Society

Can Meditation Change the World?

January 28, 2013
Former president of Mozambique Joachim Chissano replaced a culture of war with a culture of peace.

The Amazing Story of Mozambique's 'Meditating President'. From: Out Of The Darkness, by Steve Taylor. Psychology Today What would happen if every member of a country's government and army started to meditate, asks author Steve Taylor writing in the journal Psychology Today? Would the country become peaceful and crime-free? And would meditation prove to be the more »

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Oprah’s New TV Series to Feature Show on Transcendental Meditation

January 18, 2012
Oprah Winfrey joins a group of 500 other woman to practice Transcendental Meditation during the filming of her new TV series

Oprah Winfrey’s new TV series, ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter’, which launched on 1st January, is to include an episode on Transcendental Meditation, exploring how the simple technique has transformed the lives of many Americans, including those of Oprah and her 400 employees.

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Acclaimed Lancashire School Wins Free School Status

September 9, 2011
Daily sessions of meditation are the key to Maharishi Free School's success

A flurry of media interest greeted the new term at the Maharishi Free School in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, with radio, television & print coverage of Britain’s only school to offer Consciousness Based Education, now state funded for the first time.

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Social cohesion requires brain cohesion

September 5, 2011
Brain functioning determines behaviour

As doom turned to broom on our screens recently, every news source was filled with analyses of the riots in some of Britain’s major cities: Why had they happened? What is wrong with our society? How can they be prevented from happening again?

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Timely solution for peace in the Middle East?

May 13, 2011
Positive-News-Spring-2011 Could the military use meditation to create peace?

Based on an article in Positive News -  a hard-facts environmental publication, looking at stories of increasing harmony and environmental awareness in the world. Issue 67, Spring 2011 All his life, Einstein searched for proof of one underlying field of creation – a “unified field,” more basic and many hundreds of thousands of times more more »

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Transforming the lives of Colombia’s street children

April 11, 2011
Colombia's street children - smiling now

The dynamism, love and immense enthusiasm, that radiates from Father Gabriel Mejia makes one realise how he has been so successful in helping the abandoned street children in Colombia. Over the last 25 years his Centres (Fundacion Hogares Claret) have helped tens of thousands of children find a way to live healthy, happy and purposeful more »

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Can meditation significantly improve academic standards in schools?

Increased achievement in English grades in meditating students March 29, 2011

New research shows that the Transcendental Meditation technique may be an effective approach in improving academic achievement amongst low-performing students by as much as 40 per cent. The study published in the journal Education was conducted with 189 high school students, aged 12 to 14, who were below proficiency level in English and Maths. Those taking part in the Transcendental more »

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Peace Palace for Belfast wins support of Northern Ireland Government

January 28, 2011
Belfast Peace Line Project

A £10m project to create lasting peace for Northern Ireland is under way. Construction of a Peace Palace will take place on land purchased by an international charity exactly on the “Peace Line” which traverses Belfast. The Government of Northern Ireland supports the project and full planning permission has been granted for two beautiful buildings more »

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“Our Minds Move Markets”, says Meditation Group

December 14, 2010
Transcendental Meditation group Iowa, USA

The Stock Market has had a tough time recently, with the USA’s Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its worst one-week drop in five years. No worries though, according to a recent MSN News report, as a meditation group in America’s midwest promises their good vibrations will send the blue-chip index soaring within a year. A group calling more »

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Russell Brand: How to Achieve Real Happiness

November 1, 2010
R Brand Newsnight

BBC Newsnight, October 2010 In an interview with  the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman, comedian Russell Brand revealed that his deepest wish is to use his fame to  create something more valuable and beautiful than the “trivial things” he is known for. He spoke of the sham and emptiness of celebrity and consumerism, and how, having achieved more »

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