Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

The Influence of Natural Law tHeoryHow can Maharishi Vedic Science bring fulfillmentto the vision of the Founding Fathers?If this unified field of natural law, this unmanifest level of knowingness,of creative intelligence is found within us, it should be accessibleand available to the conscious mind.Because the Constitution of the Universe is present everywhere, everyoneis asked to follow it and act according to it: what is to be done andwhat is not to be done should conform to the script of the Constitutionof the Universe, the script of Natural Law, because it is available toevery individual within himself. (Maharishi, 1994b, 210)Hagelin continues this same logic of the correspondence betweenhuman intelligence and the intelligence of nature:In other words, the deepest level of human experience, pure consciousness,constitutes the direct, subjective experience of the unified field currentlybeing explored by modern theoretical physics. This conclusion isboth parsimonious and consistent with common sense: it is difficult toconceive of two distinct unified fields of natural law—one at the basis ofconscious experience, and one at the basis of everything else in the universe.(Hagelin, 2002, 60)Maharishi Vedic Science not only includes a theoretical understandingof natural law, but its practical application, the Maharishi Technologiesof Consciousness: Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and theTM-Sidhi programs, which allow the individual to directly contact thefield of the total potential of natural law, the field of pure consciousness.The Transcendental Meditation technique is an effortless mentaltechnique, practiced for fifteen to twenty minutes twice a day. Duringthe practice, the individual sits in a relaxed, comfortable position witheyes closed, and allows his attention to go within. In a very naturaland effortless way, the Transcendental Meditation technique allows theactive mind to become increasingly quiet and experience TranscendentalConsciousness, the state of least excitation of consciousness. Simultaneously,the body enjoys a restful state, releasing stress and fatigue.My Transcendental Meditation is a simple, natural, effortless procedurewhereby the mind easily and naturally arrives at the source of thought,the settled state of mind—Transcendental Consciousness—pure con-89