meditation reduces crime

This study presents the final results of a two-month prospective experiment to reduce violent crime in Washington, D.C. On the basis of previous research it was hypothesized that the level of violent crime in the District of Columbia would drop significantly with the creation of a large group of participants in the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® programs to increase coherence and reduce stress in the District.

 

that's very interesting

imagine if everyone in the world began meditating for 5 minutes a day.

 

thats interesting, but honestly, two months is not a long enough study to be valid. and what about other variables and a control group? how do you know that the participants wouldnt have stopped committing crimes w/o meditation? how do you know that any of them would have committed crimes in the first place? how do you know that there weren't crimes committed that no one knows about yet? that sounds like an interesting study, but i dont think it draws a conclusion

 

the study that I posted was one of 48 that I posted, this was just the biggest....
I said it was a 25 percent drop in the crime rate...that means that the average crimes committed dropped by 25 percent, this is in washington dc so I think a 25 percent drop is pretty significant.... the d.c. police cheif said that the only way that crime would be reduced by 25 percent is if they got dumped on by 2 feet of snow and people didn't go outside...the same police chief became one of the main advocates for the study once he actually experienced the 25 percent drop in crime

I'm sorry nikki I don't think you understand what a 25 percent drop in a population the size of d.c. means....if washington dc had say 1000 crimes committed a month (I'm pretty sure thats a pretty low estimate) that means that 250 people decided not to commit a crime, thats a really large chunk to say just happened by chance, especially since similar studies have proven the same thing on a smaller scale

 

Nikki, the idea was that you have all these people meditating, sending good vibes into the city, and that resulted in lower crime rates. It's not that the meditators were committing crimes. This is basically the same concept as faith healings. You get people together to pray for a healing (or meditate for less crime) and healing (less crime) occurs.

 

Too bad for us UK folks, as Maharishi has decided to pull out of what he now calls a 'scorpion nation'


http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115239

If it wasn't for the 'scorpion' Beatles, I doubt anyone much outside India would ever have heard of the old faker.

 

lol @ Bill. Yeah, even if he is a faker, though, meditation remains the same and has its benefits.

 

I always liked the leader of the TM movement, he's a funny guy and we shouldn't take him so seriously, even if he is right about a lot of things... He is a puppet like any other human, and God like everything... there is really only one free thing, why blame a puppet.

So what if he bashed Britian? He's right about the politics of the nation, I wouldn't go as far as he did if I was running it, but whatever, such is the will of THE ONE.

I'll just let it be.

Whatever this gurus politics, everybody is the guru mind you,
that doesn't change the OBVIOUS fact, that being in the NOW and realizing ONENESS through meditation, CALM CENTER OF BEING, has an effect on other beings through vibes.

anybody here now could tell you that. SHINE ON!

So the point is, these studies repeated over decades, and very successful show meditation is a good thing for US.

The solution is obvious!

 

i agree it is simple, however, getting more people to do it is hard, i am beginning to start how to meditate properly, reading up on it a bit. Still most people will not try or even want to.
Michael x