Demonstration of Maharishi's Programme to Create World Peace

National competition of Yogic Flying 11am - 1pm, Saturday 17 July 1999

Golden Dome Community Centre, Woodley Park, Skelmersdale, Lancashire

14 July 1999

Experts in Yogic Flying from throughout the UK will demonstrate their mind-body co-ordination in the 1999 national Yogic Flying competition on 17 July in Skelmersdale, as part of an initiative to publicise Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's scientifically proven programme to create world peace. This year's competition takes place only a few weeks after a new study was published showing that a group of Yogic Flyers produced a 23% drop in violent crime in Washington DC during the summer of 1993.

Over 40 scientific research studies have shown that the Yogic Flying technique, an advanced practice of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation, creates a powerful influence of coherence, orderliness and peace in society, especially when it is practised by large groups. Published findings include: a 60% drop in crime in Merseyside from 1988 to 1992 relative to national trends, and a significant drop in war deaths in the Lebanon war for a two-month period in 1984. In each instance, advanced sociological research techniques found that the presence of a group of Yogic Flyers was the causative factor.

The Yogic Flyers will compete in four events: 25-metre hurdles; long jump; high jump; and 50-metre race. All events are performed in the traditional Yogic Flying position, sitting cross-legged. Winners will go on to perform in the International competition on 28 July at Maharishi Vedic University in Vlodrop, Holland.

What Yogic Flying is and how it can create world peace

The competition will start with a short press briefing to explain what Yogic Flying is and how it can create world peace. According to John Collins, director of activities in the North of England and organiser of the national competition in Skelmersdale, "Yogic Flying is fundamentally a technique of consciousness, and a demonstration of perfect mind-body co-ordination. Subjectively it produces the experience of bubbling bliss. During Transcendental Meditation the mind experiences transcendental consciousness - a field of inner silence, inner peace, inner happiness. During Yogic Flying one projects a thought from this field, which is also the level of the unified field of all the laws of nature, a field of all possibilities. Such a thought or intention naturally commands the infinite organising power of Natural Law for its immediate fulfilment."

EEG studies have shown that Yogic Flying produces maximum coherence and integration in brain functioning. Sociological research indicates that this coherence spills over into society, neutralising negative trends in the environment. The effect is described by scientists as afield effect of consciousness and is similar to the way radio waves travel throughout the electromagnetic field - a phenomenon which we now consider commonplace but which was regarded as extraordinary when first discovered.

Maharishi's world-wide Transcendental Meditation organisation is dedicated to establishing permanent groups of 7,000 Yogic Flyers around the world, in order to create permanent world peace. John Collins said: "The need for this effective and peaceful peace-creating technology has never been greater than it is today. The bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO has unfortunately legitimised the principle of foreign policy through violent attack and placed world peace in the hands of those with most power to destroy."