JMVRI Issue Number 6
JMVRI Issue Number Six is a special issue on the theme of peace, beginning with a paper resenting Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology as the means to create permanent world peace. This is followed by a literature review and thematic analysis of Maharishi’s life-long work establishing foundational principles and programs for peace, which is followed by an article examining the contribution of Maharishi Vedic Science in creating peace in individual life.
JMVRI Paper 6.1
Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology: A Systematic Approach to Creating Permanent World Peace
Author: Bevan Morris
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Morris, B. (2018). Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology: A systematic approach to creating permanent world peace. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 6, 13-33.
Summary
Wars in the Middle East and conflicts throughout world history display the failure of government leaders to achieve peace, either at the negotiation table or on the battlefield. It is a failure that will continue without end if the existing methods of attempting to create peace are the only ones tried. Indeed, government leaders have repeatedly ignored knowledge of a peace-creating technology that has been available to them for over 50 years. The Vedic Science and Technology of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi includes the theoretical understanding and applied methodologies to create peaceful individuals and collective peace in society and in the world. The technologies of Maharishi Vedic Science provide the direct experience of Transcendental Consciousness, the silent, settled state of awareness, which is the state of inner peace and harmony.
The quantum physicist Dr John Hagelin (1987) has analyzed the nature of the experience of Transcendental Consciousness and found that it is in fact identical with the unified field of natural law described by quantum field theory. Maharishi explains that the loss of intimacy and familiarity with this unified field of natural law is the cause of all suffering in life. When individuals have no contact with the unified source of all the laws of nature in their own consciousness, they violate the laws of nature, which causes stress and strain in the individual. Accumulated stress in the environment created by millions of stressed individuals eventually erupts into war or other disasters. The ability of individuals to contact the unified field of natural law and create peace for themselves and for others has been verified by published scientific research over the past 48 years. The field effect of consciousness created by these individuals has come to be known as the Maharishi Effect, in honour of Maharishi who predicted it more than 50 years ago. What is necessary, and urgent, is to establish peace in the world by creating this field effect of consciousness on a global scale.
The requirement: the gathering—in India and in other countries—of groups of 8,600 world peace professionals (the square root of one per cent of the world’s population) together practicing the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, to create the Global Maharishi Effect. These gatherings will spread indomitable waves of peace and harmony in the environment and secure permanent peace in the family of nations, and thereby change the course of human history.