NEWS CONFERENCE Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa Wednesday, November 1, 10 AM (CT)

Can the large collective practice of a scientifically documented stress-reducing meditation technique
positively impact a larger population through the “field effects of consciousness”—reducing societal stress,
crime, and violence, and improving economic trends? Yes, according to a rigorous, controlled statistical
analysis of the first 100 days of a $12 million scientific demonstration project to monitor the effects of
1200 advanced Transcendental Meditation practitioners on U.S. quality of life indicators.

		John Hagelin, Ph.D. Director, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy Quantum physicist and director of the “Invincible America Assembly”—the $12 million a year scientific demonstration project now under way to monitor the effects of group Transcendental Meditation on economic, social, and climatic trends
		Ken Cavanaugh, Ph.D. Professor of Applied Statistics and Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy Co-author of several published studies on collective effects of meditation
		Fred Travis, Ph.D. Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Largest research center in the world to study the effects of meditation on brain functioning of high school and university students
		Robert Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C. Director, Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention Recipient of $24 million from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the effects of meditation on cardiovascular disease