JMVRI Issue JMVRI Issue No. 27 focuses on the Maharishi Effect. It features two research studies: “Evaluating a Field Theory of Consciousness and Social Change: Group Practice of Transcendental Meditation and Homicide Trends”, by Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Michael C. Dillbeck and David W. Orme-Johnson (pp. 11–68); and “A Proposed New Formula to Create the Maharishi Effect: The Perúvian Example”, by Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek and Javier Ortiz Cabrejos (pp. 69–110).
JMVRI Issue Number 27
JMVRI Paper 27.2
A Proposed New Formula to Create the Maharishi Effect: The Perúvian Example
Authors: Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek and Javier Ortiz Cabrejos
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Fergusson, L., Bonshek, A., & Ortiz Cabrejos, J. (2025). A proposed new formula to create the Maharishi Effect: The Perúvian example. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 27, 69–110.
Summary (excerpt):
This study discusses the formulas and ratios used to explain and predict the Maharishi Effect. The purpose of the discussion paper by Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek and Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, part of a six-year pre-, peri- and post-pandemic research program conducted in Perú, is to consider these various formulas and ratios and to propose a new formula which predicts the Maharishi Effect when groups of meditators come together for social benefit. Data, evidence and experience from Perú serve as the context for this discussion.