Ripples of Peace · Richard Broome PhD
The references behind the story.
Selected research and sources from the book’s footnotes. Summaries follow Broome’s account; page numbers refer to the printed book.
Researchers compared 24 cities in which 1% of the population had learned TM with comparison cities, using FBI crime data over a longer period. Broome describes significant reductions in crime and an independent investigator’s supervision.
Book pp. 69 · ReferenceThe village was compared with four neighbouring villages during the civil war. After 1% of residents learned TM, the book reports no incoming shells, casualties or property damage during the study period, while hostilities increased in the comparison villages.
Book pp. 75–78 · ReferenceThe book describes a two-month assembly in Jerusalem and reports a reduction of more than 70% in Lebanon war deaths on days when participation reached the predicted threshold. It also follows changes in a composite quality-of-life index.
Book pp. 79, 84–87 · ReferenceAcross seven assemblies, the book reports 71% fewer war fatalities, 68% fewer injuries, 48% lower conflict and 66% more cooperation. It describes analyses that considered temperature, holidays and weekends.
Book pp. 80 · ReferenceAround 4,000 practitioners assembled for a publicly announced test. Broome describes predictions submitted to a 27-member review board and an estimated 23.3% reduction in HRA crime: homicides, rapes and assaults.
Book pp. 81, 88–90 · ReferenceThe book connects a large group in Iowa with reductions in homicide and other violent-crime indicators during the 2007–2010 intervention period. Its summary reports a 28.4% reduction in the homicide-rate trend and an estimated 4,136 murders averted.
Book pp. 82, 91–93 · ReferenceThis prospective quasi-experiment is one of the two studies cited by Broome alongside the Iowa assembly. The book follows group size through the threshold period and discusses the later return of adverse trends as participation declined.
Book pp. 91–93 · ReferenceBroome presents predicted and observed drug-death trends. His account describes deaths levelling off when the group reached the proposed threshold in 2007 and returning towards the earlier trend after participation fell.
Book pp. 94–95 · ReferenceThe book summarises a study of group TM and TM-Sidhi practice and national stress indicators over 17 years. It discusses unemployment, inflation, policing, demographics, temperature and seasonal cycles as alternative explanations.
Book pp. 97–101 · ReferenceA footnote in the Mozambique–Angola comparison describes a time-series and mixed-method study in Cambodia, reporting a 96% decrease in violent acts during 1993–2008 compared with the earlier baseline.
Book pp. 27 · ReferenceEntries retain the bibliographic details given in the manuscript. Where a footnote provides a web address, it is linked below. This is a selected bibliography, not the complete set of footnotes.
Landrith, Garland S. III; Dillbeck, Michael C.; Orme-Johnson, David W. (1981). The Transcendental Meditation program and crime rate change in a sample of 48 cities. Journal of Crime and Justice, 4, 25–45.
Source linked in the bookClaes, Joachim (2017). The Field Paradigm: 20 experiments that can change the world.
Abou Nader, T. M.; Alexander, C. N.; Davies, J. L. The Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field and Reduction of Armed Conflict: A comparative, longitudinal study of Lebanese villages. Collected Papers, vol. 4, no. 331, 2623–2633.
Orme-Johnson, David W.; Alexander, Charles N.; Davies, John L.; Chandler, Howard M.; Larimore, Wallace E. (1988). International Peace Project in the Middle East: The effects of the Maharishi technology of the Unified Field. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32(4), 776–812.
Orme-Johnson, D. W.; Dillbeck, M. C.; Alexander, C. N. (2003). Preventing terrorism and international conflict: Effects of large assemblies of participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 36(1–4), 283–302.
Dillbeck and Cavanaugh (1993). Washington, D.C. research described in the book: reductions in violent crime during the National Demonstration Project.
Dillbeck, M. C.; Cavanaugh, K. L. (2016). Societal Violence and Collective Consciousness. SAGE Open, 6(2), 2158244016637891.
Cavanaugh, K. L.; Dillbeck, M. C. (2017). Researching U.S. Urban Murder Rates and Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Evaluation of a Prospective Quasi-Experiment. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 5, 11–40.
Dillbeck, M. C.; Cavanaugh, K. L. (2023). Empirical evaluation of the possible contribution of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program to reduction in drug-related mortality. Medicina, 59, 1–32.
Source linked in the bookOrme-Johnson, D. W.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; Dillbeck, M. C.; Goodman, R. S. (2022). Field-Effects of Consciousness: A Seventeen-Year Study of the Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs on Reducing National Stress in the United States. World Journal of Social Science, 9(2), 1–22.
Source linked in the bookFerguson, L.; Kavanaugh, K. L. (2019). Socio-political violence in Cambodia between 1990–2008: an explanatory mixed method study of social coherence. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 10, 43–126.
United Nations. ONUMOZ: General Peace Agreement signed by Joaquim Chissano and Afonso Dhlakama in Rome, 4 October 1992.
Source linked in the bookTobias Dai. Address on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme in Mozambique, presented in the Netherlands in 1994.
Source linked in the bookTobias Dai. Address to the Second International Conference on Invincible Defence, 1995; translated from Portuguese.
Source linked in the bookDiário de Notícias (Lisbon), 19 July 1990. Front-page report of negotiations between General Dai and RENAMO.
Broome, J. R. N.; Orme-Johnson, D. W.; Schmidt-Wilk, J. (2005). Worksite stress reduction through the Transcendental Meditation program. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 17(1), 235–276.
Nader, Tony (2024). Consciousness Is All There Is: How Understanding and Experiencing Consciousness Will Transform Your Life. Hay House. ISBN 9781401976514.
Shea, Griffin (2015). Manhattan or Mozambique? Maputo’s Billion-Dollar Makeover. CNN, 16 March 2015.
Source linked in the bookOppel, Richard A. Jr. (2011). Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts. The New York Times, 23 May 2011.
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