Dr. David Leffler published an opinion article about how the militaries of the Islamic Military Alliance could use the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced programs to create lasting peace in the Middle East. This article appeared in the January 2016 issue of Defence Journal, Vol. 18. No. 6 – Reg. No. SS-346, p. 28-29. For more information about this Pakistan-based publication visit: http://www.defencejournal.com.

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This article was also published in these fifty locations worldwide:

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MENAFN – Emirates News Agency,
UNITED KINGDOM: Vigilance Security Magazine,
USA and CANADA: The Times of Earth,
WASHINGTON DC: Africa News Circle,
ISRAEL: MEpeace [Middle East Peace]
USA: NewsPkr, Global Village Extra,
AFRICA: All Africa News,
LIBERIA: The Liberian Dialogue,
SOMALILAND: Somaliland Sun, 
MALAWI: The Maravi Post,
NEPAL: Review Nepal,
SOMALIA: Newsoomaaila, Mareeg
INDIA: Top Yaps,  Kangla Online, Scoop News, Mangalorean, Indian Muslim Observer,
PAKISTAN: TVChaska, Pakistan Headlines, The News Tribe, Hamari Look, Apni Ronaq,
WORLD SERVICE: The Daily Journalist, Anonymous Magazine, The Common Ills, Anonymous – Our Voice, Rielpolitik,
NIGERIA: New Nigerian Politics, The Info Stride, YNaija, Koko Mansion, The Cable, Master Web Reports, The Nigerian Voice, Elombah, Nigerian Newspapers Today, Premium Times, The News Chronicle, Nigeria Online, Naija Loud Speaker, Opinion Nigeria, Online Nigeria, The Paradigm, Akwa Ibom News Online, The Agenda, Realnews Magazine, Nigerian Tribune.

The article reads as follows:

A Scientific Means for Islamic Military Alliance to Collaborate and Deploy

By Dr. David Leffler

The state-run Saudi Press Agency has announced that 34 nations are forming a new “Islamic military alliance” to fight terrorism.

But will this new alliance really be able to prevent future terrorist attacks and create lasting peace? There is no statistically validated guarantee that the military strategy of fighting violence with violence will work. It certainly has not in the past. Why should it now? History shows that using violence to quell violence ultimately just ratchets up the level of violence.

There is hope, however, if the new alliance honors its stated goal that terrorism “should be fought by all means and collaboration should be made to eliminate it.” Today a scientifically validated means exists to prevent terrorism and war, and all countries involved in the alliance could collaboratively deploy it. This scientific approach is known in military circles as Invincible Defense Technology (IDT). This field-tested approach to reducing stress and violence is already part of the training of Brazil’s Elite Police force, and has been field-tested by other militaries. It has been validated by 23 peer-reviewed studies carried out in both developed and developing nations, including the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Independent scientists and scholars endorse it, based on 25 years of ongoing research.

Military personnel in Latin America, Africa and Asia practice IDT technologies in a group to help protect their nations

IDT Reduces Societal Stress

As a specially trained military unit, an “IDT Prevention Wing of the Military” uses IDT to neutralize the buildup of stress in the national collective consciousness that ultimately fuels terrorism, war and crime. As collective stress and frustration subside, government leaders and citizens alike are more capable of finding orderly and constructive solutions to the issues that have separated them for generations.

Experience with IDT in highly stressed areas of the globe have demonstrated increased economic incentive and growth of prosperity. Individual creativity and entrepreneurship increase as well. With greater civic calm, citizens’ aspirations rise and a more productive and balanced society emerges. Such a society naturally disallows violence as a means for change, or as an expression of discontent. With this, the ground for terrorism is eliminated. Moreover, this positive change in social trends takes place within a few days or weeks after IDT is introduced. The changes are measurable from such statistics as reduced terrorism, crime rates, accidents, hospital admissions, infant mortality, etc.

The IDT warrior’s daily routine includes the non-religious practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique and the advanced TM-Sidhi program. Military personnel, functioning as a societal coherence-creating military unit, practice these techniques together in a group twice a day, seven days a week, preferably near the targeted population in a secure location. Their presence need not be disclosed to achieve the effect of conflict resolution and violence reduction.

Such coherence-creating groups have achieved positive benefits to society, shown experientially, in just 48 hours. Modern statistical methods demonstrate a consistent causal influence of the IDT group on reducing conflict, precluding chance or coincidence. The IDT approach has been used during wartime, resulting in reduction of fighting, reduced war deaths and casualties, and improved progress toward resolving the conflict through peaceful means. Its coherence-creating effect has also been documented on a global scale in a study published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. When large assemblies of civilian IDT experts gathered during the years 1983-1985, terrorism-related casualties decreased 72%, international conflict decreased 32%, and overall violence was reduced in nations without intrusion by other governments.

A civilian IDT group in Israel decreased the intensity of war in Lebanon in 1983 in a dramatic way in 48 hours, to name only one of 50 successful demonstrations. (See a summary of the study, published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and summaries of follow-up studies in the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality and the Journal of Scientific Exploration).

CONCLUSION

Obsolete means of defense: the military fails to address social stress responsible for terrorism

Invincible Defense Technology addresses social stress, thereby ending terrorism, violence and war.

IDT is totally unlike any other defense technology because it does not use violence in an attempt to quell violence. It is a more civilized approach, yet the IDT defense technology supersedes all other known defense technologies (which are based on electronic, chemical, and/or nuclear forces). Therefore, militaries that deploy it gain the ultimate strategic advantage.

If the Islamic military alliance defense forces establish Prevention Wings of the Military, they will ease the current high tensions, reverse centuries of mistrust and hatred and permanently prevent future unrest. These IDT units will create genuine and lasting reconciliation and friendship where there was once only hatred and conflict. The powerful IDT human-resource-based defense technology disallows negative trends and prevents enemies from arising. No enemies means no terrorism and full security, as well as a normal, happy, productive life for everyone.

By eliminating terrorism and ending decades-old cycles of violence, the Islamic military alliance IDT units will create lasting peace and prosperity. Their powerful demonstration of this non-violent peace technology will gain worldwide attention. They will be honored and respected as great warriors who served honorably in their militaries for the betterment of all humanity.

Extensive scientific research objectively says, “Yes, this approach works.” This is a military “means” that should be championed with “all means.” It is desperately needed. There is truly no other solution.

The Islamic military alliance must act now, before high social tensions inevitably explode again.

UPDATE: A full-page announcement in the International New York Times (formerly the International Herald Tribune) showcased the IDT powerful approach to preventing terrorism and creating permanent world peace. The announcement was circulated to 6.6 million unique readers throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This announcement was also sent via courier or hand-delivered to more than 600 World Leaders in 39 countries and to the representatives of 7 major international organizations. This announcement, together with follow-up interviews in The Huffington Post and on HuffPost Live TV, drew more than 13,000 supportive letters and responses. For a more comprehensive description of the Invincible Defense Technology, please visit the website Global Union of Scientists for Peace.

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About the author:

Dr. David Leffler is the author of “A New Role for the Military: Preventing Enemies from Arising – Reviving an Ancient Approach to Peace.” He was a member of the US Air Force for nine years. Dr. Leffler has a Ph.D. in Consciousness-Based Military Defense and served as an Associate of the Proteus Management Group at the Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS) and lectures and writes worldwide about IDT. He is on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

A Scientific Means for Islamic Military Alliance to Collaborate and Deploy

Published in the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MENAFN – Emirates News Agency, UNITED KINGDOM: Vigilance Security Magazine, CANADA and USA: The Times of Earth, ISRAEL: MEpeace [Middle East Peace] LIBERIA: The Liberian Dialogue, SOMALILAND: Somaliland Sun, MALAWI: The Maravi Post, PAKISTAN: Defence Journal, The News Tribe, Hamari Look, Apni Ronaq, TVChaska, Pakistan Headlines, NIGERIA: New Nigerian Politics, The Info Stride, YNaija, Koko Mansion, The Cable, Master Web Reports, The Nigerian Voice, Elombah, Nigerian Newspapers Today, Premium Times, The News Chronicle, Nigeria Online, Naija Loud Speaker, Opinion Nigeria, Online Nigeria, The Paradigm, Akwa Ibom News Online, The Agenda, Realnews Magazine, Nigerian Tribune, USA: OpEdNews, NewsPkr, Global Village Extra, SOMALIA: Newsoomaaila, Mareeg, WORLD SERVICE: The Daily Journalist, Anonymous Magazine, The Common Ills, Anonymous – Our Voice, Rielpolitik, INDIA: Top Yaps, Kangla Online, Scoop News, Mangalorean, Indian Muslim Observer, NEPAL: Review Nepal, AFRICA: All Africa News, WASHINGTON DC: Africa News Circle.

By Dr. David Leffler

The state-run Saudi Press Agency has announced that 34 nations are forming a new “Islamic military alliance” [Expired URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/saudi-arabia-forms-34-country-islamic-military-alliance-to-fight-terrorism] to fight terrorism.

But will this new alliance really be able to prevent future terrorist attacks and create lasting peace? There is no statistically validated guarantee that the military strategy of fighting violence with violence will work. It certainly has not in the past. Why should it now? History shows that using violence to quell violence ultimately just ratchets up the level of violence.

There is hope, however, if the new alliance honors its stated goal that terrorism “should be fought by all means and collaboration should be made to eliminate it.” Today a scientifically validated means exists to prevent terrorism and war, and all countries involved in the alliance could collaboratively deploy it. This scientific approach is known in military circles as Invincible Defense Technology (IDT). This field-tested approach to reducing stress and violence is already part of the training of Brazil’s Elite Police force, and has been field-tested by other militaries. It has been validated by 23 peer-reviewed studies carried out in both developed and developing nations, including the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Independent scientists and scholars endorse it, based on 25 years of ongoing research.

Military personnel in Latin America, Africa and Asia practice IDT technologies in a group to help protect their nations

IDT Reduces Societal Stress

As a specially trained military unit, an “IDT Prevention Wing of the Military” uses IDT to neutralize the buildup of stress in the national collective consciousness that ultimately fuels terrorism, war and crime. As collective stress and frustration subside, government leaders and citizens alike are more capable of finding orderly and constructive solutions to the issues that have separated them for generations.

Experience with IDT in highly stressed areas of the globe have demonstrated increased economic incentive and growth of prosperity. Individual creativity and entrepreneurship increase as well. With greater civic calm, citizens’ aspirations rise and a more productive and balanced society emerges. Such a society naturally disallows violence as a means for change, or as an expression of discontent. With this, the ground for terrorism is eliminated. Moreover, this positive change in social trends takes place within a few days or weeks after IDT is introduced. The changes are measurable from such statistics as reduced terrorism, crime rates, accidents, hospital admissions, infant mortality, etc.

The IDT warrior’s daily routine includes the non-religious practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique and the advanced TM-Sidhi program. Military personnel, functioning as a societal coherence-creating military unit, practice these techniques together in a group twice a day, seven days a week, preferably near the targeted population in a secure location. Their presence need not be disclosed to achieve the effect of conflict resolution and violence reduction.

Such coherence-creating groups have achieved positive benefits to society, shown experientially, in just 48 hours. Modern statistical methods demonstrate a consistent causal influence of the IDT group on reducing conflict, precluding chance or coincidence. The IDT approach has been used during wartime, resulting in reduction of fighting, reduced war deaths and casualties, and improved progress toward resolving the conflict through peaceful means. Its coherence-creating effect has also been documented on a global scale in a study published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. When large assemblies of civilian IDT experts gathered during the years 1983-1985, terrorism-related casualties decreased 72%, international conflict decreased 32%, and overall violence was reduced in nations without intrusion by other governments.

A civilian IDT group in Israel decreased the intensity of war in Lebanon in 1983 in a dramatic way in 48 hours, to name only one of 50 successful demonstrations. (See a summary of the study, published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and summaries of follow-up studies in the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality and the Journal of Scientific Exploration).

CONCLUSION

Obsolete means of defense: the military fails to address social stress responsible for terrorism

Invincible Defense Technology addresses social stress, thereby ending terrorism, violence and war.

IDT is totally unlike any other defense technology because it does not use violence in an attempt to quell violence. It is a more civilized approach, yet the IDT defense technology supersedes all other known defense technologies (which are based on electronic, chemical, and/or nuclear forces). Therefore, militaries that deploy it gain the ultimate strategic advantage.

If the Islamic military alliance defense forces establish Prevention Wings of the Military, they will ease the current high tensions, reverse centuries of mistrust and hatred and permanently prevent future unrest. These IDT units will create genuine and lasting reconciliation and friendship where there was once only hatred and conflict. The powerful IDT human-resource-based defense technology disallows negative trends and prevents enemies from arising. No enemies means no terrorism and full security, as well as a normal, happy, productive life for everyone.

By eliminating terrorism and ending decades-old cycles of violence, the Islamic military alliance IDT units will create lasting peace and prosperity. Their powerful demonstration of this non-violent peace technology will gain worldwide attention. They will be honored and respected as great warriors who served honorably in their militaries for the betterment of all humanity.

Extensive scientific research objectively says, “Yes, this approach works.” This is a military “means” that should be championed with “all means.” It is desperately needed. There is truly no other solution.

The Islamic military alliance must act now, before high social tensions inevitably explode again.

For a more comprehensive description of the Invincible Defense Technology, please visit the website Global Union of Scientists for Peace.

About the author:

Dr. David Leffler is the author of “A New Role for the Military: Preventing Enemies from Arising – Reviving an Ancient Approach to Peace.” He was a member of the US Air Force for nearly nine years. Dr. Leffler has a Ph.D. in Consciousness-Based Military Defense and served as an Associate of the Proteus Management Group at the Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS) and lectures and writes worldwide about IDT. He is on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Primary treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) such as Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy are not proving effective. That’s the conclusion of a recent Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article calling for new ideas. The reality, the article points out, is that some two-thirds of combat veterans with PTSD are unable to free themselves from PTSD symptoms despite undergoing conventional treatments.

Here is a new idea–actually an old idea that has been around for decades–that works: Transcendental Meditation…

Read more by clicking on the article title referenced below:

Colonel (Dr.) Brian Rees, Dr. David O’Connell and Dr. David Leffler (8 December 2015). Use a Treatment for PTSD that Actually Works. The Hill.

Protecting Nigeria From Both Internal and External Threats

Published in Nigerian Eye Magazine

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Dr. David Leffler published an article about how the military of Nigeria could use the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced programs could create lasting peace in Nigeria. This article appeared in the 10 August 2015 issue of Nigerian Eye, Issue No. 60, pages 25-26. For more information about this publication visit: http://www.nigerianeye.com. The article’s introduction reads as follows:

Recently a string of terrorist attacks have occurred as Nigeria has struggled to build a functional and coherent response. Fortunately, there is a science-based approach to create societal coherence that can protect Nigeria from both internal and external threats. It is called Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) because it assures invincibility, peace, and even economic progress, to the nation and the military that employ it.

This article appeared in the American’s Bulletin (July/August 2015) Vol. 43, issue 07/08, page 8.

By Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Kulwant Singh and Dr. David Leffler

Old defense approach: the military fails to address social stress.

New Invincible Defense Technology approach addresses social stress, thereby ending war, terrorism and violence.

A new technology of defense is now available that has been scientifically shown to prevent war and create peace by harnessing the deepest level of nature’s functioning.

War is ultimately a human problem requiring a human solution. Experts in the field of conflict resolution maintain that the underlying cause of war is accumulated “social stress” – i.e., mounting political, religious and/or ethnic tensions between rival factions in critical hotspots throughout the world. As social stress builds, divisions grow stronger, groups take sides, diplomats become unable to resolve differences, and enemies arise within or outside the nation. Military force may then be invoked to protect the country, resulting in armed conflict and unpredictable outcomes. But even if conflict temporarily solves the problem for the victor, the social stress remains, fueling future cycles of
conflict. In contrast, the absence of collective stress translates into the absence of tension between competing sides, thereby reducing the probability of hostilities.

Today, the militaries of the Middle East have an opportunity to overcome the cycle of war by deploying a scientifically verified technology of defense that neutralizes social stress. This new technology is based on the unified field of all the laws of nature – the most fundamental and powerful level of nature’s functioning. The technology accesses and enlivens this unified field through subjective technologies of consciousness, thereby creating a profound influence of coherence and harmony throughout society that results in measurable reductions of crime, terrorism, and war.

The late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi revived systematic subjective technologies for experiencing the unified field, including the Transcendental Meditation® program and its advanced techniques. When used in a military context these meditation practices are known as Invincible Defense Technology (IDT). They have been successfully applied by members of many faiths to eliminate conflict. If any military in the Middle East region were to properly apply these non-lethal and non-destructive technologies, it could reduce collective societal stress and resulting conflict.

Over 50 research studies confirm that when the required threshold of IDT experts is crossed – approximately the square root of 1 percent of a given population – crime goes down, quality of life indices go up, and war and terrorism abate. Scientists have named this phenomenon the Maharishi Effect, since Maharishi Mahesh Yogi first predicted it. The causal mechanism appears to be a field effect of consciousness – a spillover effect on the level of the unified field from the peace-creating group into the larger population. In 1983, a two-month Maharishi Effect intervention in Israel resulted in a 76 percent reduction in war deaths in neighboring Lebanon when group size exceeded the square root of 1 percent threshold (Journal of Conflict Resolution). Seven subsequent, consecutive experiments over a two-year period during the peak of the Lebanon war found:

Military personnel in Latin America, Africa and Asia practice group Transcendental Meditation to help maintain cultural integrity and protect their nations

• war-related fatalities decreased by 71 percent;
• war-related injuries fell by 68 percent;
• the level of conflict dropped by 48 percent;
• cooperation among antagonists increased by 66 percent.

The likelihood that these combined results were due to chance is less than one part in 10 to the 19th power (Journal of Social Behavior and Personality and Journal of Scientific Exploration). A global-scale study published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation documented a 72 percent drop in international terrorism.

Militaries are responsible for defending their citizens. They can now succeed in this mission simply by creating a Prevention Wing – a group of IDT experts. The size of the Prevention Wing would be small – approximately the square root of 1 percent of the population of the country. To protect the population of the entire Middle East region, approximately 1,717 soldiers would be needed.

As part of its responsibility to protect the nation, the military is obligated to thoroughly examine scientifically proven methods for preventing war and terrorism. With the IDT approach, all that is necessary is to provide the proper training for groups of military personnel – or indeed, any sizable group within the nation. Any military has the opportunity today through IDT to create national security, invincibility, and peace. But the time to act is now.

Over a thousand locations worldwide have published articles about Invincible Defense Technology. See this webpage for links to these articles: https://www.istpp.org/military_science/dr-david-leffler-publications.html

About the authors:

Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Kulwant Singh, UYSM, Retd. received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Defense 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 Defense Service Staff Collage. 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 defense experts that advocates Invincible Defense Technology. Dr. Singh lives in New Delhi, India.

Dr. David Leffler was a member of the US Air Force for nearly nine years. He served as an Associate of the Proteus Management Group at the Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College. Dr. Leffler serves as the Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS) in Fairfield, Iowa and is a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique who lectures about IDT. Contact at: https://davidleffler.com

References:

1. Dr. David R. Leffler (2008, February). An Overlooked, Proven Solution to Terrorism. In “55 Trends Now Shaping the Future of Terrorism.” Edited by Dr. Marvin J. Cetron and Owen Davies: The Proteus Trends Series, Volume 1, Issue 2 (pp. 18, 79, 176, C-13 through C-16). This US government-sponsored report was aimed at governmental and military leaders. Excerpts about Invincible Defense Technology taken from the 254 page report are available online at: https://davidleffler.com/2011/terrorism-trends The entire paper version of the report is available online at: http://www.amazon.com/Trends-Now-Shaping-Future-Terrorism/dp/1441451412
2. Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Kulwant Singh and Dr. David Leffler (July 2014, p. 129). Preventing Future Boko Haram Attacks. CBRNE-Terrorism Newsletter (CBRNE is an acronym that stands for “Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive”). PDF available online at: http://www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com/resources/JULY_2014_Part_C.pdf
3. Dr. David R. Leffler (Fall 2009). A New Role for the Military: Preventing Enemies from Arising – Reviving an Ancient Approach to Peace. Journal of Management & Social Science (JMSS), Vol. 5, No. 2., pp. 153-162. This peer-reviewed journal is published by the Institute of Business & Technology BIZTEK in Pakistan. The abstract was published in Session 6, p. 44 of the proceeding of the “International Sociological Association Research Committee 01 Seoul National University & Korea Military Academy International Conference on Armed Forces & Conflict Resolution in a Globalized World.” July 14 – 17, 2008, Seoul, Korea. The paper was also presented at KIDA, the Korea Institute of Defense Analyses. It is available online at: https://davidleffler.com/preventing-enemies.html
4. Col. (Ret.) S. P. Bakshi, Gerald Geer, and Dr. David Leffler (Special Issue May, 2013). Defense Personnel Worldwide Find Transcendental Meditation To be an Effective Tool in Combating Stress. Defence and Security Alert. Vol. 4, Issue No. 8, pages 34-39. PDF available online at: https://davidleffler.com/2013/defence-security-alert-magazine
5. Lieutenant General Jose Villamil (Ret.) with Dr. David Leffler (2003, January 29). Project: Coherence. India Defence Consultants. Available online at: https://davidleffler.com/2011/coherence