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consciousness-based approach to human securityfied field.” Hagelin indicates that with this discovery: “the total rangeof Natural Law is open to scientific knowledge and exploration.” 29This unified field in quantum mechanics corresponds to the fieldof pure consciousness located during practice of the TranscendentalMeditation program, which is also characterized as an unbounded unifiedfield. The unified field in physics was located as a result of progressiveunification of fundamental force and matter fields of nature, whichare considered to be distinct at more surface levels of observation.Analogous to this, in the object-referral mode of human awareness,the Knower (ourselves) perceives (Process of Knowing) an object (theKnown). These three aspects of awareness are experienced as fundamentallydistinct. However, within the unified field of consciousness,experienced by transcending even the subtlest aspect of the thoughtprocess, the knower, known, and process of knowing are unified in theexperience of unbounded awareness. This unified awareness is knownas “self-referral” consciousness, as the Self knows only itself. 30The Chandogya Upanishad (3.14.1) expresses this reality as “Sarvamkalu idam Brahm,” which means: “All this is Totality.” 31 The Upanishads,the Vedic literature concerned with the transcending quality ofintelligence, declare that all fear results from duality (or the objectreferralexperience of reality in which the individual perceives all othersas separate from the self). When the experience of Unity Consciousnessdominates, and the individual sees the nature of others as beingfundamentally the same as one’s own nature, fear is no longer a reality.Unity is perceived amidst diversity in this experience.Moreover, Hagelin, in light of Maharishi’s Consciousness-Basedapproach to knowledge, describes a one-to-one correspondence betweenattributes of pure consciousness at the basis of the human mind describedin Maharishi Vedic Science and attributes of the unified field in physics.These attributes are described by mathematical equations known as “theLagrangian of the superstring,” which depict the “symmetries, componentsand self-interaction” of the unified field. Among these characteristicsare “all possibilities,” “simplicity,” “perfect balance,” “perfectorderliness,” “infinite creativity,” and “infinite dynamism.” Hagelin notes63