• The Natural Law Party was formed in Great Britain on 15th March 1992, in response to widespread dissatisfaction with the existing political parties (the national newspaper Sunday Times described the situation facing the voters in the general election as a 'choice between two evils') and to bring innovative, scientifically proven solutions to the nation's problems. The party fielded candidates for 310 seats in the 1992 general election, receiving 0.4% of the vote in the constituencies it contested.

• Since then, inspiration for the Natural Law Party has spread world-wide and it is now active in 54 countries.

• A world tour in June and July 1992 provided a great impetus. A series of international conferences of Natural Law Parties in London, Ottawa, Washington, Tokyo, Bangkok, Melbourne coincided with the founding of the party in each country.

• The Natural Law Party has contested elections in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, the USA, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Israel, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Iceland, Finland, Switzerland, Estonia,Trinidad and Tobago, Philippines and other countries.

• Natural Law Party candidates have been elected to public office on a regional or local level in the following countries: India, Croatia, The Netherlands, Italy, Great Britain, Yugoslavia and USA.

• The party has been receiving growing support throughout the world. Nationwide surveys in Canada in 1993 found that 60% of Canadians would like to see the formation of an all-party government, as proposed by the Natural Law Party, and a majority supported the implementation of the party’s health care and rehabilitation programmes.

• In the 1993 and 1997 federal elections in Canada the Natural Law Party received up to 1% of the vote. Everyone in the country was made aware of the party's policy of establishing a group of 7,000 Yogic Flyers to create integrated national consciousness and resolve problems. Before the campaigns began, the party announced courses for the unemployed to train in new Natural Law based careers.

• In state elections in Victoria, Australia, in October 1992 Natural Law Party candidates polled nearly 4% of the vote, with the highest nearly 10%. In the Australian federal elections in March 1993, the party received about 1% of the vote, with 3% in some constituencies. A similar percentage was received in the elections in New Zealand, November 1993.

• European Parliament elections, June 1994:

The party contested the European Parliament elections in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Although this was the first time that the Natural Law Party had participated in the European elections, the party fielded over 400 candidates – the largest number of any party contesting the election. In the United Kingdom, the party stood in all 87 Euro-constituencies, thus making political history by being the first party to contest every seat in any nation-wide election.

The party received 400,000 votes, an average of 0.5% of the vote in the seven countries where it had candidates. In the European Union as a whole this would represent one million people. 400,000 votes was 0.3% of the total votes cast in the 12 member states of the European Union. Under a system of full proportional representation this would have qualified the party for one or possibly two seats in the European Parliament.

• In the US presidential elections in November 1992, after collecting 600,000 signatures, the Natural Law Party was on the ballot in 28 states, and became only the third party in US history, along with the Republicans and Democrats, both to qualify for national party status and to become eligible for federal matching funds. As presidential candidate it fielded an eminent physicist, Dr John Hagelin, considered by his peers likely to win a Nobel Prize for his work in quantum field theory.

In the 1996 presidential elections, Dr Hagelin was on the ballot in 46 states, and an additional 1,000 candidates ran for Congress.

The party has lobbied, in some cases successfully, to prevent several state legislatures from passing new bills designed to make it more difficult for new parties to gain ballot access (see also page 4, OSCE summit).

• In the national elections in Finland in March 1995 the Natural Law Party conducted a vigorous campaign, receiving 0.3% of the vote – about half the votes needed to secure a seat in parliament. In an unofficial youth election held in schools throughout the country, the party polled 2.6%.

• In Guadeloupe, which is politically a part of France, former Natural Law Party candidate Mrs Brigitte Rodes-Seymour was invited by a former Minister to be a member of her multi-party list in Basse-Terre, the capital of Guadeloupe. Mrs Rodes Seymour accepted, in exchange for a commitment that some of the Natural Law Party’s key programmes would be financed and implemented. She was duly elected and is now deputy mayor. In other parts of France, two other former Natural Law Party candidates were invited to participate on lists of different parties.

• The Young Natural Law Party has been formed in many countries. The first was in Germany, where the party has attracted widespread support among young people. The Young Natural Law Party offers practical programmes for youth to solve the pressing problems of society, including pollution, crime, drug abuse, and poor standards in education.

• In June 1996 the Natural Law Parties in many countries launched a Campaign to Ban Genetically Engineered Foods, which are being introduced, usually unlabelled, into shops and supermarkets all round the world, despite serious and largely unpublicised health risks. The campaign has helped alert the public, politicians, interest groups, and the media, to the serious health risks involved in these foods. The party has also lobbied MEPs, government departments and parliamentarians in each country, as well as international organisations such as the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Labelling – an international delegation set up by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation. In Europe, 200,000 signatures have been collected from people demanding a ban on genetically engineered foods.

The party has acted as a focus for the efforts of other groups of consumers and environmentalists to bring this issue to the forefront.

• In Northern Ireland a special 70-page Natural Law Party document was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments. The Natural Law Party's response was presented to leaders on both sides of the border, as well as to prominent people in the USA.

The Natural Law Party was subsequently invited to take part in the special elections to the Northern Ireland Forum, and did so, but withdrew at the height of the campaign when it became clear that the elections were just a ‘playing for time’ strategy of the British government. The Natural Law Party's stand brought praise and support from all sections of the political spectrum in Northern Ireland.

• International Conventions of leaders of the Natural Law Parties have been held each summer since 1995, attended by over 500 delegates from 50 countries. The 1995 convention in Brussels concluded that ‘the United Nations has spent 50 years and vast resources trying to create world peace and has repeatedly failed. The policies of the Natural Law Party, which are based on the complete scientific knowledge of Natural Law, could achieve these necessary goals without delay.’

The 1996 convention in Brussels concluded that the European Union ‘had become a source of economic and social conflict, new diseases and environmental destruction, rather than a means to prevent problems and conflict as originally intended by its founders,’ and urged all European countries to adopt the policies of the Natural Law Party which alone could create unity between nations while maintaining and even strengthening their individual sovereignty. In particular, they called for the immediate establishment of a group of 7,000 yogic flyers in Europe.

The 1997 convention in Bonn spoke out strongly against EU and NATO expansion (especially into Eastern Europe), and proclaimed its intention to make every nation invincible by establishing a Vedic Peace Corps which would use the technologies of consciousness – Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying – to create such an indomitable influence of peace and harmony in world consciousness that enmity would not arise. The 1998 Convention, also in Bonn, produced a 10-point plan to create an ideal world by the year 2000, based on the Party's Vedic programmes to bring perfection to every area of life. This plan was designed to be the basis of the party's manifesto for the 1999 European Parliament elections.

• In December 1996, the Natural Law Party sent a delegation to top-level conferences of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in Vienna and Lisbon. The party filed an official complaint at the OSCE that the USA is violating human rights by its restrictive procedures for ballot and media access. The party pointed out that these restrictions, which were put in place in the 1950s in order to prevent the growth of communism, make the USA the most undemocratic country in the world. The Natural Law Party’s challenge to the USA, a country which prides itself on being the principal upholder of democracy world-wide, created a great stir and drew praise from delegates of many nations present.

• During the two most recent EU summits of heads of government, December 1996 in Dublin and June 1997 in Amsterdam, the party has held its own summit of leaders of the Natural Law Party from each EU country. On each occasion, the Natural Law Party leaders discussed the same topics as were being covered by the government leaders and announced its unique and practical solutions at a news conference. The party aims to continue this tradition at each intergovernmental conference of the European Union..

• In July 1997, the party held a news conference during the NATO heads of state meeting in Madrid. It called on NATO to end its obsolete defence strategies and offered a new means to safeguard world peace which transcended altogether the question of enlargement of NATO that was being discussed at the summit. The key to the Natural Law Party's approach was the establishment of a "prevention wing" in the military of each country, comprising 7,000 military personnel – only about 1-3% of the armed forces of each country – trained in the coherence-creating technology of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying in order to prevent the birth of an enemy.

During the summit, representatives of the Maharishi International Council of Natural Law Parties presented to NATO Secretary General Xavier Solana the 668-page book Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Defence, which in detail outlines Maharishi's invincible defence strategy and the concept of a prevention wing. The book was also presented to some of the government leaders at the summit.

• In the 1997 general election in Britain, the party fielded 195 candidates, distributed over 10 million leaflets and 20,000 copies of its 124-page manifesto during the campaign. The party received about 30,000 votes – an average of 0.32% of the votes in constituencies where it stood.

• In June 1997 the party held a press conference in London to congratulate William Hague on his election as new leader of the Conservative Party, pointing out that even though the Natural Law Party had not won seats at the general election, a man who had built up his personality on the basis of Natural Law (through his practice of Transcendental Meditation) had now become leader of the opposition. The party described Mr Hague as a bright new leader whose wisdom and abilities would certainly contribute towards a bright new future for British politics and for life in Britain.