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This study indicates that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme improved the quality of life in Israel as measured by improvement on an index comprising crime rate, traffic accidents, fires, and the number of war deaths in Lebanon, and by increases in the national stock market and improvements in national mood. The chart above shows the strong correspondence between the number of Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi programme participants in the group in Jerusalem and a composite index of all the above variables.

International peace project in the Middle East: Effects of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field, Journal of Conflict Resolution 32: 776­812, 1988. Index of charts