David Orme-Johnson Ph.D  

                            President of the Scentific Advisory Board

Dr.  David   Orme-Johnson  received an  A.B.   from    Columbia  University in Psychology, and  his M.A. and   Ph.D.   in  Psychology   from  the  University of Maryland.  Orme-Johnson  served   as  a  lecturer at the University of Texas- El Paso, where he conducted the first research on  the  effects of Transcendental Meditation ,the TM t echnique- the  Unified  Field  Technology . The paper was published in the Psychosomatic Medicine , the official journal of American Psychosomatic Society.

David Orme-Johnson  has  been a pioneering  researcher on the TM technique,   the Unified Field Technology since 1970. He has over 100 publications in a wide variety  of  fields, including  lectroencephalography,  psychophysiology, health,   drug  and  prison rehabilitation , quality of life, and  conflict  resolution. He was  director  of r esearch  and  evaluation for  the  U.S.  Army  drug rehabilitation program at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas.

In  1973, Orme-Johnson joined  Maharishi  University  of  Management  (MUM),   in  Fairfield,  Iowa.   Orme-Johnson  served  as  the  Chairman  of  the Psychology Department and Dean of Research  until  1996.  In addition, he was director of its  psychology   doctoral   program  and   co-director  of  its  neuroscience  doctoral  program, and   director  of  the  university's  Institute  for  World  Peace. He also served as director of research at the Institute of Science, Technology, and  Public  Policy. He  was  Vice  Chancellor  of  Maharishi European Research  University, Seelisberg, Switzerland.

In 1982, Orme-Johnson and Michael Dillbeck presented research on the TM technique, the Unified Field Technology's effects on the individual and on the larger society to the Congressional hearings on proposals to establish a U.S. Peace Academy held by the Subcommittees on International Security and Scientific  Affairs.Orme-Johnson's paper, "International peace project in the Middle East" was published in Journal of Conflict Resolution  in 1988 and again in 1990 in the Scientific Research on Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Collected Papers. The second published version included an Appendix A which contained the data used for the study.

David Orme-Johnson  participated in a delegation of the Unified Field Technology (TM & TMSidhi) researchers and teachers from Maharishi International University who traveled to the Soviet Union  to provide instruction in the TM Technique, the Unified Field Technology in 1990. The delegation spent over three months in Warsaw, Poland. 

The trip to the Soviet Union, initially scheduled to last ten days, was extended to six months and resulted in the training of 35,000 people in the TM technique, the Unified Field Technology ( known in the Eastern block as a simple Transcendental Meditation). By 1990 in the Soviet Union had the 35,000 participants private Unified Field Technology Quiet Impact Group [ELR1%] model, functioning continually and creating the U.F.T. Combined Effect, the EffectUnified Field Technology (TM) Combined Impact.

In 1990, he proposed that the U.S.  Defense Department budget $90 million to hire 7,000 to 10,000 full time  meditators to improve society. In 1993, Orme-Johnson proposed that the city of  Omaha, Nebraska spend $23 million for 600 meditators to end crime in the city.

In 1995  National Institutes of Health (NIH) nominated Orme-Johnson to be an expert presenter on the effects of  meditation at the National Institutes of Health technology assessment conference held in Bethesda,  Maryland. The conclusions of the conference were reported in the journal of American Medical Association

Orme-Johnson was the principal  investigator for an National Institutes of Health grant sponsored collaboration between Maharishi  University of Management and the University of California at Irvine. Orme-Johnson is a former professional member  of the American psychological Association , Society for Psychological Research,  National Referee for The Social Science Journal, Iowa Academy of Science, and  Midwestern Psychological Association.

David Orme-Johnson is also a sculptor and  painter. He studied visual arts at Columbia College , at the University of Maryland,and through  the Corcoran Galery in Washington, D.C. Orme-Johnson's work has been exhibited  in groups shows at Columbia University in New York, and in "The  Gallery" in Fairfield, Iowa, as well as in a one-man show at the  "Gallery Two-Twenty-Two" in El Paso, Texas. His work is held in  private collections.