Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

Modern science and vedic science: an introductiontrends in the world and maintain world consciousness on a high level ofpurity” (Maharishi’s Program to Create World Peace, 1986, p. 7).The global applications of this new science and technology are almostbeyond present levels of imagination. Yet scientific research has foundmeasurable reductions in levels of violence, crime, and other indicationsof negativity during the practice of the TM-Sidhi program insufficiently large groups during experimental trial periods. Here for thefirst time in history is a scientific basis for creating world peace, endingterrorism, and reducing the negative trends of society.On the basis of these studies, Maharishi holds that world peace canbe guaranteed now, within a few years, through the establishment ofgroups of 8000; he holds that perfect health and unlimited longevitycan be achieved for individual life, and that balance, coherence andhealth in society can be established in our generation. War, crime, poverty,and all problems that bring unhappiness to the family of man canbe entirely eliminated. Life, he holds, can be lived in absolute abundanceand fulfillment. Maharishi has called upon every significantindividual in the world to act now to adopt this program for worldpeace by creating groups of 8000 collectively practicing the TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, toestablish world peace and guarantee its perpetuation.The practical benefits that Maharishi foresees through these newtechnologies are far greater than those achieved by the technologybased on present science. As science has investigated deeper levels ofnature, from microbes to molecules to atoms, new technologies haveemerged which apply the knowledge in areas such as medicine andnuclear power. In drawing upon the deepest and most powerful levelof natural law, the level of the unified field, Maharishi Vedic Sciencelays the basis for much more powerful technologies still. Where modernmedicine has been able to eliminate some diseases by drawingupon microscopic levels, Maharishi Vedic Science lays the basis for theelimination of all disease, and more importantly, for the creation ofperfect health and reversal of aging. While modern science has producednuclear technology but no technology for peaceful resolution ofconflict, Maharishi Vedic Science draws upon the infinite organizingpower of the unified field at the basis of nature to create social harmony597