JMVRI Issue Number 12
JMVRI Issue Number Twelve is a special issue—the first to serialise chapters from an upcoming a book on the foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence. This issue presents an introduction to the book and three chapters including: Chapter One, which deals with the field of pure Intelligence, the unified field of Natural Law; Chapter Two, which discusses the experience of the field of pure intelligence; and Chapter Three, which covers a fourth state of consciousness known as Transcendental Consciousness. Following chapters of this book will appear in a later issues of JMVRI.
JMVRI Paper 12.1
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence: An Introduction
Authors: Geoffrey A. Wells, with Lee Fergusson and Anna Bonshek
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Wells, G. A., with Fergusson, L., & Bonshek, A. (2020). The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence: An introduction. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 12, 13-36.
Introduction (excerpt)
For more than five decades, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi brought out his
complete knowledge for the benefit of humanity. Maharishi is renowned throughout the world for his holistic vision of the Vedic wisdom in its entirety, bringing together the various aspects of Vedic knowledge—revealing and operationalising the supreme value of this wisdom for human life, both individual and collective. His complete revival of this wisdom continues to be an unparalleled contribution and resource for the world. The descriptor ‘unparalleled’ does not do justice to the actual and potential impacts of Maharishi’s knowledge for humanity. This book is therefore a modest attempt to present the key principles and tenets of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence that he himself identified. Throughout the book, this body of knowledge as brought out by Maharishi will be referred to as ‘Maharishi’s teaching’. Maharishi wrote texts on his teaching and that material is readily available, but characteristically it is his lectures, talks, symposia, interviews and engagement in human interactions that facilitated the imparting of knowledge to an audience and to the world.
JMVRI Paper 12.2
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence: Chapter One: the Field of Pure Intelligence, The Unified Field of Natural Law
Authors: Geoffrey A. Wells, with Lee Fergusson and Anna Bonshek
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Wells, G. A., with Fergusson, L., & Bonshek, A. (2020). The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence—Chapter one: The field of pure intelligence, the unified field of natural law. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 12, 37-68.
The Vedic Tradition of Wisdom (excerpt)
Maharishi describes the Vedic tradition of knowledge as the oldest in the world. It has been known throughout historical times but has its beginning before the dawn of history. It is knowledge that has withstood the test of time, that has continued to be adopted, age after age, because of its ability to bring perfection to life.1 The word ‘tradition’, Maharishi explains, expresses the way in which this knowledge has come down to us. It has been passed on from teacher to student, throughout the ages, in a precise and systematic way that has guaranteed its preservation. The geographical center of this tradition is India, but Maharishi emphasises that the knowledge embodied in the Vedic tradition is not limited to a particular culture or historical period. It is knowledge that is universally applicable to all times and all places, wherever humankind has sought to eliminate suffering and find fulfillment. What is this knowledge that has been regarded as so precious and which the Vedic tradition has been bent on preserving? Maharishi defines ‘Veda’ as “pure knowledge and the infinite organizing power that is inherent in the structure of pure knowledge”: it is the abstract, unbounded field of nature’s intelligence that lies at the basis of the whole creation, and from which the creation arises and is governed. Maharishi uses many words to refer to this field, among them ‘pure intelligence’, ‘Being’, ‘the Absolute’, ‘pure consciousness’, and ‘Unified Field of Natural Law”; each represents a different perspective on the same reality.
JMVRI Paper 12.3
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence Chapter Two: Opening the Field of Pure Intelligence to Experience
Authors: Geoffrey A. Wells, with Lee Fergusson and Anna Bonshek
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Wells, G. A., with Fergusson, L., & Bonshek, A. (2020). The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence—Chapter two: Opening the field of pure intelligence to experience. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 12, 69-103.
Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Technique (excerpt)
A point that cannot be overemphasized is: the great central teaching of the Vedic Tradition brought to light by Maharishi is that the field of pure intelligence—the Unified Field of Natural Law, the absolute, transcendental field of Being—is within the reach of human experience. If there is one thing that sits at the core of the teaching, this it it. Moreover, Maharishi teaches that the ability to experience this field is not the sole prerogative of a few geniuses. It is, on the contrary, embedded within the structure of the human mind itself; it is the birthright of every individual, every human being. “Without exception every man and every woman has the right, the legitimate right, to enjoy all glories that belong to them, all glories of the inner world and all glories of the outside world. And here is a process whereby every man and woman can directly experience for themselves”. Maharishi explains in his commentary on the Bhagavad-Gītā, a text which is full of useful, practical knowledge applicable to everyone universally—while using terms that are particularly familiar to people of India—that this process is known as Yoga. Yoga is defined as the path of union.
JMVRI Paper 12.4
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence Chapter Three: The Fourth State of Consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness
Authors: Geoffrey A. Wells, with Lee Fergusson and Anna Bonshek
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Wells, G. A., with Fergusson, L., & Bonshek, A. (2020). The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence—Chapter three: The fourth state of consciousness, transcendental consciousness. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 12, 105-137.
Conscious Mind and Consciousness (excerpt)
In our discussion of the Transcendental Meditation technique, we noted Maharishi’s emphasis on the conscious mind. Finer aspects of the thinking process that are not normally accessible to the conscious mind (and which therefore may have been termed part of the unconscious) are opened to direct experience. In the refinement of thought, the conscious mind goes on experiencing, but the object of its experience is increasingly refined.