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. The reason the Maharishi Effect works is because the meditating group’s alpha brain waves are functioning at a powerful level, able to permeate the atmosphere to reach people in the same geographical region to have a positive effect on their hearts, minds, and actions.
