Is mediation a tool to resolve many of the problems on this planet today? It has been well known for a long time that mediation reverses anger, depression and relieves a person from stress. There is little doubt that meditation is good for you, but how would it work on a larger scale?

A two months experiment was done. Thousands of people came from all over the world to join together in Washington D.C. to meditate. The purpose was to see if meditation could lower the crime rate in a city. The outcome was that the crime rate decreased with 25% over these two months.

Then they let school children, 10 to 14 year olds meditate in school, and the result was very positive. The kids became much calmer, so now they use it as a stress reliever with great success. Other effects it had was higher self esteem and a more positive attitude.

Meditation has also been introduced in prisons--among others San Quentin and Folsom Prison, and in a number of other different prisons around the world. It has been such a successful tool to rehabilitate criminals, that Senegal, after introducing meditation, eventually closed three prisons within one year!

Dr. John Hagelin, a Harvard physicist was one of the initiators to this experiment.