A Taste of Utopia

Ten thousand Sidhas, experts in advanced techniques of Transcendental Meditation and Yogic flying, gather in India to generate, through long sessions of group practice, the “Maharishi Effect.”
Reduction of crime and violence, lowering international tensions and improving the quality of life in society are the global effects when the minimum threshold of 10,000 meditators is reached.
A kind of magic? Or a new scientific paradigm?
It was the Indian physicist Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, one of the most important spiritual authorities of our times (also known to all for having been “the guru of the Beatles”) who spread the idea that Consciousness is a fundamental field of nature (like electromagnetism or gravity) with which it is possible to get deeply in touch through meditation techniques. And to stimulate it, influencing human behaviors (even of those who do not meditate) and negative social tendencies.
Sixteen years after his death, a global Movement of physicists, neuroscientists, researchers and thousands of meditators continues his mission, responding to skepticism with dozens of scientific publications, spreading a worldview that derives from ancient Vedic knowledge and finds confirmation in modern quantum physics.

The 2024 assembly in India closes a 40-year-long imaginary circle, opened in 1984 with the first global experiment during a big assembly held in the United States and entitled “A Taste of Utopia”. It aims to inspire the establishment of permanent groups of consciousness experts around the world. The goal is to reduce social stress globally. Examples of success in history are many, and this documentary recounts some of them. One above all: the invaluable testimony of former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano who, after introducing Transcendental Meditation in his country, quickly achieved an end to the 13-year civil conflict and unprecedented economic and cultural growth.

The main characters in this choral story are meditators, teachers, scientists, leaders of the Transcendental Meditation Organization and some of its great supporters such as filmmaker David Lynch.