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Volume 7, Issue No.
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March 2007 |
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© 2001-2007Maharishi Health Education Center - Lebanon, All Rights Reserved
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230-DAY UPDATE FROM THE
INVINCIBLE AMERICA ASSEMBLY
America’s Dramatic New Peace Outreach
To Iran, Syria, and North Korea
Due to Rise of Coherent National Consciousness
Created by Group of 1600 Advanced Meditators in Iowa
U.S. Consumer Confidence Remains High
Despite Tumult in Global Stock Markets
(March 11, 2007) The sudden turnaround in U.S.
foreign policy towards Iran, Syria, and North Korea—a dramatic shift
away from confrontation and belligerence towards consensus building and
peace—is the direct result of the increased coherence in national
consciousness created by the large group of 1600 advanced Transcendental
Meditation program experts in Iowa.
This is the assessment of world-renowned quantum physicist Dr. John
Hagelin, who is leading the “Invincible America Assembly” at Maharishi
University of Management and Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa—the largest
scientific demonstration project ever to monitor the effects on national
trends of a group of advanced meditation experts.
The Assembly was launched 230 days ago on July 23, 2006, by Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi to create coherent national consciousness—the basis of a
peaceful, prosperous, invincible country.
Marked
transformation in U.S. foreign policy
since the launch of the Invincible America Assembly
Since the launch of the Assembly and the rise of
coherent national consciousness, U.S. foreign policy has undergone a
series of marked transformations, beginning in early August with the
U.S.-forged ceasefire on the Israeli-Lebanon border—a Mideast flashpoint
for decades that is now in its seventh peaceful month. The November
elections then brought in new congressional leadership supportive of the
peace process. And now, the U.S. has joined talks with Iran and Syria in
Baghdad to resolve the Iraq war—and is in serious negotiations with
North Korea to put an end to the volatile and longstanding nuclear
crisis.
At the same time, since the start of the Assembly, the U.S. economy has
enjoyed sustained growth, with the Dow climbing more than 1500
points—while oil prices have fallen from a high of $78 a barrel in July
to the under $62 a barrel. And despite the recent tumult in global
market prices, U.S. consumer confidence remains high, according to a
March 6 ABC News/Washington Post survey. That confidence is another sign
of coherent national consciousness, Dr. Hagelin said.
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Positive trends
predicted publicly in advance
Dr. Hagelin said that rigorous
statistical analysis shows that the upsurge of positive trends—predicted
publicly in advance—started when an initial group of 1200 experts in
Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced
techniques, including Yogic Flying, first assembled in Iowa from across
the U.S. and around the world to create coherent collective
consciousness—the basis of the ongoing national transformation.
Extensive published
scientific research documents the Maharishi Effect
Extensive research published in
leading, peer-reviewed scientific journals documents the reduced
negative trends, including reduced crime and violence, and improved
economic and social trends when as few as the square root of one percent
of a population practice Yogic Flying together in a group.
Scientists named this
phenomenon the “Maharishi Effect” after Maharishi, the renowned Vedic
scholar who 50 years ago founded the Transcendental Meditation program,
and who predicted the beneficial impact of group meditation on social
trends as early as 1975.
Group of 2000 Yogic Flyers needed
to make the nation invincible
Dr. Hagelin said that the group
of 1600 Yogic Flyers in the Assembly is sufficient to produce a positive
influence in the political and economic trends of the nation, “but not
enough to raise the nation to a true state of peace and invincibility.”
Dr. Hagelin said that,
according to research, when the number of Yogic Flyers reaches the
square root of one percent of the U.S. population (about 2000), there
will be an even more dramatic improvement in national trends, and any
lingering problems in the country will be quickly resolved.
Invincible
Assemblies being established worldwide
Dr. Hagelin added that similar
Invincible Assemblies are being established in large and small nations
to form a “ring of invincibility” around the world, to prevent problems,
and to promote permanent peace and invincibility in every nation.
“This is not wishful thinking,”
said Dr. Hagelin, who serves as the Minister of Science and Technology
of the Global Country of World Peace. “This is hard science that has
been field tested for over 50 years and documented through more than 600
studies conducted at over 250 independent universities and research
institutes throughout the world.”
The Invincible America Assembly
is being funded by an annual $12 million grant from the “Howard and
Alice Settle Foundation for an Invincible America.”
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The Power of
Thinking
in Tune with Natural Law
Dr
Hagelin: (March 14, 2007) ‘There is a new trend in America and
throughout the world that is gaining mainstream acceptance and interest,
and that trend is that people are relying more and more on the power of
positive thinking, rather than hard work, to accomplish a goal. The idea
is that thoughts alone, without physical exertion, have the power to
organize events in favour of the thinker—that positive thoughts somehow
attract positive results. I am interested in Dr Hagelin's take on this.
How powerful are thoughts? Can they in fact, organize events?’
‘We all know thoughts have power, and Maharishi explains this
beautifully. I will come to Maharishi's explanation in a minute. We all
know that thought drives the whole physiology. If we have a thought to
lift the hand, then the hand lifts. So certainly the human body is a
masterful design, where the body responds to every impulse of thought
spontaneously. We already know we have the capability of achieving our
desires, at least through the response of our own physiology, through
the field of our own thought. One very powerful avenue for the
successful accomplishment of our desires is through the agency of the
human physiology. Therefore, I guess the question then becomes, “To what
extent can we consider the entire world, our physical environment, to be
an extension of our body?” That is, “To what extent is the environment
around us responsive to our thoughts?”
‘Well, we have seen from Maharishi's wisdom that human thought at its
deepest level, at its transcendental level, at its Para level, beyond
articulated linguistic thought and finer and finer levels of thought, is
the Unified Field at the basis of mind and matter. That level of
thought, the level of Being, the Para level of consciousness, the
transcendental level of thought, is the Unified Field and the whole
universe is its expression. Modern science delineates very rigorously
the stage-by-stage mechanics through which this field of consciousness
precipitates as our human physiology, and precipitates as the material
environment in the form of atoms, molecules, and macroscopic objects,
even galaxies. Everything, ultimately, is an expression of the Unified
Field. Everything, ultimately, is an expression of consciousness.
Everything, ultimately, is the physiology of consciousness.
‘So, the whole universe is our extended physiology. So, to the extent
that we are thinking at that Para level of the Unified Field—if we gain
the precious skill of entertaining thought or desire at that Para level
of consciousness, transcendental consciousness, the Unified Field—that
thought will get picked up and manifested anywhere and everywhere
throughout creation, because the whole creation is the physiology of the
Unified Field. Just as this is the physiology of my consciousness and
responds to my consciousness, the universe is also, ultimately, the
physiology of consciousness, and responds to an impulse of
consciousness, if that impulse is at that universal level—the
non-strictly-individual level of mind, the universal level of Being,
from which the whole universe is the expression.
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‘Yes, thoughts are powerful.
Maharishi describes and emphasizes the importance of spontaneous
fulfillment of desire, and also, more importantly, teaches the skill of
desiring—how to entertain an impulse of desire at that absolute level.
The mechanics of that really are the TM-Sidhi Program, the advanced
techniques of Transcendental Meditation, including Yogic Flying, whereby
the body lifts up in the air, through mere impulse of thought. The
response of the environment to a mere impulse of thought is demonstrated
very dramatically and directly in the Yogic Flying phenomenon itself.
‘Maharishi
is the master of the science of Yoga, the science of Being, the science
of thinking from the level of Being, where the whole universe is our
extended physiology, and where support of Nature is not just within our
physiology, but throughout the environment as it responds to our impulse
of thought. So thought can be incredibly powerful. At that deepest
level, when developed properly through practice, the ability to
entertain desire within the absolute, omnipresent field stirs the
totality of the laws of nature. When that is established, it is
literally possible to fulfil desires instantly, to know anything indeed,
and to achieve anything by a mere impulse of thought. And the speed of
the fulfillment of thought really just has to do with how proficient we
are with entertaining that thought on the absolute level, where total
Natural Law and all possibilities are a reality.
‘On the other hand, the equally important point that everybody seems to
miss is that human thoughts can be incredibly weak. If thought is at a
very superficial level of mind, with the whole brain physiology
scattered and chaotic, where there is no profound orderliness of
thinking—agitated waking consciousness—thoughts are often not fulfilled.
Even the response of the body, the physiology, to thoughts becomes
helter-skelter and ineffective, if the mind is scattered. So, clear
orderly thinking is at the basis of clear orderly action and behavior of
our physiology. We know how important orderly action is. On a very weak
level of thought, even the human physiology does not respond perfectly,
and certainly the laws of nature in the environment also do not respond
to such superficial thought, which is so far removed from that field of
Para, transcendental thought that stirs the universe.
‘So, thought can be quite weak, and it can be very powerful. This is
exactly what we would expect from looking at quantum physics, if we
could see the Unified Field Chart for physics. Maharishi explains and
science confirms that the universe is structured in layers from
superficial to profound, from macroscopic to microscopic, and that in
every deeper level of Natural Law from to molecular to atomic, from
nuclear to sub nuclear, Nature becomes more powerful. The quantum
principle guarantees increasing power at more fundamental scales. Like
that, the human mind, while fathoming deeper levels of reality at finer
levels of thought, becomes similarly more and more powerful and most
powerful on the level of Being, abstract transcendental thought.
‘It is on that level by the way, that a small group of Yogic Flyers
stirring the field of transcendental Unity, the Unified Field, can
transform the destiny of an entire country. That is an illustration of
the power of thought, which has been abundantly scientifically
documented, demonstrated, and confirmed. So thoughts can be weak,
thoughts can be powerful. The most important thing in life, in
education, is to develop the power of thought, the orderliness and power
of the mind, and capture that field of consciousness within, own that
Para level of thinking. Capture the field of Being, which is our own
unbounded Self, after all. Capture the Self. Know Thyself, Thy unbounded
universal Self, whose nature is immortality and bliss. Know That by
which anything can be achieved, know That by which, according to the
Upanishads, anything can be known.
‘So, the power of positive thinking is either powerful or not, frankly,
depending upon the level on which one is using the mind. Rather than
hope for more powerful, productive, successful thoughts, develop it
directly. Dive within. Utilize Maharishi's proven, age-old, time-tested
meditation approaches, Transcendental Meditation, with beautiful
advanced techniques, the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Program,
including Yogic Flying . These are the techniques to ensure that thought
is positively powerful and powerfully positive, where you can achieve
anything with no exertion, no effort. That is the ultimate development
of thought—doing less, doing least, doing essentially nothing but Being,
and accomplishing everything that needs to be accomplished for oneself,
for the entire country. The beautiful practical application of this is
the Invincible America Assembly, the Invincible Holland Assembly, and
the Invincible Every Country Assembly, as more and more countries rise
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A message for
parents, who are pressuring their students because they want them to
succeed so much.
Maharishi School and Maharishi University of Management, ease these
parental concerns.
Dr
Morris: (March 14, 2007) ‘It is very natural for parents to want the
best for their children. What Maharishi has revealed to us at this time
is that the best that children can have is to use the total brain
potential with which they are born. And the kind of education to which
parents are pushing their children with ever greater intensity does not
have the effect of totally developing the brain. In fact, it has the
effect of leaving functional holes in the brain and thereby creating a
lack of any real foundation for the success of the children in their
lives. So while seeking to create more success for their child, they are
actually reducing the child's chances.
‘By contrast, consciousness-based education has as its principle
feature, the technique of transcending to experience the holistic and
unified state of consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness, which is
the child's own Self. "Know Thyself" is fulfilled by this system of
education. And this experience of the unified, holistic state of
consciousness is the only experience that has been found to maximize the
use of the total brain. It creates highly coherent, orderly, holistic
brain functioning—the whole brain begins to function together.
‘The basis of all creativity, of all rising intelligence, and of the
ability to make the laws of nature move to support one's desires to
achieve anything is based on the use of the total brain. So, in
consciousness-based education, every child has this joyful, sweet, soft
experience first thing in the morning before class, and then again after
class, and sometimes in the midst of the day, too. This is combined with
an academic routine that is not stressful, that is not pressured.
‘When the students study with this more awakened brain, they are able to
absorb the knowledge in a much more effortless way. The container of
knowledge has been expanded. They are able to enjoy gaining knowledge
and are enthusiastic to learn because of this awakening of their total
brain, which is the awakening of their creativity, their receptivity,
their intelligence, and their simple joy of living. The children become
delighted to go to school and gain knowledge, and the teachers do not
put them under the extreme pressure of exhausting homework, the horror
of examinations, and all kinds of stresses and strains. It is a restful
and delightful academic routine.
‘The child learns every field of knowledge in terms of its origin in the
unified field of Natural Law and that all knowledge is one grand
wholeness of knowledge, Total Knowledge, and that Total Knowledge is in
my own Transcendental Consciousness, in my own Self. So the children
feel at home with everything. They feel connected with everything they
study. They feel that everything is an expression of their own
consciousness in its unbounded state. Then, as the students grow up,
they become Yogic Flyers with the advanced technique of Transcendental
Meditation, which intensifies all the effects of Transcendental
Meditation and gives them the subjective experience of bubbling bliss
and big smiles of joy.
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‘If anyone wants success for
his or her children, this is what they should do. This is what they
should have, either in an existing school that gets all the children to
meditate or in the school your child already goes to. That is happening
all over America now under Dr Hagelin's leadership. Have a new
consciousness-based school in your area, and let the children grow up
joyfully, peacefully, with the basis for unlimited success. They gain
success not through exhaustion and stress and strain, which take away
the very joy of living itself, but through soft thought, powerful
thought, thought motivated by the basic intelligence that administers
the universe and supports their thought to effortlessly gain
fulfillment. They engage the managing intelligence of the universe to
support them to achieve whatever it is that they want to achieve
effortlessly, not through struggle and stress and strain.
‘Having the children of the nation grow up like this is the best
security against any kind of attack or any kind of crime from within the
nation. You know, there are 30,000 people murdered in the United States
every year, so its not just attack from outside that is the problem. We
do not need to recite all the other negative things that still exist. It
is not only negativity from outside the country that one has to protect
against, but negativity down the street or across the town.
‘However, when the children grow up with Consciousness-Based Education,
there will be two effects. The first effect is that the children, who
grow up this way, grow up in the spirit of ideal citizenship. When they
live their life with a totally developed brain and on the basis of all
thought and behavior from the level of the Unified Field, their actions
are spontaneously in harmony with the laws of nature and with national
law. They grow up without any tendency towards violent or criminal
activity. So when the whole society is based upon a schooling system
like that, then the children will grow up not performing either minor or
major crimes of any kind and leaving aside any behaviour which brings
suffering to others. This is a future when Consciousness-Based Education
is universal.
‘In the short term also, in the schools that have Consciousness-Based
Education, when the children begin to practice Yogic Flying at school in
a group twice a day, the power of those children experiencing the
Unified Field radiates intense coherence and harmony into the atmosphere
around them. This is sufficient to create a phase transition in the
whole quality of the collective consciousness of the neighborhood, town
or city in which they live. And with such schools shining everywhere
around the country, combined with the Invincibility Group in Iowa, in
Maharishi Central University, and in other institutions that will come
up, like here in California—all these school children radiating peace
and harmony—will neutralize the daily build up of stress and strain in
the atmosphere.
‘The result will be that those who used to think in a criminal way, will
wake up feeling differently. In that atmosphere they will think of
something positive to do instead of the damage that they were going to
do. Likewise, when there is this rising harmony from the children in the
schools, the whole national consciousness—as well as the people outside
the United States, who right now hate the United States and want to
destroy it in any why they can—will become highly harmonious and full of
peace and positivity. This is what Maharishi calls an invincible state
of national consciousness. Those who hated the country will, for some
reason, lose their animosity although they cannot quite imagine why.
They will start to feel good and loving towards the country, and all
their violent tendencies towards America and Americans will evaporate.
‘This is what has happened already on many occasions through the
application of these technologies and has been shown to happen by
scientific research, as Dr Hagelin has explained. It is the school
children of the world now who can create this kind of invincibility in
America, in any other country, and in all countries of the world, just
through their own joyful routine of awakening their own total brain
functioning and awakening their life to be lived on the level of higher
states of consciousness, on the level of the highest and supreme level
of living, as the Unified Field itself. They know, "I am that field,
which is the field that is expressing itself as the whole universe, and
that is the level of my dignity and my power as a human being."
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