What should be done in this case? How achieve lasting peace and protect the security, stability, and well-being of every nation and world citizens? According to recent research, traditional approaches to defence fail because they do not address the underlying cause of violence and conflict: they do not relieve the acute political, ethnic, and religious tensions that fuel terrorism and conflict. We need an effective approach to eliminate these deep-rooted tensions—a scientific proven approach to safeguard every nation against stress, violence, terrorism and promote peace, prosperity, happiness and good health in the world.

Maharishi Invincible Defence Programme

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has introduced Invincible Defence Programme for every country. This powerful, innovative approach to peace has been extensively field tested—in the Middle East and throughout the world. The consistent result has been dramatic reductions in terrorism, war, and other social violence.

This Maharishi's Programme of Invincible Defence offers a proven, practical approach to world peace and national invincibility—an approach validated by more than 50 replications and 23 studies published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. These findings have been replicated, published in leading academic journals, and endorsed by hundreds of independent scientists and scholars. The efficacy of this approach is now beyond question.

These studies verify that the scientific knowledge and technologies are now available to end terrorism and conflict, to achieve indomitable national strength and security, and to create permanent world peace. By implementing these technologies, every government can rise to invincibility and secure the peace and safety of its citizens. This is the right time to act.

The approach calls for the immediate establishment of large national groups of peace-creating experts practicing specific "technologies of consciousness" that have been scientifically shown to neutralize acute ethnic, political, and religious tensions that fuel violence, terrorism, and social conflict. By eliminating tensions and animosity, this field-tested approach will immediately:

• Defuse enmity in a potential adversary, thus preventing the birth of an enemy and the onset of war.
• Create coherent and harmonious national consciousness, strengthening the nation against any potentially disruptive influences from outside or within.
• Create a peaceful and cooperative global environment, conducive to the formation of stable governments and the cessation of hostilities in regional hot spots.
• Ensure lasting peace, security, and economic stability at home, relieving tremendous pressure on governmental departments and institutions responsible for public safety and homeland security.

National invincibility:

People want to know what is the meaning of Invincibility. National invincibility means freedom from problems and negativity coming from within the country or from outside the country.

National invincibility is based on a strong, coherent and unified national consciousness that can be practically achieved through the Consciousness-Based programmes provided by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The citizens of the nation will enjoy greater cooperation and harmony that supports maximum creativity, productivity and progress. An invincible nation administers the diversity of its citizens holistically so that individual life is upheld in perfect harmony. The government will efficiently and effectively provide knowledge and programmes of action that will ensure fulfilment for every area of society.

An invincible nation radiates positivity and nourishment to its neighbours and spontaneously prevents the birth of any enemy. It will be an inspiration and joy to everyone in the world family. Current Indian Government and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has taken appreciable steps in this direction.

Global Peace—Invincibility to Every Nation

Global Peace can only be established through the transformation in world consciousness. Research indicated that the establishment of a group of 9,000 peace creating experts can positively influence trends in the life of the entire world family. This formula of 1 percent of the world's population practicing advanced programmes of consciousness will produce an environment of harmony and prevent the outbreak of violence and conflict anywhere in the world.

Scientific Research on The Creation of Peace

The unique effectiveness of the Consciousness-Based Approach to Peace in preventing social violence, terrorism, and war has been confirmed by more than 50 replications including 25 studies published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals or conference proceedings. This research has been carefully scrutinized by independent scholars and accepted for publication in top academic journals (see references). In every case, this approach produced marked reductions of crime, social violence, terrorism, and war, and increased peace and positivity in society.

Decreased War and Terrorism

A critical experimental test of the Consciousness-Based Approach to Peace was conducted during the peak of the Lebanon war. A day-by-day study of a two-month assembly in Israel in 1983 showed that, on days when the number of participants in this Unified Field-based approach to defence ("TM Group Size," right) was high, war deaths in neighbouring Lebanon dropped by 76% (p < 10-7). In addition, crime, traffic accidents, fires, and other indicators of social stress in Israel (combined into a Composite Index) all correlated strongly with changes in TM group size. Other possible causes (weekends, holidays, weather, etc.) were statistically controlled for (Journal of Conflict Resolution 32: 776-812, 1988).

These results were subsequently replicated in seven consecutive experiments over a two-year period during the peak of the Lebanon war. The results of these interventions included:

• war-related fatalities decreased by 71% (p < 10-10)
• war-related injuries fell by 68% (p < 10-6)
• the level of conflict dropped by 48% (p < 10-8)
• cooperation among antagonists increased by 66% (p < 10-6)

The likelihood that these combined results were due to chance is less than one part in 1019, making this effect of reducing societal stress and conflict the most rigorously established phenomenon in the history of the social sciences (Journal of Social Behaviour and Personality 17(1): 285-338, 2005).

In addition, the global influence on terrorism of three large coherence-creating assemblies was studied retrospectively through an analysis of data compiled by the Rand Corporation. The data revealed a 72% reduction in worldwide terrorism during the three assemblies taken together, as compared to all other weeks during a two-year period. Each assembly had approached or exceeded the participation threshold (8,000) predicted to create a global influence of peace. The study ruled out the possibility that this reduction in terrorism was due to cycles, trends, or drifts in the measures used, or to seasonal changes (Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 36 (1-4): 283-302, 2003).

Decreased Crime and Social Stress

A National Demonstration Project conducted in Washington, D.C., from June 7 to July 30, 1993, tested the efficacy of the Consciousness-Based Approach to Peace for reducing crime and social stress and improving the effectiveness of government. In this carefully controlled experiment, the coherence-creating group increased from 800 to 4,000 over the two-month period. Although violent crime had been steadily increasing during the first five months of the year, soon after the start of the study, violent crime (measured by FBI Uniform Crime Statistics) began decreasing and continued to drop until the end of the experiment (maximum decrease 23.3%), after which it began to rise again. The likelihood that this result could be attributed to chance variation in crime levels was less than two parts per billion (p < .000000002). The drop-in crime could not be attributed to other possible causes, including temperature, precipitation, weekends, and police and community anti-crime activities (Social Indicators Research 47: 153-201, 1999). These are just a few of the more than 50 scientific demonstrations and 23 published studies on this Consciousness-Based Approach to Peace. These studies are backed by more than 700 other published studies conducted at over 235 independent universities and research institutes in 35 countries on the individual and societal benefits of these Unified Field-Based, Consciousness-Based, technologies of consciousness. This extensive body of scientific research makes the unique approach of Maharishi Invincible Programme most thoroughly tested and rigorously established peace-creating technology in the world today.

Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology of Consciousness is a Unified Field-Based Approach to Peace because it constitutes a direct technological application of the unified field. Because it works at the deepest, most powerful and holistic level of Natural Law, its effects are pervasive and inescapable. It can easily overpower—and effectively disarm—conventional technologies of offense based on the electronic, chemical, biological, or nuclear levels. Yet it is inherently safe, despite its power, because it is based on the application of a completely holistic level of Natural Law.

The Unified Field of Consciousness Theoretical and empirical investigation reveals that the unified field is fundamentally a field of consciousness. The fundamental qualities of the unified field—intelligence, dynamism, and self-awareness (i.e., "self-referral," the non-Abelian property of self-interaction)—are the defining characteristics of consciousness. Extensive published research further demonstrates that human consciousness can directly access and experience the unified field in the most expanded state of human awareness, known as "pure consciousness." (See chart below.) This experience of the unified field—pure consciousness—constitutes a fourth major state of human consciousness, physiologically and subjectively distinct from waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. This experience is marked by the onset of global EEG coherence and increased alpha power, indicating maximum orderliness of brain functioning and utilization of the total brain.

This fourth state of consciousness is universally accessible through specific, highly developed technologies of consciousness from the Vedic eternal tradition of India. These technologies—the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Siddhi programme of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—are the most widely practiced and extensively researched technologies in the world for the full development of human potential.

Creating Coherent National Consciousness: The "Maharishi Effect"

Regular experience of the unified field through the Transcendental Meditation program has been shown to dissolve deep-seated stress in the individual, bringing marked reductions in hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and other stress-related illness. When practiced collectively in groups, this same programme has been shown to effectively reduce societal stress and tensions, causing associated reductions in crime and social violence, and an upsurge of peace and positivity throughout the population.

Specifically, published research confirms that collective practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Siddhi programme by groups of several hundred to several thousand trained experts quickly neutralizes acute societal stress—including the ethnic, religious, and political tensions that fuel violence and conflict. Violence and conflict are thereby averted as tensions are calmed and as the enmity in an adversary is naturally defused. From the perspective of physics, such groups of trained, peace-creating experts collectively accessing and stimulating the unified field generate powerful waves of unity and coherence that permeate the collective consciousness of the whole population. The immediate, practical result is markedly reduced crime and social violence, and improved positive trends throughout society. (See Scientific Verification) This phenomenon of increased coherence and peace throughout society was first reported in research published in 1976, which found that when 1% of a community practiced the Transcendental Meditation, the crime rate dropped by an average of 16%. This phenomenon was named the "Maharishi Effect" in honour of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who first predicted it in 1960. This term now includes the influence generated by group practice of the advanced TM-Siddhi programme, through which even the square root of 1% of a community is sufficient to create measurable changes in social trends. The reduction of social violence, terrorism, and war through group practice of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Siddhi programme is the most extensively researched and thoroughly established phenomenon in the history of the social sciences. Such group practice is the cornerstone of the Global Peace Initiative.

The latest scientific discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory reveal the fundamental principles of invincibility that are practically applied through the Invincible Defence Technology and that can practically achieve unprecedented levels of national security, strength, and invincibility. These principles include:

• Meissner Effect: Invincibility through Internal Coherence



• Gauge Supersymmetry: Invincibility through Infinite Adaptability

Gauge supersymmetry is the scientific principle through which the Unified Field dynamically upholds its unity—its perfectly balanced supersymmetric union of diametrically opposed tendencies, known as Bose and Fermi fields. If this perfect, supersymmetric balance were to be challenged by potentially disruptive permutations among its bosonic and fermionic components, then specialized components of the Unified Field called gauge gravitinosspontaneously respond with a countervailing force, preserving the perfect symmetry of the system.

All these fundamental principles of invincibility—the principle of indomitable strength, the principle of impenetrable coherence (the Meissner Effect), and the principle of infinite adaptability (gauge supersymmetry)—become fully functional in the nation when the qualities of the unified field are enlivened in national consciousness through large groups of coherence-creating experts practicing the Invincible Defence Technology.

These cutting-edge scientific principles of invincibility from physics explain how, in modern scientific terms, by enlivening total Natural Law—the unified field—and its invincible qualities in the collective consciousness of society, Maharishi Vedic Technologies of Consciousness create indomitable strength and national invincibility—as confirmed by extensive published research.

*Among the advanced techniques of Transcendental Meditation is "Yogic Flying," an ancient but profound mental technique that generates Powerful, sustained brainwave coherence. Regular practice of Yogic Flying brings growing mastery over the force of gravity, as demonstrated by the body's spontaneous rising off the ground in response to a purely mental impulse. Mastery over gravity demonstrates the capability of the fully developed human mind to function from the level of quantum gravity—the only level from which conventional, classical gravity can be controlled. The scale of quantum gravity is the Planck scale—the scale of Super Unification, where gravity unites with the other fundamental forces to become the unified field (see chart). Here the ability to function at the level of quantum gravity implies the ability to function at the level of the unified field—the field of total Natural Law. Therefore, the growing mastery over gravity seen during Yogic Flying truly indicates growing mastery over all the laws of nature. It is from this most fundamental and powerful level of the unified field—the field of total Natural Law—that the practice of Yogic Flying enlivens indomitable coherence in collective consciousness, and invincibility in the nation.