Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based education and govermentby waves, and thus able to reflect the world in a precise, non‐agitatedmanner. Maharishi drew from this several predictions. One is that aperson growing in the ability to experience pure consciousness wouldexperience more stable and orderly physiological functioning. This canbe translated into the testable prediction that subjects regularly practicingthe Transcendental Meditation program display increased stabilityof the autonomic nervous system. Another prediction is that the practiceof the Transcendental Meditation program will produce greaterperceptual clarity and greater orderliness of thinking. Translated intospecific terms, this leads to the prediction that practicing the TranscendentalMeditation program will produce measurable increases on suchscales as auditory discrimination, brain wave coherence, and problemsolving ability. Research has been designed, carried out, and reported inthe literature which measures the growth of these parameters in groupspracticing the Transcendental Meditation program by comparison tocontrol groups, thus providing objective verification of the predictedcorrelates of the subjective experience of pure consciousness.A third example of how assertions of Maharishi Vedic Science canbe translated into testable form is found in the sociological experimentson the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, includingYogic Flying. The hypothesis is that a group of people practicing thistechnology in one place, by bringing their awareness to the level ofperfect orderliness in the unified field, will enliven qualities of harmonyand orderliness in collective consciousness, thus producing measurablepositive changes in the quality of societal life. Many experiments havebeen designed by Maharishi and carried out, demonstrating the powerof this technology to produce significant changes in the level of coherence,positivity, balance, and stability in society, even on a global scale.(See Experimental Research, below.) The results of these experimentsstrongly support Maharishi’s assertion that consciousness is identicalwith the unified field.Experimental ResearchOver 600 hundred experimental studies in the areas of physiology,psychology, and sociology provide substantial confirmation of manybasic assertions of Maharishi Vedic Science in the arena of empiricalscience. Many of these studies, now published in major scientific jour-590