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 12.2
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
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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.