JMVRI Issue No. 29 features three studies: “Psychological Determinants of Mental and Physical Wellbeing in Participants of Personal Development Groups”, by Joanna Wanta (pp. 11–47); “Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Domain of the Action Principle, Para Shakti/Mother Divine”, by Candace Badgett (pp. 49–64); and “Vastu, Traditional Knowledge Holders, and Contemporary Architecture Education and Practice in India” by Aparna Datey (pp. 65–99).
JMVRI Issue Number 29
JMVRI Paper 29.2
Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Domain of the Action Principle, Para Shakti/Mother Divine
Author: Candace Badgett
https://doi.org/10.66743/lxph3514
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Citation: Badgett, C. (2026). Conflict and conflict resolution: Domain of the action principle, Para Shakti/Mother Divine. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 29, 49–64.
Summary (excerpt):
Conflict and conflict resolution, from the perspective of Vedic science, are based on an appreciation of the two opposite values that structure the unmanifest field of Pure Consciousness: Purusha and Para Shakti, with Purusha defined as the unmoving, unbounded, eternal, unmanifest field of Pure Intelligence, and Para Shakti—or Creative Intelligence—as the unmanifest, potential dynamism that gives rise to unmanifest Veda, which in turn precipitates as human physiology, which in turn precipitates as the ever-expanding universe. Both Purusha and Para Shakti are Nitya and Apaurusheya: eternal and uncreated.