JMVRI Issue Number 7
JMVRI Issue Number Seven includes two articles, out of a total of three, on the unique educational tool, the Unified Field Chart developed by Maharishi. The first paper presents the structure and function of Maharishi’s Unified Field Chart revealing the significance of this for the development of consciousness and for education. The second paper is a new insight into urban sustainability from the perspective of Maharishi Vedic Science, followed by a third paper on a new Unified Field Chart for sustainability.
JMVRI Paper 7.2
Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology: Bringing Fulfilment to Urban Sustainability
Author: David Kettle
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Kettle, D. (2018). Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology: Bringing fulfilment to urban sustainability. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 7, 53-68.
Summary
This research paper, the second in a three-part series of papers, introduces the relationship of Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology to the discipline of urban sustainability in the context of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Unified Field Chart. The Unified Field Chart is an educational tool designed by Maharishi to achieve several outcomes. First, it provides the knowledge of an academic discipline or field of human endeavour ‘at a glance’, in one completely integrated visual statement. Second, a Unified Field Chart presents the diverse elements, themes, sub-disciplines and activities of a discipline or field of endeavour and shows their hierarchical or internal connectedness to each other and to the overall discipline or activity. In this sense, the Unified Field Chart is a systematically organized presentation of the main elements of a discipline or field of endeavour. Third, a Unified Field Chart shows the relationship of the discipline or field of human endeavour to the unified field of Natural Law, the home of all the laws of nature, which is the unmanifest source of both the discipline or endeavour as well as the source of all knowledge and the physical universe. Thus, the Unified Field Chart is an organizational tool which identifies all disciplines and fields of human endeavour with their source in the unified field and is thus a tool at the leading edge of contemporary scientific thought. Finally, study of a Unified Field Chart enlivens the consciousness of the viewer and promotes ‘enlightenment’ by pointing to the means through which all knowledge, including knowledge of the specific academic discipline or field of human endeavour, can be enlivened and established naturally in human awareness for benefit in every phase of thought, speech and action. For these reasons, and because the built environment plays such an important role in leading a healthy and balanced contemporary life, we advance a Unified Field Chart of Urban Sustainability.