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 12.3
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
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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.