Gardening the New Earth
Leveraging Meditation, ThetaHealing and Shared Intention to Change the World

March 10, 2008

The Transformational Power of Meditation

Have you ever heard of the Maharishi Effect? In 1960 the Maharishi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, predicted that all war would end if 1% of the population practiced his meditation technique. His meditation technique helps meditators access the alpha brainwave to find inner quiet. Over the decades, hundreds of studies support his claim, including studies appearing in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

In 1974 scientists first identified a correlation between meditation and drops in crime rates. In short, crime dropped once 1% of the populace had learned Transcendental Meditation (TM). That’s only one person per 100 of the population.

Scientists continued tracking these trends. They noted even more significant impacts from an advanced TM mediation technique (TM-Sidhi). Rates of crime, drug abuse, suicide, and even auto accidents dropped in cities as soon as the square root of one percent of the populace had mastered the advanced technique. 

Researchers now theorize that regularly practicing meditation enables one to access the quantum energy field, the web connecting all beings, all matter, all of existence. Furthermore, when a group of meditators is large enough, their meditations achieve Super Radiance. Super Radiance is a term used in physics to describe coherence in laser light. When applied to meditation, it means the consciousnesses of meditators have tuned to the same frequency. Such coherence influences the surrounding disordered frequencies – otherwise known as violence and discord – enabling peaceful individuals to create a peaceful planet (McTaggart, The Intention Experiment).

What Is the New Earth?

All of this talk of meditation and Super Radiance is my way of making the energy shift to the New Earth real.

Wondering what I mean by the New Earth? Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle popularized the term in his 2005 book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. In this book, he describes the difference between egoic thought patterns and expanded consciousness. Essentially, we are in expanded consciousness when we express our authentic self. This self lives in the present rather than in what-ifs and what-could-have-beens. When we live and create from this place of presence, we become conduits for expanded consciousness to enter this dimension.

On the New Earth, we thrive when we collaborate rather than compete. We excel when we follow our bliss, hiring out tasks which leave us joyless. We find ease when we trust our gut intuition to guide us, even if it means departing from accepted ways of accomplishing our goals. This new energy comprises a paradigm shift of momentous proportions. 

In this new energy, more and more people are meditating – separately and together. Many visualization and meditation techniques transport meditators into the alpha brainwave, the frequency of peace and relaxation. Just think what will happen, according to the Maharishi Effect, when 1% of the world’s population meditates regularly. The inner peace and tranquility meditators experience will uplift others.

In this new energy, more and more people are learning and practicing advanced meditation techniques like ThetaHealing. Remember, ThetaHealing leverages the theta brainwave, the wave of accessing spiritual trance states, personal transformation, and the quantum energy field. ThetaHealers hang out in the theta brainwave. We are in theta during our Daily ThetaHealing Meditation. We go to theta while witnessing physical, emotional, and spiritual release work. We access theta when seeking intuitive guidance. Every person who masters ThetaHealing becomes part of that transformational square root of one percent of the populace.

Let me take a moment to give you a sense of the numbers involved. The square root of one percent of the world’s population (6,654,653,590) is just 8157 people. The square root of one percent of the US population (303,565,119) is just 1742. As we heal ourselves – becoming both Spiritually Radiant and Super Radiant, we transform the planet.

Amping It Up with Shared Intention

OK, let’s say we’re agreed that consciousness makes a difference. Now imagine what shifts might ensue if more people spend time in meditation, whether in alpha or theta, with shared intention? 

Opportunities for shared intention are at our fingertips. Take, for example, the Oprah Winfrey-Eckhart Tolle collaboration. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Oprah is featuring spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle in a free ten-week webinar available to people world wide. On March 3, 2008, the first session reached 500,000 (an estimated 1.8 million had seen it within the week). What are the impacts of 500,000 participants focused on spiritual growth. How about one million? 

What what a wonderful thought that Super Radiance, the webinar’s participants’ entrainment to a shared coherent frequency, might retrain the disordered frequencies of conflict and violence in the US, world wide! 

If the connections I’m making sound like a stretch, let me share with you why I believe folks are doing more than passively watching Oprah and Eckhart on web TV. Several of my friends and I got cozy on the couch in preparation for the first New Earth webinar. Twenty minutes into it, we lost our video feed. At loose ends, we sat down to a bracing game of RummyTile. Now please understand that we’re RummyTile sharks! Sharks or not, we couldn’t strategize, couldn’t form a simple sequence of numbers (1, 3, 4 was a notable cheat), couldn’t pull off left-brain functions. In a word, we had shifted into an alpha state, as one is wont to do during Tolle’s talks, and didn’t return to the beta brainwave so long as the webinar was being broadcast.

I suspect my friends and I had plenty of company. What if thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of webinar participants experienced the same shift to a meditative state? With so many people shifting to an alpha brainwave, can we conceivably achieve the 1% level of the Maharishi Effect. 1% adds up to 3,035,651 people in the US and 66,546,536 world wide. The numbers still fall short of the threshold effect. However, what if a shared state and shared intention make the effect more powerful? Would .75%, .5%, .25% of the population create a threshold effect?

Masaru Emoto’s experiments with water indicate that small groups with a shared intention do indeed have huge impacts. He finds that water which has been sent positive intention forms more aesthetically pleasing crystals when frozen than water which has not. (Emoto’s findings have been substantiated independently at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in a study designed with strict experimental controls.) The message for us is that shared intention, when it’s intense, even rapturous, is a change agent.

We can do this, folks.

Going Forward – Gardening the New Earth

My invitation to you: Participate in the New Earth Webinar. Allow yourself to experience deep presence during the discussion. Focus your intention on expanding your consciousness. The webinars are can be viewed Monday nights in real time online and are available free for download from Oprah.com.

My other invitation to you: Learn ThetaHealing and become part of the square root of one percent grounding the shift to the New Earth. Become a conduit for the Divine as it flows into this dimension. Sow the seeds of change.

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