Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and governmentIf man’s contentment is not achieved the very purpose of economicsis defeated. It may be stated emphatically that unless a man achievespermanent happiness he will not be contented and satisfied with life. Tobring about this permanent contentment is the final aim of economics.(pp. 214–215)Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology fulfills this highest goal ofeconomics by providing a practical and proven means for bringing individualawareness into alliance with natural law, thus naturally developinghigher states of consciousness in the individual and simultaneouslypromoting the growth of affluence and fulfillment in society by bringingnational consciousness into alliance with natural law through theMaharishi Effect.Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi ProgramsMaharishi’s Transcendental Meditation program and the moreadvanced TM-Sidhi program have been shown by research to be effectivein improving the quality of individual life by enhancing creativity,intelligence, happiness, energy, mental and physical health, and resistanceto stress (e.g., Chalmers, Clements, Schenkluhn, & Weinless,1989; Orme-Johnson & Farrow, 1977; Wallace, Orme-Johnson, &Dillbeck, 1991).The prediction that the quality of life in society may be enhancedthrough the Maharishi Effect has been empirically investigated in morethan 35 studies since 1974. These studies are discussed in Dillbeck etal. (1987), Hagelin (1987), Orme-Johnson and Dillbeck (1987), Orme-Johnson et al. (1988), and Dillbeck, Banus, Polanzi, and Landrith (1988),and reprinted in Orme-Johnson and Farrow (1977), Chalmers et al.(1989), and Wallace et al. (1990). In addition to the effect on economicperformance, these studies report evidence of significant improvementsin such diverse measures of the quality of life as crime and suicide rates,automobile accidents, notifiable diseases, civil disorder, internationalconflict, terrorism, and composite indices of life quality. One attractionof Maharishi’s field-theoretic description of consciousness is that italone seems capable of offering a unified and parsimonious explanationof these diverse research findings.In the following section we describe the results of empirical researchexamining the impact of the Maharishi Effect on the national econo-416