An Antidote To Violence

It’s widely accepted that Transcendental Meditation (TM) can create peace for the individual, but can it create peace in society as a whole? And if it can, what could possibly be the mechanism? In An Antidote to Violence Barry Spivack and Patricia Saunders examine the peer-reviewed research and suggest that TM can influence the collective consciousness of a society which leads to a decrease in negative social trends, such as a decline in war fatalities, and to an increase in cooperation between nations. Weaving together psychology, sociology, philosophy, statistics, politics, physics and meditation, An Antidote to Violence provides evidence that we have the knowledge to reduce all kinds of violence in society.

Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture.

From the author of The Freemason’s Daughter comes a lush romantic fantasy perfect for fans of Everless! In the world of healers, there is no room for magic. Fee knows this, just as certainly as she knows that her magic must be kept secret. But the crown prince Xavi, Fee’s best friend and only source of comfort, is sick. So sick, that Fee can barely contain the magic lying dormant inside her. She could use it, just a little, to heal him. But magic comes at a deadly cost—and attracts those who would seek to snuff it out forever. A wisp of a spell later, Fee finds herself caught in a whirl of secret motivations and dark pasts, where no one is who—or what—they appear to be. And saving her best friend means delving deeper into the tempting and treacherous world whose call she’s long resisted—uncovering a secret that will change everything. Laini Taylor meets Sara Holland in this lavish fantasy from lauded historical romance author Shelley Sackier!

"The Super Radiance effect" describes the extraordinary, positive effect that can be radiated to the rest of society by a group of specially trained expert meditators. The resulting impact on the host population is truly dramatic and almost instantaneous. Open warfare has been known to stop within 24 hours and terrorism decline by 72% over a matter of days. The Super Radiance effect effect only takes place when a sufficient number of these meditators form a group to practice a specific type of meditation together at the same time and on a daily basis. The particular meditation required to create this powerful social effect is an advanced form of Transcendental Meditation known as the TM-Sidhi programme. One fascinating characteristic of the TM-Sidhi programme is that it stimulates highly coherent brain waves for the individual meditator or TM-Sidha as they are called. The significance of this is that a highly coherent brain has access to higher mental and emotional faculties usually found dormant when the brain is in a more stressed state. When performed in a group this TM-Sidhi meditation, not only generates highly coherent brainwaves for each TM-Sidha, but also radiates this powerful brainwave effect to the surrounding non-meditating population as well. So far there have been fifty research projects on Super Radiance over the last forty years. These have been conducted in numerous countries by a variety of different researchers and institutes with many studies being published in peer reviewed scientific journals. Reader can see for themselves that the studies show unequivocally that the Super Radiance effect reduces war deaths in war zones, reduces terrorism, reduces crime rates, and even has a positive impact on other negative statistics such as emergency calls, suicides and motor vehicle accidents. On the economic side when the Super Radiance effect takes place in a host community, there are more business start-ups, more patent applications, improved stock indexes, lower inflation, higher employment rates, higher economic growth rates and so on. It is important to note that this transformation in negative social trends is not generated by any social or physical interaction by the TM-Sidhas with the rest of the population. The effect is created silently and anonymously and can even be broadcast from other countries. One significant feature of the Super Radiance effect is that the larger the group the more disproportionate the impact. The larger the group of TM-Sidhas, the wider the effect stretches. So for instance to produce the desired effect for a country the size of the UK we need about 750 TM-Sidhas, for the USA we need about 1,800. To calm down the fighting in the Middle East and stop the war in Syria would take about 3,000 TM-Sidhas. For the whole world of 7 billion people we only require about 9,300 TM-Sidhas. 9,300 TM-Sidhas is all that is required to bring about an immediate cessation of warfare, terrorism and political violence across the entire globe. The cost of doing this would be less than the cost of a single Stealth bomber. The author summarizes each of the fifty research studies to provide the average reader with the basic facts about this astonishing but little known phenomenon. Amazingly or perhaps typically, despite the evident opportunities provided by the Super Radiance effect for world peace and the prevention of terrorism, no government, at least in the developed world, has so far taken the idea seriously. The aim of the book is to get the concept of Super Radiance across to a much wider public in an attempt to influence politicians, civil servants and the media that we now have an invaluable technology for world peace and that it should be taken seriously for the benefit of us all.

The violence of illusion -- Making sense of identity -- Civilizational confinement -- Religious affiliations and Muslim history -- West and anti-west -- Culture and captivity -- Globalization and voice -- Multiculturalism and freedom -- Freedom to think.

This book could save your life: Protect yourself from violence and learn survival skills for dangerous situations with this essential guide from a former military intelligence officer. In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, "Move and you die." The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat. In this essential book, self-protection expert and former military intelligence officer Tim Larkin changes the way we think about violence in order to save our lives. By deconstructing our assumptions about violence -- its morality, its function in modern society, how it actually works -- Larkin unlocks the shackles of our own taboos and arms us with what we need to know to prevent, prepare for, and survive the unthinkable event of life-or-death violence. Through a series of harrowing true-life stories, Larkin demonstrates that violence is a tool equally effective in the hands of the "bad guy" or the "good guy"; that the person who acts first, fastest and with the full force of their body is the one who survives; and that each and every one of us is capable of being that person when our lives are at stake. An indispensable resource, When Violence is the Answer will remain with you long after you've finished reading, as the bedrock of your self-protection skills and knowledge.

Provides an introduction to the context of self-defense. It includes seven elements that must be addressed to bring self-defense training to something approaching 'complete.'