About Us

Offering scientifically proven programs (over 650 published studies verify their effectiveness) for the development of the full creative potential of the individual (enlightenment), and for establishing permanent peace and invincibility for the nation and the world.

Our Story

Providing Proven Programs for the Health, Well-being,

and Success of the Individual

For over 50 years we have been offering the Transcendental Meditation technique and its advanced programs to the people of Atlantic Canada. Our team of certified Transcendental Meditation teachers come from a variety of professional backgrounds including health, education, business, and community development. Over the past 55 years, more than 650 published research studies have established the TM technique as the most effective technique for enhancing health and unfolding the full creative potential of the individual.

Establishing a "Group for a Government" to Optimize

the Success of Governmental Achievements

and Create "Invincibility for the Nation"

Over the last 40 years more than 60 demonstration projects, published in more than 20 independent peer-reviewed journals have established that when only a small group in society practices the Transcendental Meditation technique and its advanced programs, negative tendencies are reduced and positive tendencies are increased throughout society. Through the establishment of such a coherence-creating group, any government can gain the support of Nature's government to ensure that its administration is as effective as the government of nature.

A New Paradigm

Employing The Field Effect of Consciousness to Improve the Quality of Life in Society

Published Research on Broad-Based Improvements in the Quality of Life

A series of four peer-reviewed studies published in 2016–2017 demonstrated that when a large U.S.-based group of experts practicing the Brain-Based Approach to Peace (the TM technique and its advanced programs) reached the required threshold size ( the square root of 1% of the population) in 2007–2010, measurable positive change took place throughout the entire nation across a wide range of social indicators. These outcomes included statistically significant decreases in rates of homicide, violent crime, motor vehicle fatalities, accidental deaths, drug-related deaths, and infant mortality. These broad-based outcomes support the theoretical proposal that group practice of this approach to peace creates a spillover field effect throughout society that positively impacts overall quality of life (SAGE Open 6 (2): 1–16, 2016; Journal of Health and Environmental Research 3 (3-1): 32–43, 2017; Journal of Consciousness Studies 24 (1–2): 53–86, 2017; SAGE Open 7 (1): 1–15, 2017).

A 17-year study replicated and extended these findings, confirming a holistic improvement in diverse measures of quality of life during the experimental period. This overall improvement cannot plausibly be accounted for by alternative possible explanations for the observed changes in the individual social indicators. These outcomes, as well as the significant predicted reversal of these effects after the experimental period ends, lend support to the theory of a field effect of consciousness underlying social change (World Journal of Social Science 9 (2): 1–38 2022).

The Goal of the Association for Well-Being, Peace and Enlightenment

Creating "The Global Maharishi Effect"

The Association will create a Peace Village on the Peace Palace land to house those wishing to come together to meditate to create an improved quality of life for the community and invincibility for the nation as demonstrated in the above studies.

First Experiment to Create the Global Maharishi Effect, 7,000 experts in Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and its advanced programs.in the presence of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, creating "A Taste of Utopia’ for all mankind. In December 1983, Maharishi assembled for the first time more than 7,000 TM meditators and those practicing advanced techniques, from all over the world to create global coherence in world consciousness and thereby give the world a ‘Sample Taste of Utopia’. This experiment, conducted at Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, from 17 December 1983 to 6 January 1984, was the first experiment to create world peace through the Global Maharishi Effect.

Scientific Research see https://www.gusp.org/

Decreased War and Terrorism

A critical experimental test of the societal impact of the Brain-Based Approach to Peace was conducted during the peak of the Lebanon war. A day-by-day study of a two-month assembly in Israel in 1983 showed that, on days when the number of participants (“TM Group Size,” right) was high, war deaths in neighboring Lebanon dropped by 76%
(p = .0006). In addition, crime, traffic accidents, fires, and other indicators of social stress in Israel (combined into a Composite Index) all correlated strongly with changes in TM group size. Other possible causes (weekends, holidays, weather, etc.) were statistically controlled for (Journal of Conflict Resolution 32: 776-812, 1988) [2].

These results were subsequently replicated in seven consecutive experiments over a two-year period during the peak of the Lebanon war. The results of these interventions included:

war-related fatalities decreased by 71% (p < 10-10)
war-related injuries fell by 68% (p < 10-6)
the level of conflict dropped by 48% (p < 10-8)
cooperation among antagonists increased by 66% (p < 10-6)

The likelihood that these combined results were due to chance is less than one part in 10 to the 19th, making this effect of reducing societal stress and conflict the most rigorously established phenomenon in the history of the social sciences (Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 17(1): 285–338, 2005) [3].

In addition, the global influence on terrorism of three large coherence-creating assemblies was studied retrospectively through an analysis of data compiled by the Rand Corporation. The data revealed a 72% reduction in worldwide terrorism during the three assemblies taken together, as compared to all other weeks during a two-year period. Each assembly had approached or exceeded the participation threshold (8,000) predicted to create a global influence of peace. The study ruled out the possibility that this reduction in terrorism was due to cycles, trends, or drifts in the measures used, or to seasonal changes (Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 36 (1-4): 283-302, 2003 and references) [17].

The unique effectiveness of the Brain-Based Approach to Peace in preventing social violence, terrorism, and war has been confirmed by more than 50 demonstrations and 28 scientific studies. This research has been carefully scrutinized by independent scholars and accepted for publication in leading, peer-reviewed academic journals. In every case, this approach produced marked improvements in various social indicators, for example, reductions of crime, social violence, terrorism, and war, and increased peace and positivity in society.

"Every wave of inspiration of these inaugurations of these Peace Palaces, and the exhortations of great blissful sentiments from the leaders of the Movement throughout the world, reassures us that the voice of today, the voice of this generation, reassures the forthcomiong future generations that the world is going to be in the light of what it is expected to be-in the light of God, perfection."-Maharishi: Akshaya Tritya Day, 2003

Association for Well-Being, Peace and Enlightenment

Halifax, NS B3L 3C7

Canada