Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and governmentand has led to increased productivity and affluence through, for example,technological advances embodied in new “physical capital” such ascomputers, automated production plants, and other forms of productiveplant and equipment (Kuznets, 1966; Maddison, 1982). Nobel laureateeconomist T.W. Schultz (1987) emphasizes the central importance ofhuman capital and knowledge capital in economic progress:The common view of capital is confined to material things. Physicalcapital, however, accounts for a small part of the total stock of capitalin countries that have achieved a high level of per capita income.Moreover, physical capital consists in large part of knowledge: forexample, advances in knowledge made the computer, modern communicationsfacilities, and the high-yielding crop varieties possible. Thevast improvements in the quality of most physical capital over timecould not have been made were it not for advances in knowledge. (p. 11)Physical capital is simply an expressed form, or embodiment, of humanknowledge and creativity. Moreover, since all knowledge and humanresources have their basis in consciousness or intelligence, it follows thatthe most basic level of consciousness, pure consciousness, the infinitesource of all creativity in man and in nature, is the ultimate economicresource. 2 Thus the unfoldment of the full creative potential of humanconsciousness through Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology offersmankind an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate economic progressthroughout the world by making use of our most abundant naturalresource, the unlimited creativity of the unified field.Bringing fulfillment to economics. Maharishi Vedic Science andTechnology brings fulfillment to human-resource economics by providinga complete and precise description of consciousness and its relationto human creativity, as well as a proven technology for developingthe full potential of human resources for the individual and society.From the point of view of human-resource economics, Maharishi’sTranscendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs may be seen asa uniquely effective investment in human capital development, which,according to Maharishi, holds the key to the unfoldment of unlimitedhuman productivity and fulfilling prosperity. In particular, the grouppractice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programsoffers a powerful new tool of government policy for improv-414