Back in 1993, the Transcendental Meditation folks conducted a closely scrutinized scientific experiment to determine whether TM (and, by extension, any form of meditation) has an effect on violent crime (homicides, rapes and assaults). Over the course of eight weeks, TMers from all over the country started arriving and meditating in the nation's capital. By the last week, the maximum number of meditators was reached with a count of 3,800 in a city with 550,000 residents at the time. (For us math buffs, that is only .7 percent of the population.) Violent crime levels had been dropping throughout the test period. During that last week, violent crime was down almost 25 percent. Pretty good results from simple deliberate sitting. (More)
Source: The Milpitas Post
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