Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32Decreased Crime and Social Stress A National Demonstration Project conducted in Washington, D.C., from June 7 to July 30, 1993, tested the efficacy of this Brain-Based Approach in reducing crime and social stress and improving the effectiveness of government. In this carefully controlled experiment, the peace-creating group increased from 800 to 4,000 over the two-month period. Although violent crime had been steadily increasing during the first five months of the year, soon after the start of the study, violent crime (measured by FBI Uniform Crime Statistics) began decreasing and continued to drop until the end of the experiment (maximum decrease 23.3%), after which it began to rise again. The likelihood that this result could be attributed to chance variation in crime levels was less than two parts per billion (p < .000000002). The drop in crime could not be attributed to other possible causes, including temperature, precipitation, weekends, and police and community anticrime activities.7 Decreased crime in Washington, D.C. Decreased crime in Washington, D.C., correlates with increasing numbers of people practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program in the U.S. national capital (Hagelin et al., 1999)7 200– 190– 180– 170– 160– 150– 140– 130– 120– 110– 100– 1/2/93– – 1/16/93– – 1/30/93– – 2/13/93– – 2/27/93– – 3/13/93– – 3/27/93– – 4/10/93– – 4/24/93– – 5/8/93– – 5/22/93– – 6/5/93– – 6/19/93– – 7/3/93– – 7/17/93– – 7/31/93– – 8/14/93– – Time Series Prediction Without Coherence-Creating Group Demonstration Period Homicides, Rapes, and Assaults per Week p = .00008 Actual Crime a brain - base d approach to peace 19