b'14 GLOBAL UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR PEACE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS TO VIOLENCE AND GLOBAL CONFLICT 155GROUP MEDITATIONPHYSICS CONSCIOUSNESSDEFUSES ACUTE SOCIETAL STRESS, REDUCES CRIME ANDSOCIAL VIOLENCESuper Unification Pure ConsciousnessExtensive research, including 50 scientific replications andUNIFIED FIELD UNIFIED FIELD23 studies published in peer-reviewed journals, demonstratesof all the laws of nature of all the laws of naturethat TM practice, and in particular group TM practice, is an effective, and highly cost-effective, approach for reducing societal stress and associated crime and social conflict. Modern physics has located more unified levels of natures functioning at smaller time It is not surprising that reducing stress on the individual level leads to a correspondingand distance scales, culminating in the discovery of the unified field (superstring field) at the reduction of stress on the societal level. Yet it is both surprising and fortunate that even afoundation of the universe. The TM and advanced TM-Sidhi program provide direct experience of relatively small proportion of a population practicing this powerful, stress-reducing technologyquieter, deeper levels of thoughtculminating in the experience of the unified field at the basis in a group produces a disproportionate and demonstrable reduction in societal stress andof mind and matter. Group practice powerfully stimulates this universal, unified field of collec-its associated crime and social violence. The meditating group generates an extensivelytive consciousness, creating a demonstrable, coherent influence throughout society. (For more documented spillover effect of orderliness and calm in the surrounding society. details, see the next section.)Theoretical explanations of this surprisingly powerful positive impact of group meditation on crime and social stress include a field model of consciousness, in which consciousness, at its deepest level, is a field that underlies and connects individuals throughout society [16]. Such a theory is consistent with the latest findings in physics, physiology, and neuroscience (see figure, opposite page). In any such field model (irrespective of its details), the stress-reducing, peace-promoting influence generated by a group will grow as the square of the size of the group. This N 2power of a peace-creating group has been repeatedly confirmed by dozens of published scientific studiesand renders this Brain-Based Approach to Peace especially practical. It means that only a few thousand individuals are needed to produce an extremely powerful and scientifically demonstrable effect of orderliness and calm in the surrounding societyeven on a national or global scale. (See Scientific Research section, pages 2025.).'