This article outlines the description, from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Vedic Psychology, of experience of the Ved — the perception, within the simplest form of human awareness, of the self-interacting dynamics of the unified field, the field of pure consciousness or cosmic psyche. This realization is described by Maharishi as developing through increasingly refined experience of the field of pure ...

This paper investigates the role of consciousness for the field of physics. We propose that physics needs to include a systematic account of consciousness if it aims to offer a complete account of the physical world. The discovery of quantum mechanics, and of completely unified quantum field theories such as superstring theory, has resulted in a profound transformation in the world view of phys...

Twentieth-century psychology has studied specific active processes of knowing—such as perceptions, thoughts, or feelings—but lacked an understanding of deeper levels of the mind underlying and integrating all active mental processes. Therefore, it has spawned isolated areas of investigation rather than successful grand theories. Maharishi Vedic Psychology provides complete knowledge and experie...

Literary theorists today tend to locate the source of the meaning of liter­ ature in its structure or context (the known) rather than in the author or reader (the knower). Maharishi Vedic Science, on the other hand, locates an absolute value of meaning in the integration of the knower, known, and process of knowing and provides a means of experiencing this value in tran­ scendental consciousnes...

To explore ancient Vedic medical techniques, one hundred and seventy-six subjects with arthritis participated in a controlled study through the non-pharmacologic approach known as the Maharishi Vedic Vibration Technology (MVVT). Using a double-blinded and randomized experimental design, the findings showed significant reductions of pain and stiffness, and improvement in range of motion in the s...

T his journal provides a forum for research on the forefront of mankind's expanding knowledge of the universe. It is devoted to exploration of the unified field of all the laws of nature through the combined approaches of modern science and ancient Vedic science, as brought to light by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The identification of the unified field by modern physics is only the first glimpse of ...

Interdisciplinary studies programs have been widely used to develop students’ problem-solving abilities and to promote more holistic and integrated understanding of knowledge. The Maharishi Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) course directly addresses the integrative goal of interdisciplinary study by describing universal principles of creative intelligence that can be found in all academic ...

the principles and practice of sustainability have gained momentum in the last 15 years and now form a central part of conversations around social praxis and the future. it has been proposed that the theories driving sustainability science are embedded in indigenous history, and it has been shown that many ancient traditions always concerned themselves with sustainable and ethical living. among...

D espite living in a nation of great affluence, the citizens of the United States do not always enjoy the best health. For example, in a recent comparison, the United States ranked twelfth (second from the bottom) among 13 developed countries in order of health indicators, such as neonatal and infant mortality; years of potential life lost; low–birth-weight percentages; life expectancy at 1, 15...

A conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace was held by the Maharishi International University (MIU) Institute of World Peace at MIU in the Spring of 1991.1 A common theme in the conference was that the basic structure and dynamics of society must change in order to achieve a stable world peace. The speakers described a variety of ways in which a stable world peace was being pur...