Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and governmentany government can govern with the same silent perfection with whichnatural law administers the universe (“Maharishi Offers,” 1990).According to Maharishi Vedic Science (“Maharishi Offers,” 1990),the technology for ideal government—unified field based administration—isto establish a creating-coherence group in the country whichwill enliven the unified field in national consciousness and thereby enablegovernment to govern with the same perfection with which the governmentof nature administers the universe. Through alliance with nature’sgovernment, any government can now create peace, prosperity, and fulfillingprogress in the life of its own nation, and enliven these same qualitiesin national consciousness and thereby bring national government inalliance with nature’s government (“Maharishi Offers,” 1990).Improving the Economy Through the Maharishi EffectEnlivening national creativity and productivity. Increased nationalprosperity and more positive economic trends are among the predictedresults of enlivening the unified field of natural law in national consciousnessthrough the group practice of the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1977, p. 8; 1986, p.142; 1982, p. 4). Maharishi explains that enhanced prosperity will resultfrom increased ability to make use of the infinite creative potential ofnatural law inherent in the unified field of pure consciousness. Scientificresearch has shown that the practice of the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs increases the creativity and productivity of theindividual (Travis, 1979; Orme-Johnson & Haynes, 1981; Frew, 1974).Because infinite creativity is a property of the unified field of natural law,pure consciousness, enlivening the unified field in national consciousnessthrough the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs enlivens greater creativity throughout society. Maharishiexplains that “creativity . . . is fully lively in the unified field” and thus“when the unified field is enlivened in national consciousness, infinitecreativity is lively in the national economy” (1983, p. 4). As a result, “economicwealth also increases because more creative people make wiserbusiness decisions” (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1982, p. 4).Enlivening creativity in national consciousness through the MaharishiEffect, therefore, enlivens the basis of all prosperity and progress in national410