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 12.4
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence Chapter Three: The Fourth State of Consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness
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 three: The fourth state of consciousness, transcendental consciousness. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 12, 105-137.
Conscious Mind and Consciousness (excerpt)
In our discussion of the Transcendental Meditation technique, we noted Maharishi’s emphasis on the conscious mind. Finer aspects of the thinking process that are not normally accessible to the conscious mind (and which therefore may have been termed part of the unconscious) are opened to direct experience. In the refinement of thought, the conscious mind goes on experiencing, but the object of its experience is increasingly refined.