JMVRI Issue Number Fourteen is the second of three Special Issues which serialise a new book by Dr Geoffrey Wells, titled The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence. The first instalments of the book appear in JMVRI Issue Number 12. This Special Issue contains the next three Chapters: Chapter Four—dealing with the fifth state of consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness; Chapter Five—concerning the theme of living Cosmic Consciousness; and Chapter Six—discussing the sixth state of consciousness, Refined Cosmic Consciousness.
JMVRI Issue Number 14
JMVRI Paper 14.2
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence
Chapter Five: Living Cosmic Consciousness, a Life of Complete Fulfilment
Author: 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 five: Living cosmic consciousness, a life of complete fulfilment. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 14, 55-87..
Summary (excerpt):
In this chapter, we will explore further the relationship between action, impression, and desire and consider their relation to living Cosmic Consciousness. Such considerations illuminate the nature of ignorance as well as the nature of enlightenment and the means by which the former is transformed into the latter. Action, impression, and desire were constant themes of Maharishi’s teaching in its first decade, and Maharishi has brought out the same theme, as we shall see in a later part of this work, in the more advanced understanding of Pragya-aparadha, ‘the mistake of the intellect.