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Is this kinda like the Governor of Georgia praying for rain?

But, more seriously, haven't the Buddhist monks been doing that sort of thing for over 25 centuries now? Or likewise the holy people of India, those who engage in intensive practice of Sanatana Dharma, for untold centuries?

And, to look at it another way, if the power of the personality was all that was necessary, wouldn't the Christian Gospel be enough? Didn't Jesus of Nazareth display the "supreme personality of Godhead?"

And further, didn't The Prophet attempt the same thing, to wit, change the world through the power of the personality?

And, to look at the scientific evidence of parasitology, one would find only VERY FEW organisms have the capability of evolving past the immune systems of the host they infect. So, maybe only a few Plasmodium can make someone miserable with malaria, but that organism has gone through many evolutionary hoops, as it were, to get to the point where it withstands the immune systems of both the Anopheles mosquito and the human being.

Better work on a more appropriate figure of speech, rather than a few bugs infecting the body, if one really wants to use "personal effectiveness" to influence a group to engage in some kind of prayer or meditative practice to increase the peace.

And by the way, I believe the psychologists are "barking up the wrong tree" if so many of them believe "assertiveness" is the key to this "personal effectiveness." It may be appealing to Americans but I think that would be a tough sell to the Chinese.

Increase the peace, sure, but we don't have to engage in an undertaking, or commit a special act, to do so, not when one can go about everyday life and do the same.

Best wishes,

JD Moore (who used to work at Earthwatch and is all for more scientific inquiry of the phenomena of our times)