This article appeared in Defence India, November 28, 2004.

Homeland Security With
Unified Field-Based Defence Technology

Authors:

Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kulwant Singh, Ph.D., U.Y.S.M.
Director General, Maharishi Invincible Defence Programme
New Delhi, India

Col. Brian Rees, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Corps, U.S. Army Reserve
349th General Hospital, Los Angeles, California

Michael Larrass, Ph.D.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

David R. Leffler, Ph.D.
Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS)
Fairfield, Iowa, USA

Abstract

The availability of weapons of mass destruction makes today's terrorism a danger of unprecedented magnitude. Enemies are motivated by dynamics that are beyond the ability of diplomatic and economic muscle to control. Military leaders can count on armed forces to prevail against the opposition on the battlefield. However, ultimately, military retaliation alone will not likely create the ideal level of Homeland Security or safeguard human rights in the community of nations. True sustained victory in the war on terrorism will require that the military adapt in many ways. Modern physics has discovered, the Unified Field, a fundamental field of pure intelligence containing in seed form all the manifest states of the universe. Human consciousness, at its basis, is also a field of pure intelligence which contains in seed form all the manifest states of thought, feeling, identify, and perception. These properties of pure intelligence, simultaneously both that of the objective unified field and that of human consciousness can be experienced when the awareness of the observer becomes refined during the practice of the Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) and TM-Sidhi® programmes. The experience of the Unified Field is made possible through attaining a psychophysiological state that reproduces the properties of the field in the observer: highly correlated, unified, self-referral, and integrative. The development of these qualities is not obtained through behavioral or intellectual training, but occurs spontaneously by cultivating a state of least excitation of the nervous system. The unique results of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programmes have been documented in over 600 research studies, many of them published in scientific journals. Perhaps the most interesting of these findings are the reports, numbering over 50, that a small group of people the size of a typical military unit can radiate an unseen influence of orderliness into the surrounding society. Use of this holistic consciousness technology will enable any military to set up an ongoing Conflict Prevention Operation through a Prevention Wing of the Military. One unit would engage in group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programmes to radiate dynamic peacefulness as the basis for impenetrable, non-aggressive defence and constructive peacebuilding without political, economic or cultural bias.

Contents

Preface

The opening paragraph of the Government of India's Ministry of Defence Annual Report 2000-2001 stated:

In the emerging global environment, India has adopted a more comprehensive approach to security, encompassing economic strength, internal cohesion and technological progress. However, given the security challenges confronting the country, India will need to maintain a desired level of military strength and preparedness to deter any aggression and to enable India to contribute positively to the promotion of peace and stability in the region.[i]

Although this goal was formulated four years ago, India has yet to realize it. The challenge of defending India in an increasingly complex operations arena calls for fundamental innovation. If the Ministry of Defence of India (MoD) is to achieve its new ends, which are of a different order of magnitude, an equally momentous shift in the choice of the means will be required. If old tools no longer suit the task, coating them with paint of a different colour will not help. In the same way, India needs new tools, not new coats of paint, to create a stable defence. The human resource-based approach of Unified Field-Based Defence is intended to add vital new tools to India's "more comprehensive approach."

These vital tools are the Transcendental Meditation programme and its advanced practice, the TM-Sidhi programme. The TM programme is a simple, easily learned, non-religious meditation technique. Physicist and Vedic scholar Maharishi Mahesh Yogi revived these programmes from India's ancient Vedic tradition. Over 600 scientific studies at scientific research institutions all over the world have been conducted on these programmes. This extensive research indicates that these programmes eliminate stress individually and collectively.[ii]

Modern technology has helped all militaries to become more lethally effective and efficient. Though the military has many new technological tools, recent terrorist attacks show that they cannot guarantee safety.  If military leaders are to truly find new solutions, they must start looking beyond the mere refinement and extension of existing technologies, and explore new tools. Specifically, India could benefit from looking into advanced, human resource-based technologies such as Unified Field-Based Defence Technology (also known as Consciousness-Based Defence Technology and Invincible Defence Technology).

There is research on Unified Field-Based Defence Technology in the field of conflict reduction that shows great promise. But it requires that some leaders make a quantum leap as big as the United States did when developing the atomic bomb. This paper will introduce an approach that has held up under rigorous scientific evaluation and field tests by other militaries. The Unified Field technology is intended to provide vital new tools to the MoD of India and give it the necessary leverage to operate in an increasingly complex world.

The Physics Behind Unified Field-Based Defence

Many nations now have the atomic bomb. But the power of a military organization depends on much more than an atomic armory. Many analysts believe that even terrorists may soon use nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. An effective defence against nuclear weaponry requires a more profound technology. Dwelling on obsolete technologies can't prevent attack. India's civilian and military leaders can immediately deploy an even more powerful and influential technology based on the physics of today. India now needs something comparable to the Manhattan Project that led to the creation and deployment of the nuclear arsenal. What is the nature of this leap?

When scientists deal with the finest level of physical existence, the unified field, they actually deal with an a field intrinsically both objective and subjective. A basic, but generally ignored, fact is that physicists themselves are made of or structured by molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, gauge fields, and the unified field. When scientists investigate these levels, they eventually begin to explore the basic fabrics of their own physical being down to the finest subnuclear level - the unified field, an area of unlimited potential.

Today's physicists say that the matter of our body is constantly emerging from and returning to that unified field. Leading theoretical physicists go as far as to claim that the unified field is a non-material field of pure intelligence.[iii] These physicists assert that modern science had opened access to a new objective reality. Maharishi and other scientists take this one step further - they have conclusively demonstrated that the consciousness technologies of the Vedic tradition, in particular the Transcendental Meditation programme and its advanced practice, the TM-Sidhi programme, provide the subjective experience of the unified field. The unified field, although intellectually conceived as underlying all of creation, is now open to direct, subjective experience. Maharishi and other scientists benefited from the leap in world consciousness to a new readiness for authentic experience in the early 60's. Hiroshima was the climax of the half-vision of the quantum scientists. In the 1970's, Maharishi felt the time was ripe to speak of dropping "bombs of silence behind the enemy lines."

A description of the unified field may be intellectually stimulating, but has little other direct impact on a person. On the other hand, the authentic experience of the field of pure consciousness creates a distinct mode of physiological and mental functioning. In this state, one finds a measurable easing of stress in mind and body, accompanied by a heightened level of alertness. It is this alertness-enhancing potential of the Transcendental Meditation programme and its advanced practice, the TM-Sidhi programme, which will enable the MoD to create a new evolutionary dimension of conflict resolution and prevention. Not only will military personnel be more effective militarily, they will also radiate an influence of peace into the surrounding population making it difficult for disorder and disruption to continue. They can win the war without fighting.

Long ago humanity passed the nuclear cross-roads. We now find ourselves at a new crossroads. The choice: escalate the antiquated technologies, or step onto a new path where a unified field technology creates a coherent and unifying influence, first in the individual mind and then automatically in collective consciousness, disallowing an enemy from arising. Research on the Maharishi Effect (discussed below) has shown this approach to be a very useful one.

A Sociological Quantum Leap

In 1974, the American sociologists Borland and Landrith [v] published a research paper in the United States on the effects of group meditation on collective consciousness. They claimed that in communities in which 1% of the population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique, negative trends such as crime, traffic accidents, and hospital admissions decreased.[vi] On a larger scale, this was confirmed in the following years by research in war zones.[vii] The phenomenon was called the 1% Effect or the Maharishi Effect after the founder of the Transcendental Meditation programme who predicted such effects long before they were objectively studied. This trigger effect of small numbers is familiar to several branches of science: medicine, which acknowledges pacemaker cells that compose about 1% of an organism and assure the coherent contraction and relaxation of the heart muscles; and physics, where about 1% of phase-coherent light waves causes the random fluctuations of ordinary light to fall "in step" and produce the laser effect.

Unified Field-Based Defence Technology consisting of the Transcendental Meditation programme and its advanced practice, the TM-Sidhi programme, has been tried out in many war zones and conflict-prone areas with excellent results; the success has been scientifically validated and documented in over 50 studies. A landmark study just published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation shows a 72% reduction in international terrorism (p<.025) when the proper threshold of people practicing Unified Field-Based Defence Technology was reached. These assemblies were held during the years 1983-1985. This study investigated the effects of three large assemblies approaching the Maharishi Effect threshold for the world at this time. (n=7,000). Time series analysis was used in conjunction with the content analysis of world-wide news events reported in the New York Times and London Times. The Rand Corporation data bank was used to study international conflict (p<.025, p<.005 and p<.01 for each of the three assemblies) and terrorism (p<.025). The study also revealed that international conflict decreased 33% (p<.025). Analysis of the data indicates that the Maharishi Effect had a rapid onset that influenced trends from distances of thousands of miles and more importantly that violence was reduced in other nations without the overt intrusion by any governments.

The Transcendental Two-Pronged Approach

Two-pronged battle plans have a long history in the art of war. The battle against war and terrorism could likely be won in exactly the same way:

• On a tactical level, military personnel instructed in the simple technique of Transcendental Meditation in the course of their general training[viii] can be deployed without any additional logistics. The immediate effect would be improved mental and physical stability, increased alertness and clarity of mind, and enhanced social intelligence of the "front line" personnel. (A paper summarizing research that documents such individual benefits is available at: http://www.invinciblemilitary.org/articles/idc1.html.)
• On a strategic level, a global peacebuilding force called a Prevention Wing of the Military would be established in India. This group would be comprised of approximately 10,000 [ix] participants to be recruited from existing meditating military personnel, who would receive additional training in the TM-Sidhi programme. Performing the group dynamics of consciousness twice a day in a group, in one location, this group would produce a coherence-enhancing field effect not only in the India, but also for the world's collective consciousness as a whole, preventing the accumulation of disorderly and weakening tendencies that destabilize national integrity and invite foreign aggression and/or policing. [x] 10,000 participants are well over the square root of 1% of the world's population, which should induce the Maharishi Effect worldwide.

The additional cost for introducing the Transcendental Meditation Programme is approximately 250 India rupees per person, and an additional 650 rupees per person for the TM-Sidhi Programme. This means approximately 9 million India rupees for teaching the entire group. But even at that relatively small cost, one should ask the question: What precisely can the MoD of India expect from this technology?

The results predicted on the basis of reduced trait anxiety, greater acuity of perception and more comprehensive cognition, increased field independence and stronger internal standards [xi] are:

• Significantly improved listening skills, leading to:
• More comprehensive decision-making, leading to:
• Enhanced cooperation with former adversaries, leading to:
• Improved cultural communication, and
• Trouble-free multi-purpose deployment of resources.

Improved listening skills alone will have enormous consequences in all areas of the armed forces and even on a national level. Should the technology be implemented, then whenever military, trade, or policy strategists are invited to describe the India's new success, the answer will invariably be that it leaders have learned to listen, react, and cooperate in harmony.

The government of India draws its decisions from the collective consciousness. The more coherent the collective consciousness, the more coherent the government. Rather than always being called in to "clean up the mess" produced by the accumulation of disorder and weakness in the social body, the Indian military would enjoy a role similar to that of a pacemaker cell introducing an influence of order into their nation and triggering a positive feedback loop.

Living Up to the Vedic Ideal of Homeland Security

India gave birth to the much adored and emulated Mahatma Gandhi, who sparked a worldwide non-violence movement. This is the moment for India to achieve a higher ideal: victory before war by averting the danger that has not yet come - Heyam duhkham anagatam. She could prevent an enemies from arising. India's Vedic heritage holds the key to world peace, and India is the perfect country to revive it.

Conclusion

The study of history reveals that promoters of innovations have one common trait: they flush the enemy of all armies out of its cover. The greatest threat to all militaries is the enemy within. The enemy within is the belief that greater quantities of known material or the intensification of established methods will result in victory. "Victory", wrote General Giulio Douhet in his then groundbreaking book on aerial warfare, The Command of the Air, "smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur." [xii] The Stone Age did not come to an end because of the lack of stones, but because something better entered the field of our awareness. If the MoD acts now, the same will happen to the Age of Terrorism.

Modern science, in its indomitable quest to find the ultimate reality of existence, has made a albeit theoretical, discovery: the unified field is that reality of life was cognized by the ancient Vedic experts. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in his approach of integrating modern science and Vedic science, has introduced the practical technologies of the Transcendental Meditation programme and its advanced practice, the TM-Sidhi programme.

Opening up to this new integrating approach is not a step back in evolution. Rather, it is a culminating event both in the history of civilian and military evolution. The military of India will now have the tool to create victory before war. India's military will achieve peace not by becoming a flower-wielding pacifist; rather, it will become invincible by adopting a technology that improves mental and physical alertness.'

Through Unified Field-Based Defence Technology, consisting of the Transcendental Meditation programme and its advanced practice, the TM-Sidhi programme, the India now has the opportunity to reinforce its strategy of defeating enemies by making them friends. The past half-century has shown the that true friends cannot be won by material alone. There is something else. Given the global long-term vision of India, no other strategy to achieve Homeland Security will match Unified Field-Based Defence Technology.

About the authors:

	Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Kulwant Singh, U.Y.S.M., (Retd) received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Defence Studies from Chennai University. He also has a postgraduate diploma in Human Resource Development from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in New Delhi. Dr. Singh has a postgraduate diploma in Management from the Regional College of Management and Technology (RCMT). He qualified for the prestigious Higher Command Course at College of Combat and is a graduate of the Defence Service Staff College. He fought in combat and led India's fight against India's intransigent terrorism problem for nearly 30 years. Maj. Gen. Singh was awarded the Uttam Yudh Sewa Medal, the second highest decoration for senior officers during operations in Sri Lanka as part of IPKF (Indian Peace Keeping Force). Today he is leading an international group of generals and defence experts that advocates Unified Field-Based Defence Technology. Dr. Singh lives in New Delhi, India. Please see article entitled Invincible Defense Technology Proposed As Homeland Defense published in U.S. Medicine, a major national magazine for health professionals based in Washington, DC. The article describes Major General Singh's press conference at the National Press Club on the morning of 9/11/01. He and other scientists advocated deployment of Invincible Defense Technology. He said "I think with all of this [terrorism] today, America needs a new approach to protection."
	Colonel Brian M. Rees, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Corps, U.S. Army Reserve, is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College. He has 28 years of commissioned military service. Col. Rees is the commander of the 349th General Hospital, headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Currently, Dr. Rees is serving on active duty and is deployed in Germany. He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion. Dr. Rees is a board certified family physician who received his medical degree and master's degree in public health from Tulane University. He has taught the Transcendental Meditation programme and researched deployment of technologies of consciousness for reduction of violent conflict. Col. Rees builds a case for using these human resource-based technologies to prevent terrorism and war is his second book Terrorism, Retaliation and Victory: Awaken the Soul of America to Defeat Terrorism Without Casualties. His first book, Heal Your Self, Heal Your World, is on the topic of Ayurvedic medicine. A profile, including a video, of Colonel Rees, is available on The Official US Army Recruiting Website. Dr. Rees was also featured in the 05 April 04 issue of Stars and Stripes. Please read "Army Doctor Proactive in Trying to Keep Patients and Society Healthy." [Editor's Note: Since this paper was published, Col. Rees has graduated from the US Army War College. He completed his final research paper there on the topic of Unified Field Based Defense entitled, "The Application of Strategic Stress Management in Winning the Peace." (Read it in Spanish or English]
	Dr. Michael Larrass received his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University (Germany) where he did his doctoral research on the topic of the relationship between literature and the evolution of collective consciousness. He lived in France for 11 years teaching at different schools of commerce and management. He then moved to Germany where he worked as a promoter in the field of personal and corporate health. Michael was co-organizer of Germany's Social Phase Transition Stability Program (SATTWA) from 15/09/1989 - 15/03/1990 during the reintegration of East and West Germany. At present, he operates a translation company in Ottawa, Canada.
	Dr. David R. Leffler received his Ph.D. on the topic of Unified Field-Based Defence Technology from Union Institute & University. His other academic degrees include: a B.A. in Education, an M.A. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi University of Management and an M.M. in Education from New Mexico State University. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force for eight years. He is the Acting Director, and a founding member of, the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS) at Maharishi University of Management. He also serves as a Peer Member at The Union Institute and is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute. Dr. Leffler has given presentations on Unified Field-Based Defence Technology at the Russian Air Force Academy, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and defence-related institutions in the United States. Dr. Leffler lives in Wappingers Falls, New York, USA.

Articles about Unified Field-Based Defence Technology, published in Defence India, Defence Review, Indian Armed Forces, Indian Defence Consultants, Indian Defence Review, Indian Strategic Review, and Security and Political Risk Analysis (SAPRA) Bulletin, are available at: http://www.invinciblemilitary.org and http://www.davidleffler.com

A paper published by the Security And Political Risk Analysis (SAPRA) defence think tank summarizing Maharishi Effect research is available at: http://www.invinciblemilitary.org/articles/sapraalternative.html

Acknowledgments

The authors very much appreciate Dr. R. I. Sujith, Dr. Michael C. Dillbeck, Dr. Kenneth Walton, Dr. Kurt Kleinschnitz, and Mrs. Lee M. Leffler for their contributions to this paper.

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End Notes

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[i] Government of India's Ministry of Defence Annual Report 2000 - 2001 (Available at: http://www.mod.nic.in/reports/welcome.html)

[ii] "Annotated Bibliography Scientific Research On The Maharishi Transcendental Meditation® And TM-Sidhi® Program Volumes 1-5 And Recent Research"(Available at: http://www.tm.org/research/508_studies.html)

[iii] Hagelin, J. S. (1987). Is consciousness the unified field? A field theorist's perspective. Modern Science and Vedic Science, 1, 29-87.

[iv] For more on this topic, see also: d 'Espagnat, B. (1979). The quantum theory and reality. Scientific American, 24. 158-181, and Stapp, H.P. (1993). Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics. Berlin: Springer Verlag

[v] Borland, C., Landrith, G. S. III. (1977). Improved quality of city life through the Transcendental Meditation program: Decreased crime rate. In D. W. Orme-Johnson, J. T. Farrow, (Eds.), Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, (Vol. 1, 639-651). Vlodrop, The Netherlands, Maharishi Vedic University Press. Also see: Assimakis, P. D. (1989). Change in the quality of life in Canada: Intervention studies of the effect of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. Dissertation Abstracts International, 50(5), 2203B; Cavanaugh, K. L., & King, K. D. (1988). Simultaneous transfer function analysis of Okun's misery index: Improvements in the economic quality of life through Maharishi's Vedic Science and technology of consciousness. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section (pp. 491-496).

[vi] Dillbeck, M. C., Banus, C. B., Polanzi, C., & Landrith III, G. S. (1988). Test of a field model of consciousness and social change: The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program and decreased urban crime. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 94, 457-485. Dillbeck, M. C., Landrith III, G. S., & Orme-Johnson, D. W. (1981). The Transcendental Meditation program and crime rate change in a sample of forty-eight cities. Journal of Crime and Justice, 4, 25-45. Hatchard, G. D., Deans, A. J., Cavanaugh, K. L., & Orme-Johnson, D. W. (1996). The Maharishi Effect: A model for social improvement. Time series analysis of a phase transition to reduced crime in Merseyside metropolitan area. Psychology, Crime and Law, 2(3), 165-174.

[vii] Abou Nader, T. M., Alexander, C. N., & Davis, J. L. (1984). The Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field and reduction of armed conflict: A comparative, longitudinal study of Lebanese villages. Scientific Research on Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Collected Papers, (Vol. 4, pp. 2623-2633). Davies, J. L., & Alexander, C. N. (1989). Alleviating political violence through enhancing coherence in collective consciousness: Impact assessment analysis of the Lebanon war. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA.

[viii] The TM technique is taught in a standardized seven-step program requiring the participation in seven sessions of approximately 90 minutes each, spread over ten days.

[ix] With the advanced TM-Sidhi program technology, the required number necessary for the global Maharishi Effect is equivalent to the square root of 1% of the world's population.

[x] Another version of this project would be to have a group of Sidhi experts in each province, equivalent to the square root of 1% of the population, ideally in association with one of the many emerging institutes for peace research for the implementation of practical, specific actions arising from the non-specific group practice.

[xi] The most comprehensive data bank for research on Transcendental Meditation and the TM-Sidhi Program/Maharishi Effect was compiled by Deutsche MERU Gesellschaft but the site is down.

[xii] Giulio Douhet, (1983.) The Command of the Air. (Translated by Dino Ferrari). Reprinted by USAF Office of History. Washington: Government Printing Office. (Original work translated in 1942), p. 30.