JMVRI Issue No. 15 is the third of three Special Issues which serialise a new book by Dr Geoffrey Wells, with contributions by Dr Lee Fergusson and Dr Anna Bonshek, titled “Fullness of Life: The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence”. Issues No. 12 and No. 14 contained the first two installments of the Introduction and six chapters of the book. This Special Issue contains the following three final instalments of the book: Chapter Seven: The Seventh State of Consciousness, Unity Consciousness (pp. 13-47); Chapter Eight: Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence as a Science (pp. 49-77); and Chapter Nine: The Scientific Research Program of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence (pp. 79-133).
JMVRI Issue Number 15
JMVRI Paper 15.3
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence
Chapter Nine: The Scientific Research Program of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence
Author: Geoffrey A. Wells, with Lee Fergusson and Anna Bonshek
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Citation: Wells, G. A., with Fergusson, L., & Bonshek, A. (2021). The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence—Chapter nine: The scientific research program of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 15, 79-133.
Summary (excerpt):
In Chapter Eight, we dealt with the concept of science primarily in terms of its logic. Approaching science this way requires it to be, to some extent, idealised or simplified, abstracted from its practice. Yet science is something that people do; not just once, but as a profession, following a plan, however loosely conceived. Scientific research is thus a coherent and continuous enterprise, in which experiments are conducted not in isolation, but in an orderly relationship to each other in light of the wider domain of theory from which they arise. Science in practice is the execution of a scientific research program.