Meditation in Tzfat Safed Israel calms hostilities in Lebanon (1978)

Maharishi’s Program to Create World Peace: Theory and Research

David W. Orme-Johnson and Michael C. Dillbeck

Maharishi International University

Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A.

(Excerpt from page 231)

In order to calm the hostilities in Lebanon, a group of 400 experts in the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field went to Israel to the town of Safad on the Lebanese border. Before the group arrived there had been continuous heavy fighting since mid-June 1978. The cease-fire of October 8 (initiated shortly before the group was assembled in Safad), lasted a remarkable three months until members of the coherence-creating group left in early January 1979. At that time fighting erupted again which was described as the “worst onslaught since October” (Lebanon News, February 1979). Thus, this period of peace in Lebanon coincided with the period in which the coherence-creating group was in Safad.

 

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