JMVRI Issue No. 23 contains three articles. The first is a statement on the philosophy of government and the administration of his World Government for the Age of Enlightenment by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (pp. 11−26). The second article in this Issue No. 23 is titled “When Words Cohere: The Experience of Kinetic Field Resonance in Poetry” by Dr Frederick R. Worth (pp. 27−73). The third article in this Issue is titled “The Three-in-One Structure of Consciousness in Maharishi Vedic University—Vedic Knowledge for Everyone: A Close Reading” by Dr Geoffrey A. Wells (pp. 75−121).
JMVRI Issue Number 23
JMVRI Paper 23.1
World Government for the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
https://www.academia.edu/110160100/The_World_Government_for_the_Age_of_Enlightenment
Citation: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (2023). The World Government for the Age of Enlightenment. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 23, 11–26.
Summary (excerpt):
Originally published in the book Creating an ideal society: A global undertaking, Maharishi’s statement on the World Government for the Age of Enlightenment represents his central proposition about how governments function: “Every national government is the pure and innocent mirror of national consciousness. By raising the level of national consciousness, the World Government enables all governments to enhance their achievements and realize the noble aspirations of their constitutions, thus bringing fulfilment to the long search for freedom, justice, progress, and prosperity” and thus the “activity of government is the expression of national consciousness fulfilling the national need”.
JMVRI Paper 23.2
When Words Cohere: The Experience of Kinetic Field Resonance in Poetry
Author: Frederick R. Worth
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Worth, F. R. (2023). When words cohere: The experience of kinetic field resonance in poetry. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 23, 27–73.
Summary (excerpt):
In this remarkably ambitious paper on coherence, Darshan, consciousness, and poetry, using examples of kinetic field resonance in ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ by William Carlos Willliams, ‘Nigh Clime’ by Angie Estes, and ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by William Butler Yeats, the reader of a poem, according to Dr Worth, “is lifted out of her finite, solitary condition and woven into the poem and that poem’s larger world. Poetry is a unique ‘building’ where language speaks by giving fullest expression to the ‘mimetic sensuousness’ and innermost materiality of objects together with the beyond. In the temple of the poem, in that uniquely rarified meeting place, the reader establishes a vital connection with the poetic material and the world beyond the immediate consciousness of the poem. She coheres with wholeness”.
JMVRI Paper 23.3
The Three-in-One Structure of Consciousness in Maharishi Vedic University—Vedic Knowledge for Everyone: A Close Reading
Author: Geoffrey Wells
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Wells, G. A. (2023). The three-in-one structure of consciousness in Maharishi Vedic University—Vedic Knowledge for Everyone: A close reading. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 23, 75–121.
Summary (excerpt):
This paper is the fourth in a series on scholarship and Maharishi Vedic Science published by this journal. The first paper (“Scholarship and Maharishi Vedic Science: Some Reflections”, Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 2021, 16, 37–62) offered reflections on the nature of scholarship in Maharishi Vedic Science. The second (“Definition of Maharishi Vedic University in Maharishi Vedic University: Vedic Knowledge for Everyone: A Close Reading”, Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 2022, 19, 13–67) and third (“Consciousness in Maharishi Vedic University: Vedic Knowledge for Everyone”, Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 2023, 21, 37–113) papers focused on key sections of Maharishi’s book, Maharishi Vedic University: Vedic Knowledge for Everyone, one of the four foundational texts on Maharishi Vedic Science published in the 1990s.
In that book, Maharishi presented his vision of ideal higher education, derived from the principles of Maharishi Vedic Science. In the course of discussing higher education, Maharishi laid out many of his fundamental teachings on Vedic Science. A central grouping of these teachings, across three sections of the book, was considered in the third of the papers in this series; the current paper continues that discussion.
According to Dr Wells, “For more than five decades, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi taught Maharishi Vedic Science to the world, a teaching which has opened the full development of individual and collective life to everyone. Its practical effectiveness has been thoroughly documented by an extensive scientific research program in many countries and cultures. This unprecedented initiative in knowledge—knowledge which Maharishi describes as ‘complete knowledge’, ‘total knowledge’—deserves the closest attention of readers and scholars, particularly at a time when the world is facing new challenges and seeking new knowledge”.