consciousness to even create world peace. How? By defusing social stress, religious, ethnic, political tensions, and ethnic violence, while promoting global unity. First let me talk about this in a very commonsense way. And then I'm going to take it to the next level. Violent crime, terrorism, and even open warfare are manifestations of acure social stress. Everyone in the field of conflict resolution acknowledges that the first stage in the emergence of war is mounring tensions among rival factions in critical hotspots throughout the world, like the Middle East. When these ethnic and political tensions reach the boiling point, they inevitably erupt as social violence. An Subtle Energies d Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 51 ~ Figllre 9. Photo of 4,000 Advanced Meditators Converging in Washington , D. C., to Rrduce Violent Crime act of violence always results in a retaliatory aCt, and then you're in a situation of escalating violence, leading to terrorism and war. individual meditation can reduce individual stress, the societal application of meditation can certainly reduce societal stress. There's no miracle really-no magic in thar. If you could neutralize those mounting tensions, both individually and societally, you could prevent the emergence of such behavior fueled by stress: crime, violence, anti-social behavior, even terrorism and war. And today, meditation is the best-known approach

for reducing stress. Thousands of doctors prescribe meditation rourinely now as the most effective, non-pharmacological approach to reducing stress and preventing the deleterious effects of stress on heart So if health and human behavior. Bur what is magical, if anything, is the extraordinary power of this approach . This photo shows a relative handful of individ uals who garhered together in Washington, D.C., in rhe slimmer of 1993, as we heard about brieAy from Beverly [RubikJ a few moments ago. (Figure 9) This group and many, many others like them in different pans of the world have all been the subjects of very rigorous scientific research. And the research has shown that group practice of meditation by such a group of individuals- Subtle Energies & Energy Medirine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • PC/ge 52 several hundred or several rhousand , depending upon rhe popularion size of a ciry-is enough (0 markedly improve social rrends, ro effectively dissolve acure socieral srress and rension, ro markedly reduce crime and social violence, ro reduce domesric violence and psychiarric crisis, and so on and so forth . All rhese symproms of acure social srress can be reduced by a relative handful of individuals. L er's take a closer look at this research, because it is in a sense miraculous but now I would say ir is rhe scientific applicarion of consciousness, properly undersrood and properly harnessed. (Figure 10) This next chart shows some of rhe resulrs of rhis Washingron, D.C., Narional Demonstrarion

Projecr in rhe summer of 1993, where a few rhousand individuals garhered from around the world ro lend rheir nervous sysrems ro a very important experimenr: rhe collective pracrice of Transcendenral Medirarion and ce rtain advanced rechniques of mediration as a group. And what happened over the course of this 60-day experimenr , as shown here particularly during rhe second half of rhis period, when rhe number of participants increased from several hundred ro several thousand medirarors-was a highly signifi cant drop in crime. The reducrion was abour 25%, srarisrically significant ar berter . rh an 1 part in 10,000. Figllre 10. Marked Redlleriol1S in Vio/l'Il{ Crime in Wa.rhington, D. C, during {he Medi{ll{ion A.rsrmhly (p < .0001) Time Series Analysis of Weekly HRA Crimes January through August 1993 Tme Series P,.dIctIoo Without Coherence-Crelling Group DItnOnall1l.tion Period .I'" .. '. ." ' ,' : J ) AcluIII CMIe P =.00008 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 i ... 8. rl '1;1 I: .. 8... a: t '1;1 :2 E 0 :I: '" ;;; § I ~ i '" § ;;; ;: Subtle Energie.r 6- ElU'rgy MediclT/l' • Volume /8 • Number J • Page 53 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r - ~ ~ ~ ' : ~ J - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I remember rhar during rhis srudy rhe chief of police wenr on relevision in Washingron, D.C., and said

rhar he was going ro parric ipare in rhis srudy for sure, and rhar he was going ro help moniror rhe srarisrics and provide us with data, but that he was very skeptical. He said, "Look, ir's going ro take two feet of snow here in August ro reduce violent crime in Washington, D.C., by 25%, especially in jusr a few weeks." At that time, Washingron was known as the murder capital of the world. But in the end, the police department was one of the authors of our public study, along with 27 orher criminologists and sociologisrs who worked on it. And the effect was very highly statistically significant. And our srudy wasn'r rhe firsr on rhis approach-it was rhe 53'° among similar experimenrs done in rhe past. I'm now going ro very quickly show one or rwo more srudies, because rhey reveal rhe very importanr applicarion ro war and world peace of rhis approach. This nexr chan summarizes a very imporranr srudy, rhe firsr of irs kind, on rhe effectiveness of group medirarion in reducing violenr conAict, even war in war-rorn areas-in rhis case, in the Middle East (Figure 11). During rhe peak of rhe Lebanon War, for abour GO days, a group of individuals in Israel pracriced these mediration techniques twice a day for an exrended period of rime. The number of people available on a given day would rise and fall, panicularly over rhe weekend. And rhis chart shows, as a dorted line, the raw data

on rhe number of people who participated in rhese group medirarions each day during rhis GO-day period. Ploned on rop of rhe dorted line is a quality of life figure II. Highly Signifimnt Conriotion Between Number of Meditators and Progress Toward,' Peace in the Middle East (ii'om Journal of Conflict Resolution) ------ TM Group Size - Composite I of Quality of Life Time (Days) Subtle Energie.r & EnelKY Medicine • Volume 18 • Number I • Page 54 n d e ~ index, showing particularly progress rowards peace among rhe rival facrions, as measured by reduced war dearhs, war injury, and inrensifY of conflin, as well as negoriared sertlemenrs among rhe rival facrions. This so-called war/peace index, or qualiry of life index, tracks very closely rhe number of mediarors, even before rhe benefl r of sraris rical analysis. And after srarisrical analysis, rhis correlarion rurns our ro be highly sraris rically significanr-Iess rhan 1 parr in 10,000 rhar rhis correlarion cou Id have been due ro chance. This srudy was published II1 rhe presrigious Yale Universiry Journal of Conflict Resolution. When ir appeared, jr creared a bir of a flresrorm, I musr say, and rhe edirors of rhe journal published a lerrer along wirh rhe anicle, a plea really, ro rhe scienriflc communiry as a whole and ro orher groups of scienrisrs ro go our and repear rhis srudy. The implicarions of rhese flndings-rhar a relarively small group of 700 medirarors could rum off violence in rhe Middle Eas(' like

a lighr swirch. day by day-had such far-reaching implicarions , and frankly was simply so asronishing given rhe currenr scienriflc paradigm of consciousness, rhar rhe edirors urged rhar rhe srudy be repeared . And repeared ir was. (Figure 12) Over rhe nexr rwo and a quaner years, as shown in rh is nexr chan, rhere were seven scienriflc replicarions of rhis srudy by differenr groups, involving differenr-sized assemblies of medirarors locared ar differenr disrances from rhe conflicr. Bur in each case, rhe group was large enough ro produce a predined influence on rhe war. AJI seven Figure /2. SrWil Fxperimfl1tal Rrplicatiolls of GrOllp Meditation L('(Iding to Reduced War Violfl1ce in the Middle East Subtle Energies & Energy Mi'dicine • Volume /8 • Number / • Page 55 I ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' of these experiments, summarized in this chart, had a highly statistically significant effect on progress towards peace, the prevention of war deaths, and so forth about an 80% reduction in war intensity during these seven assemblies, as compared to the control days or non-experimental period-the increasing conflict shown on the far left of this chart. Everyone of these studies was highly statistically significant scientifically, but when you put them together and you combine the statistics, the likelihood that this reduction of social conflict was simply a statistical fluke, a happenstance

phenomenon, is less that 1 part in 10 1' J -one part in 10 million million million. This finding makes this phenomenon of reduced war and reduced social conflict on the basis of group medita tion the most thoroughly studied and most rigorously established of any phenomenon in the history of social science. so it is a scientific fact today that group meditation-properly done, in an appropriately sized group, using very specific techniques that give easy and direct experience of the unified field-will repeated and dramatically reduce war. What an incredible tool-what a powerful message of hope for humankind. I would like to spend the rest of my time today looking in greater detail at the mechanisms of peace that are generated by the collective practice of meditation. This is where it really gets interesting from a physical perspective. How can it be that a group of this size can influence the behavior of ] .5, 2, 3 million people in the vicinity of Washington, D.C.? What is the power of group meditation? How does it work? What is the power of collective consciousness? Those Well, firstly, there is a very simple principle that I think we all can understand, and that is the principle of constructive interference. Let me take the simple example of three loudspeakers-although you could use any (Figure 13) In this next slide, on number. the left, we see three loudspeakers in close physical proximity. three loudspeakers are radiating the same sound playing the same music.

That means those three waves will add together into one big coherent wave, three times as high as a single wave. But the power in a wave grows not as the height, but as the square of the height. So three loudspeakers will actually produce nine times the sound of a single loudspeaker-three squared is nine-if the loudspeakers are in close physical proximity and radiating coherently. And this principle is not only true for loudspeakers: it's a universal factor, a universal principle of wave behavior. So if you have a thousand meditators in a group-in the Golden Domes of Maharishi University, for example, in close physical proximity-they will produce the influence of peace, positivity, and coherence equivalent to a million individual meditators. A thousand squared is a million meditators, practicing individually. This is an extraordinary result, but an inevitable result. No matter what theory you use to describe this, you come up with the same answer, the same result. H Ow is it that you could affect me, or I could affect you, in this way? How Subtle Enelgies & Energy iv1edicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 56 Coherence is More Powerful than Incoherence Coherent Addition of 3 Units Amplitudes Intensities (1+1+1)2 = 32 =9 '\/\AM 1 _ / Combined Amplitude Combined Intensity Red numbers indicate average intensities 13. Crmstmaillt' lnmjfrenct' E>:planatioll of the N-Sqllared Power ()f Grollp Meditation could a group of meditators affect others at a distance? What are the long-range mechanisms of social interaction?

How does this spreading of EEG coherence take place? Well there are actually many ways we affect one other. Inevitably, we affect each other. We are living in a very closely knit society. Everyone is connected today via the media, the Internet, the cell phone. "No man is an island" is an old expression that has never been more true than it is today. Inevitably, we each have a spillover effect. We inAuence our family, our loved ones, our work colleagues, and, if enough people are involved, the atmosphere of a college, the whole atmosphere of a city, the atmosphere of a country. How we affect one another is (Figure 14) in the details. This next chart shows various familiar and unfamiliar mechanisms through which we affect one another. Of course, there's physical contact. It's a short-range interac tion, but very effective. And then there's verbal communication, which is sort of a medium-range inAuence. It extends maybe 20, 50, 100 feet. There are also visual cues: for example, an obscene gesture at a traffic jam. It carries an influence-a subtle inAuence, but you certainly feel it. People respond to it: they carry that anger with them to work or wherever. These are all classical means of communication, based on classical physics. There's also the telephone, the Internet, the radio, all based on classical physics. But at deeper levels of human existence, the quantum mechanical levels, there are even more powerful methods of long-range communication. I'm hoping and assuming other speakers

will talk about these, so I won't dwell on them here. Quantum mechanics also allows unseen communica tion at a distance, withi n certain constraints, which we could talk about if we Subtle Energies Energy A1edicine • VoLume 18 • Number I • Page 57 ~ ' ' \ / \ A M ~ " ~ ' \ / \ A M ~ - W M ~ ~ r ~ ' ( I I f 1 ' How does coherence spread throughout a aoclal system? lnevitltbly-l" wet)' possible _yf Including: A,C. . . . . 1. Phy.lcal Contacl 2. v.n..1 Communlellllon 3. Visual, OIt.etory ... 4. Phone, Interne!, Media (Local) (MedIum Range) (MedIum Range) (long Rangel B. Quantum IIkIc:IIanIcaI 1. Quantum htleporurtlon (Non­local) Quantum ~ can profoundly enhance elltMlc* c:ornmunlc:atlon. C. Quantum Field TIItonIIlc 1. 8 _ Condensation (MedIum Range) ConwIl. K41Uarle. WelmM oIIMrIad e '""-lor In complell .... . - - . TbIII maehenlam 01 ~ 110 InterIIctioII among partlcipanlS. 110M UdltlIIcaI requI_ D. UnIlllMl Field TIItonIIlc 1. Hillel", Sector Forces {Long Rangel CryplOlllllnduce ~ which eontailllllong-ranga ton:.. light partie.... "tI1IlI tubM.n and oIher n<Mtllongof1ll1Q!t InKfIan..... eommunIc:aIIoII wIIh the h 2 Quantum Gravity: Worm­hole solutions 10 siring equlllions (_·Local) ..... RelltiYlaIie CIIMIIIlty ENHANCED BY 1kIfMocaI. C._I A_...• --_....... " ­ - Figure 14. Mechanisms of the ''/!.1aharishi Effiet':' Reduced Socia! Violence f1l1d Improved Positl1!e Trends through Group Ivleditt1fiol1 had more time. But I'm going right to the basis of the story, because the techniques of consciousness that are employed

in the studies I've shown you are Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques techniques that take the awareness directly to the universal level, this foundationalleve! of consciousness, universal consciousness and at that level enliven unity, enliven positivity, enliven peace, enliven harmony. And because this universal field, this unified field, is everywhere-because it's at the basis of you, and of me, and of everyone and everything in the universe-an influence here is really an influence everywhere. So inevitably there's a global effect created by enlivening consciousness. Let's examine this idea a little more carefully. What does it mean to say "an influence here is an influence evef)T\vhere"? We can see from the chart-it's logically clear from this chart-that my conscious ness, while it has its individual aspect to it, also has its unbounded universal aspect to ir. And that is the same for me as for you. When we really talk about the 'T'-the subject, the experiencer in pure form, that which never changes, that which has been there since birth and beyond-that level of pure consciousness is universal. At that level. you and I are one. And it is at that level where these techniques of meditation work. As a physicist, I'd like to ask the question: What does it mean that an influence here is an influence everywhere? What is the nature of this unified field that is omnipresent? Why is the unified field omnipresent? Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number I • Page 58

o I ~ n t , l d d e n ~ . P ~ y s i e a l That is what this next chart attempts to show. (Figure 15) The unified field is at this fundamental level of the universe. It is really beyond space and time. At the level-ten million times deeper than the nuclear level-it is so intensely dynamic that space time begins to boil. And this next chart shows the boiling of space-time geometry the rising of space-time foam. This chart shows three different views of space-time. The surface of the chart shows relatively flat space, which is how things tend to look at the macroscopic level, and then in the middle of the chart the structure of space at the subnuclear level, and then the structure of space-time at the superunified scale-the level of the unified field, where space-time begins to boil. And when space-time begins to boil into a cauldron of space-time geometry, with an effervescence of micro black holes and an explosion of black holes, then on a microscopic level, you can no longer talk about distance, you Can no longer talk about time. These concepts simply have no meaning at that level. And in particular at that level, according to superstring theory, little tubules or wormholes continuously form. (Figure 16) Many of them disappear, but others can drift apart. A wormhole is really a shortcut through space. Wormholes were predicted by Einstein in his General Relativity Theory, but no one

ever really understood how to create them , or if they really existed in nature. Now we understand that they exist in abundance, and they are just the microscopic level. Space-time is filled with them . But this was also true at the time of the Big Bang, when the whole of the universe was concentrated' in a quark. At that pOint Figure 15. The Boiling of Spacetime Ceometl] at the Plan(k Scale (a.k.a. "Spacetime Foam 'J Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume /8 • Number / • Page 59 level, wormholes were everywhere. As rhe universe expanded exponenrially, some of these little rubes , rhese shorrcurs shown in rhis chan, ger pulled apart by rhe expansion of space. And now our universe, even though relatively flat , is believed ro be crisscrossed by these shortcuts, rhese so called wormholes in space. If you've ever seen the science fiction movie Contact by Carl Sagan, or read the book , the main characters rook advantage of one of these space holes to travel from one region of the universe to the orher. Well, that was a big wormhole. J wouldn't normally recommend jumping into one-because the diameter of mosr wormholes is rhe point-length, and it would be a terrible process of homogeniza tion of all of one's molecules if one rried ro squeeze oneself inro a wormhole. I'm nor recommending that, but I'm saying thar information pours inro these wormholes, and pops our anywhere-and nor jusr an)"vhere, bur any rime.

This is absolurely amazing, but rrue . The super-srring rigorously shows rh ar you can send informa rion instanraneously across the universe and that you can actually send signals forward and backward in rime. N Ow this idea can stan to sound a litrie bit like a "B" moyie , a science fiction movie, where people rravel to rhe pasr, and rypically rhey screw everything up. And YOll really can ger inro a rotal logical mess as soon as you entenain rhe possibiliry of time travel, panicu larly to the p as t. Bu r the superstring is so smarr that ir takes care of all rhose derails and prevents any possible logical paradox from arising. And this is now believed ro be a mechanism for the propagarion of informarion ar disrances, and even forward and backward in rime. Subtlf Energies 6­ Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 60 This is the nature of the unified field. It is on the one hand flat, but it also has these shortcuts. And it provides a rather different view of the universe than we had only three years ago. We used to think the universe was purely causal-that when something happened it would happen for a reason, but the reason was always in the past: the cause in the past, the effect in the future. Now it turns out that cause can be now and even in the future, and the effect can be in the past. By

the way, many people who are growing in higher states of consciousness, and who are familiar with the deep level of conscious ness, and who are more and more proficient at functioning, thinking, and desiring from that level, experience this phenomenon all the time. It's called support of nature. You can say, "Gosh, I really want a parking spot across from the movie theater, and I want it now. And you pull up, and 10 and behold, there's one empty spot on a street that is otherwise packed with cars. That's fulfillment of desire. But the person who vacated that spot for you had to have vacated it at least a few minutes before you got there, before you even had the thought. Can your thought today influence events in the past in order to fulfill your thought now? The answer is yes; according to physics, you can. There might be other examples I can give, but I'm just pointing to this one as a perhaps novel mechanism for most of us through which the unified field can propagate information across vast distances, and certainly between members of society. So a relatively small group of individuals located, for example, somewhere near a city, or even far removed-can hold a powerful influence on the lives of the people in the city. And you can measure this. You can measure the brain functioning of non meditative subjects, non-meditators in the geographical vicinity of a meditating group. And the non-meditating brain becomes more

orderly, more synchronous, more coherent, more inrelligent, and more creative. We influence people to that degree. And other measures confirm the same thing. I'm just describing this to show that there are very, very profound unified field-theoretic mechanisms that explain how an individual can have such an influence at such a distance, particularly how a group of individuals can create such an influence. B efore I take questions and maybe even talk about subtle energies and bodies and so on, let me mention a few action steps. What I would really recommend to any human being, anywhere in the world, is to become part of the solution. If you're not already doing so, transcend. Whatever you're practicing-if anything, hopefully something-experience deeper levels of thought and transcend the field of thought to unbounded, absolure, transcendental Being, bliss consciousness. If whatever you're doing doesn't take you there quickly, learn something that does. On the basis of a huge amount of scientific research, learn TM (Transcendental Meditation) if you can. This technique is the oldest method the most widelv. in the world, certainlv, practiced, most extensively researched, and most broadly prescribed by doctors. Subtle Energil's 6- Enl'rgy Ml'dirinl' • Votuml' 18 • Number I • Page 61 Number two: if you possibly can, if you're of that age, experience education for I went from Stanford enlightenment. University faculty to Maharishi University in Iowa, not because I loved Iowa so much over California-I don't-but because of the extraordinary institution that Maharishi University is. There,

in addition to reading and writing and arithmetic and business and computer science, what is unique is that all the students and faculty practice meditation and directly unfold enlightenment-full potential of mind, body, and behavior. What is enlightenment, in a nutshell? What are higher states of consciousness! Total brain functioning-full development of mind, body, and behavior, or the total brain-where 100% of the brain is constantly engaged to fulfill anything, no matter how ambitious, with increasing ease. It's also called Self-realization-realizing the cosmic Self, big "S," our cosmic nature, whose nature is, fortunately, bliss. What a tremendous thing to have 24 hours of It doesn't matter if you're absolute bliss. sound asleep, doesn't matter if you're dreaming, doesn't matter if you're under anesthesia even, or if you're wide awake. That unbounded awareness of your universal cosmic nature is never lost. With regular practice, you have 24 hours a day of bliss-bliss beyond the body. Self-realization is also called freedom from bondage. This just means that without Self realization, all you have is your experience in your waking consciousness at any given time. You don't experience your unbounded Self; consciousness is not experienced; the object of consciousness alone is experienced. And if it's a good object-mashed potatoes and gravy-that's all good. You enjoy the experience, even at the expense of infinite, eternal, immortal bliss. It's a sacrifice, but not just a sacrifice. But if you're experi encing marinated okra, that's a disaster because at that moment, that's all there is in

life. The okra has replaced one's unbounded, immortal, eternal, blissful nature. Realize the Self: that's the most important message. Gain enlightenment. Anything less is a waste of time. The brain was designed for this experience. If you're not having it, get it! And the side effect of this is spontaneous, righteous action-sponta neous, life- supporting, health-promoting action. Global citizenship: knowing how to act, not only in your own best interests, but spontaneously in the interest of society as a whole. And finally, as a practical result, is the growing ability to achieve anything through a mere impulse of thought. That's how powerful brain functioning becomes. When the whole brain is engaged, when every neuron is firing synchronously, the power of thought, the alpha power, becomes enormous, and the ability to fulfill desire becomes great. So I moved from Stanford to Maharishi University to pursue this incredible principle, this practical principle, of education for enlightenment. I believe education should be all about enlightenment. Yes, you can learn computer skills while you are gaining eternal unbounded bliss. Education should develop the brain holistically, so that the Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 62 scientiflc truth of the unity of life becomes a living reality in daily life. more, except to say that proper education has the side effect of world peace. That's the sort of education I'm recommending. I believe this incorporation of holistic experience-this meditative state, unbounded awareness-into education is more important than building

new prisons. It's more important than, say, Internet education. As good as these approaches may be, they don't replace enlightenment. Again, the implications for society are huge: global citizenship-the opposite of criminal behavior, of narrowly short-sighted, extreme, fanatical, nationalist behavior. Extreme nationalism is only the result of a stressed, narrowly confined human consciousness. Expand consciousness to be global, universal, and spontaneous global citizenship results. A nd finally, as we are seeing, world peace is a side effect of such education. Any school that is big enough-that has maybe a couple thousand students, all collectively pracrking this advanced medita- tion together in one place­will have an incredibly powerful peaceful effect on the whole society, reducing crime and violence and even preventing war on a global basis. At Maharishi University today, we have just under 2,000 students, but enough to create a national effect. We're rapidly building those numbers as quickly as possible to 2,000, to 2,500, by which time the whole tone of the U.S. will be changed. It will be impossible to elect a George Bush again. People just won't vote for negativity, violence, and war when they can vore for global peace­and achieve peace on a I won't go into that any practical basis. This concludes my formal presentation. I will be delighted to hear /Tom you after the conference. Contact me directly at the e- mail address: [email protected]. Why don't we stop and see if there are any questions. • • • CORRESPONDENCE: di [email protected] John Hagelin REFERENCES

&. NOTES 1. This paper is based on John Hagelin's Kevnote Address presemed at the Sevemeemh Annual JSSSEEM Conference, The Science of tiJt Mimculoll.' Oune 21·27, 20(7). QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Question 1: How many meditators will it take to elect you? It reftrs to JH: That's a very kind question. the formation ofthe Natural Law Party some 8-/0 years ago. Supporting a third political is, of course, I[ challenge in today's electoral climate. Ullder the laws of our coulltry, it's almost illegal to create a party. if you're not a Republican or Democrat. But with reftmlce to the campaigns of the past, it was actually Vel:)! useful to engage ill the political process. I found it an incredible learning experience. But at the same time, if Subtle Energies 6­ Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 63 P ( l r ~ ) ! you don! inject new ideas imo the political dialogue, and ifyou let the Republicam and Democrats-who are frankly both funded b.y the vel'y same special interest groups, with some important distillctions-essentially speak from the same script, then democracy does not evolve. Most of the importam ideas that have been injected illfo our society--like the right of women to vote, the abolition of slavery, child labor laws, and more-carne from third parties that were speaking something !lew. but something so se/fevidently right. These ideas were so t that the,y were infectious. Once the,y were released imo society and the political process. the,y could !lot

be remffed. They eventually made their way illto the political maimtream, and real!), dramatically changed the country. I But fin 110t planning to run for president. put in quite a few years at it. I'd like to do something that is reidted, and I've talked about this. And that's to raise the collective cOllScious ness of society to be more alert, more awake, and more intelligent. And on that basis, people will deserve and demalld a better government. I think that ky raisillg the i1ltelligmce and awareness of the people, they're going to choose better candidates. But those candidates do not have to include me. There are really plmty of very good people who are willing and ready to do good for the world. So I'm not as p active at the moment, except on this level ofpara-politics. That is creating a more fertile field in the collective consciousness of the Earth for the choice of a better government. How mall)1 meditators will it take to do this? Fortunate!)i not 50 millioll-which is how many it would take to elect a presidelltial candidate. going to take a couple thousand people ill the 8,000 for the whole United 5 world-to see a real upsurge in the policies It's a very and politics of the whole world. good question. and I appreciate it. It's 0 Question 2: Would you kindly comment on how these principles can be used for healing? JH: That's a very good point. Firstl]i in terms of healing one's

self, let me mmtion that the power of thought that creates a healing influence is far, far greater at deeper levels of thought. As I said before. thought has many levels: superficial and profound, corresponding to macroscopic, molecular, atomic. nuclear, and subnuclear levels of thought. Literalry, these nuclear and subnuclear levels ofthought on the level ofthe unified field are e powClful as compared with surfoce thoughts. So the healing influence of thought at deeper levels is spontaneous and powerfol. Thank God for that. Now. meditations differ hi terms of teclmique--but this also applies to prayer. I've been to some churches, one in Los Angeles. where people are so excited that they shout out the name of God in prtlyer, jumping up and down in the aisles. Welt, that creates a certain emotional upliftment. Or you call sit down, quietry, and quietly feel God's presence. That. in fact. has a more powerfol and pervasive hea!il1g influence on the body at the deeper and quieter level ofthought. 01' )'OU can unite Individual with God on the level of Being. Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 64 i m e ~ } ' c e r t a i n ~ y o l i t i c a / ~ J ' 1 1 ~ y t a t e ~ m a y b e n o r m o u s ~ y awamless can expand to identifY with, to become, universal awareness.

At that level, thoughts are ellormously powerfol. So ifyou find yourself stuck with problems, or if you find yourse[fstricken with some kind ofillness, you can real(y get Oller these very, llery quickly, just by taking them to an awareness where the healing energy is so powerfol. You don't halle to tin more than that if.you tinn/; want to. Meditation techniques take the awareness withill tllld bless the whole body, bless the whole physiology. with this perz'a5ille illfluence of bliss, positivitjl and healing energy. On a societal lellel, you wallt to heal the whole society. Thllts the ultimate lellel of healiug. Then bless the ulhole society with tidtd WIlLies ofbliss, tidal walles ofunity, which is the all nourishing. all-ellolutionary intelligeuce of natural ww--the same energy that gave birth to millions ofspecies on Etmh. That intefli gence is basically the same as our intelligence. Come to know it. Learn to move it. Stimulate it imo several, I would say, ripples ofunity. ripples ofharmony, ripples ofhealing effect. But with groups of illdividuals: tidal waves ofImzfhlg positive effect to heal a whole sodet.y-to heal loug-standillg political, ethllic, religious tensiollS, and the desire for revenge, for vmgeallce. All of that CtllZ be healed away like a healing balm. N ow ill the context ofhealillg, I do wallt to mmtioll one thing that I skipped over hz the talk for the sake of brevity. This has to do with what we sometimes call subtle energies, or subtle bodies. Let me mention this quick(y here. You may

110t understand it all, but I thillk you 11 get the gist. There is, ill addition to the physical body, a subtle Ie/lei of the physical body. Sometimes it's ((died a thought body or tlIl astral body. It's as though we have a lJehide of thought ill additioll to the physical braill. which im't absolutely distinct from the brllin. It is refd(y a subtle lezlel, a quantum mechflllical level of our physical brain, and that's a subject ofgreat interest for me. What is it made of, this body Is it permanently glued to the of thought? physical body. or can it become detached-Hzy, travel m'ound on its OWIl? Well, here's what it's nltlde of (Figure 17) Superstring theory filially makes it dear-puts it into a comext. There has been a great deal of speculation over the years t[5 to what this thought body is. or if it ellen exists. In additiON to normal nwtter alld 110rmtlf flrces-electromflguetism. the nuclear force, radioactivity, electrollS, quarks. and gluolls there tums out to be a whole other set, the so caffed hidden sector particles, as this next chart shows. And they exist hl this ver.y same room alld occupy this same space, but they dOIl't intemct with us very much. hz foct, until recently, it was belielJed that only their grauitalioJlal influence had any influence at al!. But the gl'flvitatiollal dfect Oil me of a particle, even a hidden sector particle, is utterly IlegligibIe. Who Ctlres, therefore, whether there is hiddell sector matter? Thllt's

why physicists dOIl't talk about it much. It ma.y be there, but who aIres? But that's a mistake. More careful mathemat ical alla(ysis shows that, ill ({dditioll to the gravitlltional hzterac/ioll between observable sector nuttter, us, alld hidden sector mattn; It there's also all electromagnetic COil nectio Il. Subtle EneJgies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 65 Co................ CTO HIDDEN Figure J7. HiddeJ1 Sector /V/fI(tfr Prediaf'd by the Supmrring: The Stuflof Thollghts and 511/"": Bodie.' is a weak connection. Let's put it this way: the hidden sector particles are electrically chmged, but fractionally so---maybe with 1/1000 of the electric charge of an eiech'on. So they interact with matter-much more strongly than gravity, but much more weakly than normal electromagnetism. Now these hidden sector particles interact strong0' with themselves. There could be hidden sector trees, hidden sector planets, hidden sector people even. They're invisible, because it's a whole world unto itself. and it interacts only weak0' with us. But who Imows who or what is wallcing through this room that we can't see? But now it turm out that we can dimly see this world-oIl0' dimly, and with special equipment that has not even been built, to my kllowledge, but that could be designed and would perhaps be able to see this dimly lit world. And there are properties of this dim 0' lit world-not dim0' lit to itself. but dim0' to us-that could make it a very natural candidate for a thought body. W hat

is a thought made of Is there a body of thought, a vehicle of thought? The nervous system itself is a vehicle of Subtle Energies 6­ Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number I • Page 66 thought. Without the ~ ofthe brain, it would be very! difficult to think, but 1I0t T'lJe braill is 11e!:Y capable of impoSJible. It is [Ier.y good at certain types of thought. cal'1:yillg out computatiolls; it's very good at commullicatiollS. It's good at cltmical level of thought, like a computer-a little It's actual(y called (I lIeural digital computer. network. But it's 110t very good for qU(l1Itum mechanicallellels ofthinking, subtler levels ~ thought, medittUive let'els of thought, healillg letlels of thought. Much more suitable to healing In'els of thought-meditatizle lelJels of thought-is what we call the thought boti,y, made o.{subtler matter. This thought body, made of subtler mime!; lives ill this ghostly world-not ghost(y to itself, but only dimly seen by us. But such a body o.{ thought could attllch to us. Indeed, we can actually grow such a body. hlltch such a body. subtler lellel of thought and the mechallical level of thought o.{ the human brain. Would this subtle body be detached from the humall body? Yes, it could be. Could it move principle it could, aroulld b)' itself? Yes, Could it survizJe the physical body after death? Yes, it could. And fin thinking about this quite a lot, because it prolJides a IJel:y viable mechanism for trawcendillg. So I dOll't Wllllt to

go allY more illto this topic ulliess questions dictate, but I'll simp(}! say that ill addition to clllssical electromagnetism, which is typical in understanding healillg, It's there is a subtler electromagnetic field. called a hidden sector photon, a hidden sector electromagnetic field, and it may be a more appropriate field for healing-and for iong range field efficts of consciousness. Are there any other questions? We,'e eatingfbod (tll the time. Certain foods, certain herbs, may! hat1e higher concentration ofhidden sector matter. What do I metlll by thilt? Hidden sector miltter clumps-weak(y, but electrostatically--to OIdilltlry matter. The bond is t'ely wetlk, but hidden sector mattel; { we take it into the system, could accumu late in the system, particularly ill certllill areas ofthe physiology. And when this hidden sector matter clumps ill certain areas of the that part of the pkysiology is now therefore composed of hiddeu sector matter, and that part o.{plrysiology ((lit look straight into the hi{iden sector world. call see straight illto the hidden sector world, (md ~ electro static bondillg to our physical physiology, create a communication, a link between this Question 3: Does proximity [to war zones] increase the effectiveness of the outcome? And do meditators need to be physically together and meditating at the same time to really create positive, nourishing change? JH: VeIY, velY good questions. Practically speakillg, according to all the published research, the closer you are to the meditating group, the more powerfol the effict. And that effict is very much like a

radio antenna, radio broadcast, or eveu a light bulb. The intensity of the light grows dimmer with distance. It falls off somewhere due to the distance, the same as the radio wave, the same i1S allY classical field phenomenon. This appears to be more or less the mse with the influence of Subtle Energies & Enerfff jlyfedicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 61 Y l l a p s e s ~ Y J l a p t i c { ~ p / ~ y s i o l o g y , y ~ y group meditation, ullless the group gets big enough to start to illjlumce the entire globe. At that poilu, it becomes more truly a global phenomenoll. And that effict would require about 8,000 advallced meditators ill a group. And we're real6' working hard to build up It's not so easy to find such a such a group. group, but we hdlJe about 2,000 and growing. So proximity does seem to make a d But that may be, perhaps, only because meditators, even adwlIlced as they are, are not all really established ill a state of mlighten ment. MallY ofthem are growing in enlight enment. Some are there. And they're /lot necessarily completely established in that level of illdividual reality that is truly unbounded, truly global, truly cosmic. And cOllSequemly the degree of our influence may be somewhat physically limited. That's a speculation. J cant say that 011 the strength of research.

But it may happen that meditators become more advanced as they practice. So for the time beillg, like chess players, we may htwe to move our assets illto the lJicillity of a conflict to really have a cOllcentrated, powerfol effict Oil eliminating the violma. That's what all the research shows. But among the sevm studies I showed you Oll tumirlg off the war ill the MiddLe East, three of the groups studied were for away Two were ill the United States, and one was in the Netherlands. These groups were for from the Middle East, but those studies illvolved at Least 8,000 meditators, where the influence was large enough to become more ofa global upsurge in peace and a reduction ill globaL terrorism. Whm you want to meditate with a group, or to have maximum influence, it is most effictive to be in the group. That's just all empirical foct. However, if you call't be physically in the group, then ifyou call time your individual meditation to coillcide with the group meditation, that also seems to have It hamf bem very carefully a beneficial ~ studied scientifically, but people subjectively report there's all increased likeLihood to trallscmd and to experience universal Being whm you're meditating coincidentally with a large meditating group. J think that amwers the questioll. Question 4: Does participation in the large group create deeper experiences, or are the people participating in the group already advanced meditators who have deep experi ences to begin with? JH' J am

fortunate to be able to tune ill by phone to the daily o.;perimces of this big meditating force il1 Iowa, at Maharishi University, and to listen to alld commmt 011 the experiences there. It's extraordinary, Like the Upanishads. you're readillg from Experiences Like this, certainLy hI these numbers, are extremely rare in this UJorld. So yes, these are tldvanced meditators, but they're ill a group, which very much enhallces the experience. Even a relatively llew meditator could go and join this group and be amazed at the incredible bliss ofhis or her own experimces. But it's really on the basis of these deeper experiences that a mere 2,000 people can have a national effict. A lld we reaLly are havillg a national effict-but you aint seen 11othil1' yet! We're just 011 the threshold, I thillk, ofa reaL Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine • Volume 18 • Number 1 • Page 68 ~ f f i r e n c e . f f i c t . global t ji-om civilizatioll as it has bem-I won't dwell 011 that-to whtlt civiliz/ltion call alld must become now: a unified field-based civilization; a civilization ofglobal h global cohermce, twd petlce perpetual in the fomi/y oflItuiOIlS; tilt mlight ened civiliZtltion, where illdividzitl/s everywhere tire living their cosmic birthright, tire experiencillg the scimtific truth of the unity ofqe and higher states ofc01lSciouSlless. developed mind, body, b M.y filltll remtlrk: 1 urge everyolle who is 1I0t iJlvolved with this IIOW to get involved with it.

This is the most important type ofgrowth. You call learn to be a healer; you Ctlll Ie/1m to be a levitatm: You CtlJl develop any conceiv able thing. They are till possible. You Ctll1 develop your muscles, your biceps, your triceps, .your quadriceps-but big deal. The real goal is f alld higher states ofCOI/seiouslless. QI/ce you've got the total fonctioII ing ofthe braiJl, you can do tmything. You can levitate, you call heal you can do anything. So do that: develop foil potential of the bmill and higher states of conSCIOUSlless. You'lili/le ill bliss, hours a day Ellen during anesthesia, you Ctlll experi ence the immortal, cosmic, unbounded nature of the Self It gi/les ;,willcibiliry, tlctually, to know that 110 matter what happms, e/len ill the depths of sleep, you are net'e!' lost to the unbounded, etemal, immorttd ntlture of the Self That's whtlt 1 would recommend Aud 1 thallk you tiel)!, /lel:y much for your time alld tlttentioll todtly x x x Subtle Energies cr Energy Medicine • Volume J8 • Number 1 • Page 69 l ¥ l l l ~ f O r m a t i o l l a r m 0 1 ~ Y , u / ~ y e h a v i 0 1 ~