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Foundations of Consciousness-Based Education
Why the Consciousness-Based education program is so effective

The Transcendental Meditation^® technique is a central technology of Maharishi Vedic Science^SM. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has restored the ancient knowledge of consciousness contained in the Vedic Literature as a complete science of consciousness, for the full significance of its theory and practice.

This science describes seven states of consciousness, each with its own distinct psychophysiological characteristics: the familiar waking, dreaming, and sleep states; Transcendental Consciousness; and three higher states of consciousness.

Leading quantum field theorists have identified Transcendental Consciousness as the unified field of all the laws of nature, the field of total natural law. This field gives rise to the limitless diversity of natural laws that govern the universe. (Please refer to following charts.)

Through practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique, Transcendental Consciousness—the field of total natural law—becomes infused into one’s thinking and action, leading to an increasingly mistake-free, problem-free, fulfilling life—life spontaneously in harmony with natural law.

The unified field of natural law is the unified basis of all streams of knowledge, here expressed in terms of the disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and physiology. In each of these disciplines, the underlying unity of natural law expresses itself in a three-in-one structure corresponding to the unified state of observer, process of observation, and observed. In the language of the science of consciousness, Maharishi Vedic Science, this structure is the Samhita (unified state) of Rishi (observer or knower), Devata (process of knowing), and Chhandas (known).

By systematically enlivening this unified state of awareness through the practice of the Transcendental Meditation^® program, students naturally grow in the experience that their own consciousness is the source of all streams of knowledge, and come to feel increasingly at home with everything they learn and everyone they know. The development of consciousness is the basis of developing perfection in life and ideal citizenship—the ability to fulfill one’s desires while supporting the interests of others.

This Association offers the scientifically validated Consciousness-Based^SM education program, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. More than 40 years of experience and over 600 scientific research studies have shown this non-sectarian program to improve educational outcomes, reduce stress and antisocial behavior, increase creativity and intelligence, and unfold the inner happiness of students and teachers of all cultural and educational backgrounds.

Experience and understanding of the total natural law within every student to raise life out of problems, into harmony with all the laws of nature

The Consciousness-Based education program of Maharishi adds to the familiar objective approach to knowledge, the subjective approach of the Transcendental Meditation program, which gives students direct experience of total knowledge of natural law, the unified field of natural law, which is Transcendental Consciousness, the field of their own total intelligence, the inner Self of everyone.

In the language of quantum physics, Transcendental Consciousness is the unified field of natural law, whose self-interacting dynamics give rise to the fundamental forces and particles of nature, which in turn are expressed in the physiology of every student and in the physical universe as a whole.

Everyone’s physiology has its basis in the field of consciousness.* This field, which is the foundation of the Consciousness-Based education program, is illustrated in the bottom two-thirds of this chart. Maharishi Vedic Science identifies the self-interacting dynamics of the unified field as the 40 fundamental structures of natural law, Veda and the Vedic Literature, pictured on the lower right of the chart.

One key expression from the Vedic Literature describes the importance of experiencing the unified field: “Richo Ak-kshare parame vyoman yasmin Deva adhi vishwe nisheduh yastanna Veda kim richa karishyati ya it tad vidus ta time samasate—The Richas of the Veda (structures of intelligence) exist in the self-interacting dynamics of the transcendental field, in which reside all the Laws of Nature responsible for the whole manifest creation. He whose awareness is not open to this field, what can the Richas accomplish for him? Those who know this level of reality are established in evenness—wholeness of life.”

In other words, gaining knowledge of a few laws of nature from the different disciplines, without enlivening their unified basis within one’s awareness, may develop expertise in one narrow area, but can never develop mastery of the whole of life.

The unified field of natural law is enlivened in individual awareness through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi^® programs, including Yogic Flying, as part of the Consciousness-Based education program.

* Professor Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., was honored with his weight in gold in 1998 for the scientific discovery that the field of consciousness and its precise structures of intelligence are at the basis of human physiology. In 2000, Professor Nader was crowned as the first sovereign ruler of the Global Country of World Peace, a country without borders founded to solve and prevent individual, national, and global problems, and to establish world peace through a new science of administration based on the most advanced understanding of natural law from modern science and Maharishi Vedic Science.

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