Janet Attwood is fundraising
Bringing Maharishi Effect Documentary to millions of people
Wars, Climate Change, Corruption...Isn't it frustrating that the solution has been around for more than 45 years, but people don't know about it, or don't understand how it works? With your (tax deductible) support to make our documentary available to a wide audience for free, we can change this.
Our documentary already shows exceptional results on Social media, (see below). It is based on a successful book* about the Maharishi Effect, presenting it as a story the world urgently needs to hear.
We will release the documentary in stages on social media and Youtube, (see team credentials and description of episodes below). We already invested $50,000 ourselves to record over 70 hours of footage and start the production, but we’ll need to raise app. $10,000 per episode for further production costs. If we can release the first 2-3 episodes, which will make the biggest difference to explain the Maharishi Effect, we feel we'll get the momentum to then finish the rest. Dr. Tony Nader will review all videos before release.
We ran a test on Facebook and Instagram to see how people would react to our Maharishi Effect story, and the response was beyond our wildest dreams. 55% of those that watched at least 30 seconds of the above video** gave both their email and their phone number to be kept up to date on the documentary release and get a free ebook summary of the book that the documentary is based on, making this already the most successful social media campaign we’ve ever done. (One of our producers has managed millions of dollars worth of Facebook campaigns in the past, and he’s never seen anything like it).
The time is right for this message to come out, and the results show that people really like it, and would support this documentary. So all we have to do is to make it happen together. There are thousands of people who want to see this happen, so just any small donation may be enough. Please share this fundraiser page with whomever who may want to support this.
You can download the free 45-page ebook summary of the book and sign up to be kept up to date on the release of future documentary episodes yourself on www.scosp.com.
Benefits for our supporters (other than some serious karmic brownie points for supporting the Maharishi Effect):
• All donations are tax-deductible, thanks to our friends at the Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation helping us out.
• Everyone who supports this wonderful project, with whatever amount is comfortable, will get access to the videos before we release them to the public, so you can give any feedback to help us improve it and be a part of the production process. You’ll also get a free electronic version of the full Science of Spirituality book.
• Those who can donate $100 or more will get a printed version of the book.
• Those who can donate $500 or more will get printed versions of both The Science of Spirituality and Consciousness is all there is, signed by Dr. Nader.
• Anyone who can donate $1,000 or more will get all the above, plus be mentioned with a special thank you at the end of the documentary.
• Anyone who can donate $10,000 or more will get all the above, plus producer credits at the start of the documentary.
Producer Credentials:
- Janet Attwood: Extensive experience with documentary production and interviewing people. NYT best-selling author. Transformational leader.
- Joachim Claes: author of the book The Field Paradigm, explaining the Maharishi Effect in a way that anyone can understand it*. Former international Marketing manager for TM organization, creating a website and social media campaigns that resulted in 20 million visitors and tripling TM instructions in 55 countries. Extensive experience in video animations, video editing and composing music.
Documentary episodes (5-15 min each)
1. Introduction: see video
2. The technology explained: explaining in 6-7 minutes how consciousness is a field that interconnects us, and how through TM we can access that field, and through the Maharishi Effect enliven that connection for everyone around us, serving as both the ultimate scientific proof that this field is real and the ultimate practical application.
3. History of the Movement: How the technique to transcend got lost, and how it was rediscovered, and how the early success of TM launched our current global interest in meditation.
4. The Science of Spirituality: How the most intimate spiritual experience could be objectively measured for the first time, with research showing the remarkable effects that take place during transcending on both body and brain.
5. A Clash of Paradigms: When Maharishi started claiming that a tiny small percentage of the population transcending could influence the behavior of the entire population, he suddenly ventured outside of the accepted paradigms in science. Even though he had some really impressive research to prove his claims, those who didn't understand the new paradigm of consciousness as a field simply ignored or ridiculed the data. This clash of new proof contradicting old ideas came at an enormous cost to his own organization.
6. Other Research confirming consciousness as a field: Investigating 150 years of other research confirming that consciousness is a field, and how those researchers faced similar reactions from the scientific community as Maharishi.
7. Our True Nature: How people can be both fundamentally good, and still act in inhumane ways. How stress causes us to lose our connection with our (fundamentally good) true selves, how that is reflected in our brain functioning, and how transcending heals the damaging effects of stress
8. The Experiments: overview of some of the most impressive Maharishi Effect experiments
9. The successor: the story of Dr. Tony Nader, and how he’s continuing Maharishi’s work.
10. The final demonstration: The demonstration in India, organized by Dr. Nader.
11. The implementation: Possible ways to create groups in schools, the military, prisons, etc.
Trailer video
*We ran a survey of the Maharishi Effect book among readers (115 replies) which showed that 95% of the readers:
- Found the book interesting/inspiring
- Were inspired to learn TM advanced techniques and the TM sidhi program as a result of reading the book
- Would consider giving the book to a friend as an introduction to TM.
In Belgium and Holland, the TM organization has been paying for the printing costs of the book to give it away for free to all meditators. The response is so good that the project has now been continued into it's 8th year.
**Our campaign had zero targeting (we just showed it to the entire Facebook population, rather than a highly specific segment that may already be interested in this). This shows a wide interest in our story. We ran the campaign until we had a sufficiently high number to be able to confirm the signup percentage with a high statistical certainty. (220 signups)
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