The Architecture of World Peace

by Chris Adamson

My story begins in 1993. Picture a hot, sweltering summer in Washington, DC. I, along with 4,000 others, had come to create peace in the capital city of the most powerful country on earth – through silence – through meditation, in a city which at that time had the unpleasant reality of being one of America's most crime-ridden cities.

But before we get to the story, a brief word about individual and collective destiny – karma, or the law of consequences. It's easy to grasp, even Physics has its own version – action and reaction are equal and opposite. The universe is a closed energy loop!

Our individual karma is created from our individual actions, but these are coming from the inner mover – our individual consciousness. Our hand moves but we know it is our consciousness that is moving the hand.

In the same way, the collective consciousness – all of us added together – whether it be of a city, state, or nation is generating actions and reaping collective consequences. In fact, if we see stress growing in society, and government and its leaders making decisions that are negatively affecting us, they are simply responding to the social field of collective consciousness.

We could even go so far as to say that the Government is a mirror of collective consciousness. By its decisions and actions it is simply returning to the people their collective fortune sown in the past and to be reaped in the now! Collective consciousness is the prime mover of national destiny. If things aren't working out, don't look to government, or a change of it, to solve the problem – they are in a catch 22. It's the collective consciousness that needs to be de-stressed and spring cleaned.

Let's see if modern science can help us with the design of a suitable washing machine!

Quantum Field theory in Physics has probed into the essence of matter and has found at the Planck scale of space and time (10-33 cm, 10-43 seconds) the unified field of natural law. This unified field is very subtle, present in every grain, and, therefore, throughout creation. It is simply the most concentrated field of nature's intelligence and creativity – self-sufficient, self-interacting – pure coherence and pure harmony. The unified field holds in its 'memory' how everything can fit harmoniously with everything else – it has an infinitely correlated architecture or geometry – it can provide the architectural blueprint for world peace. How?

What modern science doesn't teach is that there is a subjective element to the unified field. We humans are also part of the natural order. We experience that we are creative, intelligent – that we have an unending stream (in fact an unstoppable stream) of thoughts that bubble up every day – the expression of our consciousness, our creativity, our intelligence. This stream is coming from the same unified field that Physics has glimpsed through its billion-dollar research programs.

It is possible to experience the unified field in a simple way for ourselves, at the source of thought. By consciously going to it we discover it to be our very Self. Experience resides as memory. Experience the unified field consciously as the Self, and all the coherence at the source of creation will cascade into the stressed and confused world we know.

So there I was sitting in a large basement meeting hall in east DC in the summer of 1993 practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Siddhi program including the now famous yogic flying (an advanced and powerful meditation practice from the yoga system of Patanjali). In fact, 4,000 of us were gathered in groups throughout the city. We were seeing if we could fashion a more positive collective consciousness by applying the group dynamics of consciousness.

We had promised the police chief that over June and July we would reduce the crime by 20%. The retort came quickly back: that'll take 20 inches of snow in the middle of summer! To provide objectivity, the whole 'intervention' study was being monitored and evaluated independently by the sociology departments of several non-affiliated local universities.

At the start of June, each meditation session was punctuated every few minutes by the screech of sirens from the main road outside – an ordinary day in that part of DC! Gradually over the weeks, less sirens, until, towards the end of July, days without sirens – even days without anyone being murdered! We didn't talk, cajole, or try and persuade. We didn't go into the population at large. We just touched collectively the peaceful power of the unified field – of the Self!

It's marvelous to have had this experience first hand. It gives one faith in a greater good fortune and future for humanity.

The scientific research now published in peer-review prestigious journals shows that our peaceful collective consciousness for two months had been able to neutralize the stress in DC's collective consciousness. (See www.mum.edu/m_effect.)

Scientists applying the mathematical laws governing coherent systems (such as lasers) have deduced that a group of 8,000 together would be needed to create balance for the whole world's population. The phenomenon is called The Maharishi Effect in deference to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who provided the Technology of the Unified Field from the ancient Vedic tradition of knowledge.

Just think: for a paltry cost in terms of military budgets, a permanent group could be established here in the USA – a group of students – perhaps, so that the nation is always neutralizing its own stress and sowing positivity in the world outside its borders. What a gift for the family of man from the most creative nation in the world!

Chris Adamson, D.SCI, MSc, Eur Ing, is a consultant in Vedic Architecture (Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design) in Asheville practicing with his architect wife Sarah. Chris may be contacted at Raam Consultants, Inc. 828.252.1144, raam@boone.net.