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Modern science and vedic science: an introductionIn another issue <strong>of</strong> Modern Science and Vedic Science [see Vol. 5, Pt. 1<strong>of</strong> this series], Dr. M.H. Weinless (1987) explored set theory and otherfoundational areas <strong>of</strong> modern mathematics in relation to <strong>Maharishi</strong> VedicScience. In a proposed issue, Drs. R.K. Wallace, D.S. Pasco, and J.B.Fagan (1988) explore the fundamental relationship between <strong>Maharishi</strong>Vedic Science and the foundational areas <strong>of</strong> modern physiology, such asmolecular biology. Their paper also discusses the extent to which fundamentalprinciples <strong>of</strong> <strong>Maharishi</strong> Vedic Science can be used to furtherinvestigation <strong>of</strong> DNA structure and function.The discovery <strong>of</strong> deep structures <strong>of</strong> knowledge and principles commonto <strong>Maharishi</strong> Vedic Science and modern science represents such apr<strong>of</strong>ound contribution to our understanding <strong>of</strong> nature that this journalwas founded to foster continued scholarly investigation <strong>of</strong> the interrelationsbetween these complementary methods <strong>of</strong> gaining knowledge.Knowledge gained by direct experience <strong>of</strong> the fine fabrics <strong>of</strong> nature’sactivity, and knowledge gained by the experimental methods <strong>of</strong> modernscience coalesce in a new integrated method <strong>of</strong> inquiry that <strong>of</strong>fersboth the fundamental principles <strong>of</strong> modern science and the expressions<strong>of</strong> direct experience in <strong>Maharishi</strong> Vedic Science as two facets <strong>of</strong> onereality <strong>of</strong> nature’s functioning.<strong>Maharishi</strong> (1986) sums up the relation between <strong>Maharishi</strong> VedicScience, modern science, and his technologies <strong>of</strong> consciousness:<strong>Maharishi</strong> Vedic Science is applied through the Technology <strong>of</strong> the UnifiedField. We speak <strong>of</strong> the unified field in connection with <strong>Maharishi</strong>Vedic Science because <strong>of</strong> the similarity <strong>of</strong> what has been discovered byphysics and what exists in the self-referral state <strong>of</strong> human consciousness.The Technology <strong>of</strong> the Unified Field [That is, TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying—Eds.].is a purely scientific procedure for the total development <strong>of</strong> the humanpsyche, the total development <strong>of</strong> the race. This is a time when objective,science-based progress in the world is being enriched by the possibility<strong>of</strong> total development <strong>of</strong> human life on earth, and this is the reason whywe anticipate the creation <strong>of</strong> a unified field-based civilization. (p. 35)On the basis <strong>of</strong> the universal availability <strong>of</strong> this domain <strong>of</strong> experience,an empirical science <strong>of</strong> consciousness becomes possible for thefirst time.587

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