Supporting Scientific Research
  • The inspiration for the Peace Every Day Initiative has been validated and deeply inspired by many scientific research projects that clearly demonstrate the power and effectiveness of group meditation/prayer in the process of creating peace. The following are just some of the illuminating examples. If you know of more and would like them to be published on this site or would like to conduct a research project in conjunction with PEDI, please contact us. It is our mission to continue to inspire this process!
  • The idea that a critical mass of meditators being peace in a specific population area can create positive social change has been supported by over 300 studies. For example, in 1973, Dilbeck and Associates found in 22 similar cities, of populations of approximately 25,000, that in half of these cities, where one percent of the population was using the Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice, there was 16 percent less crime.
  • In a similar type of study by TM, 350 meditators were brought in for a period of three months in the State of Rhode Island. Researchers observed that there was over a 43 percent drop in social disorder, including suicides, homicides, divorce, traffic fatalities, rapes, robbery, aggravated assaults and larceny, and even a drop in beer and cigarette sales. After the meditators left, the statistics for social disorder went back to “normal.” In order to prove that this drop of 43 percent was not a fluke, the TM meditators repeated the same experiment the next summer, and found a similar drop in the statistics of social disorder.
  • Group prayer and meditation not only affects the consciousness of people towards peace, but research by Dr. Buryl Payne on the solar effects of the Peace the 21st world peace meditations, shows that we even affect the whole solar system. In studying sunspot activity around the time of the Peace the 21st meditations, he found an average of 36% decrease in sunspot activity for the following four days after each meditation. His previous statistical research points out that a decrease in sunspot activity is associated with more social harmony on earth.
  • Physicists have discovered, also, that the principle of critical mass is seen in nature. They have found that in the use of physics laser technology, when eight of sixty-four random photons become synchronized, the other fifty-six random photons spontaneously become synchronized in a laser form. Again supporting the principle that when the square root is coherent it brings coherence to the larger whole.
  • Two sets of research done at the Heartmath Institute have further clarified the power of feeling-based prayer. Their researchers found two sets of information: (1) When DNA is placed in a vacuum, it creates a subtle energy field template that organizes the photon patterns, and even when the DNA is taken away, the photon pattern remains. (2) Researchers found that our emotional state creates an electromagnetic field that extends at least 50 feet, affecting leaves, trees, and all of nature. This research clearly documents the relationship between feelings and the physical world. In other words, human thought and emotion create a feeling that literally organizes the arrangement and frequency of our cellular DNA. Our DNA gives off a frequency that arranges and affects the molecular structures, both inside our body, creating health or illness, and also affects the structures outside our body. Therefore, as we change our emotions and thoughts, we create a feeling that changes the DNA. This change in DNA changes the consciousness pattern outside of ourselves in all of nature, including us human beings and our consciousness, as we are a part of nature. By the state of our consciousness we have the opportunity to create a social matrix of peace that can heal the planet.
  • As pointed out in PEDI Founder, Gabriel Cousens’, M.D., 2005 book, Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini, we are living human crystals, and the heart and brain are huge liquid crystals that give off powerful electromagnetic fields. Researchers have since found there is a five to eight foot electromagnetic field extending from the human body around the heart that they have measured. It may actually extend for miles with more sensitive measuring. The heart gives off a field that regulates the brain, the brain affects the immune system, and the brain then sends the message not only to the immune system, but also to the rest of the body. This basically regulates human feeling, which then affects the DNA and the DNA vibrates into nature, affecting all of nature. As illustrated by Buryl Payne’s research, this field goes beyond the 50 feet to literally affecting the solar system.