Maharishi’s prophecy was proven right in a study published in 1976. A group of monks was sent into a crime-ridden community. In this case the number of monks sent represented one percent of that community’s total population. The monks practiced meditation in the community, and, over time, the crime rate dropped by an astounding 16 percent. This phenomenon—the power of meditative joyful energy to shift the energy of the collective conscious—is called the Maharishi Effect.
