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absolute principles of societyabout this experience, in contrast to other forms of meditation thathave been taught from time to time:It should be noted that Transcendental Meditation is neither a matterof contemplation nor of concentration. The process of contemplationand concentration both hold the mind on the conscious thinking level,whereas Transcendental Meditation systematically takes the mind tothe source of thought, the pure field of creative intelligence. (MaharishiMahesh Yogi, 1967, p. 471)The significance of this experience, Maharishi (1967) teaches, is thatthe individual conscious mind now has direct access to the field of pureconsciousness, which is the total potential of natural law. In higher statesof consciousness, when thought and action are spontaneously groundedat this level, no violation of natural law is possible, and no mistakes aremade. The invincible evolutionary power of natural law is available tothe individual, leading to all success and accomplishment in life:When the mind comes out from the field of Being, the plane of cosmiclaw, into the relative field of activity, which is under the influenceof innumerable laws of nature, it automatically enjoys thesupport of the cosmic law, and this makes possible the accomplishmentof any aspiration and the ultimate fulfillment of life.This is how the life of a man who has risen to cosmic consciousness iseternally established on the level of cosmic law and receives spontaneoussupport from all the laws of nature. (p. 472)When the wisdom of life and the technique of living—understandingand experience of the nature of pure consciousness—come together,Maharishi goes on, they give rise to an ideal quality of individual life.One is enabled “to live all the good qualities of life”; giving support inone’s life, in other words, to values of life that structure evolution. Thisis life according to natural law. One naturally lives “full coordination ofheart and mind” since the source of both and the source of the laws ofnature that structure their coordination—the field of pure consciousness—isbeing enlivened in one’s awareness.Scientific research on the Transcendental Meditation programover the past two decades has amply confirmed this description. Theregular practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique has beenassociated with, among other things, greater creativity (Travis, 1979),131