According to global reports, sadness is increasing, but with the Transcendental Meditation program, happiness can expand far beyond our current expectations. Since stress, worry, and sadness appear to be on the rise, Creating a Happy World examines two paths to combat these and create a happy world - the path of the individual, which can be transformed through achieving higher states of consciousness with the Transcendental Meditation program; and the path of society, which can be transformed through the impact of Transcendental Meditation on collective consciousness. Patricia Saunders studied music before training as a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique. She is now a PhD researcher in the Department of Maharishi Vedic Science at the Maharishi University of Management, researching consciousness and Vedic sound from the perspective of the Vedic tradition of knowledge.