Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

introduction to the seriesdecades. Everyone has the potential to experience this field in the simplestform of his or her own awareness. Considerable theoretical evidence,and even empirical evidence, has been put forward in support ofthis position.Maharishi has developed these ideas in two bodies of knowledge,the first known as the Science of Creative Intelligence, the second asMaharishi Vedic Science and Technology. The Science of CreativeIntelligence examines the nature and range of consciousness and presentsa model of human development that includes seven states of consciousnessaltogether, including four higher states beyond the familiarstates of waking, dreaming, and sleeping. These higher states, whichdevelop naturally and spontaneously with Transcendental Meditationpractice, bring expanded values of experience of one’s self and the surroundingworld. Each represents a progressive stage of enlightenment.Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology examines the dynamics ofpure consciousness in fine detail. It reveals the fundamental principlesof consciousness that may then be identified in every field of knowledgeand every natural system.Most important for teaching and learning, these sciences reveal howevery branch of knowledge emerges from the field of pure consciousnessand how this field is actually the Self of every student.Strategies for promoting teaching and learningConsciousness-Based education also includes a battery of educationalstrategies that promotes effective teaching and learning. Foremostamong these is the precept that parts are always connected to wholesand that learning is most effective when learners are able to connectparts to wholes. In Consciousness-Based education, the parts of knowledgeare always connected to the wholeness of knowledge, and thewholeness of knowledge is connected to the Self of the student.One means of doing this is through Unified Field Charts. These wallcharts, developed by the faculty at Maharishi University of Managementand used in every class, do three things: (1) They show all thebranches of the discipline at a glance; (2) They show how the disciplineemerges from the field of pure consciousness, the unified field of naturallaw at the basis of the universe; (3) They show that this field is the7