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consciousness-based education and GovernmentMaharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programsprovide the technology to make that vision a reality. Hagelin explainshow these technologies used in the context of education can bring fulfillmentto the vision of the founding fathers:. . . more fundamental levels of natural law are more unified, morecomprehensive and more holistic. Gaining intimate exposure to thesemost profound and universal levels of natural law could bring a benefitequivalent to gaining knowledge of innumerable specific laws of naturefunctioning at more superficial scales. Capturing the totality of naturallaw at its unified source, and thus gaining intimate familiarity withnatural law at its most unified and universal level could—and accordingto current research does—bring behavior that is in accord with thetotality of natural law—action that is universally enriching and globalin scope. Such educational technologies provide, for the first time, thepractical means to achieve Jefferson’s goal…to produce ideal citizens,fully in tune with natural law, capable of utilizing natural law effectivelyto achieve their desires, while upholding the progress of societyas a whole and the life, liberty and happiness of its members. (Hagelin,2002, pp. 38–39)Conclusion.The founding fathers understood the importance of contacting thesource of natural law within each individual, but without a techniquethey were unable, even with the freedom to “pursue happiness,” toensure that the individuals of the nation would be able to live life inaccord with natural law. Maharishi Vedic Science provides the technologyto make this vision a reality. Maharishi even expands this vision toinclude the ability to create a level of life that can only be called heavenon earth.As long as one hundred per cent value of Natural Law is lived in dailylife, people spontaneously act in accordance with Natural Law; or, inthe language of religion, act in accordance with the ‘Will of God’; or,in the language of science, live life according to Natural Law—a stateof perfect physiological, psychological, sociological, and ecological integration—idealmental and physical health. (Maharishi, 1994, p. 216)We are now in possession of the supreme knowledge of Natural Law—the scientific knowledge of the source of Nature’s perfect order and how92