Help us make Maharishi Effect documentary available for free

Janet Attwood and Joachim Claes are producing a documentary about the Maharishi Effect, presented as a story the world urgently needs to hear (see description below). Extremely successful tests on social media (see below) show the world is ready for this so, with your support (tax-deductible), we want to make it available for free to everyone.

We will release the documentary in stages on social media and Youtube, (see 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 $10,000 to $15,000 per episode for further production costs, for at least the first 4-5 episodes to get started. Dr. Tony Nader will review all videos.

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. 57% 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. (Joachim has managed millions of dollars worth of Facebook campaigns in the past, and he’s never seen anything like it).

The time seems to be right for this message to come out, and people really like it. So let’s make it happen together.

Benefits for our supporters (other than some serious karmic brownie points for helping to create the big breakthrough for 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 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.

Parts of the documentary

1. Introduction: see video above

2. Documentary Overview: 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 the 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. From Scientific to Charlatans? When Maharishi started claiming that a tiny small percentage of the population practicing TM and advanced TM techniques could influence the behavior in the entire population, he suddenly ventured outside of the accepted paradigms in science. To people who don’t understand the new paradigm of consciousness as a field, his claims of creating world peace suddenly sounded more like something that charlatans or even cult leaders rather than serious scientists would say. This clash of new proof contradicting old ideas came at an enormous cost to his own organization.

6. 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: Creating groups in schools, the military, prisons, etc.

Trailer video