Self Study - Maharishi University of Management

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U N I Q U E C U R R I C U L A R F EA TU R E S:
D E V E L O P M EN T A N D S T U D Y
O F C O N SC I O U S N ES S
DEVE LO PME NT OF CONS CIO US NESS
Success in school and success in life depends on qualities that are usually not developed
systematically through the university curriculum: creativity, alertness, intelligence, broad
comprehension together with sharp focus, emotional maturity, energy, and self-confidence.
Scientific research over several decades has shown that each of these characteristics develops
systematically through our curriculum. This development takes place primarily through the
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. (Please refer to Scientific Research on
Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation: Collected Papers, Volumes 1-5 in the Resource Room.)
THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM
The Transcendental Meditation technique is a simple, natural, effortless mental procedure
practiced for 20 minutes twice daily sitting comfortably with eyes closed. The technique gives the
natural experience of restful alertness. Mental activity settles down while the mind remains
awake, physiological activity settles down and one experiences a deep state of rest, and brain
functioning becomes highly coherent. Physiological research on the Transcendental Meditation
technique has identified this state, termed transcendental consciousness, as a fourth major state of
consciousness, distinct from waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states. (For further information,
refer to the brochure Summary of Scientific Research on Consciousness-Based Education in the
team’s materials and the research volumes in the Resource Room.)
Detailed descriptions of transcendental consciousness are given in the traditional Vedic
literature, as systematized by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his Vedic Science. These descriptions
identify pure consciousness as a field containing the total potential intelligence of mind and body,
the basis for the full development of brain functioning in higher states of consciousness. The
experience of this inner field of silent, pure consciousness has also been described by people
throughout history and throughout the world. (For further information please refer in the
Resource Room to “Modern Science and Vedic Science: An Introduction” in the journal Modern
Science and Vedic Science, vol. 1, 1987, pp. 5–26; and Maharishi University of Management:
Wholeness on the Move by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, pp. 19–79 and 204–214.)
Physicists specializing in unified quantum field theories have investigated the correspondence
between the field of transcendental consciousness and the structure and dynamics of the unified