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The current 14-week run of unexpected good economic, social, and even climatic news in America is about to get much, much better, according to quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, who is directing the "Invincible America Assembly"—the largest scientific demonstration project ever to monitor the effects of a group of 1200 advanced Transcendental Meditation experts on national trends.

The scientific demonstration project, now in its fourth month, is being held at Maharishi University of Management and Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa.

Dr. Hagelin’s predictions include:

• a surge in the bull Dow market towards 15,000

• a drop in oil prices to below $45 a barrel

• falling unemployment rates

• rising consumer and investor confidence

• a 20% drop nationwide in violent crime

• a peaceful resolution of the stand-offs with North Korea and Iran, and a dramatic reduction in violence in Iraq

• and of greatest interest to the Republicans and Democrats: the party that wins the November elections will be in a position to hold onto power "indefinitely"

Dr. Hagelin’s upbeat assessment is not based on hope or a hunch. Rather, it is based on a solid track record of published empirical research—along with the most advanced principles of physics, physiology, and neuroscience.

The research shows that whenever a large number of peace-creating experts—about the square root of one percent of the population of a nation—practice the Transcendental Meditation–Yogic Flying technique together in a group, negative trends, such as crime and violence, decrease, and positive economic and social trends are strengthened throughout the entire population.

Scientists named this phenomenon the "Maharishi Effect" after His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the renowned Vedic scholar who founded the Transcendental Meditation program, and who predicted the beneficial impact of group meditation on social trends as early as 1975.

Dr. Hagelin said the dramatic transformation in national trends during the past 14 weeks has come from 1200 peace-creating experts who are generating coherence in national consciousness. But that number is well below the 2000 Yogic Flyers required to completely transform the country.

Fortunately, Dr. Hagelin said, the number of experts will rise to 1500 in the coming days—and before long, will to grow to 2000.

"When this happens, the whole population will enjoy unprecedented prosperity, and the nation will rise to indomitable strength and invincibility—and will promote peace throughout the world. With such positivity and prosperity in national life, whichever party gains power after the November elections will enjoy unprecedented popular support—and will be in a historic position to remain in power indefinitely," said Dr. Hagelin, who also serves as the Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at Maharishi University of Management and as Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace.

Since the Invincible America Assembly began 94 days ago, the Dow has climbed 1100 points to set an all-time high at 12,116, energy prices have plummeted 28%, and inflation fears have dissipated. At the same time, the White House has abandoned its combative, militaristic approach and has adopted a more effective, diplomatic, consensus-based solution to the conflicts in Lebanon, Iran, and North Korea.

The Assembly is being funded by a $12 million annual grant from the "Howard and Alice Settle Foundation for an Invincible America."

Dr. Hagelin said similar groups of TM–Yogic Flyers are now being established in 39 more countries to create a "Ring of Invincibility" around the world—to boost the global economy and create a powerful influence of peace worldwide.

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BY MARC HANSEN, REGISTER COLUMNIST

If you follow the news, you might have noticed two seemingly unrelated developments.

One, the hurricane season has been a dud. Last year, it was one killer tropical storm after another. This year, we’re still waiting for the big one to crash onto the shoreline.

The forecasts were frightening. This hurricane season was supposed to be worse than the last, when Katrina and her friends led to more than 2,000 deaths and billions of dollars in destruction.

Two, the stock market has moved into record territory, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing at 12,116.91, its best historical close.

A coincidence? No, the Maharishi Effect.

It’s the 1,200 advanced Transcendental Meditators who are camping out for six hours a day in Fairfield and elsewhere, "creating coherence in national consciousness" and changing the national mood.

Granted, it sounds unusual. But since Maharishi Mahesh Yogi himself predicted this would happen back in July, who are we to argue?

It’s important to challenge mainstream thinking. You don’t want to be the guy who told Guglielmo Marconi there was no future in wireless communications.

The man in charge of the "Invincible America Course" is John Hagelin, a quantum physicist who graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth, earned a doctorate from Harvard and was a researcher at Stanford before moving to Fairfield and becoming the director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Maharishi University of Management.

He also ran for president three times as a third-party candidate and collected lots of votes in Jefferson County. He isn’t running this time, mostly because he’s busy making sure the United States is surrounded with a protective shield of collective consciousness.

This isn’t something a person does in a regular 40-hour work week, so it took a while to catch up with him. When I did, he was in the Netherlands on a European speaking tour.

The original idea, he said, was to restore peace in Lebanon.

I wasn’t sure how a group of 1,200 "yogic flyers" in Iowa and another 200 in Washington, D.C., could stop the bombing in the Middle East.

But Hagelin is convinced it did. He answers the sceptics by referring to field-tested, peer-reviewed documentation in 600 studies and 250 independent research institutes around the world.

"We are not disconnected from each other," he said. "We influence each other. Wars are nothing other than the outburst of pent-up societal stress in critical hot spots."

Get a large group of advanced meditators together for six hours at a time, things happen. The mind settles down, awareness expands ... and expands ... until it permeates the collective consciousness. The stress level goes down, people stop shooting each other.

"The U.S. wasn’t using the leverage we have in that part of the world," Hagelin said. "We weren’t encouraging moderation on Israel’s part. We started this course principally to provide a cooling influence and sanity in our foreign policy."

It wasn’t long before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was changing her plans and flying to Lebanon. A few days later, the United States was helping craft a cease-fire.

"It was quite an amazing turnabout," he said.

The good feelings spill over into the economy. Consumer confidence picks up, which leads to more optimism, a better economy and higher stock prices.

"The stock market," Hagelin said, "was a side effect, an expression of the collective mood."
Stocks up, gas prices down. Consumer confidence rises, unemployment drops.

Stocks won’t grow straight to the sky, Hagelin warned. There will be burps and corrections and mini-panics. But the swings won’t be so extreme.

All right, then. If meditation works so well in Lebanon, why not Iraq?

"Lebanon was easier to quell," Hagelin said." Iraq is an entrenched mess. The mistakes that have been made will take time to unwind. Iraq is a victim of intense social stress of its own. It’s there in spades, but it can be unwound. We have to give the Iraqis and their geographical neighbours a big dose of this stress-reducing technology. At some point, when tensions are less acute, an act of violence no longer results in a retaliatory act. Then you suddenly tip the equation into a state of de-escalating violence."

Iraq won’t be as easy, he said, but the union of modern science and ancient wisdom can be a wonderful thing.

Don’t rule it out. Don’t be the guy who doubted Marconi.