Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

consciousness-based approach to human securityMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs including Yogic Flying, althoughsubjective in nature, can dissolve the tensions that give rise to war. Inan era where physics informs us that nature is fundamentally an expressionof a unified field, we must assert boldly that we can harness theorganizing power of nature’s fundamental levels to alleviate the mostaggravated conditions of stress in society. The research on the TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs affirms its efficacy.Any government or large organization is invited to verify these findingsand to help create needed coherence in a world replete with turbulentchange. Groups of experts practicing the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs offer substantial hope for real peace in thisnew millennium.Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has invited Canadiansto provide their input to the policy process. Human security, henotes is more than just the absence of military threat. 47 He indicatesthat fundamental human rights and quality of life are also essential.Furthermore, he, along with other world leaders such as Kofi Annan,point to prevention as a key component of human security. We proposethat a permanent group of 10,000 practitioners of the TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi programs be established in Canada to providethe essential condition for a sustainable security for the individualand for all levels of society. 48Canada is one of the most respected nations on earth. All of Canada’shighest aspirations to support peace and security on a global levelcan be strengthened in this way.Vaclev Havel, in an address upon receiving the Liberty Medal inPhiladelphia, July 4, 1994, remarked:It follows that, in today’s multicultural world, the truly reliable path topeaceful co-existence and creative cooperation must start from what isat the root of all cultures and what lies infinitely deeper in human heartsand minds then political opinion, convictions, antipathies or sympathies:it must be rooted in self-transcendence. 49Now that the transcendental nature of the self can be systematicallyexperienced, peaceful coexistence and global human security are conditionsthat we have the power to create.71